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Synergy x Yamatai South Africa Tour: Cape Town
LEKS / Illusive / System of Synergy residents
Synergy x Yamatai South Africa Tour: Johannesburg
LEKS / Illusive / Icaros / System of Synergy residents
ItCameFromTheJungle: WAREHOUSE SZN 004
Hyphen / Niskerone / Mr Green / Oli The DJ / Niems / Maxos / Dakota b2b FinnaDrift
Halloween Rave 2026
Twilight Open Air Festival 2026
Skeptical
As Above So Below: The Arrival
News & features
NewsDNBSA is back: why we're relaunching
Why DNBSA is back after fourteen years, what we stand for, and how we want to bring South African drum n bass closer together.
NewsBASS Reporters wanted: help us cover the scene
We need BASS Reporters across the country: cover the nights, interview the DJs, document the scene. Writers, photographers and phone snappers all welcome.
NewsArchiveThe Last Homegrown: Saturday 3 November 2012
Homegrown has been the lifeblood of the Cape Town Drum n Bass scene since its inception in September 2000. The name bares reference to its aim, promoting the growth of our home grown talent, and it has done just that!...
NewsArchiveYNU presents Fiasco at Sideshow: competition
The awesome guys at YNU have offered us a chance to host a competition for their latest and greatest event on the 18th of August! The Fiasco at Sideshow in Cape Town is expected to be a huge cross-genre mash up of epic...
ReviewArchiveNymfo: Characters (Commercial Suicide) album tour at Science Frikshun
14 July 2012. Town Hall. Newtown. Johannesburg When it was announced that Dutch Drum n Bass giant Nymfo would be gracing our gritty streets as part of the international tour promoting his new LP entitled “Characters”, I...
ReviewArchiveDrum n Bass history is made at RAMfest Cape Town 2012
The first time Ramfest 2012 popped up in my newsfeed on facebook the comments were filled with anger, confusion and general dis-satisfaction. For an event that has garnered such hype over the years as a ‘cannot miss’...
Artists
Hyphen
Cape Town DJ with more than 20 years in drum n bass, driving the second era of the Sublime Drum n Bass Show on Bush Radio 89.5FM since 2002 (the show calls itself the longest running D&B FM show in Southern Africa). He opened and held a residency at Homegrown, co-hosted its succe
Niskerone
Cape Town DJ from Mitchell's Plain who has worked the South African circuit since 2004. He founded and curates It Came From The Jungle, which began as a weekly at Fiction DJ Bar in 2006, and has played every Liquicity Cape Town edition so far. He also formed the duo Dhala Kulture
SFR
Cape Town DJ and producer, also heard as Overturn, active since the early 2000s and propelled onto the international circuit by winning DJ Hype's True Playaz mix competition in 2006. His catalogue takes in Trouble on Vinyl, Zombie and Hollow Point. A Homegrown regular who later c
Counterstrike
Cape Town duo of Animal Chin and 500 Mills, DJing since the mid 1990s and producing together since 1998, widely credited as pioneers of South African drum n bass. Their catalogue runs from the Wardance EP on Moving Shadow (2005) to the album Insubordination (2008) and the From Be
Dakota
Cape Town DJ, playing since late 2015, who is a member of CHERCH and its Cape Town representative. A fixture on major local lineups, from Liquicity Cape Town (2024 to 2026) to It Came From The Jungle warehouse raves and CHERCH nights, and a guest on the first episode of the Mixed
Das Kapital
Cape Town producer, DJ and radio host whose percussive club sound pulls from rave, bass music, house, techno and hardcore. He runs Do Work Records, hosts In Das We Trust on 5FM and has headlined Oppikoppi, Rocking The Daisies and Sonar Cape Town, and was on the 2012 YNU Fiasco li
FinnaDrift
Cape Town producer known for smooth, nostalgic liquid drum n bass, with releases on Flight Pattern, Jazzsticks, Default and Goldfat, including the Midnight Sip Of Water EP in February 2025. A regular at Liquicity Cape Town, Liquid Sundays and It Came From The Jungle, and a guest
Magz
DJ (also known online as CaptainMagda) highlighted by UKF for her mixes, who curates a South African Drum n Bass playlist on Spotify. She has played Propaganda at Carfax, Science Frikshun, Teknotribe and Nostalgia's Femme Beats warehouse rave in 2024, and featured on the first Mi