The biggest Christmas present for local trance lovers was the arrival of multi-award winning dance music producer and DJ, Jules O’Riordan aka Judge Jules, in South Africa in December last year. Judge Jules has earned his place amongst the DJ aristocracy with a career that has notched up hundreds of thousands of miles, millions of spins of the decks and countless gigs in destinations from Ibiza to Tokyo and the UK. Jules' DJ sets are the epitome of what deejaying is about – amazing music, great passion, and hands capable of the most nimble of mixing.
Acclaimed as the hottest electronic artist in the world, Joel Zimmerman aka Deadmau5, is widely recognised as the guy in the massive mouse head equipped with built-in LEDs sporting video mapping and wowing the crowds with mind-blowing performances and productions. Based in Toronto, this Canadian progressive, electro and house music producer hit South African shores in December last year with a three cities tour. It kicked off in Cape Town at the CTICC and the following day moved to Durban for an ‘unhooked’ show which did not have the full lighting and video rig. This gave the crew at CTICC a day and a half to strike the kit, transport it up to the Johannesburg venue, Wild Waters H2O, and get it rigged in time for the final show.
Canal Walk near Cape Town is a shopping mecca with world class management. It opened in 2001 with an enormous AV installation designed by renowned LD, Paul Pamboukian, and the Martin intelligent lights he specified a decade ago are still going strong!
The Fugard Theatre and Studio in the historic Sacks Futeran building in Cape Town's District Six was named in honour of South Africa's greatest playwright, Athol Fugard, and has become a prime venue for Western Cape theatre lovers. In 2010 Electrosonic SA supplied and installed lighting equipment in the 280-seater cinema style theatre, and this year was commissioned to supply a Litec trussing structure and a range of theatre lighting equipment for the adjoining 150-seater Theatre Studio.
