The South African contribution to, and enthusiasm for, Deep House, is not widely known outside the country itself. 

Deep House gets played on the radio here during the the day, and is also popular in nightclubs. It was here in the nineties and noughties that European and American DJs travelled from relative obscurity back home to be welcomed as celebrities; and where a love for deep, four-to-the-floor beats could still, possibly, unify those who perceive, and experience, difference in terms of wealth, income, property and skin-colour. 

South Africa is the origin of Afro House - a true Deep House nation.

House music has been reformatted many times in South Africa. Before it became globally popular, it was from here that the Afro House sound came and proliferated. It was from here that the world came to know and love Black Coffee, and the distinct sound he pioneered.

Innovative township producers with a DIY mindset spawned a fledgling scene here in the the hope-filled post-Apartheid 1990s, and the DJs kept the music soft and soothing. Dancers allegedly left the dancefloor if the beats got too heavy (thousands of miles from what was happening back in Europe, in more than just a geographical sense), and taxi-drivers' soundsystems were kingmakers.

My mix, built in reverence to this era, aims to perpetuate a sound I heard years later, loved and sought to collect, compile and share.

After a contribution in the form of a [soon to be edited] speech by Nelson Madela himself, Nkosinathi Maphumulo (Black Coffee) - arguably SA house music's most important representative - starts proceedings with his deeply unifying message in a collaboration with Hugh Masekela. The mix then moves on to the lush, lo-fi sounds of adopted SA favourite, Charles Webster and beyond, gliding into Better Days, another Webster production likely made specially for the country itself, into tracks by some of the country's new generation - producers and singers like Kid Fonque and Zaki Ibrahim. 

It also includes tracks by those producing music with African integrity and authenticity, like Germany's Raw Artistic Soul (Dubby Rich).

History does matter, and this is a mix intended to educate, showcase and inspire. It is through our appreciation for the cultural output of other nations that our respect and reverence for them grows, perceived boundaries fall away, inter-national relations improve. Then, maybe, the real celebrations can begin. 

The is a mix for and from South Africa, the deep house nation, to the world. 

Peace & 2021Love.

Afro House Nation (2021)

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Hollis P. Monroe - I'm Lonely (Julian Muller 22' Dub Edit)

Inspirado en un groove agil , este various artist esta representado por grandes artistas nacionales de nuestra escena y talentos emergentes.

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West Code - That Civic Has A Laptop (Original Mix) [WCVA001]

IR PREMIERE | Chris Flannigan - Get Started [RYS001]

Introducing ‘Get Started’ by Chris Flannigan on Rave Your Soul, exclusively premiered on Influenced Records. Release date 23rd December.

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IR PREMIERE | Chris Flannigan - Get Started [RYS001]

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Introducing our 2nd release, Killer Tracks Chapter 2 continues with a clearly defined mission of bringing a heavily groove-infused sounds of techno to the dancefloor by showcasing a variety of emerging talents currently bursting onto the scene.

This 8-track collection spans a couple of style variations, ranging from playful grooves to a more tighter drums and with a bit of hypnotic touch on the other end. Tribal rhythms, strong percussions and funky elements collide with driving beats to create a powerful set of tools ready to be unlocked and used to keep the ravers on a continuous dancing moves.

Sharp brains, warm hearts

Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
Catalog: RYS002
Release date: 10.3.2023
Mastered by @chlaer

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The Groove Room - Retrace [Rave Your Soul]

Brilliant Makebo remix on legendary Planet Funk song "Chase the Sun".

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Planet Funk - Chase The Sun (Makebo Remix)

Underworld - Born Slippy (Ollie Sanders Remix)

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Born slippy (Ollie Sanders Remix)

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Addvibe - Let It Go (Unreleased Mix)

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Get Out (Kerri Chandler Remix)

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Matrix - Get Out (Kerri Chandler Remix)

The final process of completing the new album is close to an end, and just a few songs remains to be finished. It's a strange feeling producing a new album almost twenty years after the first, and the success of the 2000 album is impossible to achieve. But making "the same" album was never a goal, rather express all new feelings and life experience into new material. In that way I hope the new songs bring exactly that, something new, but still have the same familiar addvibe feel.

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Dusty Springfield - Spooky (Robbie Doherty Edit)
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Dusty Springfield - Spooky (Robbie Doherty Edit)

A vinyl enthusiast with an extensive collection of global house music, Dan has built a name for himself as a party rocker with depth and soul.

Long-time purveyor of the good-groove (and the deep-groove, disco and prog), Dan is a resident at Europe's Best Club (Radio 1), Gonzo's Two Room.

Previously known as Mr E, Dan hosted a show on LOOSE.fm (as well as one of the first on Balamii) and has played several of the best UK festivals.

Afro House Nation (2021)

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