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About Me

Well, lets start at the beginning: One day Jon and Ben were both talking to a girl dressed in a nurses outfit and basically ignoring each other, as u do when u got a girl dressed in a nurses outfit talking to u, when they started to chat and realised that their music tastes were very similar. This conversation, which led to the nurse girl being ignored, led these two to join forces and start a radio show called 'The Mix n Blend'. Kevin, who had being DJing with Jon for a some time made 3 and then the producer of the show, Mark, made 4 which was a nice number, although not a magic one. Anyway, news of this show started to spread and the boys started getting bookings for all kinds of shindigs, hoedowns and other shennanegans. These promoters, instead of asking the boys to come up with a really clever name for themselves, decided that because they were known for their show it was best to call them the Mix n' Blend which has kind of stuck even though the boys feel a little ashamed of such an obvious and crap name! So, to cut an extremely long and debauched story short, the boys basically ripped up dance floors from here to there and around the corner, playing alongside some great people, like him, him, her and whatever that was! Unfortunately, Ben had to leave to go back to the UK as the South African government wanted him for crimes against Jagermeister stocks and for generally offending psy-trance DJ's. Jon and Kev are still going strong although their livers are hardly transplant quality. They both produce and utilise Ben's crate digging skills on a purely consultancy basis. Look out for future releases as these boys mean business! They also have a residency in Cape Town at Fiction on a Saturday so if u looking for somewhere to hear loads of stuff from different realms of the musical spectrum all mished (???) together then get your ass down there, u lazy bastards! The Mix n Blend are also members of a select group known as the Stamina Massiv. If you think u are hard enough and enjoy late nights, jagermeister and broad minded music then please see the Blunted Stuntman about receiving your starter pack! Laters party people.

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Member Since: 5/10/2006
Band Website: notcreatedyet.com
Band Members:

Sounds Like: A little piece of all of us. Jon's the programming man so production is basically his baby along with Kev who is the soundboy who's pretty hooked up on the production front too, so together they make the nucleus of any track. Ben kinda jumps in and out mainly with screams for more horns and sample-tastic stuff to make the sound a bit more friendly. The Blenders have been far too busy getting battered and shakin floors to produce as much as they would have liked but are now promising to lay down the jagermeister and get some shit done. So LOOK OUT!!
Record Label: not signed yet
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Mix n Blend reunion SA Gigs and Top 10 from Smokey

OK, for all of u that will be in SA for the end of May make sure u get down to one of the following for a quiet Jagie as the exiled one returns for some mayhem:18th May- Mystic -Stellenbosch (Mix n Bl...
Posted by The Mix n Blend on Thu, 03 May 2007 02:39:00 PST

woohoo its the return of the all singing all dancing muppetry:)

Haha well...I finally decided I should waste some of my morning posting up the latest goings on in the wonderful world of the three muppets, what theyve been up to (not in bens case though, his goings...
Posted by The Mix n Blend on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:50:00 PST

Top 10- Jamie Lidell, Shinehead, Tony Allen.......

Just back from rocking Croatia and will update u on that when I got some time. Meanwhile here is a new top 10 to feast your eyes on!A Smokey selection:1. Nephews of Phela- Mulah 2. Wow, crappin wow! ...
Posted by The Mix n Blend on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:52:00 PST

t3h update.....england and all

well.....no no no we have not disappeared....ummm some mad things have just been happening which just necessitated a break from the blogging activities and wotnot.....so with out further ado let us ju...
Posted by The Mix n Blend on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:37:00 PST

Smokey in Switzerland

Well folks,Just returned from a little jaunt in Switz where i saw a number of SA's finest. Godessa, Crosby and Sky189 were all in Berne and working hard, and playin hard. Went to a SA ambassadors dinn...
Posted by The Mix n Blend on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:31:00 PST

Smokey's Top Ten

No.Artists/Track-Comment1. Elektrons/Get up- The Unabombers drop a funk bomb guaranteed to blow up any floor, handle with care!2. Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson/Alien (Hold on to your dreams)- Take...
Posted by The Mix n Blend on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:49:00 PST

Note from a small island.

Well yes, tis me, the exiled one. The last 2 weekends have been pretty messy so thought i should fill u all in on wot 'the Smokey one' has been up to.Last weekend i was asked to play my first gig back...
Posted by The Mix n Blend on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:21:00 PST

Selection of flyers

Hey all.....well until we have somethin further to anounce...thought we'd just stick up a bunch of old flyers n wotnot...at least we won't lose them then....that the good people at the mystic Boer put...
Posted by The Mix n Blend on Thu, 25 May 2006 03:28:00 PST

technical technical technical and thievery

Well What can we say...the last weekend was mental.....so mental in fact that we havent got around to writing it up until now, the thursday before the next weekend....and the only reason this is gett...
Posted by The Mix n Blend on Thu, 18 May 2006 01:16:00 PST

A gig to make us smile again

Update from the weekend....well it was pretty hectic all round...Friday was the Mystic with Kev not along and Matt from African Dope, whose never played there before... so umm it was pretty quiet at t...
Posted by The Mix n Blend on Wed, 10 May 2006 03:42:00 PST