AFRIKAANS
– DANS REPUBLIC
Foto Na Dans/Flash
Republic Collaboration
Dans Republic started out as
many other great projects started – in a bar. The guys from Foto
Na Dans met Tamara Dey from Flash
Republic while promoting her band’s CD Launch at a bar in JHB.
Jagermeister flowed and before long a firm friendship was formed.
A while later, at the SAMA Awards,
Victor Edward from music channel MK asked the guys from Flash Republic
to consider a collaboration with a rock band. They thought it a great
idea and suggested Foto Na Dans. And so Dans Republic
was born.
Back in Cape Town, the two bands met
up and started discussing how to make it all a reality. The main challenge
was merging Rock-Dance-Afrikaans-English into one track. Ideas were
thrown around and it was decided that the song would kick off with a
remix one of Foto Na Dans’s
unreleased tracks.
Remixes & reworks were bounced
between Foto Na Dans and Flash
Republic over a period of 3 months. Eventually, at the end of August,
both bands got a chance to enter a pre-production studio together.
Three days, eight bottles of Jagermeister and a lot of chemistry later,
a hit-single-ready-for-studio was born.
Studio time was booked and Afrikaans
was recorded at Jazzworx Studios in Jo’burg. The track has just been
playlisted on national radio station 5fm and a video chronicling the
collaboration (shot by Morgan Dingle) will be released shortly.
Watch this space... More to come!
Foto na Dans
was formed when vocalist Le Roi Nel joined Theuns, Dirkie, Neil and
Alex, who previously played in a band together. It took seven years
in and out of projects for the members to finally find the right combination.
Foto na Dans is the result of creative self-expression that has
not heeded to commercial influences, finding and establishing their
own new significant sound in Afrikaans.
“To those who have
never heard Foto na Dans, one may be inclined to liken them to
Muse, with electronic elements blended in perfectly with progressive
rock and a dash of a more sophisticated classical sound...”
Jarrad Nelsom, www.futurespace.co.za
Flash Republic
is the collaboration of three of South Africa’s most prominent dance
music talents – Tamara Dey and two of the country’s top DJs, Ryan
Dent and Craig Massiv. Their music is best described as electro-tinged
and soul-drenched House music.
2009 has been Flash
Republic’s most successful year to date. They have signed to leading
independent label, Just Music, the South African home of Ministry of
Sound, Hed Kandi and some of the world’s biggest dance artists &
producers, such as Fedde Le Grand, Roger Sanchez, StoneBridge and Martin
Solveig. Various singles from their new album have been licensed to
major compilations across Europe, including France, Netherlands, Belgium
and Sweden.
MP3 ripped at 256kbps and album cover is included.
74,796 MP3 tracks available @ R7 per track ($0.88) and growing daily!
. Click on 
play buttons to hear samples.
