Tag Archives: South Africa

The year 2017 has been a hectic and a very tense one for Afro House Music in general. Yet again we have witnessed phenomenal growth and achievements in both Mzansi Hip Hop Music and Gqom Music. We have witnessed Stadiums being filled, Books being launched, Albums going gold and yes …

‘On The Sho Spotlight’ this week we have ‘Simo Lucas Mbete’ better known by his stage name ‘Simtox’. ‘Simtox’ is a South African record producer and a deejay though he doesn’t regard himself as one. From his humble beginnings growing up in the Eastern Cape, South Africa in a small …

Surreal Sounds has done it yet again. Yes, this South African based ‘House Music Label’ never fails when it comes to dishing out ‘underground afro house music hits’. This year has been no different as we have been blessed regularly by the hard working folks from Surreal Sounds. We love …

Precision mixing and timing are the first things that come to mind when you think of Soweto born dj and producer Tshepo Molefe, popularly known by his stage name Echo Deep. The Soweto born musician is popularly known for his features on world renowned house music record label, House Afrika …

‘On the Spot light’ we have ‘Victor Shongwe’ who is popularly known as ‘DJ Vitoto’. He is one of South Africa’s most exceptional ‘musical talent’ with a vast experience in ‘music production, composition and writing’. Not only that, DJ Vitoto is also a skilled instrumentalist in both ‘drums and percussions’. …

‘On The Spotlight’, we talk to the Kzn, South Africa based ‘Antony Crox’ who is a multi-talented House Music Producer and Deejay. Fresh with a single out titled ‘Girl’ and an upcoming Ep which titled ‘SmokeFilled’, this is what ‘Antony Crox’ had to say about his journey through music. Sho …

‘Dj Spin’ has been hard at work in the studio cooking up ‘a storm’ and now he has just served up one ‘banging joint’ titled ‘Ixesha’. ‘Ixesha’ is a Xhosa word which means “time”, and with that track one can say ‘it is his time’. Dj Spin is a KZN …

It is without any doubt that ‘Hyenah’ has got his foot firmly planted within the ‘Afro House Music Scene’. One can say he is definitely the most consistent House Music Producer for the past two years according to us. Not only that but it is also visible that ‘Hyenah’ is …

Krest Thokozani Maise who is also known DJ Manphezulu is from Kwaggafontain, KwaNdebele Mpumalanga, South Africa. He started music journey around 2003 with a ‘Kwaito Music Demo‘ with Dj Prayer on production. Since then there has been no liking back for Dj Manphezulu. He has made some appearance with Kaslam …

We seem to love what is happening over there at ‘Surreal Sounds Music’. There is a lot of hard work which goes into projects coming out of that label and it shows in the quality of music being put out by those guys. One ‘sweet sounding track’ from this label …