Friday 21 September 2012

Second Annual Spring Fiesta South Africa

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Spring Fiesta 2012 as seen on posters all around Johannesburg “it’s back” with 22 September 2012 being its second annual Spring Fiesta like last it is hosted in Boksburg at the Wild Waters Complex they have bigger plans for it and don’t plan on disappointing I’ve been following them on twitter since last year’s Spring Fiesta which was a huge success considering it being hosted for the first time with plus minus 8000 people attending  it last year , this year there will be an even bigger understanding and tickets selling out quickly.
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Like last year Soul Candi Live brought they best to the party with the likes of DJ Euphonik, Whisky, Shimza and performances from Soul Candi’s Mi Casa and other groups such as Liquid Deep, Big Nuz and The Layders and this year Spring Fiesta features the international deep house hit makers who The Layabouts and they will be performing with Imaani known for the hit track “I found my love”.
The event has been well marketed and has lots of people’s attention with SABC 1 being there doing a live recording of event its assured to be one of the biggest party in South Africa this year. On Facebook and Twitter on the Soul Candi and Spring Fiesta Facebook pages and twitter accounts have been interacting with the fans and giving out house mixes from the likes of Julian Gomez and Fista Mixwell for free download and for the people who already bought they tickets they have an opportunity to download Louie Vega’s remix of Reel Peoples “Golden Lady” and you just use your ticket number to activate your download on http://Spring Fiesta.  This is good cause it shows that the event is well planned and is going to keep growing with such marketing strageties to see more on this event go to www.springfiesta.co.za  

Friday 14 September 2012

Soulcandi:The Leaders of South African House Music



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Soul Candi  started up as a record store owned by Dj Mbuso and Harael Salkow, then extended into a record label, Dj Mbuso who mixed Soul Candi Session 1 and 2 series who pulled out of Soul Candi leaving having Harael Salkow purch ase Mbuso's shares in the company. Soul Candi is best known for its record label, which boasts some of the hottest DJs and producers in the country. They have been nominated for a multitude of awards, both Metro FM and South African Music Awards, including the coveted Song of The Year in 2009. To date they’ve won 3 Multi-Platinum Awards (sales in excess of 75,000 units), 5 Platinum Awards (sales in excess of 25,000 units), 23 Gold Awards (sales in excess of 50,000 units).www.linkedin.com
That was just a brief history and about Soul Candi  the record company now it has expanded with having The Soul Candi Institute of Music essentially, the school offers three different types of courses: DJ courses, Production courses and Music Business courses. The DJ courses teach all the technicalities of playing using vinyl or CDs while the production courses integrate production and music theory on both beginner and advanced level. With all that going this company has achieved is how they always leading and being on top in this hard industry is always being up to date with media and social media they have varies ways to always be on the peoples mouth Soul Candi is a regular household name of music known for releasing hits after hits.
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Those are some of they accounts to get in touch with them and always active they showcase they new music,artists,music videos. The label markets themselves well and are always relevant to house music industry in South Africa.


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Next Week ill be talking about the years highly anticipated event Spring Fiesta 2012 with the Organisers being Soul Candi Live.