Listen to and download this rugged Hipe remix of Ewe Nje by Rattex featuring DJ Raiko on cuts. FREE! (click the ‘download’ button in the player below). Ewe Nje is a track from Rattex’s brand new EP, Streets, Raps & Us, which you can buy at our online store.
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Ghetto Dubs is a double EP of hypnotic soundsystem music with a lineage that includes dub, acid house, detroit techno and grime. Inspired by the dusty ghetto streets of the Cape Flats, the tracks are raw, aggressive, powerful and direct, relying on dutty bass grooves, heavy tape delays, hypnotic melodies and the hauntingly chopped vocals of some of Cape Town’s most rugged underground emcees. Headstrong music.
The digital EP comes with an extended artwork pack (PDF) designed by spo0ky.
Pure Solid is producer Damian Stephens aka Dplanet and VJ Anne-Sophie Leens aka spo0ky. Together they create an intense audio-visual assault on the senses.
Dplanet describes his musical style as ‘soundsytem music’, ‘robot army music’ or ‘dark’. This sound has influences of dub, grime, Detroit techno, Chicago house, acid, hip hop, juke and electro. Dplanet is best know for his work with Pioneer Unit artist, Ben Sharpa.
spo0ky creates bespoke graphic design and video treatments that interpret and enhance the music, providing a powerful, immersively hypnotic audio visual experience.
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Download the whole EP (or individual tracks) and check out the lyrics at our online shop
Check out the Ghetto Dubs page for production credits
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The price in our online shop appears in Euros but your credit card will be charged in your local currency. The whole EP costs R20.5. Individual tracks cost R1.9. You can choose to pay more if you want.
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Rattex is back with a banging EP that cements his place as one of South Africa’s foremost hip hop talents. With production by Hipe and Dplanet, DJ Raiko on cuts and a special remix by Swiss electro-dub band Filewile, expect more kasi fire straight from the dusty streets of Khayelitsha. 7784 is definitely in the house!
This is Rattex’s first release since his debut solo album, Bread and Butter. He has just returned from an extensive European tour that saw him tear up stages at an impressive list of Festivals including Paleo Festival (CH), Electron Festival (CH), Fusion Festival (DE), B-Sides Festival (CH) and JazzParade (CH). Most of the EP was recorded at Red Bull Studios in Cape Town – big up Ivan, Steve, Richard and Jake. Sikubo was recorded at Wankdorf Studios in Berne, Switzerland while Rattex was on tour – big up Daniel, Andreas and the whole Filewile crew.
The digital EP comes with an extended artwork pack (PDF) designed by spo0ky. It also includes 2 acapellas for all the DJs and remixers out there. Although this is primarily a digital release, a limited number of CDs will be available at The African Music Store in Cape Town and via mail order in the coming days. Contact us to pre-order a copy now.
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Listen and Buy
Download the whole EP (or individual tracks) and check out the lyrics at our online shop
Check out the Streets, Raps & Us page for production credits
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The price in our online shop appears in Euros but your credit card will be charged in your local currency. The whole EP costs R14. Individual tracks cost R1.4. You can choose to pay more if you want.
Please note. Our online shop accepts
• Visa
• Mastercard
• American Express
• Paypal
If you don’t have any of these you can also pay Pioneer Unit directly with a cash deposit or an EFT and we’ll send you a download code. Contact us for details.
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We did this remix a while back but it hasn’t been posted on the site yet so here you go. The track is a remix of Welcome to Jamrock by Damian Marley. It features Ben Sharpa, Terror MC, Rato and Jaak. Dedicated to everyone on the Cape Flats.
To download just click the small black arrow on the right hand side of the player.
Just heard the terrible news that Bongani Mangcu aka King Daniel aka Terror Daniel passed away last night.
R.I.P. homie – this track is dedicated to you…
“Heads held high, this is a battle cry,
for all my kings in this warrior kingdom…”
Unreleased King Daniel track… Rags to Riches (free download – click the little black arrow on the right)
Rags to Riches – King Daniel by PioneerUnit
I’ve also had this track on my hard drive for years. It’s called Creep. I don’t know who all the emcees are but it features a nice verse by King Daniel. It’s an unmastered studio edit so it’s a bit rough. Apologies if you own the copyright – let me know and I’ll take it down.
Creep by PioneerUnit
“So unlearn with us, this is higher that Richard Pryor,
with a prior record to try your effort,
while the second place gets lapped,
for trying to extract resources like Jan van Riebeek,
if I was a tape you’d have pushed eject,
all of these Western ways we reject,
multinationals owning this land of ours,
raped Mother Afrika in front of her kids for hours,
that turned to days, and days to weeks,
weeks to years and years to Century City,
set up infrastructures that’s essentially shitty,
nothing’s changed, they still treating us like we’re mentally pitied,
third class citizens, word art infidels,
in Fidel’s school of thought we sustaining ourselves while fools abort,
like radio stations and pay for play we hold it down with no paperweight,
too many fish in the sea to take the bait,
so I advise you to stay awake cause life is something that can make or break,
most learn that the hard way and didn’t get to see vandals gamble like cards played.
Amandla!”
Yho! I don’t know how we managed to miss this unreleased gem from Driemanskap and Hipe sitting on the Pioneer Unit hard drive. It was supposed to come out before Igqabhukil’ Inyongo was released but somehow got overlooked.
Anyway, better late than never. This banger is yours to download for FREE (click the little black downwards-pointing arrow on the right of the widget below)…
Silapha (We Here) by PioneerUnit
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With 21 days until the start of the first World Cup on African soil, we thought it was a good time to release a brand new track by Driemanskap dedicated to this massive occasion.
You can download Ses’Khona for FREE. Just click the little black downwards-pointing arrow on the right of the widget below)…
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Ben and Raiko are still killing shows on their European tour. Check out videos of live performances of Callin’ It Quits, The Disclosure and Critical Mass…
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Check out this remix of Nguwe by Rattex from his debut solo album, Bread and Butter. Produced by Hipe. Featuring Siya on vocals. Dedicated to all the Grannies out there! Yours to download for FREE (click the little black downwards-pointing arrow on the right of the widget below)…
Nguwe Remix – Rattex Ft. Siya by PioneerUnit
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Check out the brand new video for Sweet by Jaak. ‘Sweet’ (‘sweat’ in Afrikaans) is the first single from Jaak’s debut solo album, Fletse Maniere. With Hipe on production, the video was directed, shot and edited by Christian Denslow & Garth von Glehn for Greenhaus Productions.
Sweet is a track about the everyday struggles of the people of the Fletse (the ghetto housing projects of the Cape Flats) – from the mundane, like remembering to buy safety pins for the baby’s nappy, to the the more substantial, like poor service delivery and crime. All these struggles make the people sweat to make ends meet whilst striving to make their dreams come true.
Listen to, and download, Fletse Maniere at our online store
Jaak on Myspace
Follow Jaak on Twitter
Check out Jaak’s lyrics
In related news, Jaak also appears as Jaak Paarl on Die Antwoord’s new album, $0$. If you have managed to miss the massive international buzz this album has generated, just Google ‘Die Antwoord’. Jaak features on the track, Wie Maak Die Jol Vol, alongside Isaac Mutant, Knoffel Bruin and Scallywag. Listen to $0$ by Die Antwoord here.
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