Since all eyes are locked in at South Africa nowadays, we wanted to present some of the great club-music South Africa ( and Africa in general) has to offer at the moment!

DJ Zhao has compiled an incredible mixtape of African and African-inspired dance music called “Ukulwa”. ““Ukulwa” translates to “war” in Zulu, and rather than divorcing diverse sounds such as kwaito and kuduro from their political context, he weaves the tape together with samples of people praising Mandela and giving empowering paeans to freedom, ensuring that even as we dance, we remember what we’re celebrating. In Zhao’s own words: “South Africa is surely rising as a proud modern nation, even as we rejoice in these blissful rhythms, we must remember this war, and both continue, and continue to be inspired by, this struggle against domination, against injustice.””

GRAB THE WHOLE ALBUM IN SEPARATED TRACKS HERE

Also throwing in a mix featuring more South African Kwaito music, by Moroka (the newest member of The Secousse Sound System from London). This mix contains older and newer Kwaito and it’s a good one! (Perfect soundtrack for the World Cup)

Download it here: Moroka – Secousse SA House Kwaito Mix (Hotfile)

Also throwing in an oldie, but a goldie/ Kwaito Classic. Enjoy! Africa FTW!

The summer is here and with the summer comes the House season. Defected released a compilation, in collaboration with Toolroom Records, Size, Strictly Rythm, Deconstruction etc., called “This Is House” on May 28th this year. Here’s a great mass interview in which many great DJ’s/producers explain what house is to them! The interview feature guys like Mark Knight, Riva Starr, Arthur Baker, Pete Tong, Erick Morillo and Afrojack. Enjoy!

To help push the release of the track on June 13th, they are giving away two FREE remixes – a dubstep mix from J Majik & Wickaman and an electro mix from Lazy Rich.

Get on the download:

J Majik & Wickaman Dubstep Mix

Lazy Rich Remix

BYOB is a really exciting young British artist,  releasing his debut single ‘Best Shoes’, getting Radio One airtime and supporting Roll Deep. Find out more about him here:

http://byobmusic.com

http://www.youtube.com/user/byobmusic

New official video for Designer Drugs‘ single, ” Drop Down” (which was released last fall with the track “Riot”.) The tracks have described as blistering, powerful, epic episodes of electro madness and they have set the stage for the forthcoming full length this year. The video is directed by Kevin Calero.

The Riot Music EP from Donae’o is finally out on Digital Soundboy. It features the Shy FX remix we wrote about in january, and remixes from both The Nextmen and Skream.
Check out the release in the player below:

UPDATE: The official video for Breakage feat Donaeo – “Speechless” was just released and it’s taken from the forthcoming album ‘foundation’.

Here’s the new official video for the Boys Noize track “Transmission” . Enjoy!