SOUTH AFRICA 2 THE WORLD! PART 4

June 10, 2010 by dj umb

“I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.”
ALAN PATON
Ok on that note, let me start with some more stuff from my man of the moment:
CULOE DE SONG:

WHERE WE STAYED – LONDON [...]

KWAITO HOUSE : BLACK COFFEE & DJ CLEO

June 3, 2010 by dj umb

Ok, GENERATION BASS are offocially in South Africa, I wrote this advance post before I left the UK.
Here’s some XCELLENT South African/Kwaito House vids that I liberated from Kwaito.co.uk.
A kwaito classic in:

The New Age of Kwaito:

BLACK COFFEE VIDEOS:

2009, that’s all folks!

December 31, 2009 by dj umb

Ok, 2009 is almost up and so it’s THANK YOU time.
Just want to say a BIG, BIG thanks to Vince who had the vision and foresight to start up this blog back in February this year, were it not for him, Gen Bass would NOT EXIST.
Believe it or not I did not know much about [...]

GENERATION BASS @ CONTRABANDA FESTIVAL SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER – AMSTERDAM

November 27, 2009 by dj umb

Hey guys, just a reminder,  if you’re in Amsterdam tomorrow, we’ll be there too.
Vince The Prince and DJ Umb, at the Contrabanda Festival on Saturday 28 November 2009 alongside Zulu 9.30 & Rotfront at the Club Paradiso after-party.
We’ll be exactly where we belong in the UNDERGROUND, the basement bar
Hope you can make it!
As [...]

GENERATION BASS IN TOP 10 BEST BLOGS – AFROPOP WORLDWIDE

November 12, 2009 by dj umb

Homies, some good news given to us by our good friend Garrett Baker of FlipSwitch PR who pointed us into the direction of AFROPOP WORLDWIDE, who have voted your boyz and girl into their Top 10 of the best blogs.
Man, we are very pleased with this considering we were not expecting it or any [...]

FREE ALBUM by VIRGIN FANG!

October 22, 2009 by generationbass

Big ups from the durty south people! Here’s a complete album of house and bass in pretty much all it’s forms by Tilburg’s finest producers, VIRGIN FANG. Actually, this group is another thang i’ve been working on the last couple of years with my homeboy HERR MULLER, and we just decided to give away about [...]

GENERATION BASS V AKWAABA MUSIC

September 23, 2009 by dj umb

Sorry for this repeat but here’s all the official info/spiel from Akwaaba Music about the Kuduro mix:
DJ UMB of Generation Bass takes the wheels and compresses our kuduro comp Akwaaba Sem Transporte into a 30 minute get yo azz up and get to work mix, perfect for this back to school season. So download it, [...]

OVER 250,000.00 VISITORS TO GENERATION BASS

September 5, 2009 by dj umb

It’s SATURDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2009 and TODAY we hit the 250,000.00 visitors mark.
ONE QUARTER OF A MILLION VISITS TO GENERATION BASS IN JUST 6 MONTHS.
Man, we have YOU to thank for this, for checking our blog, for being interested in what we have to say and for being interested in what we have to offer [...]

DJ UMB DROPS A STONED CUMBIA MIX

August 22, 2009 by dj umb

“Out here in the perimeter there are no stars, out here WE IS STONED”
Sonido Del Principe has a new album coming out very soon, “La Naranja Mecanica” and it will be a FREE release.  I’ve been fortunate enough to hear it already and man, it’s a Nu Cumbia corker!
So, I was feeling in a kind [...]

SPEEDMERENGUE vs SOCA GABBER!

August 16, 2009 by generationbass

I found a small snippet of a remix TOADALY KROSSED OUT did (for fun, i expect) of a great MALUCA cut. It claimed to be a GABBER remix, but man… REAL gabber only comes from Holland! So I just had to fuck with it a bit and added some SOCA and SPEEDMERENGUE influences till it [...]