Friday night : Rudeboy Paul
Kicking back after a week of Groove Kamikazes till 10, where to go since Y2K burned down? To get down till break of dawn with beautiful girls and chilled vibes? Nice and easy?
Last couple of weeks, I’ve been mellowing out over a Jack Daniels and lime checking out the beautiful girls at The Foundation. This is real Gauteng – urban, hip, dressed down to dress up – where the hip media and advertising set hang out, black and white, mean and lean. I dig the cross-over culture here, real Phat Johannesburg style.
Speed garage is the tune, with DJ Pepsi coming in for a set or few. No God box for the DJ though, he is with you on the floor, sliding them vinyls. A sign of the times, this mix is infiltrating the black music culture scene.
It is basically house with a drum’n’base.
For a change, I can get to groove to some of my favourites that I play on air – You Don’t Know Me by Armand van Helden, Underground Ministry’s I Shall Not Be Moved, Dawn Tallman’s New York City Girl, Gillian Jabre’s The Jungle (you betta believe it!), Maddy Miles’s You Got Me Forever and the ever-popular Horny (say that again!) by Mousse T.
Vibes that groove all feet – Nike, sandals, Socrati stilettos, the works.
Feeling rowdy, I hit the beer, and get down. Positive vibes are bouncing off the concrete walls. I feel coolly anonymous, no pressure from public paparazzi. This is where the seen to be seen, who’s who crowd of black club culture is not. No bullshit, just straight-up grooves on the floor with a bit of chat in-between.
I feel the week slipping away and the weekend opening up.
And the potential in the house? Check it out man, the chicks are tight arse, white arse, black arse, kick arse. Go do it, Rudeboy Paul. Mind the stairs.
Yfm’s DJ Rudeboy Paul is on air weekdays with Groove Kamikaze from 6pm to 10pm. Catch him in the studio, if you can