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CTEMF 2013 – Ticket Giveaway!

Posted on February 6 2013 by Rick Disco

With the Cape Town Electronic Music Festival just around the corner, we thought it would be awesome to give away TWO weekend passes to the fest! All you have to do to enter simply send an email to freeshit@electrotrash.co.za and let us know the name of the international guest that will be performing at the festival this [...]

Produce Your Own #5GumExperience Remix For A Chance To Meet A-trak

Posted on October 19 2012 by Rick Disco

5 Gum South Africa has added an additional sensory experience to its latest #5GumExperience Follow the steps below to remix and submit your version of A-trak’s  ”Money Makin”. A-trak himself will judge all submissions and the winner and a mate will be flown to a #5GumExperience of their choice – either in Jozi Friday 26 [...]

Video + Mix: PostBox Birthday 2012-08-25

Posted on September 11 2012 by Rick Disco

Sassquatch Doing His Thing PostBox threw a party at Arcade Empire in Pretoria for their birthday… We were there, and we have goodies for you! Little Rock was there with her camera and I was there to play some disco! Plaatjaapie making us all dance! Little Rock put together the first video for Electrotrash TV [...]

Free Tickets: 2x Double tickets to GRIETFEST CPT

Posted on August 31 2012 by Rick Disco

We have 2 sets of double tickets to give away for Grietfest CPT, Friday 14 September 2012 at The Assembly, CPT. Three years and still going strong, GRIET is back for the second time with their show stopper annual festival! To enter all you have to do is send an email to freeshit@electrotrash.co.za with the [...]

Free Tickets: 2x Double tickets to GRIETFEST JHB

Posted on August 31 2012 by Rick Disco

We have 2 sets of double tickets to give away for Grietfest JHB, Saturday 15 September 2012 in Newtown Johannesburg. Three years and still going strong, GRIET is back for the second time with their show stopper annual festival! South Africa’s first electro music festival has now teamed up with Beanstalk (Balkanology and Nu World) [...]

Stacey Jackson – I Am A Woman (Das Kapital Remix)

Posted on August 29 2012 by Rick Disco

Das Kapital is no stranger to big remixes… Laidback Luke and Sandro Silva for New State Music, The Only for Ministry of Sound Australia, Hattie Murdoch for Loft Records, Jiro Vega for Global Underground / Ministry Of Sound, Richard The Third for African Dope Records, and Kyle Andrews have all benefited from his sure touch [...]

OLMECA Tequila Presents GRIETFEST 2012!

Posted on August 20 2012 by Rick Disco

Three years and still going strong, GRIET is back for the second time with their show stopper annual festival! South Africa’s first electro music festival has now teamed up with Beanstalk (Balkanology and Nu World) and Science Frikshun, the gatekeepers to Jozi’s Drum ‘n Bass underbelly, to bring you FIVE stages of all types of [...]

The Red Bull Studio Live At Oppikoppi 2012 Sweet Thing

Posted on July 28 2012 by Rick Disco

For the last 10 years, Electronic music has clawed its way into the consciousness of South Africans across the country. This flourishing movement has been growing massively with festival pioneers like Oppikoppi affording the art form a space to be showcased and appreciated. This year  Oppikoppi Festival continues its partnership with Cape Town based champion [...]

A Hollow In The Land – A Call To Arms

Posted on June 19 2012 by Rick Disco

Jacob Israel and his wife Ola (from Fulka) have been busy with a collaborative project called A Hollow In The Land. Together, they create cimmerian and misty ballads with an ever-calming presence raptured with strong blasts of gritty noise drones. We used instruments such as “prepared” banjo, we attached some foil underneath the strings on [...]

The Watermark High – Slow Motion Clarity EP

Posted on June 5 2012 by Rick Disco

It has been a while since we have had anything from The Watermark High up on Electrotrash. In the time that has past the band has simply become the alias of Johannesburg based experimental electronic musician, Paul van der Walt. Paul has crafted a 5-track EP entitled “Slow Motion Clarity” and released it using Bandcamp‘s [...]

CPT Win Free Tickets to PARTYHARDERS (Belgium) @ The Assembly!

Posted on May 26 2012 by Rick Disco

We have two sets of double tickets for PartyHarders (Belgium) LIVE @ The Assembly, CPT! All you have to do is send an email stating the name of the PartyHarders home city, as well as your name and CPT to freeshit@electrotrash.co.za! One entry per person, winners chosen at random will be notified via email. Competition [...]

JHB Win Free Tickets to PARTYHARDERS (Belgium) @ The Alexander Theatre

Posted on May 26 2012 by Rick Disco

We have two sets of double tickets for PartyHarders (Belgium) LIVE @ The Alexander Theatre, JHB! All you have to do is send an email stating the name of the PartyHarders home city, as well as your name and JHB to freeshit@electrotrash.co.za! One entry per person, winners chosen at random will be notified via email. [...]

The Frown – Metallic Kiss

Posted on May 15 2012 by Rick Disco

The new music video/hipster snuff film from The Frown! Filmed by Justin McGee, Styled by Asseblief Vintage and Designed, Animated and Edited by Cool Your Jets. Let us know what you think! ^5!

YESTERDAYʼS PUPIL Release Part 3 – FORMATIVE YEARS!

Posted on May 15 2012 by Rick Disco

On the 15th of May, YESTERDAYʼS PUPIL officially released the third part of his new album. Part 3 – entitled FORMATIVE YEARS, comes after the release of Part 2 (Duel!) in January 2012, and Part 1 (Singularity) in November 2011. “I think Part 3 is the part where people can start seeing a little glimpse [...]