For a long time music in South Africa, like the society that created it, was divided. Lately I have felt that the lines that separated our music are beginning to blur and in these smudges, new forms are growing like fungus on a wall. In the cracks, you can see bands like the BLK JKS, Tidal Waves and Buckfever Underground and artists like Paul Hanmer and Tumi defining new musical languages for South Africa. They feel a freedom to take little pieces of everything that surrounds them, to make music that is distinctly South African and has clear artistic vision. The past no longer hangs around the necks of these artists - sure it is something to be used - but only as much as the next thing.

While this new sense of freedom is producing some startling results, some of which can be sampled on this CD, these musicians have a responsibility to lay a platform for the future of South African music. For that we will need committed artists of the highest integrity.

Lloyd Gedye