Ultra South Africa 2016 - Additional Line Up

Just when we thought the Ultra South Africa organisers have provided us with the best line up for this years event, they go and spring this on us. As announced today, this years event will also include performances from Fedde le Grand, W&W who return for their second stint at Ultra SA and Claptone! They join the already long line up of global superstars in EDM set to perform in Johannesburg and Cape Town at the end of February this year. 

This surprise announcement comes in with just little over six weeks till the main event, and will sure get fans even more excited for whats to come. Fedde le rand, famous for his hit tracks "Put your hands up for Detroit" and "Sparks" is no stranger to Ultra events as he remains a firm favourite with crowds in Miami and Europe, the Dutch DJ's Electro House style is no doubt to be a hit with the local crowd. 

The Dutch DJ duo of W&W totally killed it in the first Ultra, their high energy, fast paced hard style trance is certainly an adrenaline building experience and they're coming back to give us more. They're a personal favourite of mine so I will be looking forward to thier set. The masked man who was responsible for some of the hottest deep house tunes of 2015, that is Claptone will also be in attendance. 

Also announced today, One day tickets will be available for purchase, for those who cannot attend both days. One day passes are already availabe online from the ticket portal at R790 each. The full artist line up as well as various stage line up was made available today as well. For more information be sure to follow Utra South Africa on their various social media streams.

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Monday Choon: Krewella - Live for the night (W&W Remix)

It's 2014 and the countdown to this years most anticipated music festival has begun! In just under 31 days, some of the hottest names in EDM will be gracing our shores to bring us 2 mind blowing parties for Ultra South Africa. To celebrate this, the Bucket's Monday Choon in the build up to #UltraSA will be featuring artists that form part of the line up to this incredible event. Phase 2 of the performing artists was unveiled late last year with a mixture of the very best internationally and locally, phase 3 which will be announced some time this week will be the last addition to an event that already has many counting down the days till February 14th.

This weeks featured artists are Krewella and W and W.

Krewella

The electronic band made up with the two sisters, Jahan and Yasmine Yousaf along with their producer Kris Trindl was formed in 2007. Their style of music is a fusion of dance, electronic, pop and dubstep. Although being around for 7 odd years it was their performance at last years Ultra Music Festival in Miami that catapulted their fame around the world with Billboard stating "Krewella are going to be HUGE!". They're not far off, every new release fro them have been a hit and after me finding them a bit too commercial at first, can't wait to see them perform at Ultra South Africa.

W&W

Willem and Wardt from the Netherlands are possibly the biggest rises in the EDM world, their music is more harder, faster style than what we're used to from the Armarda label but boy do these guys know how to get a crowd going. They were by far my favourite artists from ASOT600 and their sets in Mexico City and Kuala Lumpur were stand outs. It was from then I was itching to see them live and Ultra SA is making that possible. 

Todays featured track is a song by Krewella that has been on here before but today it has the help of W&W with the remix. 

More info on Ultra South Africa:

Cape Town

14 February 2014

Ostrich Ranch

Johannesburg

15 February 2014

Johannesburg Expo Centre, Nasrec

Tickets available from Computicket.

Live Chat with Krewella!

On Tuesday the 14th of January 2014,  from 8PM South African time, join in the conversation with Krewella. Simply tweet your questions to @UltraSA using the hashtag #UltraSAQandA and make sure you're free to join in. 

Monday Choon: W&W - Lift off

If you follow me on twitter you would already know my love for what Willem and Wardt do. The boys from Netherlands bring such a different energy to EDM, something so different to the usual uplifting beats that we're normally used to. Its pretty evident that many love it as well, their tours have been sell outs and they're by far one of the biggest artists on Armada's list now. Lift off was released in Feb and was their opening track for all their sets in ASOT600, the reception they received in Mexico says it all.

Monday Choon: Umet Ozcan - Here & Now

Back Feburary Ummet Ozcan teamed up with dutch DJ duo W&W to bring us "The Code", now the Turkish DJ and W&W teamed up again to bring us this Here & Now. Its one of my favourite tracks at the moment and has already been well recieved in ASOT600

Monday Choon: Zedd ft Foxes - Clarity (W and W Remix)

Its not often you hear a song and it sends you into a pure sense of ecstasy, this song does that for me. Its one of those when you hear it for the first time, you either love it or hate it. The original track from Zedd is not bad but was a bit slow from my liking, Tiesto did a remix and a few other DJ's as well but W&W's remix is just on another level. The production and build ups are just amazing, one really has to appreciate what they've done to the track. It was played at ASOT600 in Mexico and the crowd went wild for it.

Monday Choon: W&W - Moscow

Debuted at ASOT550 in Moscow, Russia this is yet another epic track by the Dutch duo. Obviously their anthem out shon this one but it still is an epic track!

Monday Choon: W & W - The Invasion (ASOT550 Anthem)

Armin Van Buuren and his hit radion show A State of Trance recently celebrated 550 episodes, with it came many a tour around the globe. This time around they selected an anthem for the tour and W&W's "the invasion" was chosen. Pretty appropriate if you ask me as they invaded many cities world wide with their epic trance parties.