ULTRA SA 2024 - Phase 1 Line up

 

ULTRA South Africa this morning released their phase one line-up for next years festival. The biggest dance music festival just got bigger with some major head lining acts confirmed for 2024. Dutch DJ Afrojack returns to the stages of Ultra SA, the last time present he had the crowds jumping with his classics and live set mashups and remixes. Steve Aoki also returns and be sure to be standing front line if you want to get caked by man himself. Ultra is bringing the big room sound back with the addition of W&W who are undoubtedly one of the hottest acts at the moment, the energy these two have on stage and the ability to get the crowd going is remarkable. A first time appearance at Ultra South Africa for Paraguayan DJ Vintage Culture and another return of see's Skrillex coming back to the country, he's a man who has re-inspired his sound and has been making major waves world over with his collaborations, mainly with Fred Again and Four Tet, definitely not going to be missing his high energy set next year. 

Support acts include Major League and Shimza, with more to be announced in the Phase 2 line-up which is due to drop soon. 

Ultra South Africa 2020 - Final Line-Up

With under a month left to the first show, Ultra South Africa have dropped their final artist announcement. The line-up includes a host of SA's best that will make up the supporting acts for the event. With the main head liners already been announced in phases one and two, festival goers can now see which one of their favourite South African acts they can catch at Ultra South Africa 2020. In this announcement, stages were announced to, In Cape Town you can look forward to the Main Stage and Resistance while in Johannesburg you have the choice of four stages! 

Yes, that's right, four stages for the event taking place at Nasrec Expo Center on the 29th of February. Johannesburg audiences can choose from the main stage, Resistance, BUDX and the 5fm Stage. Catch international artists DJ Snake, Afrojack, Steve Aoki, The Return of Dash Berling and Black Coffee on the Main Stage, over at Resistance, international headliners include Jamie Jones, Luciano and Camelphat. Tickets are still available from the website, www.ultrasouthafrica.com with Tier 2 General access going for R650 in Cape Town and R800 for Johannesburg. There's not many Tier 2 tickets left with Tier 3 coming into effect soon, so purchase yours now! VIP and VVIP tickets are available as well, starting from R1250 a ticket for CT and R1000 for JHB. 

Ultra South Africa 2020 - Phase 1 Line Up Announced!

In case you missed it yesterday, Ultra South Africa dropped their phase one artist line-up announcing some big name headliners to grace the 2020 event!  Ultra SA 2020 see's the return of some greats and the first time appearances of some new international acts, returning to our shores are DJ Snake, Afrojack and Dash Berlin. Making his first Ultra SA appearance none other than the time-traveling DJ global superstar Steve Aoki! Steve is no stranger to South Africa having toured the country before, his performances were high energy and full of entertainment with some lucky fans getting their face smashed with some cake. Aoki is ranked as one of the DJ Mag's top 10 DJ's in the world and local Ultranauts are in for a treat with his thunderous performance.

Confirmed for 2020 is Ultra's award winning underground music stage, Resistance, it returns with local and global superstar Black Coffee headlining along with Jamie Jones who will be making his debut in SA, the hot creations label-head and respected taste-maker will undoubtedly mesmerize audiences with his melodic brand of house and techno.  Them along with others who will be joining the line-up will be providing the crowd with groovy house and techno vibes to take them into the night. 

Dash Berlin

Tickets for Ultra South Africa 2020 are on sale with most of the Tier 1 tickets sold out, Tier 2 tickets go on sale too. More announcements regarding ticket sales, artists, the brand-new BudX stage and many other expansion plans for 2020 coming soon! Visit www.ultrasouthafrica.com for more

Jamie Jones

Monday Choon: Steve Aoki - Lie To Me feat. Ina Wroldsen

It's been a while since we've heard from Steve, he has been making music but nothing that stood out, his latest collaboration with Ina Wroldsen has though. The name might sound familiar, as she had her hit single with Jax Jones "Breathe" topping the charts earlier this year. Her sounds with Steve, titled "Lie To Me" has sort of the same beat but at a much mellow frequency, you could be mistaken to thinking it is a slower version of Breathe but soon you'll realise it has it own characteristics and really a great track. It's a perfect chilled song to get the week going. 

Monday Choon: Rain Man & Krysta Youngs - Habit

The last time I featured Rain Man on the blog was for his track "Bring Back the Summer" featuring Oly. It's been a while but the DJ from Krewella is back! Signed onto Steve Aoki's Dim Mak label, his latest offering features the vocals of Krysta Youngs. The song is a great offering from the trap music genre with high notes, good tempo but not that fast style high tempo stuff we're used to. Judging by the number of time's I've played it over the past few days, it's clearly a favourite of mine. 

Monday Choon: Tove Lo - Taling Body (Panic City Remix)

This track has been on my playlist for a while now and it still sounds good even after a good few hundred plays. The original song "Talking Body" by Tove Lo, otherwise known as Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson of Stockholm, Sweden has done pretty well in the pop charts and there are a few good remixes of the track, one of which being The Young Professionals Remix but this one by Panic City just sort of sounds right. He's got a beat that just gels well with the vocals and tune of the original track, which makes the merge seamless. Panic City of LA has been signed onto Dim Mak's record label which belongs to Steve Aoki and has been producing some sick remixes, this one getting the recognission it deserves. 

Monday Choon: 2 Unlimited - Get ready for this (Steve Aoki Remix)

Heres a name you haven't heard for ages, nope they haven't reunited to bring back more Eurodance classics but Steve Aoki has taken one of their greatest tracks and gave it some modern flavour. The Dutch duo, 2 Unlimited were pretty big in the 90's with hits such as No Limit, Tribal Dance and this all time classic "Get ready for this" I was a big fan of their music and you could say this was my first taste of electronic/ techno/ dance music. Even though its pretty old, you cant beat a classic.