With releases on OMENI, Innervisions, Connaisseur Recordings, Atjazz Record Company, Compost, Moblack Records, Stil Vor Talent, Engrave LTD & More


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A heavy tag duo from Welkom (Thabong), our music has been an experiment since the year 2008. Follow us here -> www.twitter.com/monoclesslezz #WeAre057.

Bookings: sophie@stormagency.nl
Management: shirin@saffarimanagement.com

(Presentation in English)

Olukwi Music is a label owned by Angolan DJ & Producer Renato Xtrova.
Olukwi? Yes, over the years in which Renato Xtrova is inserted in the musical world, specifically in House Music, developed partnerships and collaborations with many labels internationally recognized, sometimes encountering barriers to provide to the world digitally and not only, his works. 
In 2013 appears his own brand named Olukwi Music. Being  very strong and suggestive name, and after several searches for African names, more specifically from his native country, Angola, and for being a name of a musical instrument (used to  whistle by the cowherd in Southwest of Angola, the Nhanecas), Renato Xtrova adopted  as  name of his label giving it a more personal nature.
The idea behind the Olukwi is "bringing peerless sounds", that’s the slogan.
This label is not only instituted to Renato Xtrova own creations, Olukwi Music is a vehicle for new artists and acquaintances, inside of House Music (Soulful, Afro, Deep, Progressive and Club) provided that holds quality, and whose sound is identified with the label.


(Apresentação em Português)

Olukwi Music é a editora pertencente ao DJ & Produtor angolano Renato Xtrova.
Olukwi? Sim, ao longo dos anos em que Renato Xtrova está inserido no mundo musical, especificamente no House Music, desenvolveu parcerias e colaborações com diversos selos de renome internacional, encontrando por vezes barreiras para disponibilizar ao mundo de forma digital e não só, os seus trabalhos.
Em 2013 surge a sua marca própria Olukwi Music.
Sendo um nome bastante forte e sugestivo, e após várias pesquisas por nomes de origem Africana, mais propriamente da sua terra natal, Angola, e por ser o nome de um instrumento musical (Palheta de lata usada para assobio pelos pastores do Sudoeste de Angola, os Nhanecas), Renato Xtrova adopta como sendo o nome da sua label dando-lhe um cariz mais pessoal.
A idéia por trás da Olukwi é “trazer sons inegualaveis”, sendo este o seu slogan “bringing peerless sounds”.  Esta editora não é apenas instituída para criações próprias de Renato Xtrova, Olukwi Music é um veículo para novos artistas e conhecidos, dentro dos vários estilos do House Music (Soulful, Afro, Deep, progressive and Club) desde que exista qualidade e cuja sonoridade se identifique com a editora.


Contacts:

Renato Costa (CEO & Founder),
olukwimusic@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/OlukwiMusic
http://www.soundcloud.com/olukwimusic
http://www.youtube.com/olukwimusic


Management Contact: djparapeople@gmail.com

Bookings Contacts
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DJ and Producer since 2001, gained notoriety after remixing “Meu Fado Meu” from the Fado singer Mariza, and released original tracks and remixes under several labels, including The Djoon Experience among others.  Due to his producer’s work, Nuno Cunha traveled the country passing through the best clubs throughout his career.

Bearer of a unique identity in his sets, Nuno Cunha manages to create a fusion of creativity and familiarity managing the public’s energy.. Always with originality and audacity.

This is his identity.

DJ MALVADO 
Cláudio Fernando da Costa Rodrigues
Angolano, Nascido em 1975, em Luanda, no Município do Sambizanga. 

É DJ a mais de 30 Anos. 
O seu primeiro nome artístico foi 
“ Dj Cláudio Costelinha “. 
A sua mudança para 
DJ MALVADO, surge em 1999, com o lançamento do seu primeiro Álbum “Dj Que Está na Moda”. 

Começou em 1990 em festas do Bairro Valódia - Escombatentes, onde nasceu e cresceu, e também em festas de sua escola. 

Em 1991 / 1992, começou a ganhar notoriedade em festas de quintal, destaque para os “FINAIS DE ANO E CARNAVAL DA TIA BANY” 
Nos mesmos anos teve também uma passagem pelo Lubango - Huila, onde tocou em grandes festas e em casas nocturnas da altura, como… Diplomata, Till, Slave e as Matinés do Santo António. 

A sua primeira Discoteca como Residente, foi à MATHIEU, em Luanda, em 1992, e por lá ficou até 1994. 

De 1995 a 1999 foram os anos de se impor no mercado, pois a sua boa prestação na entrada para a Boate Copacabana, bem como nas grandes festas de sucesso, e também em casamentos e aniversários, abriram-lhe outras portas! 
Surgem então convites para as grandes festas de Final de Ano e Carnaval de Hélio, Cohen e Rui Madaleno (Hotel Panorama)
Carnaval dos Bonecos (Salão das Nações Unidas). 
Surgem também os primeiros convites das festas no MIAMI BEACH (Ilha de Luanda), e a primeira grande festa do Mussulo.
Na altura recebe também o convite do Mathieu, onde partiu para África do Sul, onde ficou um bons anos a residir, estando sempre entre Luanda e África do Sul, passando por várias discotecas de destaque! 
 E daí em diante foi sem parar! 

- DISCOTECAS COMO RESIDENTE: 
Luanda: MATHIEU
COPACABANA, PARALELO 2000, PANDEMONIUM, HOLLYWOOD, AQUÁRIO, CHIUAUA E DOM Q. 

África do Sul: MATHIEU2, SEM KIGILA, MUKINA KUIA, WELWITCHIA ( CAFÉ BRASIL ) E SALSA ( CT )

- Foi Dj Residente um mês durante a estadia de WILL SMITH, Jamie Fox e outros actores da Hollywood, em
Mocambique para o Filme ( ALY ), História de Mohamed ALY. Participando em todos os eventos! 

- Países e cidades onde já actuou fora de Angola... 
Portugal, Uk, Brasil, África do Sul, Namíbia, Moçambique, Cabo Verde, Marrocos, Hollanda, Alemanha, Espanha, Cabo Verde, Usa.  


Destaque em festivais internacionais:
MEO SUDOESTE, partilhou a cabine com BOB SINCLAIR E BIG ALY.
NOVA ERA BEACH PARTY( Matosinhos) com DAVID GUETTA E SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA.
H2O (África do Sul) com READY D, OSKIDOS, FRESH 
BLUE FESTIVAL (Luanda), com ERICK MORILO. 
CHANNEL O & MTV (AFRICA DO SUL, MOÇAMBIQUE E ANGOLA)  
3GURUS( Portugal ), com BLACK COFFEE E BODHI SATVA 
LOOKAL (ANGOLA) com BLACK COFFEE
FESTAS DE VERÃO, TRI CHU & SING 

- Discografia 
-Álbuns, Eps e Singles
1999 - Dj que está na moda
2000 - Cem Respeito, dueto com Chico Viegas. 
2002 - 10 Anos de Noite
2006 - Play it Loud. 
2010 - From Africa to The World
2011 - Xuta o Beat 
2016 - After 22 
2020 - Summe Sigh Say RMX (Single) 
2022 - Ngola Nzomba & Ngola Groove ( EP )  

- Prêmios: 
1996 - Dj Revelação (Rádio Luanda)
1998 - Melhor Dj Palop residente na África do Sul.
1999 - Melhor Dj de Angola, Top Rádio Luanda. 
2000 - Melhor Dj de Angola, Top Rádio Luanda. 
 2001 - Melhor Dj de Angola, Top Rádio Luanda. 
2002 - Melhor Dj de Angola, Top Rádio Luanda. 
2004 - Melhor Dj Palop Pela RTP e RDP ÁFRICA, ( PT ) 
2010 - Melhor Dj (Moda Luanda) 
2012 - Melhor colaboração (Moda Luanda) 
2013 - Melhor Afro House (Radio Luanda) 
2013 - Melhor Afro House ( AMA ) 
2013 - Melhor Álbum de Dj ( AMA ) 
2014 - Kizomba do Ano ( Prazer Quebrado ) 
2020 - Premio virtual, destaque na pandemia nos LIVE’S STREAMING pela PLATINALINE.
2022 - Premio Carreira (Moda Luanda)


DJ Malvado é reconhecido não apenas pelos prêmios, mas também pelas suas perfomances e pela sua presença em grandes festivais internacionais e pela sua contribuição significativa para a cena musical angolana e além-fronteiras. Sua versatilidade, talento e longevidade na indústria fazem dele uma figura icônica na música africana.

A história continua…

Ralf GUM is one of the most respected figures in the house music scene for the distinctive qualities in his exceptional productions and DJ-sets. Since Ralf’s DJ career started in 1990 he always stayed true to his passion for cool and diverse house music. Harmony & Soul & Groove – are the main ingredients, but just some aspects of Ralf’s typical deep sound. With an instinctive feeling for the right vibe, he convincingly performed all over Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South- and North America. In autumn 2008 Ralf toured in South Africa for the first time with great response and was the first German house DJ who was booked in Botswana and Swaziland. In 2012 Ralf finally emigrated from his homeland of Germany to the world's current hot-bed for Soulful House Music, South Africa. 

Ralf GUM is producing music since 1993 and worked with notable artists such as Inaya Day, Beady Belle, Caron Wheeler, Robert Owens, Kenny Bobien, Michael Procter, Wunmi, Concha Buika or the fascinating Monique Bingham. He released on and remixed for top house labels like Mn2S, Papa, Peppermint Jam, Tommy Boy, Compose, Sole Music, Look At You or Defected. His first remix for Defected’s classic record 'Love is what you need (Look ahead)' by King Unique instantly went to the 1 position on Traxsource's download charts in March 2009. Ralf has released numerous well-known songs, amongst them the soulful hit of 2008 “Kissing Strangers” (GOGO Music) featuring Monique Bingham, which was a bestseller in its genre. Thus it scored the number 1 in the “Top 100 Singles 2008” and the “biggest house track 2008” in the annual chart of the ultra-credible Traxsource download-shop. Alone in 2009 Ralf’s works made it 4 times to the top spot in the Traxsource sales chart and he claimed various more Top 10 positions. But his success of course isn’t limited to the Traxsource charts. He had various #1 download-chart positions on Clickgroove, made it to the Top 10 sales of various other download shops and his single “Little W. 12th St.” was amongst the 10 best selling house-songs of the year on the Japanese download-site Wasabeat in 2009. His records are constantly receiving worldwide airplay and can be found in countless playlists of major radio stations including e.g. UK’s “BBC 1”, France’s “Radio FG” or South Africa’s “Metro FM”. Moreover he gained number one positions in the playlists “YFM’s Urban Top 40” or Botswana’s Yarona Mascom Charts where he stayed for instance for 4 weeks with “Complicated feat. Kafele” in May 2010. Further acclaimed hits of Ralf include “All This Love For You” (GOGO Music) featuring Diamondancer, “Ponle Tumbao” (Tommy Boy / Flamingo Discos / Milk & Sugar), "Helena Brown - Canção Dourada" (Peppermint Jam) or „Ralf GUM feat. Concha Buika – Nobody can touch me” (GOGO Music). Ralf GUM’s productions became a worldwide renown trademark in the house scene and UK’S TTR magazine called Ralf “one of Germany’s finest” already in 2005.

But Ralf not only convinces as a producer, but also his DJ-sets have helped him building up his reputation as a forward thinking tastemaker. During his career he had various residencies in South-Germany including the "Airport" (Wuerzburg /Germany), which was the living-room for his interpretation of house for more than 11 years. During more than a decade he captured the crowd with his sessions every Friday night and hosted other worlds-top artists like DJ Gregory, Martin Solveig, Lenny Fontana or Frankie Feliciano, to name just a few. End of 2006 Ralf started his residency at Climax in Stuttgart (Germany), where he can be found regularly since then. From 2002 till 2007 Ralf was holding a bi-weekly event at "Studio-Lounge" (Wuerzburg, Germany) which was called “the deepest and most soulful party of Germany” by the Subculture Magazine. In 2009 Ralf’s tight schedule included 2 extensive South Africa tours and Ralf was invited by DJU and the department of Arts and Culture to conduct various work shops at the Southern African Music conference. In 2010 and 2011 Ralf was selected again as international panellist for the annual Southern African Music Conference where he was teaching about music-production, label business, DJ-ing and more. Nowadays he is frequently found in various South African cities. As a DJ Ralf is steadily travelling and played at some of the best events around the world, including e.g. the “Southport Weekender” (Southport, UK), “Rave on Snow” (Saalbach, Austria), “Nature One” (Germany), “Sundaze” (Jakarta, Indonesia), “Dancevalley” (Amsterdam, Netherlands), “Mo’Vibes” (Munich, Germany) or the “Vodacom Unlimited Festival” (Orlando Stadium, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa) which was attended by more than 15000 people. He graced the decks at clubs like “360” (Dubai, UAE), “El Devino” (Ibiza, Spain), “Amika” (Miami, USA), “The Room” (Tokyo, Japan), “ECU / Echoes” (Rimini, Italy), “Garito Café” (Palma de Mallorca, Spain), “Disco” (Sao Paulo, Brasil), “Volksgarten” (Vienna, Austria), “House 22” (Pretoria, South Africa), “Days like this” (Birmingham, UK), “Barokko” (Budapest, Hungary) “Marula Cafe” (Madrid, Spain), “Soulstice” (Oslo, Norway), “Oxa” (Zürich, Switzerland), “Atlantis” (Basel, Switzerland), “Stereo Sushi” (Antwerp, Belgium), “Mansion” (Amsterdam, Netherlands), “GURU Club” (Tibisli, Georgia), “Pacha” (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) or “Cocoon” (Frankfurt, Germany).

Ralf GUM embarked on the development of his own record label GOGO Music in 2001. With strong ambitions and his love for music being the driving force, GOGO Music has become Germany’s, if not one of world’s most reputable soulful house music labels. Late 2005 GOGO Music was called “one of the hottest imprints around” by UK’s leading magazine “Blues & Soul” and Germany’s “Subculture” wrote that “GOGO Music is the prime German house label”. In April 2009 Chicago’s best house music publication “5 Magazine” stated, that “GOGO Music has become synonymous with the best Deep House produced in Europe” and 2010 UK’s magazine “SoulM8” certified that “GOGO Music is "one of Germany’s best independent labels". With his label-work Ralf has been pivotal for the international breakthrough of artists like Raw Artistic Soul or Black Coffee and the discovery of many other outstanding talents. In 2003 Ralf initiated the GOGO Music radio-show. What began as a monthly show transmitted on one internet-radio rapidly became one of the most popular broadcasts within the house community and beyond. Since early 2006 the radio show is done on a weekly basis and is to date aired by more than 50 FM- and internet-stations around the globe. The GOGO Music radio show residents Ralf GUM and Benny Pecoraio (aka Ben Moss) plus few selected guests are presenting hebdomadal nothing but the finest house music in a pure one hour DJ mix.

Next to his Ralf GUM productions, he started two further projects. "SUGAR BEAT", is a collaboration with drummer Steffen Meder which developed out of their unique live performance: “Jazzy Live Drums & Uplifting Spinning”. With SUGAR BEAT’s irresistible sound a new broken beat style is being created. After some sweet remixes on GOGO Music, in 2006 the first own productions have been released on the “GOGO Music Spring Collection 06”. Together with soul-mate Benny Pecoraio, Ralf joined forces and started “4 Ears”. Their first release 'Can't Be Without You' was signed to Canadian deep house label Iwanai Music and hit immediately the Traxsource Top10.

During his career Ralf had the pleasure to compile and mix various CD-Compilations including for example “Arrival Vol. I” in 2004, a double Mix-CD together with Howard Donald (of famous pop-group Take That), for which they toured together all over Germany. As well in 2004 Ralf’s compilation “Studio – the finest in lounge and house music”, was released and selected as CD of the month in the December edition of Germany’s “Raveline” magazine. In February 2005 the first GOGO Music label-compilation “GO!” including highlights of the first 3 years label work came out. It was called the best compilation of the year by UK’S “TTR” magazine. In October 2006 the second part “GO!!” hit the market and achieved likewise attention and success as the first edition.

In 2006 Ralf GUM held his first GOGO Music Winter Music Conference event in Miami with great success. With an impressive line-up including e.g. Kenny Dixon Jr aka Moodyman, Theo Parrish, Markus Enochson, Glenn Underground plus the GOGO Music DJs, the party went down in a storm and was one of the most talked about at the conference. 2007 saw GOGO Music teaming up with Atal Music and Bubble Soul for a joint WMC event at Hotel Victor, called “Yes Please”. With an equally great line-up including e.g. Jamie Lewis, Raw Artistic Soul and many others, it was a great success and the kick-off for further “Yes Please” parties: The critical acclaimed WMC event in 2008 at Sagamore and the ADE 2008 event at Mansion. More highlights worth to adduce are Ralf’s appearance at MTV’s “Battle of the DJs” in April 2003 and several invitations to the You.FM Clubnight , a show dedicated to electronic music and club culture, which was transmitted on the German national radio-and TV-station Hessischer Rundfunk (2 times in 2005, one time in 2006, 2007 and 2009).

In 2008 Ralf GUM unveiled his long awaited debut masterpiece album titled “Uniting Music” on his label GOGO Music. Composing a continuous piece of music, seamless and blended into a luscious texture of soulful-, afro-and latin-house and jazz inspired grooves, Ralf showcased his ability to create wonderful original songs. With each song intertwining with another, he’s pushing the boundaries well beyond the traditional dj mix sense! Almost seeming like one beautiful track the whole album contained it all: really pretty dreamy tracks, some real groovin’ live sounding deals and some late night slices of hypnotic house, too. The album received great plaudit worldwide, as for example UK’s “M8” Magazine called the CD „simply one of the best albums of the year” and the German 3Sat TV show “Kulturzeit” wrote on its web-site that “no single second of the album bores”. “Uniting Music” was released by Rambling Records in Japan and by Soul Candi in South Africa, too.

2012 saw the release of Ralf GUM’s second long-player titled “Never Leaves You” including “Take Me To My Love” which has become the biggest House Anthem in South Africa this summer and reached the number #1 spot on South Africa’s biggest radio-station Metro FM for 3 weeks. It’s just one of the many highlights on Ralf’s album, a sort of vocal house dream team, bringing together the heavenly tonsils of Kenny Bobien, Robert Owens, Kafele and former Soul II Soul star Caron Wheeler amongst many others. In the talented hands of Ralf that team complimented rather than countered an impressive, truly soulful collection of songs and emphatically demonstrates his ability to orchestrate soul-house goodness on the grandest possible scale. The album not only received critical acclaim globally, but reached GOLD status in South Africa.

The hallmark of Ralf’s sound is his love for jazzy harmonies coupled with wicked underground beats. But the distinctive groove isn’t the only reason for Ralf’s success – his passion for all things soulful shines through in all he does. This helps him creating a simply irresistible groove every time he emerges from the studio or works the turntables. Due to his successful work in various areas there is no denying that Ralf GUM has established in the top-league of the most prolific dj/producers in the house scene.

Links: 

Label-website: www.GOGO-Music.net
Artist-web-site: www.RalfGUM.com
Facebook-site: facebook.com/Ralf.GUM.GOGO 
Myspace-site: www.myspace.com/RalfGUM
Twitter: www.twitter.com/RalfGUM
Youtube: www.youtube.com/RalfGUM 
Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/ralf-gum-gogo-music


Edson Júlio, DJ "Para People", desde cedo um apaixonado pela musica, da os primeiros passos na arte de tocar com o seu tio Jó, e um amigo da família Dj Adrix. No decorrer dos anos tocou um pouco de todos os estilos musicais criando um gosto particular pelo House Music. Com o passar dos anos aprimorou o seu gosto pelas varias vertentes da House Music, e assim desenvolveu a sua marca como Dj num estilo próprio. O gosto pelos ritmos não o deixou ficar apenas no comando da cabine mas atirou-o para uma vertente de maestro, misturando notas e letras segue também a sua carreira como Produtor. 

Criar uma carreira de Dj Profissional, é um trabalho árduo que requer muito amor e dedicação o qual o Para People tem feito com muito brio e profissionalismo, o que ao longo dos anos tem aberto muitas portas para o sucesso na sua carreira. Como diz um velho ditado " um degrau de cada vez". Trabalhou como Dj Residente no Miami Beach durante 6 anos, Doo.Bahr e Switch, optando neste momento trabalhar sem vinculo a nenhum espaço noturno.

Ao longo da sua carreira teve o privilegio de tocar praticamente em todos os espaços noturnos, além de festas privadas da sua cidade natal Luanda, bem como algumas províncias do seu pais Angola. Não obstante, o seu foco é lançar a sua carreira além oceanos. Já tocou em países como: Portugal, Holanda, Turquia, Dubai, Estados Unidos, México, Panamá e Costa Rica. 

Em 2014 realizou o seu sonho de participar no WMC em Miami. E logo depois recebeu o convite para participar também no Festival Mi Casa Es Su Casa em Playa Del Carmen (Mexico) e San José (Costa Rica). Tal como em 2015 no ADE – Amsterdam Dance Event, Holanda, e Mi Casa ES Su Casa Playa Del Carmen – México. E até hoje teve o gosto de partilhar a cabine com nomes tais como: Erick Morillo, Diego Miranda, Mr. V, Julie Mcknight, Barbara Turker, Natasha Watts, Lisa Shaw, Cristian Vinci, Claudio Passanvanti (SunlightSquare), Djeff Afrozila, Shimza, Helen Ting, Nickodemus, Pablo Fierro, Pablo Martinez, Sabine Blazin, Ala, Hallex M, Mike Steva, Mark Di Meo, Julius The Mad Thinker, N’dinga Gaba, Nomumbah, David Sabat, Ala Deep, Toto Chiavetta, Myles Bigelow, Spellband, Rhythm Staircase, M.Caporale, Savio De Simone, Yass, Gerardo semedile, DJ Spen, Claudio Silva, Evan, Paulo & Ricardo Alves, Silyvi, Leandro Silva, Renato Xtrova, e entre outros que tanto admira e respeita.. 


O seu lema de vida é: Com humildade, dedicação e a cima de tudo amor conseguimos alcançar os nossos sonhos..

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