Atteridgeville based producer DJ Spoko features in our "Future Sound of Mzansi" documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A0ZzKybU1U

As part of a series of Future Sound of Mzansi promo mixes, I've done this mix of Spoko tracks, showing his wide range of styles including pitori house, shangaan electro, and the raw sound of Bacardi House, the genre he invented that now rules over the clubs of Atteridgeville.

Bacardi House has been fermenting for a decade. For three years in the early 2000s, DJ Spoko traveled 40 miles south to Soweto, where he studied sound engineering in the studio of Nozinja, creator of the hyper-speed, hip-shaking Shangaan Electro style. Spoko pushes that sound’s simple yet ear-worming “space” synths, raw kicks and punishing military snares even further.

Tracklist
Intro
DJ Spoko - SumerSalt (Samaninja Mix)
Tribal Warriors - Motota Mutapa
DJ Spoko - Batauweng (ft. Kapa Kapa)
Pegasus Warning - The Mountain (Mujava, Spoko, Spoek Mathambo, Machepies, Panyaza Remix)
DJ Mujava - Township Funk 
DJ Spoko - Flying Dutchman
DJ Spoko -  Oriwango ft. MK
DJ Spoko - Sgubhu dance
Fantasma - Peaking
Glasser - Home (DJ Spoko Township_Remix)
Tribal Warriors - Lerato ft. Noe-Li (Prod. by Dj Spoko & Panyaza)
Tribal Warriors - Predaitor (Prod. by Dj Spoko )
Tribal Warriors - In the heart of the nite_saxmix (Prod. by Dj Spoko & Panyaza)
DJ Spoko - Shang Lo Dance
DJ Spoko - ProblemChild
Bizz_Makhi - Raga Melomo e Prod.by_Blaq_Ghozt_III
DJ Spoko - I Remember ft. G Dog
DJ Spoko - Lord Labaqaxiamo
DJ Mujava - Mugwanti / Sgwejegweje


Future Sound of Mzansi Mix 3: DJ Spoko

A song of longing for love lost and love to come, blending zulu folk and soul, 'I Found You' perfectly encapsulates something Spoek Mathambo's been looking for for a long time, a new paradigm to present South African sounds. Written in collaboration with Johannesburg based electronic-soul duo Kajama and Spoek's Fantasma band, 'I Found You' is from Spoek Mathambo's forthcoming album 'Mzansi Beat Code', out on 14th April 2017.

Available on all digital platforms (iTunes/Deezer/Spotify/Amazon etc)

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Spoek Mathambo - I Found U (feat Kajama & Fantasma)

Baaaa

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DJ Spoko was born Marvin Ramalepe, raised in the rural town of Tzaneen in northern South Africa (where he says there was no first or third class,all the same).” He started producing on a PC at age 12,after moving with his brother Kelly Rams Ramalepe to Atteridgeville (a 99%-black township outside the mostly white city of Pretoria) to find their father. They lived in an area called Ghost Town, near Atteridgeville’s cemetery, where as the neighborhood’s premiere producer,young Spoko earned the nickname The Ghost. 

Bacardi House has been fermenting for a decade

For three years in the early 2000s DJ Spoko traveled 40 miles south to Soweto, where he studied sound engineering in the studio of Nozinja, creator of the hyper-speed, hip-shaking Shangaan Electro style.   After, when Spoko  built his own studio back home, he took a 
producer named DJ Mujava under his wing, leading to Spoko’s great but uncredited triumph as the percussion mastermind  behind  Mujavas Bacardi House indebted Township Funk.” 

His sound consumed the township, passed around on numerous full- length cassette releases with names like ‘Grave Yard Session’, The All C’Ing I, and Tombs & Graves and, following the success of his tapes, Spoko had a fantastic turn of luck in  meeting True Panther Sounds Founder 
Dean Bein (who was coincidentally in South Africa in search of another artist).
Dean stayed in Atteridgeville for a while and they agreed to work together and release an EP

Spoko’s Ghost Town EP was released on True Panther on 05/03/13

Since the release of ghost town (his first official western release) Spoko has continued to develop his own Ghetto Boyz entertainment - working with local Atteridgeville talent. In the summer of 2013 he was asked to contribute to the mandela project (working with Idris Elba) and in October 2013 travelled out of Africa for the first time to perform in Paris for the ‘Sharp Jharp Johannesburg series at the Gaite Lyrique. Spoko was also featured in Spoeks Mathambo's contribution to the Vodafone #firsts international marketing campaign, in which they created the song ‘Pula'.
2014 holds yet more for Spoko with solo releases coming on Hivern discs and Lit city trax , a collaborative EP with DJ Mujava, 
coming on True Panther, and an album from 
Spoko and Spoek Mathambo's new band, FANTASMA!!

Baaaa

DJ SPOKO

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