adminBongani Ndlovu Showbiz Correspondent
HOUSE music lovers will be in for yet another treat next month when one of South Africa’s leading house music groups, Black Motion, make their way to Bulawayo for a once off show at Hartsfield Rugby Grounds.
The Rainbow hit-makers, a duo comprised of Robert “DJ Murda” Mahosana and percussionist Thabo ‘Smol’ Mabogwane will perform on October 17 at a show dubbed “Living Drums with Black Motion”.
Local DJs Slimzer, Kead Wikead, Liz, Flavour and Crazy Black will warm up the stage for the group.Hosted by comedian, Babongile Sikhonjwa, the event will feature performances from Mzoe 7 and TKP.
Tickets, which have been pegged at $10 for general access and $50 for the VIP, went on sale yesterday at the rugby grounds.
A dual VIP ticket will cost $80.
Show organiser, Mduduzi Mdlongwa, who spent the greater part of last week working on the artistes’ clearances in Harare, said Black Motion would arrive on the day of the show.
“Black Motion will visit Tshisa Nyama (Hartsfield Rugby grounds) where we will braai with them. Fans will also be given an opportunity to interact with the group,” said Mdlongwa.
He said they had beefed up their security to ensure that patrons’ cars are kept safe while they party.
“We’ve requested that the road leading to the grounds be cordoned off so that people have more space to park their cars so as to ease congestion at the gate. We’ll also be beefing up our team to monitor the cars.”
Arguably the hottest act in South African house music currently, Black Motion have, in three years, gone from bedroom producers, hustling independently to headlining festivals and events all over Africa and Europe.
Their fresh take on drum-driven house music is a collision of timeless, hypnotic rhythms and the dynamism and electricity of South Africa’s burgeoning house movement.
“We aren’t doing this for fashion and we aren’t doing this for money,” group percussionist Smol Mabogwane told the South African media.
“We drum to communicate with our ancestors and we’ve been doing it since we were small children. This is our life.”
Together with DJ Murdah, the two Black Motion members grew up in Shoshanguve, a township about 20 kilometres north of South Africa’s capital city — and so-called capital city of house music — Pretoria.
It was in 2010 that they teamed up to form Black Motion.
Their breakthrough came when they joined Spirit Motion where they produced the 2011 hit single Banane Mavoko.
The song was so successful that Oskido licensed the song for his compilation CD Oskido’s 10th Commandment.
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