1st excerpt from the African Dope West Coast goes East Tour Diary from our faithful scribe, bakaman (Chamber Concept)

Had anyone managed to leave A Dope Night Out (in) Wilderness with their shoes on and their minds intact, they would have been able to tell you that it absolutely blasted. The beats bent the trees backwards, my back is knotted and I’m writing you from a fetal position with tears of joy streaming down my face. It is of course possible that the tears are a result of the bungy. About 6 long seconds during which your mind is absolutely certain of imminent death, limbs flailing like Charlie the Chicken on his big school visit to the slaughterhouse. Disco said no thank you very much, Flo claimed he didn’t want to jump in a spaceboot, Dank had to turn back on the walk to the bridge. Hyphen – No. Fear, adrenaline, all that good stuff, we’ll have to sort out some clips of the jump footage…..

So! On we march! Hyphen & SFR tore down SSS last night (Sundays can’t stop us) and Dank tried to turn some Parlotones fans onto some of the reeeeal dopeness at The Cuervo Room.The boulder is rolling, lie yourself in its path.

Tonight (JULY 6)
Liver & Chamber Concept are looking to continue the chaos at Slipstream (SSS) in New Street
Time: Around Midnight
Spekta & Six-Six-One are planning to spin minds at the Old Gaol
Time: 10 pm

Cape of Good Dope 2, that crazily awesome compilation from African Dope featuring some of Cape Town’s finest electronic artists including Dank, Sibot, Fletcher and Klinikal and P.H. Fat to name but a few and containing two of the tracks off our forthcoming album is available on iTunes now… you can grab it here…you can grab our tracks currently on Trackitdown here or by clicking the links below, and on beatport by searching for Mix n Blend.

So as as we are reskinning this site and all, we thought it would be rather cool to put up our UK based member, Smokey B’s latest soul mix up for download…it’s a beautifully mixed bag we think, and we’re sure you’ll agree…
you can grab it below by clicking the little down arrow in the player and then selecting “Download for free”

The tracklist:

Once again our friend Chris from Marisco Disco has been sending our tracks out to all and sundry (big up Chris, you can find his project, the Hoglodytes here) and Robert Luis from Tru-thoughts played Shall we swing, the track we made with Fletcher and Sindi in his Unfold Radio set for the 10th May 2009

Mad thanks to Chris (one of our good friends over in the UK) of Marisco Disco for spreading us far and wide and getting our sounds out to Jelly Jazz | Radio. If you click the link above you’ll see that three of our tracks got played on Griff’s show on the 10th of June. Big Ups to Griff for playing our beats:):)

DK of solid steel and Ninja Tune fame played the dubstep track we made with SFR and Ej Von Lyrik in part one of his solid steel mix on 17/04/09 , the tracklisting of which you can find here. Big up to one of the best DJ’s we know out there, Boom Monk Ben of Solid Steel and Mixed Bizness for pushing our tracks out to all the people he knows and being so rad about pushing Cape Town music and people who are amped about music in general..