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This is a series of (themed) Rush Hour in-store broadcasts. Live on www.rushhour.nl/broadcast, the music lands on Soundcloud for playback.

Rush Hour Store Broadcasts

Later beluisteren 2

for my 6th edition of my bi-monthly @operator-radio show i played 2hrs solo..

Abadan Bar 006 w/ Moody Mehran

Dj Okapi at Jaeger Oslo
live recording 04/09/2019

I have to tune the car radio manually to get to the place I want to be on Cape Town’s FM bandwidth. The seek button scans over the desired channel even though I’m just a few blocks away from the broadcasting headquarters. Immediately, the old, but familiar hiss of white noise transports me back to my youth and then it pops into life as I get to 89.5. A two-step punchy snare and a syllabic yelping in Zulu greets me on the other side, this sounds more like home.

“You have to listen to Bush Radio” a friend told me the night before, “if you want to hear South African music”. For the past week I’ve been driving around my hometown listening to the ubiquitous sounds of popular music from Europe and USA proliferated by the nationally syndicated stations like 5FM. This has always been the case in South Africa and notwithstanding the community focussed programming from small, inconspicuous stations like Bush Radio, this has remained the broadcasting practise for the most part of my adult life too.

Every time I return to South Africa I’m always astounded and dismayed how very little has changed in that regard, even when in Europe, South African music is being proliferated by DJs and radio everywhere. The sound of GQOM, the band BCUC, a revival of seventies era Fusion, and the newfound interest in the eighties bubblegum sound had all been largely instigated and promoted through European labels and record stores in recent years.

Limited by constricts like the lack of vinyl presses to re-issue music and the fact that most of the original records are harboured in European record collections, it’s obvious why this has happened, but it doesn’t look set to remain this way for much longer. In recent years a DJ, a blog, a label and a record store has come along, all dedicated to changing this, bringing South African music back home and making availeable on the vinyl format again. It all funnels down to one man, Dave Durbach, better known by his DJ alias Okapi, who is tirelessly and selflessly, collecting and re-distributing this music through Afro-Synth, a blog, store and record label dedicated to new and forgotten South African music.

Hailing from Cape Town, where he cut his teeth around the bars and clubs in the small scene around Long Street, playing everything from Hip Hop to Jazz, Dave had always been known as something of a “vinyl junkie” by the locals. At a time when the format was largely forgotten for the more accessible digital formats, Dave would haunt the used record shops in and around Cape Town for obscure records from the eighties. The records largely disregarded as disposable “bubblegum” music by a predominantly white music media, became an obsession for the latent digger in his teens and laid the foundations for what would later become Afro Synth; a blog dedicated to shedding new light on a lost era in South Africa’s rich music history.

Afro Synth garnered attention for its unique and largely untapped source of records from from an apartheid-era South Africa with considered reviews and articles about the artists and the records sound tracking the end of white-minority rule and the first exciting years of post-apartheid South Africa. These were the talented, mostly black artists that remained obscure for the longest time, pressing limited runs of their records on independent labels that were quickly assigned to bargain bins all over SA. He established the blog to highlight these finds and through his words, many South Africans (this writer included) were lead on an extensive journey of discovery through a very niche, and almost forgotten corner of music history.

Dj Okapi at Jaeger Oslo - live recording 04/09/2019

Playing deep Indonesian digs in the RLR AMS SHOP listening basement. One hour of esoteric gems, traditional Sunda, psych rock and more.

@redlightradio

RLR AMS SHOP - Sekan for Waves September 19th 2019

CC&PT with Steven van Hulle #013

"[Started DJing] sometime around 2011-2012. I'd made hiphop beats for a long time before that and then stopped for a few years. When I started making music again, I was focused on dance music and DJing seemed like a good outlet for that." - @reverenddollars

DISCWOMAN 79 x Reverend Dollars

New Yorker @acemo is an artist with an intense work rate. In the DJ booth he races through tunes, rhythms and styles with an insatiable sense of energy, and in the studio he is as prolific as they come. He has put out four EPs in the last year that take in jungle updates, battered techno and euphoric bass, and his self-released Existential album in late December came with a more thoughtful and philosophical dimension.

This week's mix is a bumping one that hits the ground running. Impassioned and uplifting house soon gets you locked before you rough ride through dusty breakbeats, twisted acid and percussive work outs. Kinetic juke and footwork styles and more fist pumping, brain frying house are all touched upon throughout this most wide-ranging selection and breathless selection, so strap in!

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 281 - AceMo

Soft-focus waves of lush ambience and gently intensifying, dusty beats are the watchwords for Beta Librae's gorgeous contribution to Incienso's crackaud.io residency. Find out more → https://crackm.ag/2zkGgmc

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Incienso #5: Beta Librae

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DJ Python with Timbomix - 13 May 2020

Continuing the Canadian love, next up we have a mix from Vancouver's BIG ZEN (Jamie Enns).
  
Recent highlights for Jamie include an ethereal release on D-Tiffany's Planet Euphorique, as well his 2019 DustWORLD album, "Big Time Crush".

As the world climbs its way out of darkness, whilst Jamie's mix fills us with nostalgia, it also feels like hope and new beginning. 

It's a pleasure to have him on the series, we hope you enjoy it as much as we did xx

MIX 19: BIG ZEN

“Dubby underwater acrobatics and interstellar communication of the highest order” is how we’d like to describe this live set by Beta Librae. This one is a joyride folks. Performed in front of a live audience on the night of 29th Feb 2020 at Post Bar. WARNING: The first kicks hit hard so watch your volume levels ツ

https://soundcloud.com/blibrae

Post Recording 007 - Beta Librae LIVE

To celebrate the release of Artificial Dancers - Waves Of Synth, (RHMC005) we hosted another Rush Hour Store Broadcast.
 
On the bill, we had Artificial Dance label founder, Interstellar Funk alongside good friend, the designer of the artwork, and excellent wave collector Steele Bonus.

Store Broadcast 017 I Interstellar Funk & Steele Bonus

Jamie:326 took over the decks in the store and recorded the second part of the store broadcast 020. Listen back here!

Store Broadcast 020 I Jamie 3:26

For Rush Hour Store Broadcast 022, we had Lumberjacks in Hell label founder Marcel Vogel, Rush Hour's distribution wizard Satoshi Yamamura, which you may also know from his Youtube channel 'Okonkole y Trompa' and we had writer and avid music collector Margie.⁣⁣ Listen back to Rush Hour Store Broadcast 022 here!

RH Store Broadcast 022 - Marcel Vogel

Rush Hour Store Broadcast 21, we had our friends of Dekmantel over, who presented a handful of artists from their label. Listen back here to Peaking Lights!

Rh Store Broadcast 021  - Peaking Lights

RH Store Broadcast 022  - Satoshi

RH Store Broadcast 022 - Margie

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