CHRISTMAS RELEASES - OUT NOW

Music With No Name Vol.4 - Global Africa  by Monde Mkhizwana

Dan Mampone & Mabi Thobejane - Melodi

COMING IN 2009

Kalahari Surfers collaboration with Greg Hunter featuring tracks with Brendan Jury, Busi Mhlongo and Madala Kunene look out for a  February 2009 release date.

Airto Moreira Flora Purim & Jos Neto's: FOURTH WORLD
 NO GAP - a fine compilation and musical journey through a decade of amazing live music and remixes previously released on albums no longer available from your favoured CD shops !

MELT IN YOUR SOUL - Read the article here

THE KALAHARI SURFERS EPIC COLABADVENTURE - Read the article here

MOSES TAIWA MOLELEKWA - PROJECT ZOE

7 years after the untimely death of South Africa's keyboard icon the family feud seems to carry on leaving Moses son Zoe at the center of the suffering. Many young, highly dedicated musicians and producers continue celebrating their hero and regularly they knock on our door to ask for permission to remix Taiwa's music.  I feel it's time to dedicate this project to Taiwa's son Zoe help raising additional funds for his education. If you are one of those dedicated artists and like to participate in this project please This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it your background or links, state the name of the track you like to remix and attach the best of your work as a MP3 (no larger than 3,5mb). We will contact you with more details once we auditioned and checked your work.

For the many Taiwa friends please note that the following projects, recordings and DVD's remain unreleased:

Live in Johannesburg - featuring Taiwa's young band with Moses Khumalo and special guest  Tlale Makhene on percussion. Recorded by Martin Horn  

Live at Kippies - Taiwa's last performance to be recorded and filmed - awaiting a voluntary release commitment from Jerry Monk Molelekwa - the father of the late Taiwa.

 Live at the North Sea Jazz Festical The Hague 1999 - sponsored and organised by ESP Africa and Rashid Lombard.

recorded and filmed in The Hague at the South Africa stage 

DVD - Genes and Spirits - featuring the CD launch concert at the South Africa House in London. The core of the DVD is an extensive interview with Taiwa in which he discusses every track from the album giving rare insight in his approach and work as probably the most admired composer and keyboard player of the 90's.

MELT IN YOUR SOUL
by Mick Raubenheimer
Founded by producer Robert Trunz, and born in the spirirt o collaboration, MELT2000 was seeded by the musical meeting between (international icons of Brazillian Jaz) Airto Moriera & Flora Purim, and SA Jazzbo’s Sipho Gumede, Pops Mohamed and Moses Molelekwa.
Trunz was inspired by the ease and beauty with which the two musical worlds interacted, and decided to create a label which would explpore and nourish interaction between local and international music. Using his international contacts Trunz facilitated 94’s Outernational MELTdown sessions, a musical exchange between Brazil, SA and the UK.
These sessions would profoundly effect local music, both directly and indirectly. The epiphany of these sessions was the fusion of local Jazz with England’s thriving dance scene, then mostly Jungle and Drum & Bass. Melt music, with its wide-eyed exploration between styles (while always respecting the sources), was soon inspiring a generation of young musos and producers.
2005 saw the beginning of a slew of new MELT releases, most notable DVD’s of performances by the likes of Busi Mhlongo, Madala Kunene, Greg Georgiades and Carlo Mombelli. This year sees the releas of the third instalment of the aptly named (ahem) Music with no Name series.
In keeping with the temp of contemporary, the original blend of predominantly Drum & Bass-fused Jazz that comprised volumes 1 and 2, has been updated to today’s plethora of electronic manipulation: originals by Kunene, Mhlongo and others sent out and remixed by the disparate likes of Germany’s Henrick Schwartz and the UK’s Adam Hurst and John Kennedy.

TURNTABLA - THE KALAHARI SURFERS EPIC COLABADVENTURE

by Mick Raubenheimer

Godfather of local electronic Warrick Sony aka The Kalahari Surfers, needs no introduction. Following his musical rebirth in 2000, Sony has gifted us with his epiphanic masterpiece Akasic Record (2000), all mystery and dreamy elegance, followed by the more upbeat, bass-driven Muti media (2003) and the excellent Panga management (2007); this in addition to 2003’s trance outing through Microdot Records, Conspiracy of Silence.
While all this was going on, a great unreleased collaboration was coming to life in the shadows. Sony gives us a peak into the makings of what sounds to be a magnificent beast.. As he upt it: “ex-ORB Greg Hunter and Kris Weston vs. me and Brendan Jury. Unlimited budget nd never finished now. 2continents, self-flagellation, yoga and the beach!”
Warrick’s low-down: “MELT200’s Robert Trunz) suggested a collaboration (between Trans. Sky.Sky, comprising Warrick Sony and Brendan Jury, and ) his favorite producer Greg Hunter, who at that point was finishing off his Alien Soap Opera project and decided to swop frezzing London for a particularly fantastic Cape Town summer.  Turntabla began in the summer of 1998 at what was then Shifty Studios in camp Street, cape Town. Greg fell in love with a Berimbau I bought when I was in Brazil, and worked on it day and night until he was shit fucken hot. Brendan did string stuff on his viola and processed viola. We were jamming with piano, tabla, viola, veena, berimbau, mridangam, turntables, udu pots… We even went out and bought an old Wurlitzer church organ for the bass pedals – I’ve never had so much fun in a recording. I think we all did.”
Following the initial swell of inspiration the project was dormant for two years, with Hunter and Weston back in the UK and other key conspirator Brendan Jury moving to Joburg.. “Greg returned in 2000 and we finished the album at Milestone studios, bowing all their main studio speakers in the process. This wa s very productive period and the album shifted from the very synthesized sound to the more organic;; Greg taking control and shaping performances from myself, Madala Kunene and a string quartet for 2 of the tracks.
“The album lay around for decade until Robert Trunz asked me if I wouldn’t mind doing some of my own mixes – a sort of remix of an album that never was. I returned to the album, found amazing performances (to replace some uncleared samples) that we had done ourselves, and some great Madala Kunene Guitar… and so I worked three quarters of the Album.” With Greg Hunter asn Warrick Sony as inter-successive heads of this decade-spun priject, and all the heady, exotic ingredients in the mix, I can’t wait to wrap my ears around this one! ‘Turntabla: a Kalahari Surfers remix of a Greg Hunter album (that never was) out (almost) now!

JUNE 2008 RELEASE MUSIC WITH NO NAME vol. 3

The latest album from Juno Reactor is entitled Gods & Monsters and if you are at all serious about your music then this is one album that should be added to your collection... IMMEDIATELY!

New DVD Release

Busi Mhlongo "Urban Zulu" Live

Exactly one decade later the MELT video archives reveal some amazing footage of Busi Mhlongo’s launch concerts in Nantes (France) and the Roskilde Festival (Denmark). The DVD and CD contain live songs from her original album "Urban Zulu", performed only the way the diva of African pop possibly can - rare footage of the explosive power of Busi at her peak.

MELT 2000 - RECORD STORE OF THE YEAR AWARD

We are commonly known as a niche music label that is dedicated to release some of the finest music of lesser known artists. However in times when TOP 10 commercial music dominate our record stores and digital downloads make the distribution of music a much less personal and exiting way of shopping there are exceptions where staff is still eager to pass on their in depth knowledge and we have singled out two stores that we feel fit that category best.

CAPE TOWN
AFRICAN MUSIC STORE
Books/Stationery
Address: 134 Long St., Cape Town, South Africa
Phone: 021 - 426-0857
(+27 21 426 0857)
 

JOHANNESBURG

PLUM CD
The Rosebank Mall Rosebank
Johannesburg South Africa
Phone 011 - 788 55 88
(+27 11 7885588)

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