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Scratching the entertainment surface
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July 30, 2009
By Evan Milton
Cape Town heads, listen and attend: Our city plays host to the South African National DMC Turntable Championship Finals - prizes include gear, becoming the MTV base Scratch DJ for 2009 - and representing South Africa with six minutes on the decks at the international DMC Championship in London.
The finalists are TheCutt (defending SA DMC Champion), Joburg's Niffty, Calculus and CutKeyLow and Cape Town's Codax, Shameless, Optimus Prime and Luwayne Wonder.
Also on the bill are a veritable cream of the country's hip-hop crop: HC, PHFat, Bakaman, Nastie Ed and DJ Klinikal, and a judging panel which includes DJs Azhul, Klinikal and Hamma.
Do not miss (Fri, July 31, Mercury, 43 De Villiers Rd, District 6, 021-4652106, 9pm).
More on MySpace.com/DMCbattle, Facebook and Twitter.com/DMCDJChamps-SA. Saturday sees the venue's regular Homegrown, South Africa's longest running drum 'n bass night.
Sound illusionist trio Benguela are back, playing a once-off performance of Tong Tana with Australian-based composer Andrew Garton, also a world-traveller, board member of the Association for Progressive Communications (Google it) and activist for the world's indigenous forest dwellers. The experimental set sees individual composed pieces performed together for the first time, according to a pre-defined musical structure, a technique Garton has dubbed Drift Theory.
Andrew Parker (Imagemaster Blink) does visuals alongside Garton's Nothingknown, an installation based on the forest communities of the Sarawak in Borneo (Fri, Alliance Francaise, 155 Loop St, 8pm, R50; see AGarton.org).
The trio also play Deep, 'A Night of Creative Currents featuring Sharks, Poets and other Endangered Species', featuring the launch of poet Tania van Schalkwyk's new book, Hyphen, Blackheart Gang's Tale of How (music by Markus Wormstorm), 'flash-readings' by authors and poets like Malika Ndlovu, Sarah Lotz, Gus Ferguson, Gabeba Baderoon, Justin Fox, Sarah Lotz and Henrietta Rose-Innes; a collaborative piece by Toni Stuart, Michael Mwila Mambwe and James Jamala Safari, art installations, film screenings, and MCed by writer and columnist Suzy Bell (tonight, Two Oceans Aquarium, doors 6.30pm, no entry after 8.30pm, R40).
Kyle Shepherd, one of South Africa's few young jazz lions to tackle Zim Ngqawana's compositions and come off smiling, plays piano and saxophone with Shane Cooper (Babu, Closet Snare) and Jonno Sweetman (Offshore, Restless Natives) - (Fri, Welgemeed, Jan van Riebeeck High, Welgemeed St, Gardens, 7.30pm, R80).
Rock 'n roll thrives as Sleazy Riffs sees The Dirty Skirts and New Holland chart two angles of the contemporary sound - one might even call it a 'post-indie' evening. Grave Danger ensure late night merriment (Sat, Assembly, 61 Harrington St, District Six, 021-4264552, 9pm, R50).
Them Tornados play no frills authentic rockabilly (Fri, Pakalolo, 10 Main Rd, Hout Bay, details 0833275085 or rockabilly4africa@gmail.com) amidst rumours that original Bantam Cocks co-founder Tony TwoDog is back with a new rhythm, blues 'n sleaze outfit, The Hi-Tones, Watch this space.
Submissions to evan@tiscali. co.za or fax 086 689 3282 by noon on Friday.
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