Monday, December 21, 2009

Party People at your nearest town

Tired of starting my note with ' been a while ' and yes i know it has been  ... yes its also been a year of growth for Party People we did P.E for the first time ... and now DBN ... and trust me we are expanding next year ... also saw the Raff mix of the DVD it inspired me ... who can forget the last PP @ Roka, lights out ... Cap Town has been good to me, but i really miss JHB ... the Exhibition was the best night of Party People in that breath!

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the above band has been on the pipeline for a while. If you know a group called School of Thought from CT or Superdan you know who these cats are. thought its also nice for visitors from else where to witness PP in CT with an organic Cape Town band just to see what CT can offer!
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This is not the return we have been there we never left ... also as you know Proverb never had his taste of Party People JHB and judging by the Cape Town and P.E  eeeish! this brother knows how to rock a crowd
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so naw you know!DBN been calling for a while naw. Saw the venue last week and judging by the set up, it may be the sexiest Party People ever also cant wait to see DBN's Moonchild perform and you know DJ2DeXha! that guy is crazy ... Proverb is ready so!

Happpyyyyyyyy!

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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SO its been a while since i wrote in for yall ... as you can see its not easy for me to be on the net all the time bombarding you with stuff ... but you know, i gotta get on it ... it has a name nowadays ...
its called Internet Presence ... been approached by a couple guys trying to make sure i got internet presents ... i trully wana come out when i got something to say like now ... been on this for a while ... finaly we see Party People coming to P.E ... WITH Pro- Verb himself ... i am looking forward to this ...

i gotta tell you something ... this is the third time i am directly working on a show with Pro and the last two times there's always flight problems ... either the flight info we always get  like last Party People in Cape Town Pro was at the airport at 7p, to catch his 8pm flight and they told him he missed his flight , told him it left at 8am hmm Pro being a professional he didn't fuss and we worked the situation ... the second time we were spose to fly out to Kimberly to do a show he invited me to help him with ... and was told on the day that i missed my flight ... i wasn't aware and i was on my way to Pretoria to play this corporate show so we were forced to drive to Kimberly straight after i played "12 am" to make it in Kimberly for our 9am call time ... 

this time will make sure none of that happen ... so see u @ Godwana Cafe... 0n the 24 Oct ...

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Redbull SoundClash - Tumi and the Volume VS The Dirty Skirts

Last year Party People at Oppikoppi was crazy nice and resulted in Imago Entertainment and Oppikoppi’s decision to go back
to the bush in Northam and pull off yet another amazing Party People this year. With August being woman’s month, Dj Kenzhero feels it necessary to celebrate the strong gracious women within our music industry. With each feature bringing forth their own style and genre to the Sipho Gumede platform, this one is a star-studded, jam-packed line-up. Features by the likes of show stopper :
- Thandiswa Mazwai, 
- The jazzy sounds of Khethi, 
- Nthabi performing some of her new music, 
- Ipi Fuze feat Siya Makuzeni on vocals and trombone,
- Ej Von Lyrik of Godessa with her Funk band all the way from Cape Town, 
- Dj Hanna, 
- Dj Goldigger and many more. 

The Sipho Gumede stage will be the longest running stage within the festival, starting from 9:00am and ending at an ungodly 4:00am every day on Friday 7th, Sat 8th and Sunday 9th August. 

Party People will be taking place on the 9th of August 2009 so do come and join us. 

Tickets for this and the entire Oppikoppi experience can be purchased at www.tunegum.com for R400 or R450 at the gate. Dates for Oppikoppi are 7, 8, 9 August 2009. For more info on Party People and the Sipho Gumede Stage see www.myspace.com/partypeoplesa or www.djkenzhero.blogspot.com or www.oppikoppi.co.za Party People at Oppikoppi is proudly brought to you by Imago Entertainment cc. in association with Levis, Jose Cuervo and Vuzu TV.




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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Roka Closing

Hey Party People! I am sad to bring you unfortunate news of the closing of Roka, the place that has been Party People’s home for three years now. 44 Stanley Roka was the only place that gave Party People a platform to present these events that some of us have fond memories of.

I can still remember the first event on 01 July 2006, there must have been 80 people present or even less but damn we all had fun and people wanted more ... we had finally found a home and an event we can call our own ... this is when I was playing by the DJ booth in the dark" wait till the DVD comes out, we always had sound glitches, thank God those have been far from our problems these days ... if you were there at the first event "put your lighters up" and if you own the unofficial party people mix tape ... remember that one? maybe ill do a goodbye Roka one ...

There have been people who’ve helped me build these events and without them we wouldn't be here ... Hempza handled all the art work (I remember we were in a taxi with his entire pc trying to get to his place to retrieve one of the flyers) and he was the sound man too. Makgabe my man was Mr everything ... from driver to doorman etc. Before and after them there has been countless other people, they know who they are.

I remember when some of the hard core party people family started complaining when the event grew bigger.
Understandably so, there were " new members" joining in. The event had become like a world they only were privy to, I had to make them understand that there had to be growth...

The event grew from just a party, from hosting quality local acts to international acts. I took every event as if it was the last one, Took all the stress that came with every event from the organizers and Dj point of view ... I need to mention that its not as easy as it looks and there’s no getting used to it as the problems that arise every month are different" even after all of that I still have to pull off a long set...

Well there’s a compilation for you to hold on to the memories, the Party People Vol 1 compilation CD. Look out for Vol 2! Also look forward to the Party People DVD that will come soon...

The Masta Ace gig must have been the most memorable one ... but to me all events had their special moments ... ya I know ... didn't see it coming ... or remember when MXO didn’t show up on the night he was featured Yaaaa Ne!

Would like to thank everyone for the support, from my ordinary friends who come through every month without fail, the media support, venue owners, bouncers and the Roka staff who all work on these nights as if they are their own.

See you at a venue near you …
Nuff said my keypad is kinda wet now, plus I hate typing, rather be surfing through tracks...


DJKenzhero

Good Times @ Roka

Party People Zubz in Cape Town

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This doesnt come as a surprise at all ... Zubz and i have steadily been working together on numerus shows naw ... he is actualy one of my favourite artist to work with, very professional, that goes along way hance we are here. as you noticed he i feat him at the last Jburg Patrty People wich we thought was the very last one at Roka ...well July is the very last Party People in JHB ...

He is no stranger to Partyb People at all ... he was there in 2007 on his own and he closed 2007 Dec with his compadre Tumi ( of the Volume ). I thought it would be a crime if i dont let him perform with his band since Roka was closing last month ... he did a short and sweet set and oh even did a Micheal Jackson tribute track after establishing he isnt a singer ... thought it was msical of him

This will be the first time Zubz taste the Party People in Cape Town ... and i will be spinnign for him on the night so it should be interesting ... Looking forward to this one

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Party People Cape Town

So nobody thought this would happen huh ... there it is we got Tumi & The Volume in CT @ ZULA ... crazy
this is raising the bar from where Jabba left off ... as we continue on we have Tumi and His Volume who haven't performed in CT in a while can you even remember the last time they have performed in CT .... I cant . i was given strict instructions that this have got to be a big production as in the show gotta be be presented well cause there i a lot of expectation from the band ... so there it is

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Monday, May 25, 2009

HHP Party People

this one took a while ... been owing a set to Jabba for minute ... i got a bit of a story to tell ... i remember the one Party People last year when i had my man MXO doing the two cities with me ... for the friday night in Cape Town ... there were stories that Jabba would be in town performing at a corporate the next day and my man Mx told me Jabba is going to show up ... i was like oK! ... FFW ... on the night we anticipated Jabba and i decided to give him a call myself to be assured of this and he Rogered! well towards the main act set i call him up and he tells me he got the whole band with him ... long story short he ripped it apart setting up on the spot to the sound man's dismay and of of the story ... Jabba killed it so the show this weekend has been a debt i owe the man ...


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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Will be witnessing this Man!

Mos Def in the Movie " Cadillac Records"

ok now you know that your boy Mos Def is a movie starr... but check this clip and you'll see what i mean ... Saw a post on my face book about the ticket sale ... kinda crazy how people can think but as you would guess it take a lot to host a man of such calibre...

there will also be a premiere of this movie at one of the Ster Kenikor's ... first time will have one of the movie stars in at the premiere of their own movie Nuff Said

Hip Hop Alive feat Mos Def

Ok Ok Ok now its on ... i know you been knocking on this blogs door to peep wats happening ... been a lot of preparations going into this... now we are ready to say it out loud...


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Sunday, March 22, 2009

The 5th is back

Been while i know ... i guess i was still puzzled by a few things ... the last time we did a set with Fifi in feb ... it kinda flew over peoples heads ... i mean we had prepared a video set not a vj playing random clip ... i mean from scratch and myself and Sam Simose dd a little DILLA tribute .... it was kinda subliminal also flew over a coupla heads ... Cape Town went down pretty well, the CT Party People got what we were doing ... look out for the FIFI PTA CD Launch soon but hey this post is not about that ...

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Its about the Vet's 5th Floor have finally come around the final product and the release of their sophomore album. been almost four years since the last album with the Track "IMBUMBA" Making a whole lotta noise ... since then i've been trading beats with them doing remixes etc ... after a long thought the duo left in the crew ( MC Camo & Casual ) decided to go live ... went into studio and recorded the album live with their band ... pretty bold ... i say look forward to a whole new 5th Floor delivery ... catch the 5th this weekend at Party People in both cities ... Jhb and CT 

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Yes its late i know ... Daam its hard to get into the year

As u would have guessed ... i been dragging getting into the year man ... donno why my brain is a little frozen ... but lemme start by recognizing that last year was a great year with the support ... it was the beginning of the flood of internationals acts coming thru to Party People ... thanx to Dom for the Bahamadia Hook up ... from there on it was on ... also the release of the Party People Vol 1 ... i got a long story for that one ... yes its finally in the shops, saw a copy @ a few music shops ... the look and Listen in Cresta shelved under kwaito ....hmm! ... oh i was told the track Party People which i hear is played to death on metro is N.O 2 on the MTN download charts ... wow! ... the Hype Mag accolade was nice ... Masta Ace definitely the high light for Party People '08 along the Riot event with ?uestlove of the Roots ... i would like to say Big Up's for the support and will keep the torch alight ....

This year Party People will lean towards more of a launching pad as we open the year with the long awaited FIFI EP Release
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hey plus this month we celebrate the 1st Anniversary for Party People in Cape Town ...

heres wats up @ the Next Party People ... oh Mr Roms Delux hooked us up with the new Party People look
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