4 NEW SHOWS
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Monday 30 July 2007
Press Release
DOMINATING THE DEEP DANCE WEB
With Sound Republic’s Dance Web Radio spreading further and wider, what better way to celebrate its reach by signing up four brand new shows
Well that’s exactly what DEREK“TheBandit” Richardson’s phenomenally successful Sound Republic’s Dance Web Radio has done. Since launch late last year, the domain of the dance discerning has grown in leaps and bounds, attracting the biggest names in the business, and the four newest arrivals are no different.
First up, is Dinner In Ibiza, presented by Tony H. Broadcast out of Milan, Italy, this international dance show that celebrates the best in modern chillin’. From the shows inception two years ago, this two long lounge, electronic chill, deep house and nu-jazz fest is a favourite amongst the faithful and now, via Dance Web Radio is now available here too.
Next up in the mix is Steve Sorel, one of dance music’s fastest rising stars. Often described as “the underground’s best-kept secret”, this talent’s ability to wow a crowd needs to be heard in order for it to be truly appreciated. By day Steve heads up SHEER Dance, a division of SHEER Music, Sorel has immersed himself in, worked and played with the very best in the business. Thanks to Soundrepublic.co.za you too can now play along. So if decant mix of house music, meticulously and seamlessly mixed has you looking for you dancing shoes, click here.
Cape Town’s Tony Finger steps up to decks with the third new Dance Web Radio inclusion. Having honed his skill from the age of 16, Tony’s interest in more than just dance has insured that his sets, that comprise deep funk and oh-so sexy house with a smattering of electro to keep listeners from overheating, resemble more than just a one-night-stand. Having recently launched his own record label, this mix master has played alongside the likes of Daft Punk, Bob Sinclair, Junior Sanchez, Deep Dish and having remixed for Prime Circle, this clearly versatile talent’s Dance Web Radio residency is set to keep you downloading long after hours.
Last up is the duo of McMurdo & BenKay, each of whom has made a name for themselves in their own right in, building rooms into a frenzy of dance euphoria across South Africa close off the current new entries at www.soundrepublic.co.za Dance Web Radio. Benkay DJay cut his grooves with residencies at Apollo, Aqua Lounge in Rivonia, through to five-hour-long Hardstyle sets at Zepplins in Pretoria, all have led up to the release of BenKay DJay’s Tech-Line remix of Sis n Jones’ ripping dance floor favourite of “Set Your Mind Free”. Also known as Bass Boy, BenKay has also released his first Hardstyle E.P, “In The Beginning” and with underground tracks at his disposal, he tears any crowd out of their apathy and onto the dancefloor at the drop of a disc.
McMurdo’s style choices include Trance, Electro and Deep House. His most defining characteristic is his passion for sexy, provocative vocal tracks; his flirting between brazen love and hedonistic debauchery guarantees dance floors heave the second he hits 45 RPM. Having played alongside the likes of Ryan Dent, Brett Jackson, Erica Elle, Hayley Hunter and Vanessa to mention a few, the combination of BenKay & McMurdo is nothing shy of bordering on the illicit.
Sound Republic’s Dance Web Radio is fast becoming the world’s most credible hub of dance originality the web has yet experienced. With more variety and groundbreaking tracks and weekly shows from Derek “TheBandit”, Stephan & Pierre, Above & Beyond, Judge Jules, Graham Gold, Dizzy, DJ Costa, Daryn & Steve Classix, Mikey Gallagher, Chris Palmer, Allen Vendetta, Dave Skinz, and Killer B Psy Trance, your biggest challenge is to stay connected… for longer if you want the beats to linger.
With the four news shows freshly squeezed, www.soundrepublic.co.za is where the beat is at, where all essential trance, dance and house live, breathe and bang out, not only the biggest new music, but also the best to boot.
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About - DEREK”TheBandit”
CLICK, DRAG & DANCE
With time in perspective, DEREK“TheBandit” Richardson once again, and very successfully, continues to re-invent, re-engineer and energize himself across each of his impressive entertainment platforms
Think critical music. Think 18 years of real radio and then add names like Carl Cox, Judge Jules, Pete Tong, Tall Paul, Sister Bliss, Paul Van Dyk, Dave Morales… and the only one missing who played it so – DEREK”TheBandit” Richardson. When you hear or read the words Dance Web Radio, when you download one of his dance dedicated and very exclusive podcasts or if you’re merely looking for a place to party, it’s clear that that DEREK“TheBandit” continues to grow his dance domination with his trade-mark combination of passion, foresight and talent – all from a man who continues to break boundaries at every turn.
For the past 18 years the world of radio and dance music has become a better place. Today Derek Richardson a.k.a. “TheBandit” retains and continues to garner respect from not only the music industry, but also from his ever-increasing fan base that delights in each new album or show, terrestrial or digital that he compiles and mixes. With his first love being radio, as with everything else he embraces, Derek has excelled from humble beginnings as producer in late 80s, through to commanding weekend airwaves on national radio with The World Of Dance on South Africa’s only national music station 5fm, through the 90s and comfortably into the nulls. A show that in mere months of it first hitting the air not only became a weekend favourite for hundreds of thousands of fans hungry for discerning listening, but which grew into an entire compilation series. Today Derek spins the airwaves across the greater Gauteng every Saturday night from 6 to 10pm on South Africa’s Largest Independent Radio Station, Jacaranda 94.2
In celebration of his rather momentous and monumental year where Derek has brought his music to the world and the world to our very doorstep – Gallo Record Company, the home of RPM Dance recently celebrated the beginning of great new Dance Republic CD series in partnership with DEREK“TheBandit”, the first in a new series of double discs celebrating the power of dynamic dance.
Coupled with his on-air, behind-the-decks and in CD compilation production, Derek also shares his wealth of knowledge by offering a three-day course to radio stations across the country keen to coach their on-air presenters in the art of generating engaging listening.
Added to this Richardson spends a great deal of his time talking to corporate South Africa about new media opportunities and how best to integrate these into their business. Derek has always prided himself of being the first-to-market on a variety of entertainment platforms and with a keen understanding of both technology and content, his success comes from harnessing and incorporating the best both have to offer and delivering solutions that affect real change and growth.
2006 was the year in which Derek took his music beyond the traditional airwaves and into the digital domain as South Africa’s biggest name in genre. How you ask? Podcasts – with brand new shows uploaded monthly to soundrepublic.co.za Derek can be heard, at any given point, on any continent on the planet. With more than two-dozen and building, “TheBandits” podcasts have fast become critical digital downloads of tastemakers; party planners and anyone who challenges dance convention.
Dance Web Radio was Derek’s first, formal weekly global plug-in to the real big wide world of dance heads looking for tracks and mixing deserving to be heard beyond our borders. With that came the realisation that great compilations of house and trance travel particularly well, especially if “The Bandit” has anything to do with proceedings. This Durban-born, Boksburg-bred New Romantic virtuoso took on radio and dance culture and has, in little over a decade, single-handedly given South African fans of dance and legitimate radio an identity and an outlet to plug into, either through CD, on the decks or on real personality-driven radio shows.
South Africa and the better part of the Europe, the UK and America, too, have been fortunate to sample the genius that comes from a man born to entertain – with invitations affording him the opportunity to perform seamless sets in front of 30 000 Knebworth attendees through to guesting on Ministry Of Sound’s weekly global broadcast.
Derek’s quiet respect and eclectic ear serve him well in delivering just what the market prescribes. “With the face of popular music changing almost daily, it’s essential to be able to adapt and grow your personality within the music you play,” Richardson points out. “Remaining humble to the source has always been key to me – to steer clear of the derivative and play music that represents the tastes and flavours of where I am, and to represent that in an entertaining and edifying way.” Richardson represents the convincing face of what’s often lacking in radio and the DJ fraternity in general – integrity, ability and the will to want to push the boundaries. With a track record that has seen him perform alongside the world’s biggest and most respected DJs. Camden and Kiss FM, London, too, have been exposed the cunning and competency of Derek’s exceptional sets and aural magnetism.
“My mission is to give people what they want,” he exits. “As a DJ my job is that of conduit to the fans of great music and the more platforms I have to do that, be it a podcast, in a club or through a compilation I mix, the better.”
Today DEREK“TheBandit” doesn’t need a plane ticket to turn the world onto the very finest in trance and house. Instead the VIP, all-access pass to all things dance discerning comes in the form of soundrepublic.co.za, a place where more than a million good reasons exist to click, drag and dance, all without breaking a sweat. “If dance music is an institution, DEREK“TheBandit” is the authority and the man single-handedly rewriting the rulebook year on year on year” – Musica’s PULSE Magazine
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