{"id":203790,"date":"2025-08-02T03:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-gasdistro-namibias-new-music-distribution-platform\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T03:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:10:01","slug":"namibia-gasdistro-namibias-new-music-distribution-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-gasdistro-namibias-new-music-distribution-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Gasdistro &#8211; Namibia&#8217;s New Music Distribution Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">A new wave is about to hit Namibia&#8217;s music industry, called Gasdistro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">It was founded by creative entrepreneurs Vernon van Wyk and Andreas Nambambi, widely known as DJ Dreas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The groundbreaking platform is set to revolutionise the way Namibian artists release and profit from their music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;Gasdistro is more than just a distribution platform. It&#8217;s a movement to elevate Namibian music on the global stage,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Nambambi added: &#8220;This initiative is about Namibia and putting its artists on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010456.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new wave is about to hit Namibia&#8217;s music industry, called Gasdistro. It was founded by creative entrepreneurs Vernon van Wyk and Andreas Nambambi, widely known as DJ Dreas. The groundbreaking platform is set to revolutionise the way Namibian artists release and profit from their music. &#8220;Gasdistro is more than just a distribution platform. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7474,52012,6662,4706,724,9052,257,7658,254],"class_list":["post-203790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-distribution","tag-gasdistro","tag-music","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-platform","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}