two brothers who travel the world making music

• One of the first House / Techno DJs in Africa
• One of the earliest African House Music producers with releases
like Khaya “Cheza” and “Gumba Fire” on Defected, Stereo, Perfecto
from as early as 2001
• Has performed in 48 countries
• Pioneered digital DJing and was making pitch control CD players in
the 90’s long before Pioneer or Denon
• Opened New York Fashion week in a live collaboration with Grace
Jones
• Was invited by Alicia Keys to perform with her at The Back Ball in
London
• Was the first African DJ on Pete Tongs Essential Mix and performed
on the BBC Global Millennium Broadcast to over 100 Million
listeners.
• Has featured on line-ups with Carl Cox, Sasha, John Digweed, Nic
Fanciulli, Steve Lawler, Nick Warren, Faithless, Black Coffee, Amé, James Zabiela, Hendrik Schwartz, Luciano, Dennis Ferrer and Martin Solveig and many others
• Has shared the stage with Seal, Elton John, Liza Minelli, The Killers, Soul2Soul, Skunk Anansie and Johnny Clegg
• “House of the Holy Afro” Tribal Techno Theater Show Toured 18 countries and sold out 28days at Edinburgh Fringe
• His band “Afroteq” opened Fifa World Cup 2010 alongside Fatboy Slim
• Music Director and producer of “Nokia Face Of Africa” broadcast to 140 Million people
• Music Director for 14 Years of AFI Cape Town & JHB Fashion Weeks creating soundtracks for over 1000 of Africa’s Top Fashion Designers
• Hosted the Nightwatchmen radio show for 7years on Good Hope FM and resident DJ on Roger Goode’s 5FM “Saturday Surgery” for 5 years
• Designed and built ERA Night Club rated by MixMag as Top 10 Best Clubs on earth
• Owns an acoustics specialist company called Supersonic who are agents for Funktion One and Yamaha Pro audio

Multi-instrumental - Live Dance act - Producers

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The secret is officially out. An electronic duo from the Southern-most tip of Africa have gone from one of Dance Music’s best kept secrets to an act tipped by industry tastemakers as the band to watch this year.
Their genre-defying mix of live instruments, House beats and searing live performances has seen Goldfish go from impromtu jams at a tiny beach club in Cape Town to headlining Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium, cracking a top 10 on the US iTunes Dance chart, a residency at Pacha Ibiza with David Guetta and DJ’s like Fedde le Grand knocking at their door to do remix their tracks. It’s almost hard to believe that not very long ago they were just Dom and Dave, two music students who lived a relatively chilled life of surfing and playing music in their home town Cape Town.

All that really did change when they decided to record an album. Not having a record deal or much money, they simply locked themselves in a bedroom...with a double bass, a saxophone and a couple of synths, recording their debut Caught In The Loop on their own. A charming dance record that received massive support from the international dance music scene, desperate for something fresh and new. Pete Tong even called it his Ibiza Poolside Album of the Summer.

The two guys quickly found themselves maintaining gruelling international tour schedule that saw them play sold-out shows from Amsterdam to Miami, from the Sydney Opera House to Sao Paulo, in-between still finding time to mix the covermount CD for DJ mag international, garnering a record-breaking 8 SAMA nominations, numerous number ones radio at home, as well as performances at Glastonbury, Sensation White, Ultra Festival Miami, 46664 and Get Loaded in the Park amongst others.

They even got their hands on a residency to die for; Friday night at Ibiza super-club Pacha. Here they developed their sound further and presented it on their second album Perceptions of Pacha. As no other album, Perceptions Of Pacha captures the carefree vibe of the magical island of Ibiza, with their track Fort Knox cracking the Top 10 on the US iTunes Dance Charts. Following that up with the SAMA award-winning album Get Busy Living featuring the smash Youtube hit video We come together that garnered millions of online views for it’s hilarious and ground breaking animation work that has become a Goldfish trademark.

With props coming from everyone from Dr Dre, Sebastian Ingrosso, Pete Tong, Sander Kleinenberg, Fedde Le Grand and Faithless, watch this space. The Re-invention of the DJ has arrived.

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STARTED AS A DJ, RECORD PRODUCER AND REMIXER IN MY HOMETOWN, BREDA. ULTIMATELY VOTED THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE DJ ON DJ MAG IN 2013 AND AGAIN IN 2014. NOW A MUSICAL CREATIVE FOLLOWING MY OWN PATH, BACK FOR MORE.

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