During my first trip to South Africa in July 2010 Halo, Ralf Gum, Martin East and I gave plenty of interviews. One of these can now be found on the South African electronic music / nightlife blog BPM Life

Some DJ’s and Producers seem to appear from nowhere, exploding onto their respective scenes like white hot shooting stars. That’s cool; a shock of a new thing has always been an alluring and evocative sentiment in music and music business in general. However, this isn’t the only method to adopt when wanting to get noticed by the record-buying public. There’s also something to be about developing your craft, biding your time, authenticity in what you do and accumulating enough knowledge needed to be a true sonic excavator.

Like every year the 26th International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) are about to come around in March 2011.
The IDMAs, held during WMC, generate some two million votes per year and I'd like to ask all fans of the DEEPER SHADES OF HOUSE radio show to please vote for it in the BEST PODCAST category.

You can nominate DEEPER SHADES OF HOUSE now through December 23rd in category 27 (BEST PODCAST) on the IDMA Nominees Ballot 2011. That means just barely over two weeks left to nominate, so head on over before the time runs out! 

Guess what?
I'm back in South Africa. Last week I got a call for a last minute gig inquiry and today I'm already here. In Vaal to be exact.

Confirmed gig for this coming Sunday, December 5th in Mafikeng.

DJs Lars Behrenroth, Harrison Crump, King Deetoy and many more.
Venue: Kedirile in Mafikeng
Party starts at 1600 and goes till very late (after all this is all part or Deetoy's birthday celebrations.

And the best thing is, the party is FREE..

Now, I know there are def. some other gigs coming up for me (hopefully I can confirm something for Friday night in Johannesburg, cross your fingers) and to stay updated on other gigs while I'm here, please follow me on Twitter or add me on Facebook!

I'll try my best to get some blog posts going to keep you updated on this trip as well with pictures etc.

	Mattias getting down to "Earth is the place" Our 16 month young son Mattias getting down to "Earth is the Place" by Nathan Haines which was played in a restaurant while we were waiting for our table. He's mos def a house head .. as soon as he hears a 'good' house groove, he starts to shake his butt!	From: DeeperShadesOfHouse Views: 220 1 ratings
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Read more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzr3SJWZaWM&feature=youtube_gdata

Rest In Peace, Aaron-Carl