New Dope Kit in the New Dope Store

Pull into the new African Dope Online Shop and check out our new African Dope Soundsystem Hoodies and T-Shirts!!

Along with the most plentiful serving of the Dopest music your ears could ever wish to be lathered by.

Zoo City Soundtrack (Compiled in Ape Town :-)

Honey B has teamed up with esteemed South African novelist Lauren Beukes once again to create the soundtrack for Lauren’s latest and craziest offering, “Zoo City”. This follows the international success of their first novel / soundtrack collaboration on the book “Moxyland”.

The fact that Lauren has chosen to collaborate with African Dope on her two latest projects speaks to the left-field, adventurous and unshackled nature of her writing. Check out the Zoo City soundtrack in our freshly upgraded online Dope Store, and get the novel by clicking this link.

Mix n Blend and Mini and More Majorly Massive Mahala Downloads

African Dope has teamed up with Mini once again.. this time in Germany!

Mix n Blend are featured on MiniSpace, in a mix by Marius Müller-Westernhagen. The first 2010 (not purely coincidence) users will be able to download Maruis’s selection of his favourite South African tracks.

Follow this link to check it out!

Shipping the Dopeness to Korea

African Dope is now on sale in Asia!

At long last we’ve made a deal with Feel Music, a renowned independent label/distributor based in Seoul, Korea.

All the Dopeness that we’ve released during our 10 years in business are being distributed by Feel Music in a deal encompassing digital distribution to all major and indie Korean online and mobile stores, sync licensing and sub-publishing for the Korean territory.

Click below to find out how to spell ‘Mix n Blend - Look Mom No Hands’ in Korean!!

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This deal comes after we met Feel Music at Midem 2010, following a long search for the right partner in Korea.

Says Roach – “We are delighted to finally have some action in the Far East, and with such a cool partner as Feel Music. Korea is a really interesting market – almost completely digital with high levels of legal consumption [of music, of course], an open-minded population and a vibrant local industry”.

We be a movin’ on up… to the Far East side.

Dopeness at the Grahastown Festival - Sound Kiln II

The country is slipping into a festival frame of mind at a dizzying pace as the World Cup rears its bitter-sweet head. As much as we are all looking forward to the feast of football that awaits us, having a soccer ball bounce across the screen during a TV ad for cheap blankets is a sight that few of us will miss once this sincerely glorious month has passed us by.

As such, African Dope has no intention of including any soccer balls or football references in the branding of our second visit to the Sound Kiln at 3 Chimneys Farm during this year’s Grahamstown Arts Festival. (Thurdsday 24th - Sunday 27th June)

Yes, the party at which the steady breakdown of DJ’s and MC’s physical and mental health was documented on film last year is back for another three nights of electronic eye-gouging! Nothing soccer-ish about that is there?

Acts playing at Sound Kiln include: Fletcher, Mix n Blend, Sibot, Spekta, Jam Jar, Biorythm, The Skragg and many, many more over the three nights!

Check out the event page on Facebook to get the run down and the directions. You can buy your tickets now from Computicket (They go from R80 for one day to R240 for the full three days).

If you’re not around there during the time.. then Get There!

Peace to ya,
African Dope

Mix n Blend - Look Mom No Hands Released on African Dope

Mix n Blend put their genre-busting minds to work on their debut album ‘Look Mom No Hands’, producing a sound that tap-dances through damaging dubstep, funk, swing, airy ambient electronica, drum&bass, hip-hop and breakbeat, combining with vicious, various vocal performances in this synthesized sound adventure from African Dope Records.

Old Site

There seems to have been some confusion about what we’ve done with the old site. Why did you delete it, some of you have wailed. Well the good news is that we haven’t.

It, along with all the pages and downloads (including disc 2 of Contructus - The Ziggurat) are still lurking around HERE. Or you can click the old site link in the menu bar above.

Here we are..

To those who know us, howzit - it’s been a while.
To those who don’t - greetings from the Cape of Good Dope.

Welcome to our new site, chock full of video, tracks, imagery, news and recent social network ramblings. Grab a few choice slabs of audio from our player on the right, check out what video is currently tickling our fancy, see what our crew is up to on twitter or just head on over to our shop and grab yourself some mp3’s (for starters Cape of Good Dope 2) which you can find in CD and Mp3 formats HERE.

If you’re a producer, and you’re into all things dope, there’s a drop box on the right with your name on it. We’d love to hear your demo.

Check back here for exclusive videos, free tracks, fresh music available for sale sometimes way ahead of any other outlet for our stuff, sometimes exclusively sold here, and a bunch of other lovely little plans that we are cooking up.