ONE CONTINENT // FOUR EVENTS // ONE TRUE MUSIC FORUM
KICKING OFF IN CAPE TOWN ON 23rd NOVEMBER
Boiler Room x Ballantine’s True Music Africa will GO ON TO VISIT CAMEROON, Nairobi & JOHANNESBURG
The TOUR WILL SHINE A SPOTLIGHT ON EACH CITY’S ORIGINAL SELF-STARTER MUSICIANS
ALL BROADCASTS LIVE ON http://truemusic.boilerroom.tv/
Boiler Room and Ballantine’s Scotch Whisky just announced the launch of True Music Africa, a four-city tour that will take in exciting underground music scenes from countries as diverse as South Africa and Kenya.
Boiler Room x Ballantine’s True Music Africa kicks off in Cape Town later this month with a line-up featuring the most pivotal hip hop artists involved in the local music scene.
Boiler Room and Ballantine’s are committed to supporting and celebrating uncompromising artists who do it ‘their way’. With their True Music platform, the partnership champions artists with a pioneering spirit and challenges them to continue pushing boundaries.
Africa, a vast and hugely diverse continent – culturally, politically and geographically – is known for its myriad musical styles. From gqom to Nairobi nu wave and eclectic afro-fusion, True Music Africa will tell the stories of the varied music scenes sweeping the continent and the key innovators in each space who share the ‘hustle mentality’ – all via compelling documentaries and live-streamed parties to bring Africa’s True Music scene to a global stage.
The Cape Town show features some of the country’s most well-respected original self-starters, including:
- K$
- Dope Saint Jude
- Youngsta CPT
- Aux Womdantso
- DJ Lyle
It will all culminate in July when Johannesburg will play host to the True Music Forum, a space for the international music community to learn, exchange and build new ideas through panel discussions and workshops. Look out for further information on speakers and panel topics coming mid next year.
Boiler Room x Ballantine’s True Music Africa follows the success of the recent global True Music projects, headlined by Maya Jane Coles and Seth Troxler, as well as multiple visits to South Africa together. The project will be the first time Boiler Room have hosted their signature broadcast events in Cameroon or Kenya.
“Africa is full of diverse sounds and artists pioneering creativity. As the influence from a vast range of music genres across the continent is increasingly felt in European and American production, global tastemakers are looking towards their thriving underground scenes for inspiration. Our previous shows in Cape Town and Johannesburg with Boiler Room were some of the most sonically exciting we’ve had the pleasure of working on. So, this time around we’re looking forward to going back and getting even deeper under the skin of diverse nightlife cultures with True Music artists.” – Patrick Venning, Ballantine’s Marketing Director
“We’re very excited to be taking our partnership with Ballantine’s to Africa to celebrate pioneers of new sounds across four territories. Our vision for this project has been to work with artists who have crafted not just the sound, but often the ground up infrastructure of hyper-local music communities as well.” –Blaise Bellville, Boiler Room Founder & CEO
To check out more on True Music head to truemusic.boilerroom.tv
@BallantinesSA
#TrueMusic
Now HYPE has 2 VIP Tickets to the Boiler Room event to giveaway which includes an exclusive Ballantine’s mixing evening hosted at the True Music Pop up club (Long Street) on the 22nd of November (Evening before boiler room).
To stand a chance to WIN! head over to TWITTER and answer the following question that we will be asking: WHAT ARE BOILER ROOM & BALLANTINE’S COMMITTED TO? (make sure you tag @BallantinesSA & use the hashtag #TrueMusic)
*Winner will be a announced 20 November 2017
(Please Note That Winners Will Have To Be CPT Based)