Tag Archive: Music

REFORM Sound System sneaky party

REFORM is back with a sneaky silently slipped in 4th of July (no relation…) party full of vintage soul, funk, reggae, disco, townshipjive, girlgroups, Nigeria70s, springbokpophits, swingjazz and other rarities you’ll hear nowhere… Continue reading

REFORM party time

We’re back with our first Reform party of 2015 and it’s right in the middle of Easter weekend. Charles and I play our 6 decade spanning mix of soul, raregroove, springbokpop, townshipjive, reggae,… Continue reading

Best of 2014

As usual, I’ve not even scratched the surface of all the releases this year (I never do). This is what I’ve loved these last 12 months through my over-complicated music discovery regime. Here… Continue reading

Final REFORM! party for 2014

Our final kick for 2014 takes place at our regular hangout at Kitcheners in Juta Street in Braamfontein on Saturday 6 December 2014. We start easing in at 6pm in what is the… Continue reading

Heaven mixtapes

Heaven was a nightclub that ran from 14 June 1985 to the end of 1987 in Johannesburg at 165 Marshall Street. Many will know this address as being that of the original Doors… Continue reading

Best of 2013 mixes

I’ve taken all my best tracks from 2013 and put together three DJ mixes. The first two, COMEDOWN and INDIE, are below (follow the links) I’ll post details of the third mix after… Continue reading

New weekly music discovery blog starts today

Today is the start of my new music discovery blog. Once a week on a Tuesday I’ll post three songs I love that I came across the previous week with appropriate links. You… Continue reading

Dead Kennedys artwork

While paging through a stack of newspapers and magazines I found in the cellar of a house in Parktown that was about to be demolished in 2011 – I found the source for… Continue reading

Sharon Tandy’s Birthday

*Update: Heard the sad new today (23 March 2015) that Sharon Tandy passed away over the weekend after a long illness. Condolences to Wendy Crabb and her family* REFORM! party playlist favourite Sharon… Continue reading

REFORM! playlist on Deezer

A few months ago I was messing around on Deezer (the French streaming site that opened up in SA in Feb 2013) and created a REFORM! playlist. I received a mail this morning… Continue reading