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If you like music equipment that combines beautiful design with high quality sounds and technology then look into Bang & Olufsen on the Fan Walk. They stock a range of audio equipment including televisions, music systems, loudspeakers, telephones, and multimedia products.
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You can expect exactly what the name suggests: music from across Africa. You can also find traditional instruments like mbiras, marimbas and djembe drums, as well as original African oil tin guitars. 134 Long Street T: 021 426 0857
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4 Mabu Vinyl Gaining in international attention since the release of Searching for Sugarman, the Oscar-winning documentary on Rodriguez, Mabu Vinyl buys, sells and trades vinyl LP records and CDs of all genres. 2 Rheede Street T: 021 4237635 sugar@mabuvinyl.co.za
Musica is a nationwide commercial music retailer with wide selection of CDs and DVDs from local and international record labels.
Studio time Laying down tracks for your band or recording audio for a new ad? Here’s where you can head for some studio time. 1 B&S Studios Jarvis Street T: 021 425 3170 www.bandsstudios.co.za
2 Cape Town Sound 40 Queens Park Avenue (Corner Balfour Rd) T: 021 447 1937 www.capetownsound.com
3 Dreamspace Recording Studios 160 Sir Lowry Road T: 082 464 6715 www.dreamspacerecording. com
4 Heritage Sound 65 Buitengracht Street T: 021 426 6325 www.heritagesound.net
5 Milestone Recording Studio Bloem Street T: 021 424 6000 www.milestones.co.za
6 The Nut House Recording Studio 3 Ravenscraig Road T: 021 683 0620 www.nuthouse.co.za
7 Red Bull Studio Cape Town 32 Jamieson Street T: 072 635 8378 studio@za.redbull.com
8 Sound and Motion 107 Harrington Street T: 021 461 9862 www.soundandmotion. co.za
Shop 23A, Upper Level Gardens Centre Mill Street T: 021 461 4285
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The track start off from the Boorhaanol Islam Mosque in Longmarket Street and ambles through the Bo-Kaap, taking you through the cultural melting pot H RC that is this part of theHUcity.
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One of the great socio-realists of his time, Charles Dickens wandered through London, capturing the city’s everyday joys and tragedies in The Uncommercial Traveller. Inspired by Dickens’ work, Punchdrunk and Arcola Theatre, together with sound artist James Webb and a host of local theatre students, developed short audio pieces as alternative, reflective tours of the city. This international project has travelled to Karachi, Melbourne, Penang, Singapore, Portsmouth and is now in Cape Town: The local audio tour, consisting of five different tracks, can be downloaded from SoundCloud.
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Whether you call it a ramkie, a blik kitaar or an oil can guitar, you can find it at the Waterfront Music Store.
Where can you go to select songs and open your ears to new sounds? These local music stores can help.
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3 Marshall Music Head over to Marshall Music if you’re looking for stock guitars, drums, amplifiers and digital equipment.
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Snippets of other people’s conversations filter into your experience of the Company’s Garden.
Track 5: The Mission Track 5 sends you on a mission to find a legend archive relic, starting from the water fountains on St George’s Mall.
Track 4: Consider this Departing from the bottom steps in front of the Iziko South African National Gallery, this track explores accessible and inaccessible experiences and sensations in the Company’s Garden.
Download the free Uncommercial Traveller audio guide and explore Cape Town like you’ve never done before: www. soundcloud.com/calvertlyons/sets/uct-capetown