Basic Training Sessions

Pioneer Unit is launching an all-out offensive in the form of a bi-weekly club night to win back the hearts and minds of Capetonians, re-tuning their ears to the best the Cape Town and global hip hop scene has to offer: Basic Training Sessions.

The dance floor will be bumpin’ with a diverse selection of the freshest global and local hip hop. The night will be ‘curated’ and hosted by one of South Africa’s most respected hip hop veterans, DJ Raiko. We will have bi-weekly roster of guest DJs, producers and emcees, all carefully selected for their creative and technical skills. Naturally Pioneer Unit will be in full effect with your favourite artists and producers in residence.

What makes Basic Training Session unique is the live hip hop elements such as turntablism, live producer beat-making sets, live bands and, of course, emcees. These elements will be seamlessly integrated into a Jamaican-style DJ session to create a non-stop entertainment experience.

Philip Sherburne writes an uncharacteristically laconic post mortem of the Love Parade tragedy:
http://www.beatportal.com/feed/it...

hello boys!

been a while, what's doing?

checked out robert hood a couple weeks back, super!

how's the party-scene being over the WC? I know my little cousin was trying to sneak into a few venues around there...

Improvisation & DJ tools...
http://www.beatportal.com/feed/it...

sa beats have been getting lots of attention around these parts lately

http://www.factmag.com/2010/07/09...

The cached link to the job ad if you're interested :)

http://bit.ly/cVWzhM

If you're an angry white male in your late 20's into metal, a band is looking for a singer.

The brief:

You:
25-35, good sense of humour, lank charisma, must drink beer and hard tack, must look the part, must tune lank, have strong opinions, must prefer the old south africa, must have own transport, must be angry, must be white, english or afrikaans, must be a total mental metal head to the core. Must like, listen to, be able to sing: Slayer, The Haunted, Snot, At The Gates, Lamb of God, Pantera, etc. No death/black metal.

We:
36, 37, 41, we laugh a lot, we have loads of charisma, we drink beer and cider mixed together and we drink tack mixed with anything or on it's own, we have strong opinions and we tune lank kak, we are english white people and we prefer the old south africa, we listen to Slayer, The Haunted, At The Gates, Lamb of God, The Refused, Faith No More, Machine Head, Billy Talent, Pantera, Carnal Forge, Snot, Alexisonfire, Deftones, Tool, Gallows, you get the picture.

We have access to the best studio and award winning producer in the country and will record our second full length album next year. Other than that we have nothing planned.
So if you think you can hack it and work with us, we will certainly give you a try and let's rock out.
e mail us your story if you are keen, and if you don't fit the description - don't bother us.
Metal \m/

Anyone know when LLMoog is opening again? Or whats going on there? Seems quite sad just as it was hitting its stride.

hahah what the heck is going on here....ridiculous...lol

anyway hope you all have great weekend, although i wouldn't mind going to Ibiza....

well just to break the silence from the dumbest robot ever hogging e-vent - BLEH

actually, it kinda sounds like william burroughs stuff to me...

check out the origin of tape loops by him.

@b. Skynet has become self-aware? If so, oh crap.

Bot poetry...a new genre?

"Listening to music for real airports in a real airport would make me want to punch somebody, I think." - tBd

http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/2010/...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/m...

a truly hilarious quote from dinkys hype / blurb / blah when describing how her broad range of sounds come together:

''something like a sun-dappled clearing in the woods''

ok then.

that would be 'undervalued'

now, now, Navs, i'll have no dissing of Mr Richards round here, ta.

if anything hes unervalued. it takes quite a bit of talent to hold down a residency at a place like fabric for a couple years...

wow, navs i think you need big cup of stfu, what is your town anyway?

I wish we had a club like that to complain about..

Someone fell into the cauldron of Hater-Ade when they were a baby!

Good riddance they booked the same overpriced djs who with there narrow minded thinking tend to not think beyond their’s and their mates record labels when playing, incest that ran the same gauntlet forever, recurring on an annual basis. residents Terry Francis, Richards anyone???...pretty overrated huh. Change is good; no one club should dominate the landscape. I hope to god this happens to an unORIGINal club in my town…with the winds of change blowing briskly into the sails it’s already starting to happen.

Long live Berghain with their dominant music policy and indestructible residents.

ditto - some of the best nights out ever!

tragic. some of my best club experiences ever at that place. Looks like Matter completely backfired on them. they had to pump millions into it to keep it alive and now its taken them down with it.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/ne...

great tunes but how utterly railed do the 2 of them look?!

this is absolutely sensational.gem.

http://www.getthecurse.com/2010/0...

and to all those that play cheesy funk/y/electro/house listen to this and take notes.

Incredible Kevin Gorman mix on ssgs. http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/

Peroxide is officially hip:
http://www.astoreisgood.com/blog/...

All roads lead to Apache
http://soul-sides.com/2005/04/all...

musical necrophilia..awesome.

fuck yeah, that kenny g rant is epic! love it

Pat Metheny on Kenny G

A must read and too long to post the full content here :)

Hilarious

http://www.jazzoasis.com/methenyo...

shot main man.

navs: nice mix...relentless pace

mix contribution from me:

http://soundcloud.com/user2670215...

stripped-down stuff for the sweat rooms.

F^*(&(ing hilarious actually :D

yes, soooooo utterly hilarious.

please.