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 Jazzuelle – Biography

Fresh from making the album of the month for the month of November on Apple Music Africa and making the top 100 albums on Apple Music in 2021 for his 4th album Muse, Cape Town-born, Joburg-based DJ/producer Thando Tshoma aka Jazzuelle was once labelled “South Africa’s Best Kept Secret” by South Africa’s IDM Mag, since then, a few years ago he’s meteoric rise in the underground scene has been a gentle storm.

While South Africa has the biggest house music market on the planet, the appetite for more leftfield abstractions is in its infancy – but it’s with this broader perspective that Jazzuelle flourishes. His deeper and cerebral approach to production has garnered him an international following that includes the likes of Chris Brann (Wamdue Kids / Ananda Project), Dixon, Osunlade, M.A.N.D.Y, Mano Le Tough and DJ T, to name a few and led him to be part of the internationally esteemed Red Bull Bull Music Academy alongside the class of 2013 alumni including Okmalumkoolkat, Cassper Nyovest, Moonchild, Nonku Phiri, Shane Cooper and more

It’s also scored him releases on a plethora of labels, from Martin Iveson’s Atjazz Record Company and Fred Everything’s Lazy Days Recordings to Germany’s giants; Get Physical Music and more as well as local powerhouse imprints like the pioneering House Afrika Records and Stay True Sounds to name a few. It’s also attracted column inches in publications like DJ Mag, Mixmag, Apple Music Africa, Spotify, Attack Magazine, and the editorial pages on Beatport and Traxsource.

he's meteoric rise in the underground also led to internationnal performances in 2014 at Sonar Festival in Barcelona , a Beatport Wet Deck debut booking at W Hotel Barcelona alongside Noir, Nakadia and Claptone and he also performed at Glastonbury’s Silver Heyes stage in the UK.

in 2017, his ‘Circles’ debut album – which included collaborations with Da Capo, Charles Webster, Matthias Vogt, Card on Spokes, Fred Everything, and Lars Behrenroth with Tamara Dey – was released internationally by Germany’s Get Physical, and locally by House Afrika. In 2019, he headlined a Boiler Room gig in Cape Town – the most consequential booking of his life until then.
The benevolence and his brilliance has resulted in numerous accolades. he was nominated for the Best Producer Award and Best Album award at the South African Dance Music Awards, and he also won Best Underground Record of the Year for his smash ‘Forget Me’ ft. The Lazarusman.

Thando has since released 6 albums to hes name featuring the likes of Shimza, FKA Mash, Aquatone (Da Capo), Atjazz, Buddynyc, Lars Behrenroth, Jonny Miller, Fred Everything and a plethora of talented local artists that have shaped the dance unnderground scene in South Africa. he is currently working on hes 7th full studio album.

Kid Fonque has become a vital part of South African electronic music and club culture over the last 20 years. Uniquely accomplished in both influence and scope, he is an over-achiever in every one of his roles; DJ, Producer Label Owner, promoter and more recently, Radio Presenter.

Firmly established as a tastemaker in South Africa, Kid Fonque’s influence can be felt and heard in the music of the many artists he has helped nurture with his role as label manager of Africa’s seminal dance label Soul Candi Records and now his new venture with Jullian Gomes in their new label Stay True Sounds.

Kid Fonque’s talent is the type that refuses to acknowledge boundaries of any kind – be they genres or borders. The respect he is paid by the industry is a result of his no compromise attitude to playing and making music. Rather than following trends, Kid Fonque has always done things his own way. Importantly, every record he reaches for bares all the hallmarks of the Kid Fonque sound - a golden thread that ties all his sets together somehow. 

Like a painter dabbing his brush into different hues, Fonque’s palette embraces everything from bass and broken beats to bossa nova, hip hop and every shade of house - and with this open-minded approach, he’s been deconstructing dancefloors at home and abroad for well over a decade. Over the last couple years he’s played dates in Hong Kong, Dubai, the UK and Switzerland.

Kid Fonque has just recently started his own radio show called Selective Styles on South Africa’s very own 5FM.  Selective Styles has given Kid the platform to showcase the hidden talent from all over South Africa electronic, house, soul & Hip Hop Community while delving into international releases weekly.

In 2011, Kid Fonque launched his long-running monthly night, #2SIDESOFTHEBEAT as a platform to showcase underground music from all genres at the same venue. Dubstep and house rubs shoulders with hip hop, broken beat and everything in between. Kid Fonque handpicks the line-up which has seen esteemed musos like Dego, King Britt, Swindle, Mala, Nightmares On Wax, Zaki Ibrahim and local stars like Jullian Gomes, Cuebur, Kenzhero and The Brother Moves On all on one stage.

In 2014 Kid Fonque moved into the producer’s chair and released his critically acclaimed debut artist album Kid Fonque and Friends and a string of remixes. 

Two singles from the album “BE”, “Usangikhumbula” and a recent collaboration with D-Malice “All This Time” did serious damage in the charts – all claiming the number 1 spot on the YFM Urban Top 20. His recent studio output has paired him with luminaries like Clara Hill, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Nia Andrews, Jonny Miller,  Kev Brown, Okmalumkoolkat and Atjazz. 

2016 has been music as usual and the year started with a Boiler Room set where he was asked to represent his newfound label ‘Stay True Sounds’ and got to share the platform with label partner Jullian Gomes with a back-to-back set recorded and played in Cape Town’s Langa.

2017 sees plenty of new projects on the horizon for Fonque including a full length collaboration with UK’s D-Malice under the alias rkls due for release on r2 London which features a rich and varied cast of artists including Kev Brown, Melo B Jones, Sio, John Robinson and many more.

Whether he’s behind the decks, running Stay True Sounds, preparing for his weekly radio show or in studio making otherworldly music, Kid Fonque’s sonic adventures continue to fill dance floors and thrill earholes, pay attention!

I AM A DEEPHOUSE FEMALE DJ. MORE INTO ELECTRIO/DEEP TECH.I AM TOO MUCH INTO MUSIC AND I AM AN UPCOMING PRODUCER.

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