JOURNEY MUSIC: SOUTH AFRICA’S AFROTECH SOUND TRAVELS GLOBALLY AND TRANSPORTS SPIRITUALLY (Mixmag)

By |2023-12-13T13:14:21-06:00December 13th, 2023|Afro House, Afrobeats, Dance Music, House Music, MixMAg, South Africa|

AfroTech is a prominent dance music style in clubs around the world — but in its country of origin the genre's future hangs in the balance. Setumo-Thebe Mohlomi reports on the need to support creativity and spirituality within South Africa's scene Waving hands reach for the sky, or something beyond it; some with flat palms [...]

How South Africa’s queer underground is remaking ballroom in its own image (DJMAG)

By |2023-12-11T19:19:48-06:00December 11th, 2023|Afro House, Afrobeats, Amapiano, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ Mag, Gay, House Music, International, LGBTQIA+, South Africa|

  In South Africa's burgeoning ballroom scene, pioneering figures and DJs are finding their own ‘Ha’ in the country's past, and in the contemporary sounds of gqom, amapiano, and Afrobeats. Tazmé Pillay learns more “DJ, cut the beat.” The room falls silent — an unforgivable sin anywhere else, but this is no nightclub. This is a [...]

How Far Can Amapiano Go? (The New Yorker)

By |2023-08-10T10:06:44-05:00August 10th, 2023|Afrobeats, Amapiano, Dance Music, DJ, Entertaiment, International, producer, South Africa|

  The musical artist Musa Keys performing at the Afro Nation festival in Miami, in May.Photograph by Chris Allmeid / Courtesy Afro Nation A new form of South African dance music is thriving. A pair of twin brothers, known as Major League Djz, want the rest of the world to pay attention.   It was [...]

The World Watches MoBlack and His Exportable Afro House (DJ Mag Italia -Translated from Italian)

By |2024-02-12T10:38:54-06:00July 27th, 2023|ADE, Afro House, Afrobeats, Amapiano, Dance Music, DJ Mag, International, Interviews|

  It will be a hot summer for the Neapolitan DJ. And infinitely interesting when it flows into a hot autumn Mimmo Falcone is MoBlack , someone who immediately believed in afro house so much that he became its disciple. He left from Sant'Antonio Abate, a town half an hour's journey from the city of Naples, with the intention [...]

Apple Music’s Latest Africa Rising Recipient Is Amapiano Singer-Songwriter, Nkosazana Daughter (Texx and the City)

By |2023-06-30T20:20:14-05:00June 30th, 2023|Amapiano, Announcements, International, Music News, Promotional, South Africa, Women|

  Apple Music today announced the latest featured artist in its Africa Rising artist development program is Nkosazana Daughter, an Amapiano singer-songwriter hailing from KwaZulu-Natal. “I am over the moon to be the cover star of Africa Rising for my debut album that’s just dropped! Thank you to Apple Music and to all of you [...]

Cruise is Nigeria’s New DIY Dance Craze (Resident Advisor)

By |2023-04-22T21:32:22-05:00April 22nd, 2023|Afro House, Afrobeats, Amapiano, Dance Music, International, producer, Resident Advisor|

  This frenetic, TikTok-ready sound is taking over the streets of Lagos—and beyond. But is it ready to go mainstream? The Nigerian genre cruise (AKA freebeat or cruise beat) seems designed to cause the body to move before the mind understands what's happening. It's a delirious blur of vocals and drums, influenced by other African [...]

CROSSOVER AND COLLECTIVITY: WHY LONDON’S HOUSE UNDERGROUND IS EVOLVING (MIXMAG)

By |2023-04-03T18:40:44-05:00April 3rd, 2023|Afro House, Afrobeats, Amapiano, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, House, House Music, International, MixMAg, UK|

There are a number of parallel Afro house scenes developing within London’s underground, as a variety of influences propel the movement in new directions. NKC reports WORDS: NKC | PHOTOGRAPHY: JEROME KIDMAN 28 FEBRUARY 2023 AN AFRO HOUSE MOVEMENT As Scratcha DVA puts it, “the bounce” is back in UK club music, and we owe it [...]

Q & A with My House Radio’s own DJ Feline

By |2023-03-08T22:41:20-06:00March 8th, 2023|Biography, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, House, House Music, International, Interviews, Music, My House Radio, UK, Women|

https://soundcloud.com/fiona-carson/dj-feline-deepsoulsexy-love-vibes-my-house-radio-13-nov-20?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing For those who don't know you, tell us a little about yourself, where you are from, and how you first got into dance music.  Hi I’m Fiona, Dj Feline from London UK. I’ve been DJ’ing for 31 years and have been a part of the My House Radio [...]

Uncle Waffles and DBN Gogo to headline Audiomack House debut in Johannesburg, South Africa (Complex.ng)

By |2023-02-24T21:16:42-06:00February 24th, 2023|Amapiano, Announcements, black History Month, International, producer, Report, South Africa|

Uncle Waffles and DBN Gogo to headline Audiomack House debut in Johannesburg, South Africa Africa’s leading music streaming platform, Audiomack has announced the launch of its latest initiative “Audiomack House”, a platform created to connect its best performing artists and partners with audiences through a series of live shows across Africa. The event will make [...]

Major League DJz are Bringing Amapiano to a Global Stage (Hypebeast)

By |2023-02-21T18:43:50-06:00February 21st, 2023|African American, Amapiano, black History Month, Dance Music, DJ, producer, South Africa|

  The identical twin brothers and DJ partners Banele and Bandile Mbere speak on the origins of their sound, ‘New Beginnings’ EP and recent set at Tulum’s Day Zero festival. Low-tempo bass, scattered piano melodies, pounding percussion dotted with synth – there’s a chance, if you’re into house music, that you’ve heard of an emerging [...]

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