Gcina Sawuka is a photographic artist who specializes in images of the living world.He was Born in South Africa,Gautend ( Soweto ) in 1989,Gcina Sawuka first used the camera to document life in Soweto.He co-founded one of Soweto’s photographic and Online Magazine,Art Entertainment Magazine with the use of digital techniques.

In His early 18's he began photographing,and within a short time he had swapped his established township career for the precarious life in Soweto.Gcina Sawuka’s concern for the environment is strongly evident in his images.He strives to capture the human's spirit, and blur the lines separating different species.His photographs of people reveal a compassionate understanding of his subjects,evident in his photos Living Soweto and Trading Places. 

He has inspired community members with his work, ,Gcina Sawuka had a number of exhibitions,The free outdoor exhibitions, promoting environmental issues, are major events staged in conjunction with his circle,and attract visitor numbers in the hundreds.

Gcina Sawuka frequently reinvents his creative approach to his work. In the 2000's he discovered the process of morphing images into each other,long before such techniques became popular on the computer.His work in (JHB) Soweto,poignant and edgy,reveals the feeling of a Township on the cusp of change;placing Sawuka among the select few photographers who caught the mood of the time.

His venture into photography was a continuation of his exploration of different genres of photography,and it struck a chord with the general public.His goal was to use images to communicate with the masses,and take photography exhibitions outside galleries but in the street.This was done in spectacular art with the publication,and the staging of major outdoor exhibitions "The Art Of Rolling Camera's.The exhibition has been seen by Hundreds of people in eleven Johannesburg.In Soweto, more than 157 visitors were officially counted during the year end run.

Gcina Sawuka is an accomplished speaker,and Peer Educuter at venues such as the Youth Aids and Love Life,Focusing on Imaging, happy moments Photos,Ideas and the Lilac Jeans CD launch under House Afrika Sessions 4,Ur Gig Guide SA "All Things Good Event,The Soweto Experience,Zone Six Venues,Fan Masters SA,House Frequency On Line Radio Station,Musiq Vocab,Zulu Mafia SA,Sir LSG Birthday Party,Spring On Steriods Picnic,The Art Of Rolling Camera's.Bookshops such as Jozi Book Fair.Interested in booking him for promo events and articles,please contact him.

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Hard As Nails Digital initially started as a Vinyl record label in 2007. The label itself was conceived after the meeting of Mark Cox (Sparx) and Richard Walker (Dj Resh). Previously JP (of JP and Jukesy fame) who Mark worked with at Hard To Find Records at the time had suggested to Mark after hearing some of his tracks that he should consider starting a record label. Hard As Nails itself was always planned to be a record label that showcased the tougher  and more experimental side of Hardhouse and Hard NRG music and due to this the label has consistently held a reputation as being more underground.

Riggsy was one of the first other artists to produce tracks for Hard As Nails and initially engineered for Sparx and Resh. Later artists to feature on the label were Simon Vegas, Sista X, Defective Audio, Syrus, Steve Gillen, DNG, Crazy Legs, Sketer, Hacker, Nocturnal Disorder, Sean Grotz, Mylo R and James Taff. Future artists set to appear on the label are the legendary Eufex and Ben Stevens.

Sparx (Mark) is the manager of Hard As Nails Digital and has over 11 years of experience in the music business. Beginning as a keen clubber at the age of 16 Mark began to become involved in nightclub work. The first being an entertainer at the notorious Sundissential events in Birmingham. Later Mark worked as a promoter running a joint venture called Emergence – a Hard House and Techno night run in Birmingham, later having a brief stint as a DJ the pinnacle of which was playing the Rave 'Marioparty' in the bush in Perth, Australia, though previously he had played many other events around the west midlands prior to this.

Sparx holds over 14 releases currently as he believes that tracks should be made at a quality not a quantity. Wanting to better himself as musician and run Hard As Nails more efficiently he completed a diploma in music technology, after this he began attending a HND in Popular Music practice, eventually to become a degree in music technology.

Some tracks are on Hard As Nails others are on The Beat Ranch Digital label in Canada, Raw Power Recordings run By Gem Stone and Steve Hewitt and Renewable NRG Record Label in Brisbane Australia. Sparx is lucky to have worked with well known artists such as BK (Ben Keen) and Dom Sweetem (Defective Audio/OD404) James Taff, Gemstone and Steve Hewitt, Riggsy, Sista X and Nocturnal Disorder (Shawn Cartwright). His biggest track signings to date were of Sparx and Sista X 'Fuck The Rules' and Nocturnal Disorder and Sparx ' Flesh' to legendary Hard NRG label Flashpoint – ran by formidable artists Marc Johnson And Jupe.

His other job in the music industry is working as a online and social media advisor in the Popular music sector for Access All Music, a music promotions company that is the brainchild of Malcolm Bell (previously of Universal Records) and Geoff Pearce the manager of legendary soul singer Ruby Turner. Though a Hardhouse and Hard NRG producer initially Sparx holds skills in music production, studio engineering, live sound and music management.  Currently SparX is also part of the up and coming experimental/ electronic band 'The Unchanged'

Launching his career in 2002 Richard Walker (at the time known as Dj Resh) was playing in areas such as Coventry, Lincoln, Cheltenham, Ibiza and Birmingham. The events he played in and around the Midlands being Distorted Identities, Shaft, Shine, Crank, Crafty, Envy and many other events. He also got involved in production making his own tracks such as ‘The Prophecy’ A track at the time favoured by Lisa Pin Up during its first release which sampled Bill Hicks' famous drugs speech ‘ I just laughed my ass off and went about my day!” The Prophecy’ became one of the biggest Hard Dance tunes of all time selling out copies worldwide

In 2005, Richard teamed up with Xtension Records owner Riggsy to make the track 'Flat liner' The track was re-mixed by Tidy DJs-JP & Juksey and Flat liner quickly became a club classic and is still played by many of the big Hard Dance DJs.

After starting a Record label with Jedi Distribution Richard went on to release tracks on Xtension Records and with digital download label, Scum. Later after breaking ties with Jedi he met at the time the up and coming DJ / Producer Sparx (Mark Cox) Mark And Richard started Hard As Nails Records which eventually became one of the most infamous Hard NRG labels. After 2 sell-out vinyl releases the label Hard As Nails records went digital. Later In 2008 had Richard also had 9 tracks out on various Hardhouse labels as well as Hard As Nails.

Around 2009 he played to crowds at The Bulldog Bash 2009 and Distorted Identities at Long Marston Airfield Stratford-upon-Avon, even as far afield as Ibiza. In the same year as Richard got more into Techno and Trance Mark thought of the idea for a new label for Richard which Richard named Hard As Nails Tech. The label specializing in Techno, Trance, Tech Trance and everything inbetween. Richard formed the production aliases of Ricardo Van Valker and 'The Technician' under these alias's of Richard went on to have releases out on Nu Communicate white and a remix of Bibhas & Kiran’s beautifully constructed track ‘The Sun Goes Down‘ and  remixed tracks such as  Daniel Rostron. - Our Way Home, Reech - I Need You and Progressers  Morning Star.

In 2012 after playing at AIR night club Birmingham Richard 	played back to back with up and coming DJ & Producer and Vacate music managing director Matt Holliday. After meeting at Air the pair began working together on music creating main room tracks such as Xyla on the label Vacate  Midnight and also had their track City Life remixed by Manuel Le Saux. They also went on to start club night 'Envy' together.

In 2013 Richard went on to 3 releases and track LV4-26 was Supported from MARKUS SCHULZ & GIUSEPPE OTTAVIANI .The remix of LV4-26 Flavio Grifo Remix made it to number 5 on takedown.net.

Later in 2013 Jay Crossingham joined Hard As Nails. Jay started DJing at the age of was 13 and subsequently played around the world. With a personal experience of the super club era and scene Jay attended clubs such as Crazy Daisy's, Trade, Gatecrasher, Godskitchen and finally Sundissential where he developed a love of Hard House. Up until 2004 he was heavily involved in the Hard House scene from 2004 onwards we was involved in Trance music. Before working with Hard As Nails he ran 4 successful record labels all specializing in different forms of dance music. Now he's back with the Hard House scene finally!

So from the start, I'm William Andrew the Producer.  I have to first thank God for this opportunity to communicate with you, knowing that it's because of his strategic design and plan that I'm your Producer and your Musician for your next project.


Let me warn you, I'm different.  In the terms that I hear things in sounds that makes my music an inventive form of sound, an innovative sound of music. I am a musician first,  producer second, meaning I'm old school when it comes to creating a classic record. I can write from the piano using my pin and pad, or I can work straight from the software putting sounds together on 3 of my favorite programs,  Reason 10, Studio One, and Pro Tools.


I am a writer as well as a composer.  There is no greater feeling than bringing to life your vision of the record that will set you apart, as well as take you beyond what you believed your music could be. I believe real music still exists, and I push for the creativity more than the popularity.  Someone has to stay true to the design of sound, I suppose that's me.

PSPI is a team of Ghost Hunters dedicated to showing evidence of the paranormal spirits, ghosts and other such beings. Sound Cloud is dedicated to the teams EVPs and Youtube, it's videos. Facebook is used to communicate and show the devices used, give advice. pin point some great places to hunt, and reviews on the new apps and devices that come out. Above all, Stay Ghosty my Friends!

Matt Pond’s very name evokes the natural world in which his songs are so often set, with their evocative lyrics about the sometimes jagged edges of love, the pros and cons of connection, and the agony and ecstasy of memory. He has always mapped the universal emotions of being alive onto the contours of his own stories. 

From the band’s beginnings in Philadelphia in the late ’90s to their current home in the heart of the Hudson Valley, through 13 albums (among them Emblems, Several Arrows Later, The Dark Leaves, The State of Gold, and, most recently, the luminous The Natural Lines), Matt Pond PA has always been a living, breathing organism—one that’s constantly changing. One notable mainstay: Pond’s longtime right-hand man, Chris Hansen. 

“I named the band after myself, but the fact is that this is a complete collaboration,” Pond says. “Everyone I've worked with lives in my head and in these songs.”

Astralayne is the brain-child of Norwegian sounding, lead singer Pas Democrat.
It is extremely unlikely that you would have heard of Mr Democrat as it is only in recent months that he has been able to obtain (through an administrative blunder) permanent release from a 10 year spell from a secure Mental Health Institution.

Being locked up 24/7 has hardly dented Pas’s appetite for electronic pop beat meets poor vocabulary as he has ideas for a number of tracks that will never see the light of day!

Pas first came to prominence with the completely unknown Punk band the London Gestapo and was credited on their first and only single (unreleased) and unfortunately entitled, Gas die Bastarde!  This would eventually reach thankfully, nowhere in the charts!  

It is widely reported that many of the mid 70’s punk bands were described as three-chord wonders!  This was due to their simplistic sound and ‘go forth and form a band’ attitude.  Gestapo however had a ‘unique take’ on this theme and were subsequently described as the one-chord 'Weirdo’s!'. This was simply due to a lack of any recognisable musical talent on their part and of course their unusual dress sense – although wearing a dress became predominant a short time later with the ‘New Romantic’ movement.  This proved conclusively to many (actually no-one!) that Pas is/was for a time a unique visionary!  Conversely this was prevalent to audience participated gang-rape for a mid-70’s punk band.

A little known fact about Pas is that as well as penning the lyric for the Gestapo song, he was also credited on the single as Percussionist/Programmer.  At the time this consisted of little more than pressing the start button on the bands second-hand Drum Machine.  Unfortunately however  this became a reoccurring theme in Pas’s life; as his total lack of understanding regarding anything electronic would later come to light, ultimately resulting in the ill-fated, tragic death of band member Taz Fazer and which would in turn lead to Pas' eventual incarceration.

This however was not the only near brush with stardom the luckless Pas has encountered.  He was ultimately (partly/not at all) responsible for the success of synth-band, Depeche Mode. Pas regularly rehearsed with the vertically challenged Synth-Meister, Vince Clarke and introduced the reluctant Clarke to the sounds of their one-time Manager/Record Producer Daniel Miller. Much to Pas’s dismay he was the only other person present at their first meeting at the Bridge House, Canning Town in the early 80’s.  Both Miller and Depeche Mode vigorously deny this and subsequently there is no recorded historical account of his participation.  However, Clarke once described Pas’ input to the genre of electronic pop as ‘out of time’ (Some see this comment on Pas’ visionary contribution), but most say that it was due to his inability to sing, play or dance in time.

Not to be disheartened Pas formed his own band, Pas Democrat and the Synfz; this did not go well!  Reez Robot a former member and dyslexic celebrity described the experience in his, ‘yet to sell a copy’ autobiography as ‘Shti!’ The Synfz however did release a track on the ill-fated 101 International, Dream Sequence album entitled, Across the River which was co-written with Pas’ brother Nadz.  Pas was not to be deterred and  toured extensively with the Synthz culminating with legendary 80’s concerts at Tiffany’s, Harlow New Town, Raquels in Basildon and somewhere on the outskirts of Southend-on-Sea.

But in the now, Pas is a key member of Astralayne! Astralayne are a three piece Synth band which includes Si Bollik and Jez McVitie (both to be recruited, contacted or met). Their key aim is to make the world a much darker, drearier place, but much more importantly to meet girls with low self-esteem.

Finally, since his rehabilitation and subsequent release Pas is now, once again legally able to acquire a variety of sharp objects and put pen back to paper.  So sit back, pin back your ears and enjoy! You are in for a real treat with Pas's mix of 80's Electronika meets completely unintelligible lyrics. With their first single complete and aptly and imaginatively entitled, ‘Astralayne’ (Yes, it's a made up word) Pas feels that there is a real expectation of success for the band.  The boys are currently working on their second single entitled, 'I.T. Jesus' which will probably raise a few eyebrow and lower the tone on any environment that it is eventually played in. Furthermore, Pas and the boys would especially like to thank musicians, Vic Ticious, Guitars, Froggy, Bass and the indomitable Bennet on Drums for taking time out from their busy drinking schedule to contribute to the track, thanks!

On a cautionary note; I would advise fans of Pas’s work not to, contact, communicate with or at any time send Pas Democrat any of your personal details, thank you – Astralayne!

This was written on behalf of Pas Democrat by Dr Edwin Crow, Senior Psychiatric Consultant at Bradmore Clinic for the Criminally Insane.

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