Represent Interview: Mo Laudi
Meet Mo Laudi, a star-reaching globetrotting South African dj and MC living in Paris, (the city otherwise known as Paname by locals…just by the way). He’s a part of The Very Best and Radioclit, released and album with in 2006 with British punk rock band called weapons. Follow him on twiiter on @molaudi and check out his MySpace and of course Facebook. Meet MoLaudi Hey Mo, thanks for chatting with us… tell us…where did you grow up? Born in Seshego, zone 3 moved to the Polokwane suburbs when Apartheid ended, went to high school in Pretoria, higher education in Johannesburg Allenby campus, then AAA school of advertising. Who is MoLaudi in 2010? Same dude I’ve always been, just growing, still inquisitive, into various musical cultures, art, I love street culture, working on my album… What inspired you to get into music? My family, my brother used to loooove music, he had a book of lyrics, he would stop and start songs and write the lyrics down and even before that my parent used to have a community choir they would go to practice a few times in the a week in the evening, my mother was the conductor and my father sang bass, they would ask us who wanted to come to the choir competitions with them and we would mostly say yes. What’s your first memory of music? Music has always been around my house before I was born, there is nothing I can specifically call the first memory, I’m sure even when I was born someone was singing. I remember when I was toddler in the township, my mother would be practicing the violin in her bedroom and outside me and my friends were listening, amazed at hearing such a rare sound. What are some of your strongest influences and who inspires you musically in 2010? I’m inspired by everything around me, sounds of Ghettos around the world, ideas I read, visuals, Ronald Dahl, SA house, Mars Volta, 80’s rock, old school hip hop, electro, afro beat, Coupé Décalé , dubstep… What makes great music? No boundries, touching people’s heart, the connection, I’m personally into rhythms, I love a great beat that sound like it captures ancient spirits and at the same time new and fresh to rock any club around the world Whose music should we absolutely not miss out on in 2010? Mine, lol check out the The very Best, Radioclit, looking forward to the new M.I.A, I love Blk Jks, Spoek Mathambo, Gazelle What are the challenges of a South African growing up abroad? Visa issues, The displacement and the loneliness not being able...
Submerged Sunday with Goldfish at Emmarentia
What a wunderbar way to spend this Autumn Sunday in Johannesburg – get out there and enjoy your hood before the hordes arrive for the footie… go go go! Old Mutual Encounter Concerts and 94.7 presents Submerged Sunday with Goldfish with special guests Flash Republic, Good Luck and DJ Dean Fuel on the 2 May, at Emmarentia Dam, Johannesburg Botanic Gardens. All may look forward to the electrifying surreal jazz and electronic tunes of Goldfish; the electro-tinged and funky house music of Flash Republic; one of Cape Town’s most prolific and in demand deck masters DJ Dean Fuel and Good Luck’s unique approach to dance music which has molded their sound into a blend of live instrumentation, delicious dance grooves and the sultriest of vocals on this chilled Sunday afternoon. Goldfish consists of the proudly South African, David Poole and Dominic Peters who continue to attract large audiences to their special brand of catchy electronic music using exciting new techniques to create live dance remixes. Even though they are both classically trained musicians, they moved into the genre of jazz. Their unusual electronic sound is created by using a variety of musical equipment. Concert visitors can definitely look forward to an engaging mix of authentic and vibrant songs. Tickets are available via www.webtickets.co.za for R80 and at the gate R100. VIP Tickets (Golden Circle) are also available for R200. Book early to avoid disappointment. Patrons are urged to buy tickets before the time. Should the concert be rained out, the ticket may be used for any of the other Encounters Shows at Emmarentia Dam for the same monetary value. Also, please remember that no alcohol, glass or cans will be allowed into the venue – there is a fully stocked bar on site. Entrance to the show is on Thomas Bowler Street. Gates open at 13:00 on 2...
Represent ♥’s Everyday Tweeple – Meet @MelanieMinnaar
Je vous présente number 3 in our (newish) series Represent ♥’s Everyday Tweeple– @MelanieMinnaar . Inspired by tweets in our stream that made us want to know more about the hearts and minds behind the 140 characters… Meet Melanie Minaar, she shares some fabulous insights with us… we most hearted finding out about the local term SABC… South African Born Chinese… I’ll leave the rest for you to discover. Sharpile Melanie! Don’t forget to follow Editorista on @sisiwami to find out who’s next in the series… It’s another dude… Twitter Bio: Head IMC at Standard Bank, mom to archangels Michael & Gabriel, wife to an IT networking consultant. Part of the Chinese diaspora – rooted in Africa. What is IMC and what is a day in the life of the Head of IMC at Standard Bank? IMC is a marketing management philosophy that advocates integration of business and marketing, as well as of the various marketing disciplines. In my position at Standard Bank it stands for ‘Integrated Marketing Communication’ and my role is to primarily ensure synergy of messaging across traditional and emerging/digital media channels, and secondly to optimise how we implement campaigns across the new media spectrum. Marketing Ops and development of the group wide creative look and feel also fall under my responsibility. A typical day is filled with meetings, meetings, meetings, teleconferences and presentations – all necessary as we operate globally and need to keep use our time effectively to communicate with our non-South African based colleagues and agencies. In between these diary-fillers, there are campaign deadlines to be met – approvals or direction is sought and provided by a network of advertising, online and studio managers. There is always much to learn when you work for a company like Standard Bank – whether it be about growing your marketing skills, financial service industry acumen or general knowledge about the countries which we operate in. I am currently enjoying maternity leave so no deadlines other than the next episode of Girls of the Playboy Mansion to look out for… How would you summarise your nearly 5000 Tweets? A fellow Tweeter asked me if I had OCD after seeing all my Tweets in their timeline! Sadly, that is how I would describe my online and offline habits. Once I find something that I enjoy, I give it my all. Knowledge and information sharing is key to who I am so my Tweets are predominantly about passing on useful information across a broad range of topics and also engaging in conversation whether it be social or on a topic where I can contribute. It’s been a great...
Vernissage: Nicholas Hlobo and Lerato Shadi
Nothing like hanging out with arty types sipping on house red at an art opening in Jozi, always lots of eye candy around of both the artistic and human kind -after all, you can always hang out with the smokers outside if it gets too hot for you in amongst the talented. Tempted? Shimmy your touche over to the vernissage (très french for art exhibition opening) of Nicholas Hlobo and Lerato Shadi at on Thursday 6 May from 6 – 8 pm at Brodie/Stevenson gallery. The exhibition runs until 4 June 2010. Image: Left to right: Nicholas Hlobo, Isitulo samaNgesi sihlal’ iBhulukazi… 2010, ribbon, rubber on canvas; Isisele, 2010, ribbon, rubber on canvas Brodie/Stevenson is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Nicholas Hlobo, comprising new works on canvas. Any traditional notions of ‘painting’ technique are soon discarded as we encounter surfaces that have been slashed and then delicately stitched with ribbon and rubber, pockets of swollen canvas about to burst open, and ghostly allusions to real-world objects and spaces that seem to collapse in on themselves under the weight of imagined space. The artist has made the following comments on this new body of work: “The notion of pathways is carried out through this work. The lines that suggest these paths are drawn on a white sterile surface that I read as a landscape, or as skin. The lines bring with them energies that fertilise the landscape, resulting in certain areas swelling up as if impregnated by higher forces from faraway universes. The bulging areas are almost synonymous with skin trying to deal with ailments that have taken over. The skin of these objects also has to do with the space that exists somewhere deep in the core of one’s soul or imagination where everything moves with freedom that cannot be easily understood. Everything in this space is held tightly together and yet allowed to roam free. “One of the new works is titled ‘Icephe ifolokhwe ne bhoso yi five Pounds ten, isitulo samaNgesi sihlal’ iBhulukazi…’, which translates as ‘A spoon, a fork and a knife is £5.10, on an English chair now sits an Afrikaner woman’, and draws its title from a children’s game popular in the Eastern Cape in the early 1980s, where kids would sing this rhyme while running around chasing each other. I believe its origins have to do with the end of the Anglo-Boer war.” Nicholas Hlobo was born in Cape Town in 1975, and has a B Tech degree from the Wits Technikon (2002); he lives in Johannesburg. He was the Standard Bank Young Artist for 2009 with a solo exhibition touring...
Represent ♥’s Everyday Tweeple – Meet @matthewncube
Voici numero 2 in our new series Represent ♥’s Everyday Tweeple – inspired by tweets in our stream that made us want to know more about the hearts and minds behind the 140 characters… Meet Matthew Ncube, known on Twitter as @matthewncube – he’s an Afropolitan spreadsheet geek living it large in London – In’it! ;0 Don’t forget to follow Editorista on @sisiwami to find out who’s next in the series… It’s a lady ! Location: 0.000000,0.000000 Web: http://searchgeek.wordpress.com/ Bio: work in paid search. love pivot tables. game theory & chaos theory enthusiast. afropolitan. mostly from zim. What is a pivot table? – a pivot table makes lots of lots numbers in a spreadsheet easy to understand and can make nice graphs and pictures to draw conclusions Please enlighten us with an example of game theory? -Right. Say boy and girl go on a movie date. Boy wants to see action movie. Girl wants to see chick flick. They both want to spend to spend time together. The strategic bargaining is game theory in practice. Simples. What about chaos theory? – Expect the unexpected. There’s a black swan approaching around the corner. Like the reason the laundry in your washing machine is untangled. Your machine probably uses a nonlinear chaotic system, which means every cycle is random. Got it? (umm… no, still not, but I’ll ask my clever friends to explain 😉 ) What ingredients make up an afroplitan? – Young, proudly African, internationally mobile, polyglot, making a mark in the world, the coolest damn people on earth Where’s the rest of you from if not Zim? – Well… the rest has been picked up along the way for example my Pan African music sense, my dull British humour, my European dresscode and my brazen American ego Why London and for how long? – London by coincidence and will be for a very long time (please explain this coincidink further in the comments… pretty please ? ;0 ) So tell us about your night with Mos Def… – I still think I was dreaming Which ‘thing’ are you going to next week at Koko and why? – Some artist is having a gig there showcasing his new album and a friend got me on the guest list. apparently it’s Usher. not the greatest fan but i’m up for a party. Tell us about ‘Bring me my Bow of burning gold’… – My school’s favourite hymn, don’t ask why as it was an all boys boarding school on the Zim/Bots border – sung it at the end of each term – now symbolises the end of anything significant I do...
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