Monday Choon: Martin Garrix & Dyro - Latency

It's Ultra South Africa week! This Friday see's the biggest electronic dance event on the continent kick off things in Cape Town at the Ostrich Farm before making it's way to Johannesburg at the Nasrec Expo Center. Today we feature a firm Ultra SA favourite, Martin Garrix as he returns to make his 4th appearance headlining at Ultra South Africa. His track featuring Dyro is our pick ahead of this weeks festivities, its a song that for me shows what Martin Garrix's music and style is all about. His mixtures of techno and hardstyle is a fresh rendition of the music of today. He's had some notable collabs over the years which seen him mature into the artist he is today. While he has headlined the first three Ultra South Africa's, this time round we're going to experience a different sort of Garrix and personally I cannot wait. 

Monday Choon: Above & Beyond - Distorted Truth

With just 2 weeks to go till Ultra South Africa 2019, we bring you our artist feature on the Monday Choon. There's no denying Above & Beyond's cult status in the electronic music world, their hit track Sun & Moon still makes the hair on the back of many necks stand every time it plays. Their weekly podcast ABGT has hundreds of thousands of streams and their sellout shows just go to prove what a phenom they are and why we are so so lucky to see them in SA, performing at our premier music festival. Today's track Distorted Truth was released last week but was first played by them at their ABGT300 show in Hong Kong last year. It's a bit more up tempo than their previous track release Flying by Candle Light but has just the right beat to get you excited for their set. The track has all the key Above & Beyond elements, the beats, the build up and uplifting tempo's. It's simply brilliant in our books and will be a firm favourite for you too.

Monday Choon: Above & Beyond feat. Marty Longstaff - Flying by Candlelight

English DJ trio Above & Beyond are getting ready for a long overdue visit to our shores in March has they headline Ultra South Africa and while many of us are massive fans of their previous work, it's good to see Jono, Pavo and Tony releasing some new music ahead of their tour. Today's featured track is "Flying by Candlelight" and features the vocals of Marty Longstaff. Tipped as a future club classic, this track will be featured on their upcoming album Common Ground Companion. It's a track that resonates well with their style of music, trance and uplifting beats, it's what they're good at and why we keep coming back for more. Catch Above & Beyond live at Ultra South Africa, on the 1st of March in Cape Town at the Ostrich Farm and on the 2nd of March in Johannesburg, at the Nasrec Expo Centre. 

Monday Choon: Above & Beyond feat. Zoë Johnston ‘Always’ (Above & Beyond Club Mix)

In celebration of after hearing that Above & Beyond being announced in the phase 2 line up for Ultra South Africa next year, we decided it would be fitting to have one of their tracks as our featured song of the week. Always, with vocals by  Zoe Johnston was debuted at ABGT 300 in the USA last year and has since become quite a favourite with fans of the uplifting trance genre, with it being quite a mellow track, the guys at Above & Beyond decided to up the bpm a bit by making a Club Mix just got ABGT350, the music video for the track is quite spectacular as its shot high up in snow capped mountains but we have the song live from their ABGT350 show in Hong Kong. Do enjoy!

Ultra South Africa 2019 - Artist Announcement.

The first international headline act for Ultra South Africa 2019 was announced yesterday, for the first time ever, Grammy award winning act, The Chainsmokers will be performing live in the country! American DJ and production duo, consisting of Alex Pall and Andrew Taggart call their style of music EDM-pop and have enjoyed much success since their breakthrough hit #Selfie was released in 2014. The trap was a top 20 single in several countries. They went on to win many awards since, including many Billboard Music awards, American Music Awards and scooped the Best Dance Recording Grammy at last years ceremony. 

You can catch this talented duo next year at Ultra South Africa, performing some of their best music, both in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Ultra SA organizers say that this is the first of many headliners to be announced so stay tuned to the various channels to find out who will be next to grace Ultra SA 2019. Tickets are on sale from www.ultrasouthafrica.com so don't delay or fear missing out! 

Ultra South Africa 2019

Registration for South Africa's biggest dance music festival is now open, yes Ultra is back in 2019 to electrify crowds and bring you the biggest names in Dance Music currently. In what will be its 6th year running, Ultra is said to be bigger and better than the years before, offering more for you, the paying customer as you will find out more about this below. 

Big news for Ultra 2019 is the venue change, after hosting the event in the Cape Town Stadium for the past two years, organizers have chosen to move the event back to its original location at the Ostrich Farm. This will be welcome news to much of the fans as this was the preferred venue of choice for many that attended. Johannesburg venue remains the same, at Nasrec Expo Centre.

Also if you have been a loyal attendee of Ultra in the past, organisers of the event have recognized this and are offering those loyal a legacy ticket when registered for Ultra 2019. What this entitles you to is a cheaper ticket than the normal and it will also come with a wristband that is preloaded with R100 credit for you to use at Ultra 2019.  These tickets are extremely limited and will be sure to be snapped up quickly, so if you qualify, be sure to register and keep and eye on the blog for dates of ticket sales. 

Legacy ticket pricing is as follows:

Cape Town

General Access - R500* (pre-loaded with R100 credit)

VIP - R900* (pre-loaded with R100 credit)

Johannesburg:

General Access - R600* (pre-loaded with R100 credit)

VIP - R1000* (pre-loaded with R100 credit)

Dates for Ultra 2019