Put some Fuel in February – Unsound System
Now that everyone’s finally back in Jozi let’s get back to all things dirty and delicious – SO all you beatfreaks, electronicas, bootyshakers and rhythmmakers or anyone wanting music thats *a little more complicated*, get to the first (?) of the now infamous Unsound System nights in 2000 & eita at Fuel Cafe – Sat Feb 9th in Newtown. Enjoy another Naughty night on the town as Premier League party promoter Lilo resurrects Unsound System for a further night of leftfield licks and techno tricks at Fuel Cafe this Feb. Pitch perfect party-starters Dexterity and Offbeat return to rock the house alongside special guests Pierre-Estienne (Midnight Men, Cape Town) and Berlin-based beat specialist DJ Naughty. Following rapturous receptions on two previous sojourns South, Naughty (aka Filippo Moscatello) returns to Jozi to fire off some cutting edge electronics. A prolific player, Naughty has passed futuristic tracks welding together the best bits of house, techno and disco to imprints like Gigolo and Eskimo, and lent supreme remix swerve to artists as varied as Herbie Hancock, Fischerspooner, Tiga, Laurent Garnier, Goldfrapp and The Gimmer Twins. A producer and DJ at the top of his game, Naughty is one of the dance game’s super-strikers – don’t miss a sweltering demonstration of his skills at a special one-off, limited entry, Fuel Cafe fireworks...
UBER – the new (music) Blog
*MUSICIANS TAKE NOTE* So unless you have some cash on hand or lots of time to work out how to make your blog beautiful, chances are your blog is pretty fugly, your videos and tracks are all over the place and your MySpace still takes half an hour to download… time to move on. Artists, personalities, musicians, people… get to Uber.com and build your own sexy blog in minutes. Some slick Ubers to check out – the famous Internet It girl Cory Kennedy or Timbaland !!! Get your music, video’s and voice out there – no need to scrap your FB, MySpace, Bebo or anything else, UBER is so easy to use, you can just add to your portfolio. While you’re at it, UBER are looking for up and coming muso’s – enter their UBER “You bring the talent” competition here . We haven’t read the smallprint but assume all nationalities welcome...
Party People is back – Get Amongst in 2008!
The crew at Represent are PROUD to be associated with consistently creative, musical, artistic and just plain crazy events like Party People who we believe have got the formula right. If you didn’t get to Party People in 2007, open your minds, put it in your diary and book a table for dinner and a blast at ROKA for Party People in 08. It’s a fantastic night out and each edition conjures up a memorable and standout performance representing the best of urban entertainment. Don’t say we didn’t warn you! Welcome everybody, the Party People staff would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the support from last year. Your support truly make the Party People event and brand grow…thus this year the focus is to go nationwide. The Cape Town leg has already kicked of on the 3rd Jan 2008 at Zula on Long Street and was a success and calls for more. Pretoria will see the 1st Party People event on the 5th March 2008 at Tings n’ Times, we’ll keep you informed on that one…oh! There’s also talks of Mozambique in Easter but will get to that one…this months Jhb’s feature is Bianca Williams DJ Kenzhero presents Party People Date: 26 Feb 2008 Venue: Roka Door: R50 Time: 8pm Bianca Williams is a young woman who has been in the hip hop/poetry scene for 8 years. She is an extraordinary poet, rapper and singer. Describing her art as her “inner guide to personal freedom”, she started writing when she was 12 years old – attending poetry and hip hop shows religiously. Having become an avid reader, she fell in love with words and discovered their power to shape all of existence. She believes that “the word is the strongest medium because not only does it speak to the mind, it also speaks to the soul.” She started performing as an emcee before she did as a poet, at cyphers in Ghandi Square and at Le Club. She believes that hip hop served as an unlimited resourced in her life, constantly providing her with challenges and the strength to deal with her own reality. She then started rapping in different venues and became one of the first female emcees that the Jozi hip hop community paid attention to, often being the only female alongside male emcees. She is currently working on her own album which is due for release in June 2008 and is featured on other hip hop projects such as, the Abomrapper II and the Classix compliation albums, also due for release in 2008. Some of Bianca’s most memorable performances: • Bianca performed...
Start the New Year with a Refresher!
We like the thinking – prepare a summer refresher bash in Jozi when everyone gets back from their Cape Town holiday and still needs more…By the way, Cape Town watch out, Jozi is en route en masse – mark our words. Buy your tickets online! Hunter’s, in association with Oppikoppi Productions, is proud to announce the biggest party taking place this summer in the heart of Ekurhuleni. The Hunter’s Refresher Session brought to you in conjunction with the City of Ekurhuleni will take place at the Dries Niemand Picnic Park, Kempton Park Golf Course and Sports Grounds, Ekurhuleni, on 12 January 2008. Those attending the Hunter’s Refresher Session can expect the cream of Mzansi’s musical brew, featuring an all-star line-up with the finest in hip-hop, dance, and jazz-kwaito fusion beats. DJ’s and artists will perform on 3 different stages for a day filled with refreshing tunes and only the coolest of Hunter’s beats to chill down even the hottest of summer days. Artists include legendary, awarded and chart-topping acts like Lira, Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse, Mafikizolo, HHP, Skwatta Kamp, Brown Dash, Glen Lewis and DJ Kenzhero to name a few. No tickets will be on sale at the gate, so buy your tickets today at Ticketconnection – go to http://www.ticketconnection.co.za/, or any Mr Price store and avoid disappointment. Tickets will sell for R110 (including all service fees) and R90 (including all service fees) if bought online at http://www.refreshersessions.co.za/. Tickets bought online at http://www.refreshersessions.co.za/ are SMS’d to your cell phone. Gates open at 12:00 and festivities will run till late. If you are a bit low on moolah at the moment, do not panic we brought along some incentives. If you are one of the first 1000 refresher-seekers to buy a ticket on-line at http://www.refreshersessions.co.za/ you can get and extra ticket for free. All you have to do to qualify for this deal is to buy a ticket, enter the correct bar code of a Hunter’s product and you will automatically get another ticket for free. In other words go 50 / 50 with a friend and you both get in for half price! Remember, this is a limited offer so get to http://www.refreshersessions.co.za/ now and do not lose out on this deal. Visit http://www.refreshersessions.co.za/ to make sure you get the low-down of the show and more special offers, also what to bring and to leave...
Represent Recommends: Mbongeni Buthelezi
Join Dr. Ralf Seippel and international artist Mbongeni Buthelezi for an evening engaging in artistic and social contemporary dialogue @ Seippel Gallery in downtown Jozi on December 11. Click on the flyer for more info. In Ubunthu be plastiki, Mbongeni lets go of the burdens of his childhood a series of paintings that illustrates the ambiguity and deep rooted emotions of an ordinary global, but specifically African childhood. “When I discovered who I was, I asked myself if my parents ever loved me, I was FREE! It was a journey of force that speaks the universal language of any childhood” he says. Stength and dignity characterise this work of mind and soul. The juxtaposition of a happy colourful childhood next to the real life black and white paintings captures emotion and drama of an ordinary child. It has the power to arouse curiosity. He goes on to say the process of painting these pieces was “like a gandaganda dig that made me feel closure and bid farewell to the burdens of my childhood.” Date: 11 December Time: 19h00 – 21h00 Venue: Seippel Gallery, 72 – 82 End street, Doornfontein Contact: hlengiwe@gmail.com/ qhakazalu@yahoo.com...
Visit Body Maps @ David Krut
We remind all Representers to continue to support the HIV/AIDS initiatives way after December the 1st in every way you can. Visit the David Krut Gallery for the BODY MAPS exhibtion: From 22 November David Krut Projects will show Body Maps by the Bambanani Women. The Bambanani Women were invited to tell their stories of living with HIV/AIDS through a community outreach program initiated by the AIDS and Society Research Unit of the University of Cape Town (ASRU) and Médecins Sans Frontières. This program sought to document the lives of this group of HIV+ women who were given access to drug therapies. The project was initially run by Jonathan Morgan with the help of Cape Town-based art therapist, Jane Solomon. Participants created Body Maps – life-size images that traced the contours of their bodies allowing each of them to ‘visualise’ the virus, how the drugs were protecting them from the virus and articulate their individual history. David Krut was approached to exhibit these works in New York for AIDS Day 2003. The exhibition continued at David Krut Projects New York and received a great deal of attention. Several academic institutions requested that the exhibition travel to their university art galleries. Long Life – Positive HIV Stories, a collaborative book based on the Body Maps project, profiles the lives of members of the Bambanani Women’s group and provides a context for these exhibitions. Body Maps became a touring exhibition that started at the Flaten Art Gallery, St. Olaf College, Minnesota in September 2004 and has since travelled widely in the United States. Johnson and Johnson, a company doing major research in AIDS drug research, adopted the exhibition and promoted it internationally as their cultural project for 2005. The World Food Programme has also adopted the imagery for use in their posters throughout the world. DAVID KRUT PROJECTS 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood. Tel: 011 447 3157, lucy@davidkrut.com http://www.davidkrutpublishing.com/ http://www.davidkrut.com/ Tue – Fri 09h00-17h00 Sat...
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