DJ Buhle kicked off her dj career with the BFR Crew in Orlando west back in 2004. 2005 was the year in which she took steps further, playing at Mafikeng, Qwaqwa, Eastern Cape and BFR Annual party. In 2006 she was a resident dj at Sefateng. She played at Jozi Fm beerfest, Jozi Fm, The Rock, Panyaza and YFM. She started the Sunday Phola Sessions for females djs in 2007. Among other things, she did an insert of E-tv’s 20something. She was featured on Mshana Magazine. She played at Spiro’s café, Backroom, News café (Maponya mall), Primi (Maponya Mall), Panyaza 707, JFK annual party and 115.
In 2008 she regularly played at MDOO Vip Sessions at OZ Pub. She invaded dance floor across Eastern Cape, Polokwane, Deep Soul Sessions, Midrand Shisa Nyama, JFK Annual party and Capitol music café. 2009 saw her rocking Oskido’s church event, Durban, Rustenburg, Giyani as a supporting dj for Black Coffee, Polokwane, Masekovilla, beerfest, Premium lounge and she started the Mushroom Listening Sessions. She kept the momentum going in 2010 as she rocked Metro Fm’s Urban Beat, Magic sessions with Dj Christos and she started Charity nites.
She filled the dance floors at Capitol café, KSA (Keep Soweto Alive) events, featured on Blag Sky events. She enjoyed gigs at the Bank for the O-vintage Records Launch, including Beerfest, Viljoenskroon, JunkOnme and Zasha lounge. She continues to command respect to date, playing both on vinyls and cdjs platforms. She has been on HitRefresh, Pulse radio (top 20 female doing it). She has been on the line up of SAMC 17 (South African Music Conference), Kitcheners, MetroFm’s Dance culture, Macufe 17 and China Garden amongst her impressive performances and achievements which earned her respect by fellow djs within the soulful and deep house circles. She was featured on women on the Decks magazine, a Representative of Ladyspinsters SA and she got signed under Katsaitis Music.
She has done guest mixes for Ashmedhour and DHM podcast. She continues to play at joints like Deep town Jozi, Colorful Sessions and she brought back Sunday Phola. Throughout her dj career, she has shared stage with Kuniyuki Takahashi, Halo (City deep records), Vinny Da Vinci, Dj Christos, Glen Lewis, Motsumi, Thobs, John The Baptist, Black Coffee, Brina Blaq, and Lady Sakhe amongst other top and respected spinners.
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Fresh from being recognised by ‘traxsource’ as the ‘number one Afro House Music producer for 2017’. ‘Enoo Napa’ has had an amazing year, as 2017 was the busiest one of his career to date, where he produced a staggering fifteen remixes and twelve original jams within just eighteen months. That included dance floor bangers such as ‘Uyankenteza (Enoo Napa Vocal Mix)’, ‘Glitch’, ‘Deliverence’, ‘Super Africans’, ‘Giyani’, ‘Pluto’s Calling’, ‘Guanile (Enoo Napa Instrumental Mix)’, ‘Ilanga (Enoo Napa Travellerz Remix)’, ‘North (Enoo Napa Travellerz Mix Voc)’ and a whole lot more chart topping jams.
Siphiwe Mkhize, better known as ‘Enoo Napa’, is a South African born self-taught house music producer / deejay who is signed under ‘Soulistic Music’. Under ‘Black Coffee’s’ mentorship, we have seen this ‘jam of a talent’ grow in leaps and bounds. This year sees ‘Enoo Napa’ open up his ‘dance floor account’ with a smashing EP which is simply titled ‘The Surge’ released through ‘Afrocentric Records’. This offering picks up where ‘Enoo Napa’ left off last year ‘at the top of the Afro House Food Chain’.
‘The Surge’ is a two track Ep and those tracks are ‘The Signature’ and ‘The Surge’. ‘The Signature’ is what ‘Enoo Napa’ is about and what is to be expected from him ‘Clean Yet Hard Hitting Afro Tech House Jams’. He described his sound as ‘it’s just where Africa and Europe meet. The best of both worlds’ when we had a talk with him earlier this year. We are loving ‘the build-up’ provided by ‘The Signature’, where one is kept on the edge throughout ‘this mysterious jam’.
Moving swiftly along to the second track which is titled ‘The Surge’. This jam packs a ‘mean raw sound’ and that is complemented by a proper arrangement of ‘electronic synths’ with a memorable underlying ‘pad like sound’ which provides ‘the perfect dance floor formula’ to the track. ‘Enoo Napa’ has a winner on his hands with ‘The Surge EP’. Our verdict, ‘Can he top his last year’s achievements’? If ‘The Surge EP’ is anything to go by, ‘Enoo Napa certainly look set for the task ahead’.
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iTunes: Enoo Napa – The Surge
This week on the ‘Spotight’, we catch up with ‘Witness Bodikwa’ popularly known within the ‘House Music Industry’ as ‘WitDj’. Back in the days when we started ShoMag, ‘WitDj’ was one of the first ‘House Music Producers / Deejays’ who genuinely showed us love. As we recall, back in those days ‘WitDj’ had just put out his massive debut house music compilation album titled ‘Drop The Beat Vol 1’. This time around we have a ‘one on one’ with him and find-out what he has been up to since his debut release.
Sho Mag: ‘Let’s just jump in the middle with this one’. From the last time we had our talk. What has changed within your music career?
WitDj: I would say that, my fan base definitely grown and there has been a lot of ‘positive feedback’ from fellow artists about my tracks. That has also motivated me to work even harder and have also ‘grown as a musician’.
Sho Mag: Which role does music play in your life? By that I mean what ‘impact has music had in your life’?
WitDj: Music impacts my life both negatively and positively. Positively would be, ‘I get to do what I enjoy and what I feel I am good at’. Also I do get some ‘positive kicks’ when I work with other driven and talented musicians, ‘music for me is life’.
Sad to say the bad side is that some people tend to take credit for my hard work and never give credit back where it’s due and also if we do not stop piracy, then we are ‘killing our Music Industry’. #StopPiracyBafwethu
Sho mag: There are a lot of ‘Music Genres’ out there you could have chosen to be part of. Why did you choose house music?
WitDj: As I said before ‘music for me is life’ and honestly I felt that ‘House Music’ out of any other music genre out there brought the best of me therefore gave me life. I can easily relate to ‘House Music’ and sort of find inspiration quite easy when I have to produce a house beat. ‘I have mega love for this genre’.
Sho Mag: Having put out your debut house compilation ‘Drop The Beat Vol 1’ way back in 2016. How was that offering welcomed by the public?
WitDj: Surprisingly, the reception for ‘Drop The Beat Vol 1’ from the public was a great one. I say surprisingly because that was my first album and to be honest, ‘I felt touched and humbled by the positive response I received for that album’. Infact I am still getting feedback for ‘Drop The Beat Vol 1’ and that has opened some doors for me in so many ways. Like having to work with some of ‘Mzansi’s talented House Music Producers on Drop The Beat Vol 2’.
‘Surreal Sounds Music’ is a recording company from Polokwane, South Africa and as a label it seeks to find ‘Fresh House Sounds’ not only in South Africa but ‘Global Sounds’. The rule of thumb for ‘Surreal Sounds Music’ has always been ‘Music first, the rest later’.
Through perseverance and a belief in the type of house sounds they love, ‘Surreal Sounds Music’ have managed to introduce ‘Da Capo’ to the South African and International house music scene through their international affiliation with ‘Nick Holder of DNH Records in Canada’. ‘Da Capo’ is now arguably the pinnacle of South African House Production under the guidance of a man we admire and idolise ‘Black Coffee’.
‘Surreal Sounds Music’ still stands firmly behind unearthing new unheard artists and currently features the likes of Samurai Yasusa, Cornelius SA, Karyendasoul, Collen Cohen, Kunzima Theology. With this ‘Surreal Sounds Music’ are about to unleash a new project which is titled ‘Within Da Beats’. This project is a platform for every ‘new underground producer, musician, vocalist and anything in between’.
‘Within Da Beats’ was developed by ‘Surreal Sounds Music’ back in 2017 and the aim was to ‘discover and assist talented musicians who are struggling with releasing their music’. Most aspiring musicians experience unexpected challenges after making that great song, it can range from establishing their own music label to releasing and marketing that offering themselves or to attempts of finding a suitable label which would be willing to gamble on an unknown artist.
Both routes are difficult for the average individual in the sense that the ‘D.I.Y Route’ requires extensive knowledge of the recording label workflow and a decent marketing budget as well for that unknown artist. To actually make a profit after release is ‘extremely rare’ and is limited to either the extremely talented or extremely lucky. The other option is to try and find a label and the immediate problem there is that, most relevant labels are not willing to invest resources in someone who is ‘practically unknown’. It gets even worse if the artist only has a first musical project under their name, ‘most of the time music labels do not even listen to those sent demos’.
‘Surreal Sounds Music’ highlighted finding new talent to join their stable as one of their biggest challenge, as they are a label which is very particular as to the type of sound they represent. Therefore ‘Within Da Beats’ allows them to bridge that gap while also allowing them to try and reinvigorate the house music industry by introducing a stream of unknown but talented musicians.
The 2018 instalment of ‘Within DA Beats’ has been expanded from the four releases last year to a ‘massive fourteen releases’ for this year. March releases we can keep a lookout for include ‘DeepSouls – Reflection EP’, ‘Micheal Pieterse – Motherland EP’, ‘Guy Gibbons – Pyscho EP (Remixes By OU & SIZZ)’, ‘Clamentia – Champion EP (Remixes By Karyendasoul)’, ‘OU & Lungelo the Poet – If I Had To Kill You EP (Remixes By OU & SIZZ)’.
Word from ‘Surreal Sounds Music’ is that demos are welcomed at demo4surreal@gmail.com for their next instalment of ‘Within Da Beats’. If you feel that your sound has what it takes to be part of ‘Surreal Sounds Music’s Within Da Beats Project’, all you have to do is just to ‘hit em up’ with your ‘short biography and your demo’.
Coming from two completely different backgrounds, the two members of DeepSouls ; Bradley Jones & Ofentse ‘Milo’ Raphadu met through mutual friends and immediately spawned a formidable friendship through their love of music, to be more specific, deep house brought the two together.
Throughout the years the love for the music grew and thus allowing them to begin their career in DJ’ing, which initially started out as just a hobby, and avalanched into something bigger than each of them.
Bradley Jones, a fun loving, self -proclaimed comedian is one half of the duo. Despite his surroundings growing up, found himself becoming ever more inclined to house music, old school hip hop and a pinch of RnB, but deep house has and always will be his first love.
Milo, the more introverted character is other half of the duo, and was introduced to hip hop from a very early age, this was the beginning stages of his adoration for music and the wonderful sounds it consisted of, and formed an interest in the producing side of things. With influences from kwaito and house, he found deep house which he found will become a big part in his life.
In their short yet increasingly growing careers as DJs , they have shared the stage with a plethora of some of SA’s most talented DJs in the industry such as Cody B, Renato Rodrigues, Malcolm Dexx, HouseKnights, HouseHold Funk, Nick Essential, 2Lani the Warrior, Jazzuelle, Transmicsoul, Just Mo, The Priest, Nuno Estevez, Grant Van Rensburg, Jullian Gomes, Kid Fonque and Lino to name a few, also featuring alongside an International; Mr Jesus Gonsev from Spain.
Adding to events that they have featured at, they too have hosted their own events, in the effort to bring the beautiful sounds of deep house to the masses.
Music is what we love and it will always remain that way, We do it for the love and nothing else.
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‘Music always articulates on my behalf and it is the very same force which validates me and acknowledges my worth. I do not have one specific favourite genre of music. I like playing and listening to any music that moves my soul, especially music that is marginalized and not main stream. I have committed myself to playing these musical gems that people would otherwise not get a chance to listen to.’ – ‘TheJezreel’. On the ‘Spotight’ this week, we have ‘TheJezreel’.
ShoMag: Before all goes down, let us thank you for taking some time out for this ‘one on one’. For the benefit of those who might be wondering, who is ‘TheJezreel’ and where is he from?
TheJezreel: TheJezreel is an ‘extremely chilled, introverted, passionate, humble individual, who is God and music fearing and just loves and appreciates any opportunity to engrave smiles on people’s faces’. He hails from a township called Mamelodi in Pretoria, South Africa. That is where I was born and bred and that’s where it all stared for me.
ShoMag: What is your role within ‘House Music’, would you say you are a ‘House Music Producer or a House Music Deejay’? Maybe do you do both?
TheJezreel: Well I try to do both. I believe ‘I have the capacity to occupy both spaces very well’. Yes I love Dj’ing, that’s where it all started, but I’ve been involved in music for the longest time. ‘It started in church’, which is where I played drums and the keyboard for the Praise and Worship Team, and naturally I just wanted to created music and that is when production came into being. The moment I got a hold of my first DAW I just started making music.
ShoMag: Looking back, how did it all start for ’theJezreel’? By that, I mean how did you get into the music industry and how are you finding your musical journey so far?
TheJezreel: Oh gosh! It started way back. My Mother and Father would occasionally host events at home, so what would happen was that while they were sitting by the lounge area, in conversations and listening to music, instead of being outside with other children, I would actually be inside listening to music. Back then they would play anything from ‘Stimela, Tshepo Tshola, Mirian Makeba, Brenda Fassie to Marvin Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass, Dion Warwick, Anita Baker, Michael Jackson, Mike and The Mechanics, Bob Marley, etc’.
I would really be fascinated by music, and I think that’s where my relationship with music began and just to take it further, as far as making it into the industry, *laughs* gosh am I in the industry? I don’t know if I’m “in the industry” or not. I find gigs and I produce music and I put it out there. I don’t know if “I’m in the industry” or not. And how am I finding it? At the end of the day I’m just an enthusiast, ‘I love what I do’, it just gives me the greatest joy to produce music and entertain people through DJ’ing. The journey so far has been very interesting. Look, I never complain, but obviously I would be lying if I didn’t mention the clear ‘foul play that exist within the industry’. I don’t let that bother me though, it is what it is. ‘I just want to create, collaborate and grow and that’s what keeps me going in the industry – The fact that I just love to create’.
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