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Daev Martian's Digital Feedback is a modern concept album / EP. Rather than just dropping a collection of beats and features, the gifted musician, song-writer, vocalist and producer decided to present a body of work that tells a specific Joburg story cycle of solitude transforming into confinement into human connection into escape and disconnection back into solitude. Host of the show, Richard Rumney, I caught up with him to get an overview of this story taking a specific look and listen...

The artist Sió, a singer, songwriter, storyteller, and poet, has crafted and found a unique space as a music maker. This space is somewhere where she can be the artist she needs to be, finding a balance between vulnerable, layered, and ethereal with powerful spiritual energy.This is exemplified on her track Gaslight (Caught Fire), produced by the exceptional Daev Martian. It comes from deep within her heart and recent experiences with intimate relationships with lyrics that speak to themes of...

Jinji's "6PM in Daveyton" is instrumental Boom bap at its best. A day-dreamy sample of Ronnie Law's "Tidal Wave" floats atop head-nod Dilla-esque drums with a field recording of a drunken confrontation from the actual streets of Daveyton washing in and out to add some hype to the ease and swagger of the track. Boom bap has come a far way from its roots in the seminal East Coast Hip-Hop scene of the 80s, but has never really changed. The mid-tempo kick-snare, in-your-face combo still make...

Kwaito is music that is shifting and moving along with a new generation of artists who envision not only what it is today, but what it can be in the future. Makhalanjalo is a performer and artist from Khayelitsha who released his debut single, Thandizito last year. Produced by Insertcoinz, it's a shining example of Kwaito's endurance and continued vibrancy. Host of the show, Richard Rumney, managed to catch him while he was in Joburg recently as a part of the country-wide, independe...

Lilitha is a singer and songwriter whose influences include the venerable Miriam Makeba and illustrious Thandiswa Mazwai. As a young Xhosa woman with a wide palette of musical influence and ideas, she sees the ongoing possibilities of mixing the folk music of her heritage with the popular music of her time. A beautiful example of this, is the track Liyana, born out of a song that has been passed down to her from her ancestors and realized in a way that speaks to her and her fans ri...

There are electronic music artists who simply have no genre to slot into easily, or at all. Artist’s whose music sounds truly unique and impossible to define according to any one genre. The likes of Four Tet, Flume, Burial, Aphex Twin, all need a whole paragraph just to describe the music they make.Gauteng producer and DJ, Kimetsu, is that kind of artist. Within his songs, one can faintly hear the influence of genres like techno, house, lo-fi, jazz and even world music, but these are revealed...