Okmalumkoolkat: Fresh a$ Fuck
Smiso Zwane is the highly inventive, mustachioed and bespectacled 29-year-old going by the name of Okmalumkoolkat; co-accused at the visual/performance art outfit, Dirty Paraffin. Having partnered up with the likes of Spoek Mathambo, London dubstep trio LV and the Ruffest, this Umlazi-born, Jozi-based cat is not just a musician. He’s an artist, a writer, a...
WIN: CAPE TOWN ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL 2014
The third edition of the Cape Town Electronic Music Festival kicks off on 4 February 2014 and will run through until 9 February 2014. Headliners are deep house don Dixon (Germany), drum ‘n bass trio Noisia (Netherlands) and hip hop pioneer DJ The Original Jazzy Jay (US). What’s more, before the main festival (7 –...
| interview | Old Money: real life black science fiction
Ahmad Julian aka Scheme and Andre Oswald make up the New York duo OLD MONEY. Together they create music which blends influences of global bass, soul, dancehall, spoken word and hip-hop to stretch the limits of new-age music. They’ve performed and DJ’d alongside the likes of The Cool Kids, Maluca + Paul Devro (Mad Decent),...
JOBURG PARTY! – A snapshot of SA’s new youth underground
Over two days and nights in Johannesburg, South Africa, Rod Stanley & Chris Saunders travelled to illegal rooftop parties, warehouse raves, street fashion shoots and poolside jams to meet some of the young musicians, DJs, zine publishers and artists set on taking the SA scene global, and asked them how the city’s youth culture is...
