PanAfricanSpaceStation

In studio: soul housing project Plan Be; Moz guitarist & bandleader Dino Miranda; enigmatic soundist Brendon Bussy & friends; independent collective Dala Flats; female-led jazz ensemble The Congregation; dub mistress Funafuji; DJ Mighty (Mabu Vinyl), DJ Hannah and more.

Fong Kong Bantu Sound System and chief chef Thobikile cook up an Ital beat breakfast on Sunday from 6am to 12pm. Nonkululeko Godana hosts spoken words from 2pm.

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sept 2, 9, 16, 23

7pm - 8.30pm

As part of the build up to the Pan African Space Station festival, Brendon Bussy presents a series of performances exploring unusual approaches to music making.

New Old, Old New: Inventing, reinventing and rediscovering musical instruments.

An opportunity to see performers who work with the available, driving a new, and old, musical language, spanning traditional African through psuedo African through every other form of appropriated contemporary sound culture.

Performances will be interspersed with discussion, question time and demonstration. All will be recorded for the PASS archive and will later be broadcast on PASS radio during the festival.

2 Sept: Artist and musician Brendon Bussy on electronic and software processed Mandolin inspired by African polyrhythms with found environmental sound

9 Sept: Artist, instrument maker and musician, Garth Erasmus on musical inventions inspired by KhoiSan instruments & on Saxophone circular breathing

16 Sept: Instrument designer and musician, Gavin Coppenhall on African instruments including the Kundi harp and Ramkie

23 Sept: Drummer, producer and multimedia wunderkind, Dean Henning aka Captain Asthma with his electronic instruments constructed from cheap toys.

More details here.

The Interstellar Breakfast Show

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ard Date: Saturday, 19 September 2009, 8pm - 2am
Venue: PASS Studio, Africa Centre, 44 Long Street, Cape Town
Cover: Free

Once upon a time there was a radio show. For nine glorious years it caused a weekly lurch in the force. It was 'ardkore. A late night radio programme of brazen beats, sometimes mixed, often scratched and frequently stapled together. Broadcast from 1995 until 2004, first on MFM in Stellenbosch and later across the city on Bush 89.5, 'ardkore was a unique outlet for Cape Town's electronic musical prowess. There were enough fine DJ and artist outings to make one weep. The show also led to the community of artists, designers and media inventors at Liquid Fridge.

And now, past guests of 'ardkore are reuniting to celebrate the birthday of the man behind all this 'ardness. To mark this event, Martin Sims and some of his most esteemed 'ardkore collaborators are readying themselves to once more disturb, delight and deliver a night of deep-dub-electro-jazz-bass-tech-hop with bleeps, sweeps and the odd crooner classic.

We invite all spinners, players, friends, followers, spoilers and spotters of this long-lost radio show to a night of merriment and mayhem � hardcore, you know the score.

Expect music from all corners:

ZIMMER, BUSSY MEET AND PLAY (Open Record, Upland Music)
Untempered free percussion engine (Niklas Zimmer) with disposable Windows machine and horny mandolin (Brendon Bussy). | www.brendonbussy.co.za, www.upland07.com

BRUNO MORPHET (Killer Robot, Return To The Deep)
Killer Robot resident Bruno Morphet spices up a crisp base of techno with sprinklings of dub, slices of house and high cholesterol lashings of synthpop. | www.myspace.com/brunomorphet

CY COWBOYS (Cheap Tricks)
Pass the dutchie... slam a tequila... dance to Q & Kakpraat's electro, rock, breaks, techno, kitchen sink mash-up. // www.cheaptricks.co.za

MICROSTRIPE (Sound Squad, Big Love)
Microstripe breaks the breakbeat. | www.soundsquad.co.za

RADIOBOY ('ardkore)
Mr 'ardkore presents a programme of contemporary listening for the discerning gyrator. Dubstepping, techno, bass wobbles with a swirl of nostalgic nonsense delivered with an almost maniacal grin.

H (Liquid Fridge)
Charlie don't surf.