You know them, you love them, you’ve slow danced with your sweetheart at one of their gigs – The Wedding DJs are a Cape Town music scene institution, and a local film maker has been following them for 12 years, culminating in the production of this 40-minute documentary, “Dancing For Money”.

Here’s the description under the video:

The documentary; Dancing for Money follows the successful Cape Town based Wedding DJ’s duo of Charles Miller aka Chopper Charley and Donald Swanepoel as Super Deluxe 3000.

The film documents their rise from playing 80’s music for friends at small intimate venues, to them being asked to play as opening act for Roxette on their 2011 South African tour, all along creating a following with fans growing with each new performance.

This documentary has been filmed over a period of 12 years and delves a bit deeper in the phenomenon and birth of the “Zef” sub-culture in South Africa. There are insights in various interviews from the comedian Hannes Brummer to Gazelle and die hard fans.

Some of the first performance footage of Die Antwoord and Jack Parow highlights the Wedding DJ’s colourful and entertaining shows.

Dancing for Money is a musical journey into the psyche of a generation of mostly Afrikaans speaking peoples that is driven by nostalgia and a connection to the familiar music they grew up with.

Enjoy it, friends.

Wedding DJ’s Documentary by MJ Lourens from Floyed de Vaal on Vimeo.

[Header image: Andrew Brauteseth]

[Thanks, Frans!]