Archive for the 'News' Category

Richard The Third – Third World From the Sun

Posted on November 27 2008 by dirtyoldman

Long time electrotrash friend Richard the Third has just finished working on his upcoming album Third World From the Sun. The good news is that you will be able to get most of it via MTN Xploaded (not live yet) and you can listen to some of the tracks on his Facebook page. However, as [...]

Mtkidu – Hold My Sampler While I Kiss Your Girlfriend (SA Tour)!

Posted on November 26 2008 by Rick Disco

Click for a larger version of the flyer! So Mtkidu are hitting the streets this December to tour the country and show you what they’re made of! Joining them on the tour are electrotrash favourites Jacob Israel and Richard The Third! The tour will consist of four shows: 2nd December @ Tings ‘n Times (Pretoria) [...]

More Kliktrak Earcandy!

Posted on November 26 2008 by Rick Disco

Electrotrash faithful KLIKTRAK, a.k.a. Richard Smith sends us a few more great tracks from Durban to whisk in the holiday season! “C.U.B.U” is one for the dancefloor, “Coresce” has some lovely strings and lastly there is a lovely electronic number entitled “Chikpea“! Go grab them NOW! Get even more free music in the Downloads section! [...]

A little bit about Hipless Couples!

Posted on October 20 2008 by Rick Disco

Hipless Couples (Nabbed off the Daydream Nation Facebook group) I have been really slow in getting this post up! A while ago Len Cockraft aka Hipless Couples dropped a track in my inbox. The track is called “Just FFFuck” and it’s a pretty hard hitting, banging electro track. Len used to be the drummer for [...]

Oceans & Cities release Light!

Posted on October 2 2008 by Rick Disco

So Oceans & Cities have finished putting together an album for the world to hear! The album is entitled “Light” and although physical copies aren’t available yet, the album is available for free download! Thirteen tracks of free, local electronica! Get the album here! It is around 60mb for the download. We will post a [...]

Enjoy Doing Lapse?

Posted on September 8 2008 by Rick Disco

So we have a new character up on the site for you to get to know! DJ Lapse, from Cape Town makes music for you to dance to. He is also too shy to write about himself. So head on down to our Artist section and read what his buddy said about him… HERE! And [...]

Get Jacob Israel To Portugal!

Posted on August 19 2008 by Rick Disco

Click for a larger version! On September 4th, 2008, a very special event is happening at Tings ‘n Times in Pretoria. Jacob Israel and Louis Minnaar have been invited to Portugal, where they are finalists in the 2008 Imago international film festival for the music video for “Her Narnian Horse Analogy” from Jacob Israel’s album, [...]

Jacob Israel Artist Profile

Posted on August 19 2008 by Rick Disco

Check out Jacob Israel’s Featured Artist profile!

Catching Up With Paul Ressel

Posted on August 18 2008 by Rick Disco

I heard about a new project that Paul Ressel (Humanizer, Lark) is involved in, it’s called Tungsten Bytet and is the culmination of him and Kyla Rose Smith (Freshly Ground, Kolo Novo Movie Band). So I decided to catch up with Paul and find out what has been happening with him since Lark decided to [...]

Bye, bye Panda!

Posted on July 18 2008 by dirtyoldman

After almost 3 years of crazy, spazzy, goodness the kids from sovereign academy have decided to call it a day and move on to new projects. From the first party thrown in the depths of Sunnyside, Pretoria to Cape Town tours, they have really done it all! It is fitting then that their last party will be once again held in the 012. The venue is the beautiful and big Capital Theatre in Church Square which has [...]

Unit.r and Kidofdoom in Cape Town

Posted on July 15 2008 by Rick Disco

For two shows! –        AUGUST 1st (Mercury Live) with Magnum HI-FI –        AUGUST 2nd (Klein Libertas Theatre) with Desmond and the Tutus South Africa’s one and only “deep-space-champion-pop” band KIDOFDOOM will be returning to Cape Town this August for two exclusive shows with local electro-rock favourites UNIT.R They play [...]

Girls Rock!

Posted on July 13 2008 by dirtyoldman

[image via discogs] Annie has one of those voices that you fall in love with as soon as she sings. Her first album Anniemal was well recieved but probably didn’t get all the attention it deserved. Long time readers of the ‘trash will remember our review of her mix for the DJ Kicks series, which we thoroughly [...]

CouchPotatoes update

Posted on July 9 2008 by dirtyoldman

If you’re not already a fan of the ‘taters on the “book of faces”, do so know by clicking here. Why you may ask? Well apart from getting updates on the happenings of the band, every now and then you get special deals and promo shit. Like this week. The ‘taters will be playing at [...]

excuse the hiatus, don't hate us!

Posted on July 7 2008 by dirtyoldman

[image via Outlaw Design Blog] So we’ve been quietly plotting things, which meant that the blogging side of things were on the back burner. Sorry about that, but these things happen. The good news is that in some new an exciting stuff will be happing from our side soon, which we hope you kids will [...]