#MonateFelaBreakfast

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Campus-radio chaos meets new music.

The gist

#MonateFelaBreakfast is a lively campus-radio breakfast-show feed built around artist check-ins, track drops, and playful studio banter. Its music conversations stay informal, moving from release plans and creative doubt to waffles, pronunciation jokes, and lockdown life.

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About #MonateFelaBreakfast

#MonateFelaBreakfast is a campus-radio music feed shaped by artist interviews, new-track drops, and talk that refuses to stay tidy. The show has the rhythm of a morning studio: quick teasing, sudden challenges, and enough detours to make the formal interview feel lived in. Music remains the spine. Guests arrive with singles, EPs, albums in progress, and stories about how those releases were delayed, reshaped, or pushed forward during lockdown. Ryzan Hill frames No Doubt as a response to fear and doubt during the pandemic. Philippa describes writing, recording, and collaborating online after plans to work in LA were interrupted. Son of Old speaks about releasing multiple singles from a delayed album and treating music as an ongoing part of life rather than a finish line. Faye Lemoore talks about holding onto an EP, adding songs, and finally deciding the work had to leave her hands. Pat McKay brings the practical side of an artist's life into the room, from community support around a track to multiple streams of income. Roots2000 and Shaka Jamal Redmond widen the frame with a collaboration story that links South Africa and the USA. The interviews are useful because they sound unguarded. Artists talk about planning, playlists, public attention, nominations, creative fatigue, and the awkward timing of releasing work when the world is disrupted. The show is also proudly silly. A radio-awards submission features pronunciation grief, a deliberately absurd gentleman's-bra news item, clean versions of dirty-song challenges, and a waffle proposal staged for laughs. That contrast is the point. Serious craft talk sits beside campus humor without either one cancelling the other out. The result feels local, quick, and human. It does not present music as a finished press release. It presents it as a messy process involving friends, lockdown, online sessions, publicists, road-trip tests, radio play, and the small courage of putting something out. For listeners interested in music interviews, it offers career texture with very little distance. For listeners who enjoy morning-radio chemistry, it has enough teasing and oddball bits to keep the interviews from becoming static.

Made for: For listeners who like informal artist interviews, music discovery, and breakfast-show banter with a rough live-radio edge. It especially suits fans who want release stories, not just finished singles.

What sets it apart: The show mixes genuine artist process talk with unpredictable studio comedy, so career discussion never feels detached from the room it happens in. Its strength is the collision of music coverage, lockdown-era honesty, and campus-radio mischief.

In their own words

Interviews and clips taken from the #MonateFelaBreakfast on your #UltimateCampusRadio, KovsieFM 97.0Campus station in Bloemfontein

Why you'd press play

Three singles, no album: this is where your release-plan curiosity gets fed before the track drops.

Press play if you want

  • artists explaining why a release plan changed instead of serving you the polished version
  • the business calculation behind remixes, radio playlists, and reaching beyond one audience
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Episodes

  1. 1

    #TheDrop Phil Higgins gives us Dizzy

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  2. 2

    #TheDrop Ryzan Hill gives us No Doubt

    ·16m
  3. 3

    #TheDrop Goodluck gives us Rum & Cola

    ·16m
  4. 4

    #TheDrop Cami Scoundrel gives us Just Kissing

    ·17m
  5. 5

    #TheDrop M. Rumbi gives us See Me

    ·11m
  6. 6

    #TheDrop Stanley Sibande gives us Falling Off The Edge

    ·17m
  7. 7

    #TheDrop The Xpierreience give us Borrowed Planet Blues

    ·14m
  8. 8

    #TheDrop Gino Strike gives us Hands of Time

    ·11m
  9. 9

    #TheDrop Phil Gregory gives us Tell The Truth

    ·15m
  10. 10

    #TheDrop Eddie Van Potch gives us Voicemail

    ·12m
  11. 11

    #TheDrop Ohmz The Don gives us Ba Kae

    ·13m
  12. 12

    #TheDrop Kontras give us Die Ruimtevaarder

    ·13m
  13. 13

    Fynite gives us Keep Falling (Afro Mix)

    ·11m
  14. 14

    #TheDrop Miloh Ramai gives us Crave

    ·15m
  15. 15

    #TheDrop This Summer gives us Broken Radio

    ·14m
  16. 16

    #TheDrop Dave Starke gives us Calling out to you

    ·17m
  17. 17

    #TheDrop December Streets gives us Haters

    ·15m
  18. 18

    #TheDrop Dave Jayie gives us SOS

    ·14m
  19. 19

    #TheDrop Runaway Nuns give us Antenna

    ·14m
  20. 20

    #TheDrop Charlie Void gives us Ecstasy

    ·15m
  21. 21

    #TheDrop T-Guy Trixy gives us Finger Tip

    ·10m
  22. 22

    #TheDrop Lay Roo gives us Lose Control

    ·14m
  23. 23

    #TheDrop All This For Nothing gives us Withdrawn

    ·18m
  24. 24

    #TheDrop Lizwi gives us Golide feat. Saint Evo

    ·12m
  25. 25

    #TheDrop Sonofold gives us Atom Man

    ·17m
  26. 26

    Coronavirus and Going Back Home: Dr Elna Kleyn (UFS Health and Wellness) Tips for limiting risk

    ·5m
  27. 27

    #TheDrop Celine gives us Call Me

    ·10m
  28. 28

    #TheDrop Phil Higgins gives us KO

    ·15m
  29. 29

    #TheDrop TECH gives us Can't Relate feat. Prime Ezy

    ·13m
  30. 30

    #TheDrop Carmen Rodrigues gives us That is That

    ·15m
  31. 31

    #TheDrop Nick Pitman gives us Rollercoaster

    ·14m
  32. 32

    #TheDrop Mr Mercedes gives us China

    ·12m
  33. 33

    #TheDrop Mla Panache gives us Mdali

    ·14m
  34. 34

    #TheDrop Bard gives us Something New

    ·14m
  35. 35

    #TheDrop Meerster RGM gives us Revelation

    ·17m
  36. 36

    #TheDrop Dr Moruti gives us Nkabakena

    ·18m
  37. 37

    #MonateFelaBreakfast Submission for Radio Awards 2020

    ·6m
  38. 38

    #TheDrop Alucius Mocumi gives us Wa E Latlha

    ·16m
  39. 39

    #TheDrop FLØRIS gives us Smooth Sailing

    ·14m
  40. 40

    #TheDrop Ben Dey and the Concrete Lions give us Matter Of Time

    ·12m
  41. 41

    #TheDrop Fay Lamour gives us Lucy With The Fur

    ·14m
  42. 42

    #TheDrop Indie Dog gives us Moving On

    ·11m
  43. 43

    #TheDrop Julia Robert gives us Sick Day

    ·15m
  44. 44

    #TheDrop N-Tida gives us Impilo eGrand

    ·15m
  45. 45

    #TheDrop Savannah Fay gives us Free

    ·14m
  46. 46

    #TheDrop Safety First! gives us Home Is Where The Yard Is

    ·19m
  47. 47

    #TheDrop Terrence McKay gives us Church Girl

    ·16m
  48. 48

    #TheDrop ZYO gives us Dockside Days

    ·13m
  49. 49

    #TheDrop Stanley June gives us (an entire album) Oceans

    ·17m
  50. 50

    #TheDrop Snaker De Ray gives us Touch My Body

    ·14m
  51. 51

    #TheDrop Andre Coupe gives us Royal Rumble

    ·10m
  52. 52

    #TheDrop Luka gives us a remix as SIO gives us Native Language

    ·12m
  53. 53

    #TheDrop Ayoba Boyz give us Kwenzakalani

    ·11m
  54. 54

    #TheDrop Chris Duvenage gives us Those Two

    ·14m
  55. 55

    #TheDrop Nosipho gives us Don’t Kill My Vibe

    ·13m
  56. 56

    #TheDrop Rachel Reloaded gives us Ban She'bile

    ·16m
  57. 57

    #TheDrop Freeza beats gives us Dream Life

    ·12m
  58. 58

    Son of Jerry gives us Makubenjalo

    ·19m
  59. 59

    #TheDrop Nokulunga gives us Goduka Dlamini

    ·12m
  60. 60

    #TheDrop Jason Zeeman gives us Float

    ·11m
  61. 61

    #TheDrop Nzobella gives us What is True

    ·18m
  62. 62

    #TheDrop Master Mello gives us Optomistic Heart

    ·14m
  63. 63

    #TheDrop The Amblers give us Birds and the Bees

    ·8m
  64. 64

    #TheDrop FLØRIS gives us Out Here

    ·12m
  65. 65

    #TheDrop Yana De Waal gives us 27 Days

    ·17m
  66. 66

    Interview Cynthia from Germany

    ·11m
  67. 67

    #TheDrop AuraTheGod gives us Asphelelanga

    ·13m
  68. 68

    Interview with Arjun Rudra from GMAC relating to NMAT test

    ·6m
  69. 69

    #TheDrop MathMetiX gives us Summer Day

    ·13m
  70. 70

    #TheDrop Meizana gives us Los

    ·14m
  71. 71

    #TheDrop Murray gives us Careless Me

    ·16m
  72. 72

    #TheDrop Phil Higgins gives us Running Away

    ·17m
  73. 73

    #TheDrop New Hero gives us Walk With Me

    ·13m
  74. 74

    #TheDrop Serenity gives us Closure

    ·11m
  75. 75

    #TheDrop D-Man gives us Same Girls

    ·10m
  76. 76

    #TheDrop Qhawe give us Ndiyakuvuyela

    ·19m
  77. 77

    #TheDrop Cazz gives us Grey

    ·12m
  78. 78

    #TheDrop Civil Motha gives us Recline

    ·9m
  79. 79

    Interview Kovsie Soccer Dylan and Obarate gives us updates on the Varsity Soccer Team

    ·6m
  80. 80

    Interview Candy Smith talks about Bloem Fashion Week

    ·9m
  81. 81

    #TheDrop Jeanté gives us Probeer

    ·14m
  82. 82

    Interview with Phantom Consulting

    ·12m
  83. 83

    #TheDrop About Music gives us Super Energy

    ·7m
  84. 84

    #TheDrop Dope Folks give us Show Stopper

    ·17m
  85. 85

    Interview Kovsie Soccer

    ·8m
  86. 86

    #TheDrop Steve Umculo gives us Pretty Baby

    ·15m
  87. 87

    Interview We Speak to Jordan Barber about Organ Donations

    ·9m
  88. 88

    #TheDrop Shavi gives us In The Mood

    ·12m
  89. 89

    #TheDrop RX gives us Who Gives You Love

    ·9m
  90. 90

    #TheDrop Yisani Masa gives us A Deep Dive

    ·13m
  91. 91

    Interview Jay Jay Groenewald introduces us to Futsal!

    ·14m
  92. 92

    Interview Dirk(K)Blauuw after winning the Safety First Competition

    ·10m
  93. 93

    #TheDrop Man Motels gives us That's Crazy Baby

    ·15m
  94. 94

    Interview SITA (State IT Agency) 2030 Hackathon

    ·16m
  95. 95

    #TheDrop SonOfOld gives us Much Better

    Hidden gem

    Son of Old tells Richard that his album Much Better is scheduled for 23 October after three singles and another planned release in early October.

    ·22m·1 clip
  96. 96

    #TheDrop Filipa gives us Do Something

    Hidden gem

    Philippa explains that “Do Something” came from a pending romantic relationship where inconsistent signals made her ask for clarity.

    ·22m·1 clip
  97. 97

    #TheDrop Roots2000 give us Aye Afrika

    Hidden gem

    The MonateFela Breakfast interviews Roots2000 members Slick Angel and MXO, producer Megamind Swagger collaborator Shaka Jamal Redmond, and Adimu Medjun about the AYE Africa project.

    ·26m·1 clip
  98. 98

    #TheDrop Pat McCay gives us Ready

    A radio host interviews musician Pat McKay about his new single 'Ready' and his journey as an independent artist.

    ·13m
  99. 99

    #TheDrop Saxby Twins give us Falling for You

    A breakfast radio show host interviews the Saxby Twins about their musical journey and new single 'Falling'.

    ·12m
  100. 100

    #TheDrop Loui London gives us Fire is the New Black

    An interview with musician Louis London about his new track, career, and experiences during lockdown.

    ·21m
  101. 101

    #MonateFelaBreakfast Submission for Radio Awards 2020

    Mar 5, 2021·6m
  102. 102

    #TheDrop Ryzan Hill gives us No Doubt

    Sep 4, 2020·16m
  103. 103

    #TheDrop Filipa gives us Do Something

    A radio host interviews musician Philippa about her career, pandemic disruptions, and remote music production.

    Sep 4, 2020·22m·1 clip
  104. 104

    #TheDrop Cami Scoundrel gives us Just Kissing

    Aug 28, 2020·17m
  105. 105

    #TheDrop Goodluck gives us Rum & Cola

    Aug 28, 2020·16m
  106. 106

    #TheDrop SonOfOld gives us Much Better

    Hidden gem

    A radio host interviews musician Son of Old about his upcoming album and singles.

    Aug 28, 2020·22m·1 clip
  107. 107

    #TheDrop M. Rumbi gives us See Me

    Aug 27, 2020·11m
  108. 108

    #TheDrop Stanley Sibande gives us Falling Off The Edge

    Aug 27, 2020·17m
  109. 109

    #TheDrop Roots2000 give us Aye Afrika

    Host interviews Roots2000 and Shaka Jamal Redmond about their cross-cultural collaboration and Shaka's Peace Corps experience in South Africa.

    Aug 26, 2020·26m
  110. 110

    #TheDrop The Xpierreience give us Borrowed Planet Blues

    Aug 26, 2020·14m
  111. 111

    #TheDrop Phil Gregory gives us Tell The Truth

    Aug 25, 2020·15m
  112. 112

    #TheDrop Gino Strike gives us Hands of Time

    Aug 25, 2020·11m
  113. 113

    #TheDrop Ohmz The Don gives us Ba Kae

    Aug 24, 2020·13m
  114. 114

    #TheDrop Eddie Van Potch gives us Voicemail

    Aug 24, 2020·12m
  115. 115

    #TheDrop Kontras give us Die Ruimtevaarder

    Aug 21, 2020·13m
  116. 116

    Fynite gives us Keep Falling (Afro Mix)

    Jul 17, 2020·11m
  117. 117

    #TheDrop Miloh Ramai gives us Crave

    Jul 16, 2020·15m
  118. 118

    #TheDrop This Summer gives us Broken Radio

    Jul 15, 2020·14m
  119. 119

    #TheDrop Phil Higgins gives us Dizzy

    Jul 15, 2020·17m
  120. 120

    #TheDrop Alucius Mocumi gives us Wa E Latlha

    Jul 14, 2020·16m
  121. 121

    #TheDrop FLØRIS gives us Smooth Sailing

    Jul 14, 2020·14m
  122. 122

    #TheDrop Ben Dey and the Concrete Lions give us Matter Of Time

    Jul 13, 2020·12m
  123. 123

    #TheDrop Fay Lamour gives us Lucy With The Fur

    Host interviews musician Faye Lemoore about her new EP 'Blue to Yellow', discussing its creation during lockdown.

    Jul 10, 2020·14m
  124. 124

    #TheDrop Indie Dog gives us Moving On

    Jun 26, 2020·11m
  125. 125

    #TheDrop Julia Robert gives us Sick Day

    May 22, 2020·15m
  126. 126

    #TheDrop N-Tida gives us Impilo eGrand

    May 6, 2020·15m
  127. 127

    #TheDrop Safety First! gives us Home Is Where The Yard Is

    May 5, 2020·19m
  128. 128

    #TheDrop Savannah Fay gives us Free

    May 5, 2020·14m
  129. 129

    #TheDrop Terrence McKay gives us Church Girl

    May 4, 2020·16m
  130. 130

    #TheDrop ZYO gives us Dockside Days

    May 4, 2020·13m
  131. 131

    #TheDrop Andre Coupe gives us Royal Rumble

    May 1, 2020·10m
  132. 132

    #TheDrop Luka gives us a remix as SIO gives us Native Language

    May 1, 2020·12m
  133. 133

    #TheDrop Snaker De Ray gives us Touch My Body

    May 1, 2020·14m
  134. 134

    #TheDrop Stanley June gives us (an entire album) Oceans

    May 1, 2020·17m
  135. 135

    #TheDrop Chris Duvenage gives us Those Two

    Apr 30, 2020·14m
  136. 136

    #TheDrop Ayoba Boyz give us Kwenzakalani

    Apr 30, 2020·11m
  137. 137

    #TheDrop Loui London gives us Fire is the New Black

    An interview with musician Louis London about his new track, career, and experiences during lockdown.

    Apr 29, 2020·21m
  138. 138

    #TheDrop Nosipho gives us Don’t Kill My Vibe

    Apr 29, 2020·13m
  139. 139

    #TheDrop Meerster RGM gives us Revelation

    Apr 28, 2020·17m
  140. 140

    #TheDrop Bard gives us Something New

    Apr 28, 2020·14m
  141. 141

    #TheDrop Dr Moruti gives us Nkabakena

    Apr 28, 2020·18m
  142. 142

    #TheDrop Dave Starke gives us Calling out to you

    Apr 27, 2020·17m
  143. 143

    #TheDrop December Streets gives us Haters

    Apr 24, 2020·15m
  144. 144

    #TheDrop Dave Jayie gives us SOS

    Apr 24, 2020·14m
  145. 145

    #TheDrop Runaway Nuns give us Antenna

    Apr 23, 2020·14m
  146. 146

    #TheDrop Rachel Reloaded gives us Ban She'bile

    Apr 7, 2020·16m
  147. 147

    #TheDrop Freeza beats gives us Dream Life

    Apr 6, 2020·12m
  148. 148

    Son of Jerry gives us Makubenjalo

    Apr 3, 2020·19m
  149. 149

    #TheDrop Nokulunga gives us Goduka Dlamini

    Apr 2, 2020·12m
  150. 150

    #TheDrop Jason Zeeman gives us Float

    Apr 1, 2020·11m