Upbeat Music

06/08/2026

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04/03/2026

Thoughts?

Opinion: Is Rumours actually Fleetwood Mac’s best album? While it's undoubtedly a work of genius, I'd argue that the group's 1987 release, Tango In The Night, is far more deserving of that title. 🌌🌸🌿 Full story in the comments

24/02/2026

New stock just arrived...CD's, DVD's and Vinyl. All our stock is imported, sealed & brand new. We do not sell or buy second hand stock. Visit us at Shop 15, Piazza St John, Main Rd, Sea Point.

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23/01/2026

07/01/2026

New vinyl titles just arrived...

Visit us at Shop 15, Piazza St John, Main Rd, Sea Point.

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Can't find a CD/DVD/Vinyl title you're looking for? Give us a call and we'll try and source it for you.

Ph: 021 434 1994
whatsapp: 083 310 0265

All our stock is brand new, sealed and imported from our UK suppliers.

South Africa's leading online store. Fast, reliable delivery to your door. Many ways to pay. Shop anything you can imagine: TVs, laptops, cellphones, kitchen appliances, toys, books, beauty & more. Shop the mobile app anytime, anywhere.

15/12/2025

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01/12/2025

New stock just arrived. Get your Christmas tunes at Upbeat. Shop 15, Piazza St John, Main Rd, Sea Point.

Explore our wide selection of CD's, DVD's & Vinyl.

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South Africa's leading online store. Fast, reliable delivery to your door. Many ways to pay. Shop anything you can imagine: TVs, laptops, cellphones, kitchen appliances, toys, books, beauty & more. Shop the mobile app anytime, anywhere.

18/11/2025

There’s something improbable about vinyl when you really think about it. A diamond needle tracking microscopic wiggles in a plastic disc, somehow reproducing the kick drum from Carl Craig’s ‘Bug in the Bass Bin’ or the sweeping pads of Boards of Canada with decent fidelity. It seems unlikely, but it works through straightforward engineering that, even 75 years after Columbia Records launched the first 12-inch LP at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in June 1948, still feels worth understanding properly.

So how does vinyl actually work?

https://www.decodedmagazine.com/why-vinyl-still-matters-understanding-the-format-that-refuses-to-die/

03/11/2025

You didn’t just own your music—you babysat it.

You handled your cassette tapes like sacred relics because one wrong rewind could turn your favorite song into spaghetti.

You knew the sound.

That horrifying click-grind-crunch that meant your stereo had just decided to eat your mixtape alive.

Your heart stopped.

Your soul left your body.

And suddenly your Saturday turned into emergency repair surgery with a pencil for a scalpel.

You sat there winding that tape reel back in like you were defusing a bomb, praying to every rock god in existence that it would still play.

There was no cloud backup.

No streaming service safety net.

If the tape was gone—your music was gone.

And yet… that struggle made it ours in a way today’s generation will never understand.

We didn’t just listen to music.

We fought for it.

25/10/2025

New vinyl in stock...

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