Portable (aka Alan Abrahams) emerged out of the ruins of a post-apartheid era. He grew up in the impoverished Cape Town township, Bonteheuwel (Bounty Valley) aka "Beverly Hills".
As a teenager in the late eighties, he would spend time at makeshift shebeens (illegal bars) that doubled as clubs. At shebeens, DJs, despite apartheid sanctions, managed to find tunes like the Master C+J's "Dub Love", the Housemaster Boys' "Housenation"and Adonis' "No Way Back." The raw basement feel of these tracks would have an impact on the music Portable would later produce. More
Portable (aka Alan Abrahams) emerged out of the ruins of a post-apartheid era. He grew up in the impoverished Cape Town township, Bonteheuwel (Bounty Valley) aka "Beverly Hills".
