BLOG 12/03/2024
Feature — South African tour diary, week two
The second instalment of Jan Kinčl’s diary from his December 2023 South African tour, again written by Jan himself and published by Mixmag Adria a week after part one. It picks up over the Christmas and New Year stretch of the tour, from a missed encounter with Japanese producer Kuniyuki Takahashi to a New Year’s Eve that ended on the minimal floor of a vast Johannesburg club.
What the piece covers
The entries cover the Sounds So Deep party in Benoni, where Jan tested unreleased material including a Kez YM remix due on CYCLE-02; a Christmas Eve b2b set with Gary at an open-air barbecue party in Makwarela, near the Zimbabwean border, reached after eight hours of driving and a visit to Gary’s family; the Wasted Sundaes party at Smoking Kills Bar in Melville, the venue he found closest to a European club; and New Year’s Eve at a hi-fi listening bar followed by the four-floor club Truth. Each entry again closes with a “record of the night”.
In his words
“With the whole gastronomic offer and the setting, the audience listens to the music with a high degree of attention, comments and enjoys it… Fascinating…”
“I love parties like that, because the audience forces you to give your very best…”
(translated from Croatian)
Read the full piece
The complete second week is on Mixmag Adria.
Jan Kinčl — Južnoafrička turneja (drugi tjedan) → mixmagadria.com