Author Archive

August 2011

August 2011

Sensual Physics – Always Something Jahjazz – Smooth – Pulshar Remix Steffi, Baaz – This Is True Kai Alce – Floating Dorisburg – Emotion Tale Of Us – Dark Song Matthew Burton, Kate Rathod – Natural Attraction – Jay Shepheard Remix Rootstrax – Harlequin – 808 Dub Mix Jay Shepheard, Matthew Burton – Merked Black [...]

Autumn mix

Enter the Soul  – Migs and Jelly Soltitude  - Vince Watson Amazing Discoveries - Move D Standby Juror, Panel 35 (Sequestered) - Chris Gray All The Family - The Zohar Untitled B1 – Lowtec Love Lost and Found - Kellyyss Sark - Freund der Familie Garage Is Back – Priority Remix - BLM Smoldering Eyes - Chris Gray New York Hustler - Makam Macrotones - [...]

Explorations

The house sounds I’ve been consistently drawn to over the last few years seem to revolve around siblings Dubbyman and Above Smoke’s Deep Explorer imprint and the small coterie of labels they release on and share some kind of kindred spirit with: Yore, Mineundo, Fear of Flying to name a few. While the legacy of [...]

This is why I don’t get booked

This is why I don’t get booked

The title is only half in jest. Deep, dubby techno.

Imaginatively Titled

Imaginatively Titled

Some dubstep, techno, noodly stuff for February.

Andrew van der Merwe

Andrew van der Merwe

Desribing himself as the world’s first “beach calligrapher”, Cape Town letter artist Andrew van der Merwe has developed  an original technique for carving letters in the sand. You can see more of Andrew’s work, and detailed explanantions of how he goes about creating it on the Behance Network. Andrew also does commissions. If you’d like [...]

Jordan Metcalf

Jordan Metcalf

Cape Town designer Jordan Metcalf, also known as sadmascot, has created some wonderful type treatments. You can see a lot more of Jordan’s work, including some fine illustration work on his Behance page, or check out his Flickr stream.

Finally, a new mix

Finally, a new mix

Been listening to a lot of disco nuggets recently, as well as some 80′s synth stuff, largely as a result of recently being asked to play at Peroxide, a monthly synth-based night at Fiction in Cape Town. Had a great time there and have included a few tracks I played that night in my latest [...]

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

Site of the Week – World of Merix The Yellow Llama (Mark to his mom) alerted me to this fantastic use of the jQuery javascript library by World of Merix, a  polish web design firm. Innovative uses of jQuery and other scripting libraries, along with HTML5, should hasten the demise of Flash which will be [...]

Perpetuum: A Stop Frame Animated Artwork by Adam Letch

Perpetuum: A Stop Frame Animated Artwork by Adam Letch

Perpetuum is a stop frame animated artwork by Cape Town photographer and artist Adam Letch.