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The Soil's song for the 2013 Sanlam Sing 'it lyrics writing competition, written by Nothando Zungu.


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The Soil - Tap tap

Maramza - Hungry Ingcuka

Maramza is an iKapa producer whose music combines the sounds of urban electronica such as trap, juke and house with a fresh South African future bass flavour. 

The three track release on Bombaada, "Hungry Ingcuka", is a plundered brew of turntup ghetto steez, wavey euphoric synths, elastic vocal samples and living-large kwaito energy. Vocals on the track "Sekwa Sithi" come courtesy of Cape Town's most prominent kwaito crew, the Ruffest, known to the world for their collaborations with LV on the Hyperdub release, Sebenza. 

2013 saw Maramza remix the likes of Sibot (released through Jarring Effects) and play at parties such as Cold Turkey and YOH, and this year he has joined the Gravy crew for the Gravy 002 release and has sets confirmed for Design Indaba and Ramfest. But whichever direction things go from here, so long as he has his battered laptop and outdated copy of Cubase, there will always be Maramza to listen and gooi to.

Tracklist

1. Sekwa Sithi feat. Ruffest
2. !Wan!Tall
3. Boom Like
4. Drugz

[BMB-007] Maramza - Hungry Ingcuka [ teaser ] [ available FEB 17TH ]

ALL I KNOW RADIO EDIT MASTER.mp3

Lonely Nights - The Soil (Cover) at Home

4. ManKind Ft Guyos Leven - High Position Produced By Guyos Leven

Dreams

Another gem with my friend Tumi Molekane.

Once I finished the melody and the lyrics I called my friend, Mr. Tumi Molekane, and explained to him my concept for a song in which he would portray “The Beast” (The System, Technology... but please decide for yourself)! I mixed rather long and hard on this song due to the copious amount of layers and elements, which ironically contrasts Tumi’s and my first ever collaboration, which was on a super simplistic song from my first album titled “What we Seek” which you can download for free as a bonus track at this link: http://soundcloud.com/yesterdayspupil/what-we-seek-feat-tumi

www.yesterdayspupil.com

The Beast feat. Tumi Molekane

Broke People featuring Samthing Soweto

MANKIND’S BIOGRAPHY

Real name Tswelopele Tsotetsi,
Mankind was born in Mpumalanga, Emalahleni; previously known as Witbank and later moved to Standerton where He spent the most of his childhood.

Mankind was first introduced to music by his parents who listened to a lot of Jazz, waking up to the sounds of Hugh Masekela, Zim Ngqawana, Sankomota, Pink Floyd, Sipho Hotsticks Mabuse, Busi Mhlongo, Brenda Fassie, Enya, Revolver etc. This eventually drew him closer to music.

Mankind began playing drums at Church when he was only twelve years old, while his love for literature throughout High school would introduce Him to poetry; fusing His skill of playing drums and playing with words eventually led him into Rap music, which is Rhythm and Poetry.

After completing High School, Mankind moved to Johannesburg to study Journalism which had a huge impact in shaping his writing skill.

Mankind released his first music project in 2013, an EP titled “Give Dat Tenda’’ consisting of 5 tracks.
The single of the EP, ‘’Tony Yengeni’’ made it to the Hype Magazine 2014 music edition compilation.

2016 saw Mankind being invited to the Red Bull studios in Cape Town, where he recorded yet another breath taking EP consisting of six amazing songs, working with the likes of Stilo Magolide, Masedi, DJ OD and Boolz just to mention a few.

Being under the Red Bull music academy exposed Mankind’s music to a whole new world with an audience consisting of a wide variety of races and age groups.

In 2017, Mankind together with Morena Leraba, a musician from Lesotho and TrapFunk Alivio, a group of producers from Brazil collaborated on a song titled ‘’Impepho’’ which made/is still making waves around the world.

Their song ‘’Impepho’’ saw them being crowned as winners of the 2017 Jameson music video grant, affording them an opportunity to shoot a R200 000 worth music video.

The music video was shot and directed by Carl McHouston in Lesotho, capturing the BaSotho culture and exploring the beautiful landscape of the Semonkong Mountains of Lesotho.

Mankind has recently released a deluxe edition album consisting of new material with a variety of features and is currently working on a new album.
Below are links to his boy of work thus far:


Contact Details:
Email : tsotetsitswelopele@gmail.com
Instagram : @Mankind_za
Twitter : @TheReal_Mankind
Cell number: 063 205 2369

4. ManKind Ft Guyos Leven - High Position Produced By Guyos Leven

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