House Afrika and Bass Breaks & Beats Records Team Up for 4 CDs of Unmatched Funk
By Sakhile , 10 Nov 2009
House Africa SessionsTwo giants in the South African dance music game get together to deliver a mega-package of blissed-out beats and sky-high chords – a four CD-set bursting with top-notch dancefloor gear from the nation’s most highly-rated house crews.
The ‘House Afrika Sessions’ CD is a collaborative audio assault from compilation kings House Afrika and budding entertainment enterprise Bass Breaks & Beats, a label home to body-moving bombs like C.9ine’s “This Is Real” and “Heaven Is Here”, Liquideep’s “I Wanna Be Free” and “Love Your Life” and Bossruu’s “Jazz”. For these four very special sessions, a quartet of BBB’s quality DJs have each compiled a mix of locally produced house that’s of the highest international calibre.
A collective of DJ-producers that represent the futuristic cusp of South African dance music, Bass Breaks & Beats have already attracted a lot of overseas interest with their soulful South African material, including doing release and remix deals with big house names like Raw Artistic Soul, Boddhi Satva, Lars Behrenroth, Fish Go Deep, Dom Navara and Stephanie Cook. These high-profile hook-ups have sealed their reputation as the hottest local house stable around.
“The quality of the tracks on offer here sets the bar for South African dance music extremely high…”
Now a wide selection of their most blazing tracks will be available to local listeners on the ‘House Afrika Sessions’ collection, blended by the best on the label’s books: Liquideep’s, C.9ine, Thobs and 2Lani ‘The Warrior’. Living up to the Bass Breaks & Beats ethos of letting the beats do the talking, these turntable talents have each created scintillating journeys perfect for dancing, with each CD focusing on a different aspect of house music.
Liquideep’s ‘Oscillations’ CD plumbs the soulful and vocal end of the spectrum; C.9ine’s ‘Dancing On Keys’ set is fresh and progressive; DJ Thobs’ ‘Loud and Clear’ mix features an array of top South African producers and it’s silkily strung together by one of the country’s longest-serving female DJs: a real ‘mix vixen’. Finally, the well-known 2Lani ‘The Warrior’ showcases an array of laidback and loungey tunes on his ‘Sweet Sundays’ contribution to this five-hour long party-pack.
The quality of the tracks on offer here sets the bar for South African dance music extremely high and will no doubt generate even more interest in the up-and-coming powerhouse that is Bass Breaks & Beats. It is a BUMPER PURCHASE with enough variety and class to keep dance aficionados happy the whole summer…
