On 13 May 2022 Boiler Room returned to Cape Town for “Contemporary Scenes” curated by Broke in collaboration with Black Major and Millers Genuine Draft.
The event was hosted at the Hearty Collective – a perfect venue for what was to be a night of extraordinary performances by Zakes Bantwini, K.Keed, International Pantsula B2B Insert Coinz, Fizz & Shai-a and Cody Losper. A surprise performance by Dee Koala sent us into a spin of euphoria and the evening was an overload of sensory experiences with an undeniable sense of community as we were all there to celebrate the music hailing from our local landscape of talented artists.
We chatted to Andile Dlamini, founder of Broke, about the curated line-up and how the event came to it’s beautiful fruition “The event came about when our events coordinator (Simbongile Bino ) coincidentally met one of the members from the Boiler Room team during his time as a storekeeper at Duck Duck Goose. He asked if they had any plans to run an event in Cape Town to which they said yes after hosting a successful event previously. Simbonginle mentioned the Broke Boys and how we run our brand, DJ and curate parties in Cape Town. Without wanting to bore her, they later connected via digital channels and we were put in touch with Joe Catch – discussions around a line up for 13 May began.”
Andile further elaborates “We are still in awe as we answer these questions, we can’t believe we did that, being there felt like a dream. Being given the opportunity to curate and host Boiler Room came with a lot of mixed emotions – we were very stoked yet nervous as we spent most of our lockdown watching past Boiler Room events from all over the world and just dreamt of one day hosting one for our tribe and our city at large. Our thought process when we were planning the event was to give people an experience and not just an event.”
About the line-up…
”The line-up was curated in a sense that it represents who we are as BROKE, we had to balance the line-up so it could flow and make sense to everyone attending. We kicked off the show with a slow paced Kwaito/Midtempo set by Cody Losper, which was also a form of us paying homage to the Kwaito legends who have inspired us throughout our lives. Thereafter Fizz and Shai to pump up the energy with an enthral deep house set, to having our in-house music wizards Iinsertcoinz and Internationalpantsula to take us to the peak with an Amapiano/Gqom .The talented K.keed and Senhora then hopped on to give us an amazing hip-hop set with Dee Koala which was a full circle moment for us, being able to share this platform with our friends and our family. Then our headliner Zakes Bantwini got on the decks to close the show with Skye Wanda, Maline Aura and Karyendasoul. We wanted it to be like a journeywhere you are being transported from one spot to another, with each stop giving you a different energy from the last.”
A journey it was.
