Splashy Fen 2013

Here are a few photo's i took from Splashy Fen - Such a great crowed and even better music!

Splashy Fen- The love of music

As I stood front row, blocking about ten people behind me, I felt complete and utter euphoria. No I wasn’t high or on drugs, yes I may have had one two many shooters but never the less I was utterly content. In fact I was more than content, as I stood there watching ISO produce music that made my heart flutter, I stared up into the dark blue and purple sky that had been invaded by night and saw the tiniest dust particles floating around so gracefully, so peacefully and I became entirely engrossed in my surroundings, I felt apart of nature. As silly as it sounds I’ve never felt such peace. People were jumping and screaming all around me losing their minds yet I just stood there staring at these dust particles and then back to the lead singer who was lost in his own world entirely. I became very observant, really focusing on the people around me. There is nothing more beautiful than a smile, and everyone was smiling. Laughter and singing filled the air, hands rose to the chorus while feet stomped to the beat. It then hit me, it doesn’t matter what genre of music makes you happy whether it be punk, rock, indie, heavy metal, Kwaito, jazz, music brings people together, music is a kind of love all in itself, it makes people happy, it makes people beautiful, without music a huge element of joy would be absent in the world.

Kwaito style

Now this is what i would classify as a Kwaito Diva :P

Our Beat

It starts off with a heartbeat.  A simple beat that gets you by nine whole months, a beat that comforts you, defines you. From the comfort of a monotonous beat you are thrown into a world of chaos, a world where you must choose which rhythm to listen to, which beat to embrace. Rhythm is something that will never leave you, it is everywhere.  Rhythm is that deafening ring in a moment of dead silence, it is the hum of cars from a near by freeway or a tick tick tick of a pencil held by an anxious student. Rhythm is found in the tempo of a thunderstorm or the dripping of a loose tap.  It is present in the breathing of two lovers or the laughter of two friends.  The combination of these rhythms gives us a beat, a beat that triggers different emotions, emotions that drive our behaviour.  A beat can characterize an entire country or nation and even bring enemies together. We are a nation that requires very little to make a great deal more, we have a beat that encompasses our heritage our struggle this beat is a part of who we are, this beat is Kwaito.

Like Chalk and Cheese

“As different as chalk and cheese.” This is an old expression and the earliest citation is in John Gower's Middle English text Confessio Amantis, 1390: ‘Lo, how they feignen chalk for chese.’ To this day I’ve never understood why chalk and cheese would ever find themselves in the same sentence or how they’d ever be compatible, in fact they never will be, unless you’re into taking unlikely combinations to another level. If so I may have something that’ll tickle those strange taste buds of yours. Kwaicore. Just like chalk and cheese Kwaicore consists of two of the most unlikely genres of music, Kwaito and Punk. You’re thinking no that must sound like a cats baptism but you are wrong. It’s time to prepare those inquisitive taste buds of yours because you may just be presently surprised. Remember the first time you heard it, the thrill, the sudden rush of anger, the adrenaline rushing through your veins, that spontaneous feeling of wanting to make shit and fuck shit up, that moment when you really don’t give a shit what anybody thinks about you. That’s what punk is all about, the feeling, the raw energy. Now mix that with the catchy melodic and percussive loop samples, deep bass lines, and vocals of Kwaito and you have yourself a new fresh musical sensation that puts chalk and cheese to shame.