Chops n Hops vol 3 
DL link: https://goo.gl/KbfBGh

Independent South African singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/dabbler/home-producer. Looking to experiment with genres and sounds, and collaborate with other local artists. But mostly in the acoustic to alternative rock to dub reggae/trip hop/indietronica/ambient sort of area. Bits and pieces lying around, dotting the cultural landscape. Funk, Latin rhythms, world music, glitch, whatever.

Slowly but surely building the archive of recorded songs from incompletely recorded/mixed material that's been sitting on hard drives for years, as well as more contemporary material. I never intended to share a lot of it, but life's too short to be your own gatekeeper, when so many already exist.

"We are so far in time to be all apart."

Reposts is music from my current band High Water Bridge. New material from my old early 2000s band/collaboration collective Jedi Rollers is in a special playlist, while the older material is also in reposts.

Two Local Musicians From South Africa.. Doing It For The Love Of Music....

The amazing yet true history of The Beach Boys is well chronicled, and by any standard it’s one of the greatest and most musical stories ever told. From humble roots in southern California, The Beach Boys have become an enduring international sensation. Their famous harmonies and classic songs continue to travel the world bringing “Good Vibrations” everywhere.  

For more than five decades, The Beach Boys -- America’s first pop band to reach the 50-year milestone -- has recorded and performed the music that has become the world’s favorite soundtrack to summer. Founded in Hawthorne, California in 1961, The Beach Boys were originally comprised of the three teenaged Wilson brothers: Brian, Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and school friend Al Jardine. In 1962, neighbor David Marks joined the group for their first wave of hits with Capitol Records, leaving in late 1963, and in 1965, Bruce Johnston joined the band when Brian Wilson retired from touring to focus on writing and producing for the group.  

The Beach Boys signed with Capitol Records in July 1962 and released their first album, Surfin’ Safari, that same year. The album spent 37 weeks on the Billboard chart, launching the young group known for its shimmering vocal harmonies and relaxed California style into international stardom. The Wilson/Love collaboration resulted in many huge international chart hits, and the band’s initial surf-rock focus was soon broadened to include many other themes, helping to make The Beach Boys America’s preeminent band of the 1960s. 

1966’s Pet Sounds, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2016, is universally hailed as one of popular music’s most important recordings of all time. More than 100 domestic and international publications and journalists have lauded Pet Sounds as one of the greatest albums ever recorded, and it entered the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame in 1998. Pet Sounds tops MOJO magazine’s “Greatest Albums of All Time” at No. 1, while Rolling Stone ranked Pet Sounds at No. 2 in the magazine’s list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”

Impressively, The Beach Boys continue to hold Billboard / Nielsen SoundScan’s record as the top-selling American band for albums and singles, and they are also the American group with the most Billboard Top 40 chart hits (36). ‘Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys’ has achieved triple-Platinum sales status and ‘The SMiLE Sessions,’ released to worldwide critical acclaim in 2011, won the year’s GRAMMY® Award for Best Historical Album and was heralded as the No. 1 Reissue of the Year by Rolling Stone.

In 2012, The Beach Boys celebrated their 50th Anniversary.  Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, and David Marks reunited for The Beach Boys’ 29th studio album, That’s Why God Made The Radio, and an international 50th Anniversary Tour, continuing one of music’s greatest stories.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and recipients of The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award, The Beach Boys are a beloved American institution that remains iconic around the world.


Satirical, lyrical, hip-hop rock ‘n’ roll soldiers, with weird rhymes at the best of times. Established in 1999, Jedi Rollers have released three albums, an EP and numerous singles that have featured on radio, compilation albums and surf and skate videos. A seminal musical collective from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Jedi Rollers have seen members go on to solo and group success across SA and the world. The Rollers are still in the game and their influential tentacles reach into the fields of rock, Afro-pop, hip-hop, electronica, punk, funk and everything inside and outside the church of contemporary music. Superintendent inspectors in the Serious Peaceful Crime Unit, we don’t just scheme it, we tune it!

Weird Together Biography

Helmed by Tokyo based New Zealand DJ and Radio / TV host Nick Dwyer and legendary Auckland based English music producer and DJ Dick "Magik J" Johnson, Weird Together is one of the most globally minded dance music projects to emerge from the South Pacific in recent times. 

What started as a studio project is a now fully formed 12 piece band with members hailing from all corners of the globe with Karima Madut representing South Sudan, Percussionist Mavs Adegbite representing Nigeria, Alesano on steel pan being a super rare mix of Trini - Samoan, and Jinitero MC being far far away from his homeland of Cuba. 

They are joined up the mysterious Gaza Tripp on Guitar, Izak Chads also on Pan and the mighty Horns of Tekapo bringing the Brass blast. 

Together they have been storming the stage at some of the biggest festivals around New Zealand and Australia and now have their eyes firmly set on bringing this unique mix of global sounds to the world stage. 

With their debut EP dropping at the beginning of 2015 on respected UK purveyor of incredible 'sounds of the world' Soundway Records and a release set on The Jillionaire's Feel Up Records things are certainly heading in that direction.



Spoken word, raps, and even songs with singing in them!

Singer/ Song Writer , Guitarist, Solo Performer. Influenced by Jazz, Blue, Folk and Alternative Rock from Johannesburg South Africa.  Still in the process of Shaping the sound 

For more info & bookings: willrayzmusic@gmail.com

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