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Museke Online Africa Music Awards

July 4, 2011 Music

Museke, an online portal for African music, started the Museke Online Africa Music Awards (MOAMAs) in 2010 and, in 2011, they have worked to improve the reach, size and administration of these awards as part of the journey to become the pre-eminent Africa music awards.

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Has It Come To This? (CP)

April 3, 2011 Lifestyle

We seem to celebrate mediocrity and this has carried over into much of what the mass media pushes as great music. To find great, classic music, one has to look beyond what is thrown at us and seek out the gems outside mainstream.

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TKzee’s New Video – Dikakapa

March 1, 2010 Music

TKZee are legendary. When they came on the music / kwaito scene over 10 years ago, they truly changed how kwaito was perceived and created. Their past EPs and albums, from Phalafala and Shibobo to Halloween and Trinity, amongst others, hold a very special place in the hearts of many South Africans (and Africans). The [...]

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Ty – Special Kind Of Fool

February 15, 2010 Music

For too long, hip hop that originates from outside the US has existed in the shadows, despite the opinion (mine) that a lot of the music that is true to the spirit of hip hop is from everywhere else.  A couple of years ago, my brother-in-law started schooling me on UK hip hop and it [...]

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The Red Bulletin

February 10, 2010 Lifestyle

a man on a bike hops over a fountain machine in full rev in mid-air he lands at the feet of those watching, to their delight doing the seemingly impossible in a courtyard outside a nightclub in the day time a b-boy defies the pull of the planet’s natural forces and hovers for a brief [...]

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Sade – Soldier Of Love

February 5, 2010 Music

It is a day that blurs into the rest – nameless, timeless, and vaguely familiar – except for one thing. I must have been about 13/14 years old. Young enough to still be naive about and frightened by the hormonal murmurings that seemed to manifest themselves more and more frequently each day but, at the [...]

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Into Nneka’s World

January 19, 2010 Music

A product of the conventional music business model, I have not always explored beyond what the ‘system’ pushes out. I am not proud of that and I have attempted to make up for it by submerging myself in the crevices of the Internet, where so much beautiful music resides. I visit music blogs & sites [...]

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Tumi Traverses Whole Worlds

December 15, 2009 Music

Many moons ago, I frequented a spot in Doornfontein, Johannesburg called Jungle Connection, a place I have mentioned in previous posts. One of the people I met on these poetic excursions was Boitumelo Molekane. He was at the heart of a creative, artistic collective called P.E.R.M. and would come through to Jungle infrequently, but always [...]

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Memories of an Era

December 6, 2009 Music

It was a normal night somewhere in 1999/2000. Like many, I had come to Joburg in search of dreams and a taste of the big city’s bright lights. I had been invited to a party in Morningside by a young lady I was interested in getting to know better – I was single and allowed. [...]

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Definite Pop Art

September 8, 2009 Music

I’ve been wanting to post this for a bit but been so caught up. A couple of years ago, researching the legendary Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse for something – think it was tv show Afro Café – I came across a name: Mpho Skeef. Word was that Ntate Sipho had a daughter in the UK who [...]

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Poem – Musical Chairs

August 24, 2009 Poetry

This is a potential performance poem I am currently working. While I am still going to be building it, I need to lock down the first part to possibly perform at a gig. My people at Twitter suggested I upload here for comment. It’s also sitting on YouTube. Feeling a bit self-conscious about this one [...]

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A layman’s thoughts on BLACKsummers’night

July 19, 2009 Music

After 8 years out of the music limelight, Maxwell released BLACKsummers’night, a return to the sound that laid the foundation for neo-classical soul. With this album, he showed that, despite being away from the music scene, he still has the ability to create classic, timeless music that moves the spirit and feeds the soul. Musically, it is a journey into the soul; a return to music that is best played live, each song a crafted masterpiece.

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Kobi Onyame – He Said, She Said

June 16, 2009 Music

It ain’t easy. Talent is something that we, as human beings, have in abundance. The creation of beauty, melody, harmony is second nature to so many in our midst, yet we may never hear, see, touch or feel most of what is out there. That said, the birth and evolution of social media might just [...]

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