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As promised we were on Showbiz Report, starting this Saturday at 7.30pm on eTV (South Africa).

Check out the piccies:

[It's starting!]

[Sara, the lovely Cape Town insert presenter]

[Dplanet, being interviewed at the Planetary Assault album launch party]

[Driemanskap performing at the Planetary Assault album launch party in Cape Town]

[Archetypes performing at the Planetary Assault album launch party in Cape Town]

[Me being interviewed about the How We Roll video. I say something like, we have the product, the quality, the visuals, now all we need is some media support!]

[How We Roll on eTV]

[How We Roll video insert]

Check the repeats if you can, this insert is full of Cape Town hip hop wise words! :)

UPDATE

Hello everybody :)
For those of you who might have missed the Showbiz Report last night or this morning on eTV, there are still 2 upcoming repeats:

• Mon. 5 Nov - 4.30am
• Tues. 6 Nov - 10am

Don't forget to join the Pioneer Unit group on Facebook for all the latest happenings!

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WoooO!! :)

Tune into *The Showbiz Report* at *7.30pm* this *Saturday 3 Nov 2007*.

Planetary Assault album launch party as well as the How We Roll music video will be featured on *eTV*'s showbiz program!!

We'll be the last insert of the program, so make sure you're in front of a television screen by 7.40pm!

This is how we rrrrrroll!

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WoOo! :)

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Check out also super articles about Planetary Assault and Pioneer Unit in the latest editions of Hype magazine and One Small Seed, at a newsagent near you!

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Hola!

Check out the Planetary Assault launch party and artist interviews on the Hip Hop show on MK89.

If you don't have DSTV, get yourself round to someone who does!

Date: Saturday, September 15, 2007

Time: 7:00pm - 7:30pm

Where: Channel 89 on your DSTV!

That's how we rrrrrrroll!

The "How We Roll" music video shoot got featured in Hype magazine this August.

Check out the video on YouTube and see if you can spot Mizi, Simone and Black Lez from Hype, who joined us for the shoot!

Thanks for the support guys,,

Hype mag / Aug 07

Hype mag / How We Roll / Aug 07

Hype mag / How We Roll / Aug 07

There is also a feature in the Cape Town page about the new Pioneer Unit album coming out: Planetary Assault :)

Hype mag / Aug 07

Well,, I didnt believe in ringtone and all that jazz but I have soooo changed my mind.
I got the How We Roll track that I have been working with on my phone and it rocks big time. I'm absolutely converted and I sound so cool, hehe,,

Pioneer Unit has got 3 of their tracks available as ringtone. Here is how to get it!

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Pimp your phone with Planetary Assault ringtones (truetones). Simply send an SMS to 38990 with the code that matches the track you want (see below). You will receive an SMS with simple on screen instructions.

Song: Hamb'ubuza (Go and Ask)
Artist: Driemanskap
Code: PU3 (SMS this code to 38990)
Type: Truetone
Cost: R10

Song: How We Roll
Artist: KONFAB Ft. Jaak
Code: PU4 (SMS this code to 38990)
Type: Truetone
Cost: R10

Song: Kakalaki
Artist: TOP & Macho
Code: PU7 (SMS this code to 38990)
Type: Truetone
Cost: R10

That's how we rrrroll!!

Hello everybody,,

I've been working flat out on the How We Roll music video, which is about a couple of days away from completion.
Beta tapes will be delivered early next week to various new hip hop telly shows!

Hence the lack of post, I'm being focused here :)

Don't forget we're having the Planetary Assault launch party on the 29 of August at Roosevelt in Cape Town (Loop Street). There was some hiccup with the first venue and Dplanet worked very hard to find an available better and nicer place. Roosevelt is so lush and glamorous, I can't wait!

The show is also going to be quite different from the usual (sleepy) hip hop shows, and the line up counts most of the super talented Cape Town MCs! Not to be missed! You'll also be able to purchase the album and teeshirts.

Flyer below, see you there, let's celebrate!

PS:
You can add this event on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2383768364
Join the Pioneer Unit group for all the latest releases, tracks, gig dates and artist news: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2406867964

woOOOOOoooo it's party tiiiiIiimeee! :)

Big awesome news :)

Ben Sharpa will be performing at Glastonbury on Saturday 23rd of June 9:20 - 9:55pm!! :)

He will be at the Introducing stage set up by BBC1 radio in the UK,, If you're around, make sure you catch his incredible performance, straight from ZA to the UK!

More details: BBC site or myspace site

Wow!! What a weekend! :)

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Photo by Dplanet

First we went to Epping, at Bucks-4-Tyres rim, mags and tyres shop. Thank you so much to Eeshaam for organising the location and big thanks to Mr and Mrs Bucks for letting us invade their shop on the busiest day of the week! They moved around the rims, put spinners on 24" for us and polished chromes.

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Photo by Dplanet

We got the shot wrapped under 2 hours and moved back to town to Mercury Live. Kevin and Morné kindly opened up the club earlier for us.

We had about 5 hours to set up and shoot some high energy footage for the choruses. Thanks to Eeshaam doing an outstanding and unexpected job as assistant director, everything went smoothly and I could concentrate on the setting up the shots and making sure it all looked outstanding. Eeshaam really has a way to explain what I have in mind to a crowd and get them hyper and excited about helping us out. He's got such a way with people and is even telepathic!! ;) Exactly what you need on a busy day of shooting!

We started with some stage performance by Jaak and Konfab, followed by some crowd shots (THANK YOU so much to everybody who turned up and showed so much energy and enthusiasm for the shot!). We also got blessed by Ameen and his krump dancers showing off their sickest moves (and the best pairs of trainers I have seen in a while. Stylish!!). We also got blessed with a group of female dancers who had a special choregraphy for the track. We did some cameos in an unexpected location (thanks D and Konfab) and even got a visit by Mizi, Simone and Blacklez from Hype Magazine / Joburg. It was very nice hooking up and thanking them personally after they did a feature on the Go Against Us video in this June 2007's issue. Thanks guys!

We then finished the Mercury Live shoot in the back office, as per the press release photoshoot, where we filmed Dplanet and Konfab performing the intro of the track. Once again, some startling performances by Konfab!

Konfab, still made up, enjoying some rest at Chef Pon's

We ended up the day at Chef Pon's on Kloof for some well deserved Asian food, then went home for an early night and a battery charging session.

The charging corner

We started the second day of shoot at Paarl at Jaak's place. We had fun with a braai scene (I can't wait to show you all the scene where Jaak holds the boerewors roll with pride and joy, I just couldn't keep a straight face!!). Jaak also made a special effort with his costume and wore a very tight fitting pair of blue jeans, some takkies and white shirt. Apparently a very typical outfit from his birth place ;) Thanks for this sacrifice!! We also got very lucky with the weather.

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Photo by Dplanet

By lunchtime, there was quite a big crowd watching the filming outside of Jaak's house. (Btw, thanks to Jaak's aunt for letting us roam freely around the house for such a long time too!).

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Photo by Dplanet

Dplanet decided to use the kids for the wheel pushing shot. Eeshaam rallied all  the kids at the crossroad and made them run down the street, chasing Jaak pushing his wheels. It was absolutely fantastic and so much fun to capture. I love this kind of unexpected action in shoots,, when things just fall in place and more than what you planned happens! Thanks kids!! We then made our way to Paarl's hood where we got permission to shoot. We parked the car, I took the camera on my shoulder and off we went.

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Photo by Dplanet

The place was really graphic in its architecture and colours, then the amount of kids surrounding us was insane. Everybody was enjoying Jaak's track and joined in! We even had to ask everybody to form a circle around Jaak so I could see him,, The kids wouldnt let us go afterwards, they all wanted their photos taken, so we obliged for a while. We also left a couple of CDs behind as thank you gifts. I must say I had a little pinch in my heart seeing so many people sharing the same thing and showing so much love and support just like this,, it was awesome!!

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Photo by Dplanet

We drove back to town under very heavy rain to Marvel on Long Street for our last location of the shoot. Linda did a cameo for Dice Life, throwing the dices on  the pool table. Konfab and Jaak did some performance shots in front of the pool table with everybody playing foetsball in the background.

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Photo by Dplanet

After that we crammed loads of the rappers on the Planetary Assault project in the tiny Marvel toilets and asked them to go crazy. The shots look like an undulating see of mad rappers. We did a few more cameos in the looks and finished off with the last cameos in the Marvel booths. Thanks Val and Yan for letting us use Marvel and getting the place cleaned up earlier for us :)

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After packing up and Mike from Videolounge picking the gear up, we had a few drinks at Marvel to celebrate the end of a successful shoot!


BIG THANK YOU's to (not in any order of any kind...)
- Dplanet  for giving me the opportunity to make a video for him, for his patience, vision, support and sound advice.
- Eeshaam September for an outstanding and unexpected job as an assistant director, can't wait to work together again!
- Konfab and Jaak, for their outstanding repeated performances, for their energy, professionalism and fun to work with
- Julian at Butan Wear for supplying clothing
- All the rappers from the Planetary Assault project who made it to the shoot
- All the extras who joined us on Saturday for the crowd shot, thanks so much for making these shots a success!
- Ameen and his Krump dancers
- Linda and the female dancers
- Hipe (extra thanks for the lift!), Nastie Ed, Mizi, Simone, Blacklez and all the other cameos
- Mr. and Mrs. Bucks at Bux-4-Tyres in Epping
- Morné and Kevin at Mercury Live
- Yan and Val at Marvel
- Jaak's aunt in Paarl
- All the kids in Paarl
- Scott and Emilia for taking photos of the shoot
- Hassan and Eeshaam's wife for their help in Paarl

- Tara for helping out with setting up, make up and playback on Saturday
- Nick at Lodestar for capturing the footage
- Pete at 10kilo for his technical advice and support

Massive thanks to everybody!!



For more photos of the shoot, check Dplanet's set on Flickr and Spo0ky's set on Flickr.