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High calibre rock and roll from the Basson Laubscher & The Violent Free Peace effusion! Recorded in the mystical mountains of Stellenbosch at the legendary Sunset Studios by Jurgen Von Wechmar, Testify is a rock n' roll monster that fights with the untamed beast of hard funk to spread Laubscher's message of rock n roll music and what makes the man tick. 

Funky grooves meet filthy fuzzed out guitars, whilst angelic organs and choir backup vocals gets wrapped up with pounding steaming syncopated drums and a blistering solo to cap it all off. 
The accompanying music video is a compilation of footage taken by the band on the road and captures the band in their natural habitat with all the blood, sweat & grooves of thousands of gigs. 

The video was edited by Basson Laubscher himself and captures life on the road with a refreshing honest depiction and gives you an unfiltered glimpse into life with the band and spreading the word of their powerful boogie. So brothers & sisters, take testify for a spin and come and witness the miracle of live, loud rock n' roll blues power!

Witness blues-rock power with a band who delivers their self-written and composed music with intense passion and honesty!  With practice comes perfection which allows for every show to be a truly unique experience with some face-melting guitars, foot-stomping grooves, and a crowd that goes wild from start to finish. Interactive rock 'n roll with each band member intuitively reading each other's body language to create a symbiotic tight-knit experience you are sure to remember!

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80's tinged goth saturated rock and roll!

Holding a deep admiration for B-Grade horror and gothic imagery Ruff Majik frontman and chief songwriter, Johni Holiday splatters latest single “She’s Still A Goth” with 80's tinged goth saturated rock and roll (and a pinch of synth-wave). Biting down on a dirty riff and even filthier backbeat “She’s Still A Goth” includes a doom infused breakdown and highly flammable swagger throughout. 

It's just a love song. Nothing more, nothing less. Packaged neatly in a ghoulish package…” Johni Holiday (Ruff Majik)

She's Still a Goth

Ruff Majik - She's Still a Goth

High speed rock and roll from South Africas finest musical export. 

‘Get The Picture’ is taken from iconic South African rock band Springbok Nude Girls 2022 SAMA Winning rock album(“Partypocalypse”). 

"This has definite punk influences and is one of my favourite tracks from our SAMA winning (!) album “Partypocalypse”. I heard this chorus in my head and worked backwards from there. Theo fleshed it out, and Francois brought the speed! As a band, and as a writer we need keep it exciting, colourful and as interesting as possible…try and try again, fail and fail again until the relentless hunger for magic grants you a break through. The narrative of “Get The Picture” lies in the opening lines “Pound for pound, I'm the bastard you never met..” It’s the story of a guy, very rough around the edges but quite the charmer hitting on woman way out of his league…” - Arno Carstens (Springbok Nude Girls)

Get The Picture

Springbok Nude Girls - Get The Picture (Radio Edit)

'Elektrik Ram' is the new single and title track from South African stoner rock reprobates Ruff Majik’s upcoming album.

Vocalist and guitarist Johni Holiday’s quick stint in a mental wellness facility brought on the lyrics and structure of Elektrik Ram. Johni explains “What started as a fun ditty, emulating the sound of Siamese Dream era Smashing Pumpkins, became a triumphant battle song chronicling the power of picking up where you left off and trying again...".

He delves deeper into the message behind the song, “Conquering dependency on medication and machines (as a replacement for human contact) to step out victorious. It's a song about not letting go of rage but using it instead to break through the barriers of modern living.”

The first gasps of air this song took was a three-part harmony that Johni wrote using only his acoustic guitar and a tape recorder to lay down the ideas. From there it was presented to the other members of the band, with the idea of making a relentless juggernaut of a song. "It should sound like a swarm of bees, but with an uplifting crescendo" Johni said.

Lyrically, Holiday referenced the feeling of being incapacitated on a hospital bed and combined it with an allegory for oppressive and dogmatic religious views, to drive the point home that "fate will not grant you any favours, you must take them."

2023 Mongrel Records

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‘Fink’s Sunday Night Blues Dubs’ Out Now -
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'Bosky' Out Now -
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Taken from 'Providence Reworks: Part I' released 11th August 2017 via Ninja Tune.

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Nathan Fake - 'Bosky'

Pre-order the new album ‘The Making of a Paracosm', released 23 October on Foreign Family Collective/Counter Records: https://kasbo.ffm.to/paracosm.pbt

Stream/Download my debut album 'Places We Don't Know': http://lnk.to/placeswedontknow

Feels incredible to be releasing my Debut Album, it's been such a long process and such a long challenge it kind of felt like this day would never come, but it did.

Conceptually the album is about romanticizing a naive world view. That naiveness and ignorance is something to be cherished. There's something really beautiful about the perfect worldview you have as a kid, that the world is harmless, beautiful and good. The more you learn and experience though the more you realise everything isn't perfect. So the less you know the more beautiful it is, it's the things we haven't done, the places we don't know, that have this unquestionable beauty to it. it's this world i'm trying to mirror with my album, the one that stays in your imagination.

Musically i knew i wanted to do a sonic representation of the concept, blending worldly sounds with small bedroom type samples and soundscapes. I really loved the idea of those two polarizing things being the two main factors that would lay the ground for the album. 

- Carl 💖

Places We Don't Know Tour dates (with support from BAYNK & EVAN GIIA):

Tickets: lnk.to/placeswedontknow

April 6 - Amsterdam - Minneapolis, MN+
April 7 - Chop Shop - Chicago, IL+
April 8 - 9 - Phoenix Lights Music Festival - Phoenix, AZ
April 13 - Fox Theatre - Boulder, CO*
April 19 - Baby's All Right - Brooklyn, NY+
April 20 - Sonia's - Boston, MA+
April 21 - Velvet Underground - Toronto, ON*
April 26 - Holocene - Portland, OR+
April 27 - Celebrities - Vancouver, BC+
April 28 - Neumos - Seattle, WA+
May 4 - The Independent - San Francisco, CA+
May 5 - Teragram - Los Angeles, CA+
May 9 - Red Hat Amphitheatre - Raleigh, NC^
May 10 - Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre - Charlotte, NC ^
May 11 - Iroquois Amphitheatre - Louisville, KY^
May 16 - Daily's Palace - Jacksonville, FL^
May 17 - CFE Arena - Orlando, FL^
May 18 - Bayfront Park Miami - Miami, FL^
May 19 - Hangout Music Festival - Gulf Shores, AL
June 14 - 17 - Dover, DE - Firefly Music Festival
June 21 - June 25 - Electric Forest Music Festival - Rothbury, MI
June 28 - July 2 - Electric Forest Music Festival - Rothbury, MI

* With BAYNK
+ With BAYNK & EVAN GIIA
^ Supporting ODESZA

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Bleed It Out

Bleed It Out (feat. Nea)

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"Sink or Swim" featuring Josh Wantie  is the lead single from the brand new, highly anticipated album from Platinum selling DJ & producer DJ Qness. The album explores a tropical house palate and seamlessly melds a cross section of house flavoured sonic effervescence & mid-tempo sunshine. 

Focusing on enticing melodies and pop veneers "Art of EDM" boasts a full house of front-line South African stars. Standouts range from the poptastic tropical down-low groove of lead single "Sink or Swim" with Josh Wantie, the quasi township back beat of "I need You" starring Mathew Gold, the whistle a minute disco infection of "Disco Drive" with Michael Lowman and the raise it up and dance it off deep shake of "How Can It be Love" with Freshly Grounds Zolani Mahola.

"Art of EDM" finds itself as another high water mark for DJ Qness.
File under "future classic".

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P&C: 2017 Just Music

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DJ Qness - Sink Or Swim (feat. Josh Wantie) [Preview]

This young outfit made their mainstream live performance debut at the Oppikoppi festival earlier this year, where they were warmly received by screaming fans that immediately latched onto the band’s fresh sound and youthful, fun image.

Shaped around school friends with a similar passion and taste in music, the band could be mistaken for a calculated new boy band, quite the contrary. The lads are all gifted musicians with a natural flair for producing top notch pop-rock. Of course it helps that their youthful image has a strong appeal to the young fan base that is quickly emerging.

The band comprises Brandon Holz (guitar), Luka De Wet (drums), Reuben Pieterse (vocals) and Josi Goncalves (bass guitar). 

Recently signed to top independent record label Just Music, Oh! Calamity’s debut single entitled “Perfect Stranger” is being released on the 8th December, just in time to penetrate the market over the holiday season. The song was penned by guitarist Brandon Holz, who has also composed most of the material being recorded for Oh! Calamity’s 2018 debut album with producer Matthew Fink at the Just Music studio.

A schedule of live shows is being put together to take Oh! Calamity on the road early in the new year. By then, we expect that this exciting new band will no longer be perfect strangers to media and the local music industry.
						
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Oh! Calamity - Perfect Stranger

The Sad Ghost delivered 2 and bit hours of emotion and soul.

Christopher Keys was a huge part of the Just Move Records creative team, he was our head designer and the magic behind our beautiful artworks and we loved his music taste and knowledge. 

We will forever miss him 

  RIP CK.

JMR Motion Podcast 29 - Christopher Keys (RIP)

Singer songwriter John Niel, is one of Just Music's recent additions. John marked his single debut with the hugely popular song “Heart Of Mine” which found multiple adds across South African radio. John Niel was one of the 10 participants from the Just Inspired Live Acoustic Sessions project hosted by Just Music in 2017 where his unmistakable talent and charisma captivated the audience.

Born and bred in Pretoria, South Africa, John finally decided to bring his music to Cape Town after performing all over in Gauteng for more than 8 years. After school he took to busking where he performed in front of various shopping centres / restaurants in order to hone and develop his craft. Now a signed artist with the record label that helped put Matthew Mole and a few others on the map, it looks like this break out artist’s upward trajectory is now firmly in place. 

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Just in time for the ghoulish, and twisted, “Vicious Little Sister” is an aerodynamic, sanded growler featuring one the finest choruses since Joan Jett's “I Love Rock ‘n Roll”. 

The track precedes the trios forthcoming full length debut which promises something rather riotous indeed! 

“Vicious Little Sister” is produced, torched, scoured and bleached by Matthew Fink and flexes its sinewy muscles in all the right places. As prescribed by The Medicine Dolls.

Vicious Little Sister

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The Medicine Dolls - Vicious Little Sister

Contact: info@justmusic.co.za 

Just Music is South Africa’s leading independent music company and home to the world’s foremost independent labels: Beggars Group [XL Recordings, Matador / Young / Rough Trade / 4AD], Ninja Tune and Hidden Beach Recordings. 

Just represents notable South African artists that include MaxX & Love, Aidan Fraser, The Dirty Skirts, Nic Jeffrey, The Black Cat Bones, WONDERboom, FUZIGISH, Anna Wolf, Ruff Majik, Springbok Nude Girls, The Medicine Dolls, RAMDAZ, Sannie Fox and Jack Atlantic.

Just Music is also the South African home to key international artists that include Radiohead, Queens of The Stone Age, Thundercat, Louis Cole, salut, ODESZA, Little Dragon, King Krule, The Smile, Peggy Gou, Jayda G, Róisín Murphy, Bonobo, Kasbo, Floating Points, Future Islands, The Kills, Young Fathers, Jill Scott, The National, and Fink.

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