Black Coffee (DJ)

thumb Nkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo (born 11 March 1976), better known by his stage name Black Coffee, is a South African DJ, record producer and songwriter. His accolades include eight South African Music Awards, four DJ Awards, two Metro FM Awards and a Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album. Quotes This year we have truly amazing visuals. We’re creating a mood. Last year we came and plugged in, just played the music, now we’re trying to create an experience on the night with a futuristic, Afro-techy sound. It has all these elements where you can get lost in the music. On Saturdays, the vibe is different. When they were not working, he’d connect it up in his flat and play music. I was curious and would go through the cassettes. Every now and then he’d take me with him, to do the day parties, the beauty pageants, graduation parties. We were using cassette decks then. That’s how it started. It was considered more underground than anything. Radio wouldn’t touch us. We struggled getting played, we struggled getting on commercial shows. It was far from house, too. We never had a song that was faster than 115bpm. It was grooves, yes, but it was very African inspired, quite ethnic. "How Black Coffee overcame adversity to become one of the biggest DJs on the planet" (August 28, 2018) I would love to have a gig in Paris. Then tomorrow I’m in a township in Tembisa, in Joburg. Then the following weekend, I go to London. That’s the type of DJ I would love to be. I want to be that world icon. It starts with me making sure everything sounds good in the studio before it’s taken to the world. From Township Dreams to Global Stages: How Black Coffee Built a Life He First Spoke Into Existence But honestly, the next BET [win] must be on a Saturday on the main show, not the African category. That’s where I need to take the music: I’m not a dark horse, I’m part of the scene. A lot of DJs were compiling music. But I felt we needed to up our game in production. Instead of sending money overseas, create our own music, license our music. It was a strategy for myself to get into that bigger house world. We were used to our own genre of music, Kwaito, which was 105 to 110. I don’t know any dope DJ who will not mention them [as important]. If you look at their discography, anything you can imagine musically, they took house music there. They did it to the highest quality. Black Coffee on Moving Beyond House Music: ‘I Want to Be Able to Have Kanye’ on Next Album External links Category:Living people Category:1976 births Category:Musicians from South Africa Category:Music producers from South Africa Category:DJs