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Just when we thought that the castle lite extra cold music concert couldn't get any bigger, Castle lite announced just announced on their social media pages that American rapper Wiz Khalifa will be performing at the Star studded event, taking place at Supersport park (centurion) on the 7 th of June 2014 to find out more about the concert Click here  .The black and yellow hit maker twitted the wonderful news on Thursday and twitter went crazy with excitement over the incredible news. For those of you who are still staying under a rock and don’t know who Wiz Khalifa is here are some fast facts about wiz khalifa    Wiz Khalifa was born in North Dakota to a dad who was in the military.   He moved to Germany, England, and Japan before settling in the Pittsburgh.   Wiz Khalifa is NOT his real name.   It’s actually Cameron Jibril Thomaz.   He was called “the wiz” was a nickname growing up because he was such a “wiz” at everyth...

by Margaret Mothapo Some call him Dj Murder, the king of effect and of course Dj Shimza through Shimuzic Productions brings you yet another long awaited  Easter  Dj festival  on the 20th of April 2014 that will make the whole  of the Eastrand  be  on a the stand still.  This event will be taking place at Moriting Section in Tembisa. Although it is its 2 nd occurrence it has a dope line up that will blow anyone away. Be prepared this year it is going bigger and better with the likes of  some big guns in house music industry such as:  Black Coffee, Kent, Tira, Heavy K, Dj Fresh, Oskido and some local Djs. Trust me you do not want to miss this? What more could you ask for? This is one of the events that are taking place in order to show appreciation to the people of Tembisa.  Dj Shimza who has just recently left Yfm to join Metro fm with Oskido and Mlu this has been confirmed to the public through his Facebook page that he...

Months of choreography, practicing and perfecting routines culminated in Red Bull Beat Battle where in the final against Clinch Crew, I.D.A  took the crown.  E ight of  the country’s best dance crews 8-one-oh Meninas, Ace, Beauty and the Beasts, Brooklyn, Clinch, I.D.A, Via Volcano and defending champs Reptilez faced off in the ultimate dance battle in front of the 2500-strong crowd at Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown, Soweto. Having made it through the arduous qualification process that saw over 170 crews audition, the top 7 who joined the Reptilez in the final, come from various dance backgrounds and specialise in various styles from Sbhujwa, Breaking, and Pansula to Hip Hop and everything in between.   The final bout came down to the wire – Clinch Crew went head-to-head with I.D.A and I.D.A. won the crowd and the judges over to be crowned the 2013 champions, though i can say i was little disappointed i wanted the clinch crew, they held it down very w...

South African house music has increased and pretty much taken out some of the genres in South African  music and is slowly taking over even internationally the house market  is big in South Africa and has inspired alot of producers and DJs. House music consists of many genres but sometimes called Afro House, sometimes Dance music, South African House is distinctly South African with that  they learnt from Kwaito and applied it to House, which means taking your basic 125BPM and adding elements that ground it in the lived reality of South Africans. South African House music consists of  theses genres: Deep House Commercial House Tribal House Soulful House http://www.popularmusicmovies.com Just to name a few and South African music is wide genre and has everything in it and now international DJ make house music just for South Africa and are involved the likes of Ralf Gum, Louie Vega, Avi Alman AKA UPZ, The La...

With just a few days until they take the stage in the Red Bull Beat Battle final, all eight crews are hard at work perfecting their routines. It’s been a long two month lead up to the event for the crews and they’re eager to put their practice to work on the stage.  Not only will the crowd be treated to the country’s best crews but they’ll also enjoy a list of Mzansi’s best performers.  Award-winning DJ Black Coffee joins DJ Dr. Malinga, Reason and Zakes Bantwini on the list of hotly-anticipated performers on the night.   Returning as judges are Somizi Mhlongo,  Lorna Maseko and Bboy Gerald Witbooi aka Vouks  while Red Bull Beat Battle alumnus Tumi Tladi joins the judging panel. Tumi was part of the 2011 Red Bull Beat Battle winning crew Artistic Intelligence and has since performed and choreographed for international acts both at home and abroad.  Each crew’s   overall performance, technical execution, originality and group uniformity durin...