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The Assembly - Cape Town's Live Music & Entertainment Venue


Discotheque, hosted every Friday at The Assembly, is become recognized as Cape Town's first choice Friday night event.

With a simple ethos of 'If its got beat and you can dance to it, we'll be playing it', Discotheque has in its short lifetime hosted an array of top local, national and international talent, and continues to set the standard and raise the bar, on a weekly basis.

The Discotheque Mix Series aims to showcase and promote featured artists, current or forthcoming at our Discotheque events, as well as the occasional special guest.

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Brendyn “Rusti” Rossouw is a South African based producer/recording engineer, who owns and operates Heritage Sound in Cape Town. The studio is a culmination of Rusti's lifelong passions combined.

His interest in recording music got underway in 2001 when he co-produced his own record, entitled "Rusitband". This album was met with great success in the SA music scene, which opened doors for further projects. His desire to visit the United States was further fueled by the success of a second solo album, which he co-produced, as well as being the main producer on the SAMA-Award winning album, The Call, by Proxy. 

An accomplished drummer, singer and songwriter, Rusti travelled to Nashville in 2008 to concentrate on developing his ability as a recording engineer and producer. He completed the Berklee College of Music 'Producing in Pro Tools' certificate and fulfilled an internship at various top studios in Nashville under the tutelage of legendary recording/mix engineer and producer Jeff Balding.

While living in the USA, and once he got back to South Africa, Rusti toured and performed with the high profile band Tree63 and continued to work on his own material. 
Upon his return, he established Heritage Sound, a studio made unique by its great location in one of Cape Town's most historic buildings, Heritage Square. The live room inside the studio boasts 4.2m high ceilings, decorated with chandeliers, and the drum kit rests on a 240-year old yellowwood floor. It is also stocked with great outboard gear and carefully selected, high quality microphones. With this environment at his disposal, Rusti is fast becoming known as the man able to capture the best raw drum sound in the country! 

Heritage Sound has played host to a great many established South African bands and artists who have chosen Rusti to record their projects. Many of these tracks have been charted on local and national radio stations such as 5fm, Kfm, Highveld Stereo, Ofm, etc.

His relational approach and unique people skills allows him to coax the best out of any artist. To date some of his discography reads as follows:

- Freshlyground: Take Me to the Dance - 2012 (SAMA nominated album) 
- aKING. 2013. 
- The Dirty Skirts: Lost in the Fall - 2011 (SAMA award winning album) 
- Goodnight Wembley: Bang! - 2013.
- Evelyn Hart: Forged by the Sea EP - 2012. 
- McCree: Of Hopes & Dreams - 2012. 
- Taxi Violence: Unplugged: Long Way from Home - 2011. (SAMA nominated album); Soul Shake - 2013. 
- Reburn – 2013.
- Dead Lucky: Sons of Lazarus – 2013.
- Proxy: The Call - 2009 (SAMA and CROWN award winning album)
- Versus The Wolf – 2012.
- The Rescu: The Rescu - 2011.

At present, Rusti keeps his music skills sharp by writing and performing with Evelyn Hart, an alternative folk artist from Cape Town. He also travels abroad once a year to keep up to date with the current trends of the music industry. It is this approach that offers local acts an opportunity to record their music at an international level in a creative, professional and safe environment.

The Cheap Bad Habits aint nothin’ but a low-down, dirty, rock n’ roll blues band. Hailing from the rich muddy waters of the Durban delta, comes a band hell-bent on delivering a rare blend of outlaw blues, and classic high-voltage rock n’ roll.

Hard-hitting alternative punk straight from the Mother City!

DEAD LUCKY: “Sons Of Lazarus” the rebelliously wild South African Heavy Rock ‘n’ Roll safari

«It‘s louder and harder than you‘ll ever want it». With this statement DEAD LUCKY set off to bring their brute thundering Heavy Rock ‘n‘ Roll from South Africa to Europe. And therefor they have powerful dynamite in their luggage, for sure. With their debut album “Sons Of Lazarus“ produced by Brendyn Rossouw and Theo Crous (Prime Circle, Parlotones, Karen Zoid, …) in the Heritage Sound as well as Bellville Studios and mastered by Reuben Cohen (Rob Zombie, Incubus, Bruno Mars, …) at Lurssen Mastering in Los Angeles they show unapologetic that the African continent is nutritious soil for convincing rough Heavy Rock with it’s own identity. On 13th March 2015 the album, which is as strong as a lion with decent roaring, will be released internationally by Dr. Music Records as digipak including a poster booklet and it will create a big stir with a fair certainty that will splash from the Table Mountain in Cape Town to the Rock ‘n‘ Roll strongholds of Europe.

Founded in 2011, Kyle Lucky (Vocals), Jean Labuschagne (Drums), Chris Thunder (Bass) as well as Chris Bornmann and Alex Krause (both Guitar) set their sights on sending the fans of dirty rough Rock on a musical safari, with their rampant enjoyment of playing and mangy variety, during which you can fully live up the Rock ‘n‘ Roll lifestyle. Within their still young band history DEAD LUCKY already have a whole lot of impressing performances at the most famous South African festivals to show. Here they fired up for bands like Bring Me The Horizon, Rise Against, Wolfmother, Rival Sons, Trivium as well as Killswitch Engage at the Synergy Live, RAMfest or the legendary Oppikoppi and hit the road with Billy Talent as their tour support. Now the rebellious guys from Cape Town focus their eyes on the North to look beyond the African horizon and send their striking sound on the journey to Europe.

However, they start off with their album “Sons Of Lazarus“ which contains twelve varied and powerful songs. Musically, the guys count on harsh guitar sounds with straight, catchy riffs, fast drumbeats and the individual roaring voice of front man Kyle Lucky that will make everybody happy who’s eyes are sparkling with joy listening to Danzig and Motörhead. This authentic Street Rock attitude makes DEAD LUCKY who they are and their music special. With the opener and title track “Sons Of Lazarus“ the lyrics deal with the subject of zombies and lead singer Kyle Lucky asks himself if they are able to have good intentions as well so that he makes the walking undead look like they are the ‘good guys‘. Of course, the topic sex, drugs and Rock ‘n‘ Roll shouldn’t be missing, which is talked about in the songs “King Of The Underworld“ and “Sin City“. Besides fast songs DEAD LUCKY also know how to shift down a gear with “End Of The Day” and strike quieter tones without seeming false gently. Furthermore, with “Favorite Kinda Woman” a wisdom of Lemmy Kilmister’s is paid tribute to who is firmly convinced that love affairs and Rock ‘n‘ Roll behave like oil and water. With hymns like “Live Fast, Die Last“ and “Our Prayer“ the pure rampant energy of the DEAD LUCKY sound is set free and the dirty Heavy Rock gets celebrated. You can convince yourselves of this energy with the already released music video “Prowler“. Here you find all trademarks of the insanely rebellious mob from the Cape of Good Hope again. Fans of bands like the already mentioned Motörhead, Danzig or the legendary Misfits should definitely give “Sons Of Lazarus“ a listen! So stay tuned for the release of the wild bearded beast from South Africa and in the meantime the motto of the first single counts, which will be released on 27th February 2015 including their mangy rough music video: Live Fast, Die Last

Dead Lucky is following