Travelled So Far
Sisco & Martin East
Multi-Racial Records (South Africa)
MRRD023
Hot Dayum! Another South Africa joint,this time by
my boy Sisco & Martin East ft the sultry vocals of Snow.This has to be thier best work yet with a thumping deep house beat with African influances and sounds.The vocals by Snow make this song what it is..a fantastic song with excellent production work behind it.Im diggin this package.
Additional Info:
As the popularity of Deep House Music continues to take over South African Dance-floors, with many top international DJ?s playing to masses, this scene is growing on a vast scale as new talent emerges and exciting collaborations are taking place. LA Producer DJ Martin East hooked up with prominent S/A producer and Multi-Racial Record boss, Sisco, whilst on his first tour of the country. The result is a monstrous deep house outing titled ?Travelled So Far?. This sees the start of many new and exciting projects for Martin & Multi-Racial Records, with an exciting album compilation forthcoming featuring remixes from some of SA?s top remixers along with another tour in the pipeline. ?Travelled So Far? also features talented keyboardist/producer Snow, who also turn?s out a mean Dub on the package, alongside a ?Rocking Dub? from Martin and an ?Ekhava Dub? from Sisco.Martin East has become one of Los Angeles sought after DJ?s and Producers. His long time residency at The Falcon ?Mundial? was one of the premiere dance music nights in Hollywood. Martin has also produced under the Mundial moniker doing remixes for various artists that include Jill Scott and New Order. His original music is popular all around the world finding a home on compilations from Italy, UK and even Brasil. Labels include Om, Bargrooves and Ministry of Sound. In 2004 Martin was the figurehead of the Jaguar X type Campaign, along with such artists as Zero 7, Thievery Corporation and Rob da Bank. In 2007 Martin teamed up with DJ Producer Christos Kedras and launched their own deep house label Kapa Records with The Martin East Project ?Let Me Take You? featuring remixes from Scott Wozniak, Jesse Outlaw & Lars Berenroth. Since then Martin & Kristos have gone on to release a portfolio of quality West Coast grooves on Kapa including ?Children Of The Earth?, ?Let?s Go Deep?, ?Far From This Place? ?Fly Me Away? among others, employing excellent remixers such as Jay J, Julius Papp, Jojo Flores, Roy Davis Junior, JT Donaldson and more! Martin?s single with Eman Ft Charlie Charles ?Some People? reached top 5 spot on Traxsource, followed by cool cuts including ?Release? & ?Forever More? (with Jared Douglas), ?Making Memories? and ?We Could Be Friends?.
Sisco (Umlambo) also labelled by city media as ?Mzansi?s Capitols? son of house music and co owner of Multi-Racial Records has had a vision of building a platform and sustaining the urban music culture in South Africa. He has since been
recognised by Red Bull Music Academy.His production days started with a production trio called Soulful Roots consisting of Bubbles, Sisco and That Guy Larry. He was also listed as one of he top 10 South African DJs in 2002 by SL Magazine. Since he has been involved with international studio projects with producers such as Adrian Sherwood/Nick Coplowe and Zed Bias.Under the production duo called Sis ?n Jones, with the late Art Jones they released a multitude of hit singles including UK labels Asante and Defected. 2007 saw Sis?n Jones release their debut album ?No Barriers?. Sisco has worked with many local DJs and producers including Christos, Fresh, Mbuso, Black Coffee, Shota,Vinny da Vinci,Oskido to name just a few. And in 1999 he set up Multi-Racial Records with initial partner Chresos Xekalos. With Sisco now single handedly running the label, Multi-Racial has become South Africa?s premier creative hub for developing up coming local and established international talent.Snow is a Mookgophong born DJ/Producer/Performer was introduced to Multi-racial Records in 2008, where he now sessions for House Music Producers such as Sisco, Rowick Deep, Greg Nate and many more. In addition her was worked with musicians/producers such as Martin East, Blackcoffee, Sisco, Greg Nate, Rowick Deep, Jared Douglas, Zano and Phumeza.
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