Posts Tagged south africa
DOCUMENTARY ON SOUTH AFRICAN HOUSE
January 17, 2013 by dj umb
Vince & I were in SA in 2010 and we witnessed first hand just how explosive this scene is in Jo’ Burg, it is for real! We met some of the Artists who are legends within this scene and they gave us an intimate account and mini-tour of how this scene was unfolding there back [...]
Tags: black coffee, dj christos, dj umb, joburg, johannesburg, oskido, resident advisor, south africa, south african house, vincent koreman
AFROPOP WORLDWIDE
November 26, 2012 by dj umb
Great bunch of pr0grammes here, which provide an excellent insight into some of the Transnational Roots genres that we love here at Generation Bass! Educational!
Tags: afropop worldwide, dominican music, merengue, north africa, puerto rico, radio shows, raï, south africa, tarab, Transnational Roots
Portraits : Dj Zhao
November 16, 2012 by Indian Jones
The walking musical encyclopedia, the party-maker, the great raider of tropical bass has accepted to answer a few of our questions. So here you go guys ! Second part of our “Portraits” series with Dj Zhao ! GenBass : Can you tell us about your personal history and how you got into music? [...]
Tags: africa, arabic music mash up, berlin, dj zhao, kwaito, ngoma soundsystem, portraits, south africa
Die Antwoord Awesome New Vid & Track- “Fatty Boom Boom” – Freeee
October 16, 2012 by dj umb
After slipping back into relative musical obscurity after their ground-breaking stuff in 2009, we are pleased to see Die Antwoord are back with a vengance and true to form, this is amazzing! FATTY BOOM BOOM is a bright and colourful African adventure, complete with wild animals, zef savages singing and dancing in the streets, and [...]
Tags: die antwoord, dutch, faty boom boom, free, lady gaga, ninja, south africa, video, yolandi visser
JAKOBSNAKE : AFRICA IN YOUR EARBUDS – Afro Clap!
August 21, 2012 by dj umb
Just liberated this blistering mix from Okayafrica featuring loads of South African goodness! Here’s what they say: JakobSnake‘s a man of many trades: producer, Spoek Mathambo drummer, rapper in Cape Town’s Voicetag, DJ for BTEAM and organizer of the Cape Town Electronic Music Festival.Like his projects, JakobSnake’s selections in Africa In Your Earbuds #25 hover closely to the Cape Town scene; his mixtape features electronic bliss [...]
Tags: africa, african house, AfroClap, capetown, jakobsnake, okayafrica, Richard The Third, south africa
Jam Jarr – Suck My Underground
August 9, 2012 by dj umb
Jam Jarr’s back in your face!! They’ve pounded out they’re third EP. They went with a cute, fluffy title: “Suck My Underground” It’s six tracks of all kinds of glitchy electronic rap music that we dare not explain. Dubstep, Drum and Bass, Glitch… all sorts of genres to name drop. Most importantly, the EP is [...]
Tags: african dope records, dub, dubstep, glitch-rap, jam jarr, south africa, Suck My Underground, video
GENERATION BASS CLASSIC POST : DIE ANTWOORD
July 20, 2012 by dj umb
So we’re gonna be trawling through our archives to find what we consider to be some of our classic posts, which should highlight just how influential we might have been in the past 4 years!! Here is the second of such posts, the day when we introduced Die Antwoord to the wider blogosphere world and [...]
Tags: die antwood, diplo, electro, fish paste, Generation Bass Classic Post, hip hop, mad decent, mp3, south africa, wat pomp, yo landi visser, Yo-landi Vi$$er
MIDWEEK MIXXXTAPES: KWAITEK / MAMA TESTA / SPOEK MATHAMBO
June 21, 2012 by andykisaragi
Two big helpings of South African beats this week from Kwaitek & Spoek Mathambo plus some Mexican FutureRetroRaveHouse from Mama Testa. Kwaitek One of those mixes in which every new track coming in has me reaching for google. Absolutely love Kwaito but it requires a lot of time investment to get deep into it, and [...]
Tags: dj mix, house, kwaitek, kwaito, mama testa, mexico, mixtapes, rave, south africa, spoek mathambo
GENERATION CHILL : 7FT soundsystem Meets Fletcher In Dub – Free EP
May 6, 2012 by dj umb
Perfect for a dubbed out, chilled Sunday! Some of the best dub I’ve heard in absolute ages!!! BOMBAADA proudly presents: Two of Africa’s heavyweight dub champions take a once in a life-time adventure into the deep realms of dub. Follow these two Cape Town audio-nauts on their escapade of spliffs and blips, as they journey [...]
Tags: 7FT soundsystem meets Fletcher, bombaada, capetown, dub, dubstep, in dub ep, south africa
[review] SPOEK MATHAMBO – FATHER CREEPER
March 23, 2012 by generationbass
from the record label’s desk: Johannesburg’s Spoek Mathambo (real name: Nthato Mokgata) first hotwired our world with a series of collaborative projects—Sweat X, Playdoe—that placed his smart, dirty vocals on top of electro-rap bangers that activated dancefloors across the globe. Things went darker and deeper with his 2010 debut album, Mshini Wam (translation: “bring me [...]
Tags: father creeper, joy division, mathambo, Review, south africa, spoek, spoek mathambo
