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ONLINE-EDITION ( JOZI NEWS ) | MIDRAND by Dance Music Reporter
Local record executive and owner of Stay True Sounds record company moves to the United Kingdom amid what London media outlets described as an 'appointment' position,whithin one of world's important house music heritages, Defected Records in Britain,well known for international deep house music publishing and promotion.
' I'm very proud to announce that I'm in London to take up my new role as Head Of A&R at the biggest dance music label on the planet,Defected! '
In what was founded by a proud gay man , Frankie Knuckles in a gay-only night club in Chicago in the late 1980s, the four-on-the-floor characterized genre has overcome stigmas of a notorious club-culture reserved music to become mainstream and has a huge base around the world in some cities of the U.K. and Afroca,dominantly in Mzansi's all corners where Tribal/Afro house was founded as a subjenre or alternative deep house,house music in general is a mainstream,club and day-to-day culture in Mzansi ,both urban and rural with nolonger an age discrimination,the likes of Master KG and vocalist Nomcebo Zikode have trumpeted gospel house subgenre which further entrenched house music to both adult fan base and under age during the siege of Amapiano genre around 2020.The music was introduced by DJ Fresh in the country both as a club and radio record presenter whereby he started to import such records in 1998 under a compilation titeld Fresh House Flava .Kid Fonque is one of respected record executives of the new era,as a record producer,he also remixed Master KG Ft Nomcebo's Jerusalem into expensive music around 2020 as well,and as a radio broadcast music journalist he was known for hosting an exclusive house music records show known as Selective Styles until recently on 5 FM ,the show was typical of a deep culture of exclusivity within house music especially deep house where DJs only play a certain attractive oftenly unheard-of releases in the nightclubs,he says in a statement supported by both directors of Defected Records
' The label[Stay True Sounds] is not going anywhere-infact ,it's only going to grow globally with the support of Defected.As part of my international journey,Stay True Sounds will be joining the Defected stable and I will continue to rep South Africa.Equally important,I have the opportunity to make numerous trips home each year to continue sourcing and plugging South African talent into Europe '
Unsurprisingly,Mzansi as one of powerful house music zones, the same Defected Records has yesterday announced a new release under its publishing,the record is by DJ Fresh's protege euphonik but known international as THEMBA , where he now pushes his deep house ambitions under the stage name THEMBA ,in a super-spelling of his given name, Themba Mbongeni Nkosi
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