3 posts tagged “festival”
I have to say, Back to the City was AMAZING! I can't big up Domz, Osmic and the whole crew enough for the work they put into making the event the massive success it was. It really made me feel proud to be part of the SA hip hop movement!
We arrived straight from the airport and joined a panel discussion about the state of South African hip hop. The panel included Mizi from Hype Magazine, and Slikour and Sugasmaxx from Ventilation Productions. Everything from local music quotas, the quality of production, being self-motivated, unity in SA hip hop, making it overseas and wearing South African designer clothes was discussed. Hopefully everyone went away feeling more positive about SA hip hop.
When the show started there were too many dope performances to mention, but my personal highlights were HHP, F-Eezy, Young Nations and El Nino performing ama Vuvuzela (El Nino's verse brought the house down) and of course, Driemanskap.
Drie were performing new material from their soon to be released album, Igqabhukil’ Inyongo for the first time in J-Section. Judging by the crowd's reaction, the boys are going to take the country by storm. All I can say is that I was grinning like a fool for the whole performance and the boys made me proud!
I'm already looking forward to Back to the City 2010!
Check out some photos by Anne-Sophie Leens...
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Your boy Rattex will be performing at the Khayelitsha Festival this coming Saturday, 25th October. There is a full line-up that also includes, Ghetto Muffin, Rudimentals and Ntando. Rattex will be on stage at 5pm so make sure you go and check him out.
"2008 heralds the 25th Anniversary of the vast, sprawling community of Khayelitsha on the Cape Flats area of Cape Town. The Khayelitsha Festival, due to be staged from 24th to 26th October, will reflect and crystallize the genesis and development of Khayelitsha over the last 25 years."
For more information check out the Khayelitsha Festival website.
Ben Sharpa and Milanese have been rocking crowds out in Europe for the last couple of months and the response to their unique brand of hip hop and UK bass music has been amazing. The day after rocking a crowd of around 4,000 people at Dour in Belgium, Sharpa and Milanese gave Extrema in Eindhoven a taste of the future.
Extrema is one of the largest festivals in The Netherlands, with an estimated 40,000 people in attendance. The musical line up was mostly commercial techno, so Sharpa and Milanese really stood out. The Novalectra tent was packed to capacity and the pair killed it with a big performance.
Check out the photos...
Ben Sharpa, Milanese, Dplanet (click for larger image).
Beach with fake palm trees! (click for larger image).
The Sharpest Knife in the Drawer + hottie (click for larger image).
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Sharpa and Milanese rockin' it (click for larger image).
The crowd feeling it (click for larger image).
The crowd feeling it even more (click for larger image).
Sharpa Soul Power (click for larger image).
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That's how we rrrrrrrrroll!!
