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Saturday, October 24 2026
Electrotrash is back. Sort of.
It’s been a while. Thirteen years, to be precise.
The last post on Electrotrash went up in 2013. Since then, the site has slowly fallen apart. Links have died, music has disappeared, and the old WordPress installation has become more trouble than it’s worth.
But the music, the artists and the stories are still worth keeping.
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Wednesday, February 6 2013
CTEMF 2013 - Ticket Giveaway!
With the Cape Town Electronic Music Festival just around the corner, we thought it would be awesome to give away TWO weekend passes to the fest! All you have to do to enter simply send an email to [email protected] and let us know the name of the international guest that will be performing at the festival this year.
Competition closes …
Continue Reading...Friday, January 18 2013
CTEMF 2013 - CAPE TOWN ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL 12 - 17 February 2013
“The Cape Town Electronic Music Festival was a defining moment for the local electronic music scene, now clearly marked on the international map but more importantly in the hearts and minds of its South African followers.” – Whatsonincapetown.co.za, April 2012
March 2012 saw a selection of Cape Town’s electronic music scene come together in …
Continue Reading...Yesterday's Pupil - Mechanisms of the Universe (video)
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Bloody Beetroots - Theolonius (King Voodoo)
I bet you’re wondering why we’re featuring an Italian group on a blog that is focused on South African electronic music. Ok so we have featured one or two Dutch acts in the past, but in general we tend to stick to the +27 since there are countless blogs out there …Popskarr is here Tonight (and wants you to remix 'em!)
Popskarr are Cape Towns’ newest “Electro/Pop/Disco/Experimental/AfroPop/Epic” group consisting of chronic remixer Lapse and Angolan/Congolese/Belgium born singer IAmWaves. They have decided to inject their music with some soul. Their first single from their …Red Bull Studios Cape Town, Electric Roundup: Voicetag
Although there are a considerable amount of Electronica music makers of distinction around South Africa, particularly in Pretoria and Joburg, for a long time Cape Town was considered the hub of it all. Reason being it was the hometown of African Dope Records and the wave of …Don Diablo is never too late!
Our favourite Dutch dude Don Diablo is getting ready to release a digital E.P. at the end of November and an album (Life is a Festival) soon thereafter. As a taste of things to come, we have been sent the track ‘Never Too Late’, a remix by Mason and a fun little …Halloween Special: Paul Gala - Freddy Krueger Slasher Mashup
My old friend Paul Gala got in touch with me the other day and dropped this one off just in time for Halloween! Some of you may remember Paul as one of the members of South African electro band “Black Rabbit”. Black Rabbit are (sadly :( ) no more but Paul and Mia …Grave Danger: Grave The Disco Mix
The kids from Grave Danger sent me this badass mix that they did for Discotheque… Put it on your iPod and tell your boss to piss off for an hour, it will be worth it!
SoundCloud link, 83.7MB Discotheque Mix 004 - Grave Danger by The assembly live
^5!Nobody Beats The Drum from the Netherlands
I got an email from these guys and after listening to the tracks, I had to share it with you. Nobody Beats The Drum are a Dutch electro band that create a “fusion of breaks, electro, hip hop and every other form of music that whips a crowd up into a sweaty, writhing heap …Red Bull Studios Cape Town, Electric Roundup: Introduction
Hey Electrotrash heads. Some time back you may have read a blog post about the Red Bull Music Studios down in Cape Town.
Following on from that I’d like to introduce a regular Electrotrash post to do with the RB studios. As many people would agree, Cape Town is a hub of mad …New Artist: Myrid Ambre
It’s always great to get a new artist on the site, especially when it’s someone from a band you have always liked! Myrid Ambre is Stephen Timm from The Buckfever Underground, and although really different (this time it’s ambient electronica) it’s still …