Tempo VINYL ONLY event

Vinyl only parties are rare these days and personally I like to check out as many vinyl sets out as I can. Tempo hosts a Drum n Bass night every Tuesday and have been providing good quality music for the masses. Their regular nights are always free and Space Bar has some cheap drink specials that will keep you on the dance floor till the early hours

Vinyl Exams

Date: 27 November 2012

Venue: Space Bar Long Street

Entrance fee: Free < 10pm > R20

Selectas:

21:00 - TehSynes

22:00 - DJ Tempo (UK)

23:00 - B-Wise

00:00 - DJ A33

01:00 - Hyphen

02:00 - TehSynes

Hyphen has an amazing vinyl collection and his set is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Bios for the DJs and other info can be found on the facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/387064271372982/?fref=ts

Tempo facebook page: 

https://www.facebook.com/TempoDNB

TheDankish & WE like BASS Birthday Bash 01/09/23

BigBirthdayBASH : WE like BASS and TheDANKISH turns ONE

12months later We like BASS and TheDankish are still around. Finally these two separate entities have come together to celebrate their 1 year of existence with one DANK party. We like BASS is a pop-up party that makes use of alternative spaces and are always trying to bring something new to the monotonous party scene in Cape Town. TheDankish is a radio show on Bush Radio that has been crucial in the growth of local hip hop and electronic music. TheDankish have also given birth to The DrumStep CPT Crew take-over which happens at least twice a month in the second hour of the show, with the sickest most original bass music that you have never heard. This Party is certainly gonna be "Fresher than the coolest".

*** VENUE ***
8 Loop Street, Cape Town – new Ragazzi LIVE
Occupying the old DISKO-K space at the bottom of Loop Street, near to Fridas and the SideShow. Specially for this event, a second floor 'dance hall' will be opened. Expect plenty of surprises!

*** LINE-UP ***
< LIVE stage >
> 9pm - 10pm : Sisterfella
> 10pm - 11pm : TehSynes
> 11pm - 12pm : Siya Is Your Anarchist
> 12pm - 1am : BEATENBERG
> 1am - 2am : THE DOLLFINS
> 2am - 4am : TOBY2SHOES

< DANCE hall >
> 9pm – 10:30pm : Ruthy-Pearl
> 10:30pm - 12pm : wwwiT Feb B2B TheBanktella
> 12pm - 1am : PURE SOLID
> 1am - 2am : BIG SPACE
> 2am - 3am : TOTEM
> 3am – 4am : ALXR

*** DEETS ***
Door: R20 < 11pm > R40
BASS SOUND SYSTEM
2 floors of underground music
R15 birthday drink specials all night

TOTEM B2B ALXR DANK PROMO MIX:

Competition time:

To win one of two double tickets to this event all you need to do is post on DrumStepSTD Facebook page which act you are most looking forward to seeing or tweet @DrumstepSTD. Free-ish and well super easy. Winners will be announced on Friday evening.

Rock the River - Easter Beast

I plan on attending Rock the River over the coming Easter weekend in April for one reason only.

BOOAM!


The Exile Island is hosted by RubADub and I guarantee that its going to be amazing!


Line up:
MYSTERION
ISH
FUNAFUJI
MIX N BLEND
LG FRITZ
BINARY
DUBLUSION
PSYDSTEP
NISKERONE
HYPHEN

...and I think theres more to come. 

STD

The Sublime Drum n Bass Show Chat Room

This is the official Chat Room for Hyphens DnB show on Bush 89.5fm.

Ask questions, send shout-outs, request tracks and speak directly to the DJs

Listen live: http://bushradio.ndstream.net/

Choose nickname, no user name or password is required, paste this where it says 'channels': "#TheSublimeShowChatRoom" -without quotes, NO SPACES, leave Auth to services and Audio captcha unclicked. Type in validation code and start chatting.

If you have any problems email me on: drumstepstd@gmail.com or contact customer support on the Bush Radio website listed above.

Chaos and Disorder

So far 2011 has been packed with Dubstep and DnB gigs, this shit is getting big in Cape Town. I attended quite a few parties (shot for the comps) and saw some good quality DJ's which always make me happy!

Cold Turkey 23 Jan (District 6 cafe)

* BRUCE WILLIS?? killed me at Fiction on the 14th of Jan at Brick City. Will definitely be attending the next one which is on the 24th of Feb.

* On the 19th I partied at Ivy League. Its a weekly DnB party called AMSTERDAMNED
-DJs on the night- HYPHEN, MICKY BLUE & JUANO & JP. I had lots of fun, this party has huge potential!

* Some mad friends and I missioned to Stellies on the 22nd. SFR and Niskerone filled Die Mystic Boer to its max! -A Night With Dhala Kulture-

* The next day Cold Turkey (3) spoilt us heavily with Ghislain Poirier (CAN) (Ninja Tunes), Dank (Live), Soulo Starr, Jacob Snake and the regulars of course.

* Unfortunately I missed out on DJ Fresh at fiction on the 27th, it must have been crazy!! Big ups to everyone involved!!

WHATSUP MUTHA.FM!??! - I Love Bass

* The much anticipated I LOVE BASS party went down the next day on the 28th. I got a chance to catch some local DJs that I have been dying to see! Callan Maart is an awesome producer and DJ who went to college with me - check him out on SoundCloud. LG Fritz had some bangers! I went off my nut to some Skrilex just because I could. BIG UPS to the guys in charge, the sound system was HUUUGE! Check out this video I took of Mezzanine dropping some tight Eminem remix. My buddy E-Face rapping along.



* Cold Turkey 4 was very chilled, It was a dub/reggae inclined event. I enjoyed Slu Dada and if you are interested you can catch him on Mutha.FM apparently... I'm not sure when though. Funafuji played a dancehall set which was cool to see.

* It Came From The Jungle was pumping as usual this thursday past. Hyphen and Niskerone played back to back for the entire night, it was like 40degs outside, 35 inside, BANGER!! Check out the King of the Jungle Niskerone playing some hot DnB.




===NOT TO BE MISSED===

* 5th Of feb - HOMEGROWN
Counterstrike (Animal Chin B2B 500Mills):
http://www.facebook.com/CounterstrikeDNB
Hyphen:
http://www.facebook.com/hyphensa
Cutline (UK):
http://www.facebook.com/cutlinemusic
Ben XO (UK):
http://www.myspace.com/benxo

* HI-FIDELITY Wednesdays @ DAKOTA -Ft. Niskerone, Sedge Warbler, Blush n Bass etc...
The first installment will be on the 9th of feb feat. Niskerone, Liver and LG Fritz.

* Say Nuffin, Skank or Die!
@Voom Voom
WHITE NITE (Funky & 2 Step)
SUBLIMINAL (Drum & Bass)
BINARY (Dubstep)
ISH (Dubstep, 2 Step, Grime)
BLOTCHY (2 Step, Funky, UK BASS)

Line up of noteee!! That is going to be a SICK party!

* RubADub
7ft Soundsystem
Funafuji <3
Psydstep (Strobe1 vs Storm)
Dublusion
Qi

lol nuff said.

____________________________________
*LINKS*
- For all events
DrumStepSTD - FB
- Callan Maart's SoundCloud
http://soundcloud.com/callan-maart
- Mutha.FM
http://www.muthafm.com/index.html
___________________________________


Keep skanking
Catch you on the d-floor
STD

Mercury - Club

I was first introduced to this amazing club in late 2008 by my friend and former band member (The Manic Mischiefs - strangely enough named after Manic Mondays at Merc). Found in De Villiers Street in Zonnebloem (next to The Shack), there are a few things that make this club awesome: It’s pretty big, drinks are cheap, the vibe is cool and the sound is perfect (big ups to the sound engineers).

Homegrown – My first time at Merc and my first club DnB experience was at Homegrown. First Saturday of every month, hands down the biggest dedicated DnB party in South Africa. The hosts Animal Chin & 500 Mills have been running Homegrown since 2000 making it the longest running DnB party in SA.

RubADub – A monthly Dubstep event held at Mercury. If I remember correctly I attended one of the first Rubadubs when it was still very small and not that well supported. A couple months later I started hearing very good things about Rubadub and I decided that I should have a second go at it. IT WAS CRAZY! The DJs were ripping the place apart! I hope to see big things from them in 2011.

Links:

Mercury - Facebook

Homegrown - Facebook

Rubadub - Facebook

http://www.mercuryl.co.za/

Early DnB / Jungle

Take a step into history with these two classic DnB tracks from two pioneers of the genre.

Aphrodite - Stalker




Goldie - Terminator

African Dope Records

"African Dope Records is an independent record label based in Cape Town, South Africa. It is the brainchild of the world renowned beats ‘n breaks DJ/producer duo Krushed & Sorted, who began and ran the record label from its original humble HQ in the centre of Cape Town back in 2000. Since April 2000, Dope has been releasing the phreshest beats and breaks by artists from the Mother City."
-Source

These guys are doing such a good job with DnB and Dubstep in Cape Town, I think I may have heard my first Dubstep track at an African Dope party.

There are a couple of free tracks on their site:
http://www.africandope.co.za/

Look out for krushed & sorted - king of the swingers [animal chin remix] :) One of my favs



African Dope Offerings by africandope

Fiction - The home of Dubstep and Drum and Bass in CPT

Fiction - The home of Dubstep and Drum and Bass (DnB) in Cape Town.

Fiction is a comfy club where people from all over the city come for their dose of Dubstep, DnB, Indie Electro and other genres of music that you wouldn’t find at your average club. Overlooking Long Street from the second story of a building on the corner of Long and (find out the name of the other road) is definitely one of the best parts of this club. The walls are filled with interesting pictures of characters from classic movies that also surround dance floor that is considerably small but still has a big-ass sub in the corner. The crowd all bouncing to their own interpretation of the beats makes the floor wobble hectically and it feels like the building is going to collapse. It’s really unexplainable and you have to experience it to understand.

If you are looking for a Dubstep party, the event "StepUp" at fiction is where it’s at. Fiction hosts this party once a month and you get to see South African's top Dubstep Djs in action such as Funafuji and Fletcher.

Your DnB needs can be fulfilled every Thursday night at "It Came from the Jungle". I was very lucky to have seen international Djs/producers Camo & Crooked perform at one of these events. Niskerone and Hyphen are the regular DnB "Selectors".

Here's a couple of helpful links:
http://www.fictionbar.com
http://www.facebook.com/itcamefromthejungle
http://www.thesoapbox.fm/2010/12/02/steppin-to-the-dub

Happy Steppin'