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Formed and run by Krushed &amp; Sorted, African Dope is one of South Africa's premier independent labels.

www.shop.africandope.co.za

Their break came after they created the music for (ironically enough) a tobacco company's cinema advertisement which brought in the cash to set up the label and release their first CD, Acid (tm) Made Me Do It, in April 2000 to much acclaim, while their "African Dope Vol 1" compilation won the 2002 "Best Dance Album" SAMA award.
Never fixed on one style or genre, the label is dedicated to showcasing the finest local leftfield dub, hip-hop, dancehall, breakbeat, and drum 'n bass emerging from the streets of South Africa. Distribution in South Africa is by Soul Candi Distribution (as of July 2007, previously by Sony), in Europe by Lowlands distribution (Benelux), Al!ve AG (Germany), and CD1D.com (France), and they have comprehensive digital distribution via INgrooves (USA), Artspages (Scandinavia / China), Blue Pie Productions (Australia) and Vidzone.tv (UK).
The pre-2009 logo was designed by Watkin Tudor Jones after an amicable settlement with lawyers representing the Cape Outspan company whose own logo the previous one was just a little too similar to.


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Jam Jarr - Get our EP's in the African Dope Online Store: http://shop.africandope.co.za
More downloads at: www.soundcloud.com/africandope

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A spasm of electronic, a shiver of dirty, filthy, salt up your nose kinda bass. Jam Jarr is a glitch-rap duo made up of Soundproof and Bakaman, and they’re here to tear your eardrums asunder with a cache of tracks ranging from dubstep to glitch-hop, and all the other beat-stops inbetween. Their first EP - Fat Fruit - was released on African Dope Records, and their second - I Am The Danger - is available in the Online African Dope Store now (www.shop.africandope.co.za). A release on Dutch record label "Subfinity Records" in collaboration with 'Process Rebel' is also coming out early 2011.
Jam Jarr is - One producer, one MC, a bag full of death-defying bass and a tongue-lashing rap festival, all taking place in a circus clown car with no shock absorbers. If it's festivals and clubs you want, they've played at a ton: Rezonance, Earthdance, The Tunnels, The Village, (and many other funny names), The Assembly, Fiction, The Cape Town Castle. They've gone to Johannesburg, Mossel Bay, Grahamstown... it's all in there.
Soundproof, also known as Rubix Qube, Phat Planet and a part of Biorythm brings the beats that he’s been putting together for the last decade and more. He's making tidal waves in the trance scene and is travelling internationally on a regular basis for his flagrant skills. (Portugal, Australia, USA)
Bakaman is a rhyme slayer of note, also known as MCynic, Shimmy Fazaa, and YOUR MOTHER. Yet to bring out his first EP (scheduled for late 2011), some people call him a lazy bastard. While in fact, he's the kind of guy that’ll get your grandmother into rap music, he's also your girlfriend’s worst nightmare and the man to make you realize you and your friends can’t rap.


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PS Older Hectic City mixes are archived below (and on the blog, if they get yanked by SC ;)

http://soundcloud.com/hectic-city-archive-1 (HC1 & HC2)
http://soundcloud.com/hectic-city-archive-2 (DELETED by SC)
http://soundcloud.com/hectic-city-archive-3 (DELETED by SC)
http://soundcloud.com/hectic-city-archive-4 (HC5 & HC8c)
http://soundcloud.com/hectic-city-archive-5 (DELETED by SC)
http://soundcloud.com/hectic-city-archive-6 (HC7 & HC8e)
http://soundcloud.com/hectic-city-archive-7 (HC9 & HC10)
http://soundcloud.com/hectic-city-archive-8 (HC11 & HC12)

or at the blog

http://www.kleptones.com/blog/category/hectic-city-mixtapes/

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