Ashtray Electric, Fokofpolisiekar, Foto Na Dans, aKING, Van Coke Kartel and a wealth of other bands featured on Bellville Rock City all have three things in common — they are all at the forefront of South Africa’s rock music scene, they all hail from the heart of Bellville and they all want whoever will listen and watch to know this.

The all-encompassing package includes an album featuring a track from each of the steadfast suburb’s 13 topflight acts, a documentary capturing the life and times of its most renowned bands, a host of songs from erstwhile Bellville rockers such as New World Inside, Time Spent and Trompie Is Dood, 10 music videos courtesy Jax Panic, Foto Na Dans and the like, and a 48-page booklet in which the artists share their photographs and written experience from yesteryear.

It’s a veritable trip down memory lane, a drop-in on the present and a peak into the future for all and sundry, a journey well worth it.

From the fleeting nostalgia, to the slick editing on the short film – '12 Mile Stone' – the production’s entirety is the proverbial bar set that much higher in a country that continues to show its contemporaries abroad that South Africa are a pre- and post-production force to be reckoned with in the music industry.

Whether it’s the party rock ‘Last Day December’ up-tones of Thieve, the downright bullish approach of Tatum’s ‘The Parade’ or the Springbok Nude Girls' brandishing of ‘Spaceman’, to name but a few, that tickles your rock-ravished fancy, this progressive production sensationally slices its way through all the substandard fodder on offer these days.

Paving the first stones of the path that will undoubtedly see Bellville continue to thrive as the Western Cape’s so-called rock music hub for decades to come, this ambitious multimedia release embraces its roots loud and very proud.