Joe Diedericks ← SA Music Zone

Dimeshift: In one basket album review

Aug

2011

I met Dimeshift’s drummer, Geoff Smith, about a year ago at a performance in Johannesburg. As part of a two piece band, I was very impressed with the way he used various drum patterns to take simple songs and give them multiple dimensions. So when Geoff mailed me a copy of their new album I ...

Mrs B – The Milkshake Revolution review

Aug

2011

Finding great albums to review has become somewhat problematic as of late. It isn’t that there aren’t an abundance of albums available, it has more to do with me not wanting to waste my time finding them. I decided to go the social route and ask my followers via Twitter what they would recommend. Thanks ...

Why Mnet Idols die after the show is over 1

Aug

2011

With the current season of Mnet’s Idols reaching the point where viewers have to endure hours of pain filled screeching and low bellows which are justified as talent, I thought it best to have a look at why it simply doesn’t work in South Africa. Before we start playing the blame game, we need to ...

Review: Lizban – Talking to Myself

Aug

2011

I recently received an email promoting yet another talent competition. Yes, apparently there aren’t enough. The structure is similar to that of Idols but only utilising Web 2.0 technology to market the campaign. Contestants post videos on the site, get friends to vote for them and then the top “x” amount get to perform live ...