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/09/05/12/
Vinyl Digz Rooftop Party of the 17 December 2011 DJ Mix
Up on the DALA FLAT Mixcloud page is a new mix. It is a DJ set, performed by DALA FLAT at the Vinyl Digz Rooftop Party on the 17 December 2011, between 22h30 and 00h00. As usual, its a mixed bag of genres, from down tempo r&b, to p-funk, groove jazz, 90s house, techno, some new psychadellic Shangaan electro vibes, soul and even pop. In sticking to the medium requirement of this event, this is a 100% vinyl record mix. Please excuse the crackles and pops…!
Please visit our Mixcloud page www.mixcloud.com/dalaflat/the-vinyl-digz-rooftop-party-of-the-17-december-2011-dala-flat-dj-mix/ and let us know what you think of the mix. You’ll also find the tracklisting on the page.
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/20/04/12/
Soundcloud.com/dala-flat Updated
We’ve updated our Soundcloud page with a few new tracks for your listening pleasure. Please go and have a listen: www.soundcloud.com/dala-flat. On rotation is Child of the Goema – the DALA FLAT from the streets klopse mix), Email to the Ancestors – the DALA FLAT re-edit, and two tracks from the J7 series of recordings, Exercise and Brandon’s Song. All tracks are produced by DALA FLAT. Please let us know what you think of them by leaving your comments.
A lot more to come, so please stay tuned!
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/20/04/12/
BIG HAIR & BOOGIE Vol.1- A Tribute to Marcy
I stumbled on a thought the other day. One that made me ask the question if living in an era, engulfed in the experience and observations of the culture, the sights and sounds in ‘real’, time will make one play the music of that time, within a DJ context with a much deeper understanding and ease…? My feeling is most definitely!
I was born in the 70s, and vaguely remember the finer details of the time. However through a natural form of osmosis, being surrounded by certain kinds of music, people, fashion and trends, I can feel my way through the dark of that decade, and understand it a level I find hard to articulate and sometimes impossible to clearly express. It was however the 80s with all its pomp, audacity and synthetic nature that I recall with extreme detail. The 80s was a revolution on many fronts, liberating the day glow and big hair in all of us. I know the songs intimately, the artists with fascination and the fashion with quiet embarrassment. It’s all this detail that I’ve translated into this mixtape compilation as a tribute to my friend Marcy who turned 40 today. I aptly call it, BIG HAIR & BOOGIE Vol.1- A Tribute to Marcy.
Rummaging through my records and reconnecting with songs of various significance was like a fun jump back in time and it is this nostalgia and energy that I’ve tried to relay in this mix. Although very commercial in its nature, this is a dance set filled with crazy big electric guitar riffs and solos, high energy synth stabs and top end heavy frequencies, with lyrics that hold a poetry and meaning you simply don’t find in the pop gumf of now. This is bubble gum that has not lost its flavour and kind of gets the toes tapping, even at times conjuring up the uncontrollable urge to take on the air guitar stance and pound away at the molecules around you. I hope you enjoy it and do listen out for further instalments to the BIG HAIR & BOOGIE series. Here’s a big HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY to MARCY! May there be many more great ones, HOSH!
If you are interested in listening to the compilation, please visit the DALA FLAT Mixcloud page http://www.mixcloud.com/dalaflat/big-hair-boogie-vol1-a-tribute-to-marcy/ or you could contact us directly for a limited CDr with printed cover artwork.
Tracklisting
1. The Original Miami Vice Theme – Jam Hammer
2. Running with the Night – Lionel Richie
3. Run Like the Wind – Christopher Cross
4. Private Eyes – Hall & Oates
5. Owner of a Lonely Heart – Yes
6. When Doves Cry – Prince
7. Everybody Have Fun Tonight – Wang Chung
8. It’s a Sin – Pet Shop Boys
9. The Love Theme from St Elmo’s Fire – David Foster
10. The Sun Always Shines on TV – A-ha
11. Jump – Van Halen
12. Easy Lover – Phil Collins
13. Edge of Heaven – Wham
14. We’re on the Road to Nowhere – Talking Heads
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/15/12/11/
NEW BUYS/RARE FINDS 2011
The end of another year looms and its time for the sun and fun in Cape Town. We love the holidays and we love the family that surrounds and supports and believes all things DALA FLAT. Year end means another installement to the NEW BUYS/RARE FINDS compilation series. NEW BUYS/RARE FINDS 2011 is the fourth installemt in the series, and is a reflection of the music we’ve collected over the past year. It features some great tunes that we’ve hunted on vinyl for ages, like Paul Winter’s Sea Joy, 24 Carot Black’s Best of a Good Love Gone, the sublimely awsome redition by James Brown of the Bobby Hebb classic Sonny. And a few more beautiful and future classics, like the Chicargo based techno producer Hieroglyphic Being’s Strange Strings #2, History Town by Mos Dub, two live classic versions by Joe Jackson and by Al Jarreau, and rounding things off with the beautifully sensual and moody song by Gato Barbieri from the film with the same title, Last Tango in Paris.
If you are interested in listening to the compilation, please visit the DALA FLAT Mixcloud page http://www.mixcloud.com/dalaflat/new-buysrare-finds-2011/ or you could contact us directly for a limited CDr with printed cover artwork.
Here is the tracklisting:
1) Sea Joy – Paul Winter
2) Venezia, Venaga, Venusia – Nino Rota
3) Steppin’ Out (Live) – Joe Jackson
4) The Best of a Good Love Gone – 24 Carot Black
5) Das Tardes Mas Sos – Paulo Moura
6) I Love Every Little Thing About You – Syreeta
7) Come Out – Steve Reich
8) Strange Strings #2 – Hieroglyfic Being
9) Sonny – James Brown & Dee Felice
10) History Town – Mos Dub
11) The KIngs New Cloths were Made by HIs Own Hands – Shabazz Palaces
12) Open Your Eyes -Bobby Caldwell
13) Moon Shadow – Labelle
14) Take Five (Live) – Al Jarreau
15) Last Tango in Paris -Gato Barbieri
Please let us know what you think of the compilation and if you need a DJ that plays anything from quiet ambient through jazz, dub hip hop, soul, r&b, easy funk, latin, disco, techno and all avenues to house, please contact us. I hope you’ve enjoyed this and please look out for more from DALA FLAT next year. Have a great, safe and the best new year you could ever imagine!
Love from DALA FLAT, HOSH!!!
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We’ve been busy… The latest news is the submission of the song ‘Child of the Goema‘ into a goema remix competition run by Creative Cape Town. And what a great tune it is! Pure Goema soul from the streets of the Cape Flats!! Check it out here: http://soundcloud.com/dala-flat. We’ll let you know how we do, but please have a listen and give us some feedback.
We are also planning to shoot a music video for the song. The idea for the video is to get as many people prancing their Goema moves to the song. So come on show us your moves and let us know if you’re interested in jigging on film.
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The RockArt – Future Cape album is available online. Follow these links to download:
- http://www.musicload.de/rockart/future-cape/musik/album/10240696_2
- http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/future-cape/id437209497 (This is the iTunes Germany site and iTunes has geographical limitation so from SA for example you cant access iTunes Germany…)
We are also in the process of filming a documentary called ‘Speak White, Right?‘. Read more about this on the films page.
In the next few weeks we’ll have a few mixes up as part of our eRadio station, so stop in sometime, subscribe and enjoy!
Lots more to come!
