BLACK PEOPLE RECORDS

Established: 2012

Country: South Africa

RECORD LABEL AIMING IN GIVING 
ALL HOUSE MUSIC HEADS A PLATFORM
THROUGH THEIR TALENT AND EXPERTISE 
OF HOUSE MUSIC. DISTRIBUTING WORLD
WIDE THROUGH THEIR DISTRIBUTION
CHANNEL.

The Soul Afrika Crew Consists of 2 producers and 1 Dj from Pietermaritzburg who go by the names of Kamikaze, X - Effect & Mzala Wa Afrika. These three met in 2008 at a small surbub called Westgate and due to their same passion for Deep House Music they decided to merge & form a group. Ever since then they have been blessing many clubs with their Deep House sets and productions.

Gmbos Biography

Zinhle Gerald Mhlanga, aka Gmbos was born and raised in the eastern side of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the founder of Gmbos Records. Gmbos grew-up listening to jazz, disco and traditional music which greatly influenced his taste in music. The elements and arrangements of the music genres he subscribed to growing up inspire him to this day, hence he has such a great affinity towards pure soulful Music.
It was in 1997 that Gmbos embarked on an exodus to Johannesburg where he was gorgonized by the mesmerising and euphonic sounds of a certain Disc Jockey "DJ" who used the SL1200 mixer. Witnessing, for the very first time in his life, the skilful and artistic montage of sounds emanating from the SL1200, as the DJ used Vinyls to mix various music genres from Hip Hop to Kwaito and a bit of Soulful House Music, was the beginning of Gmbos’ journey with sound. It was at this point that his heart was captured and he saw himself fall in love with the idea of becoming a ''DJ'"  Disc Jockey. Another genre of music stole his heart at the same time as he found himself engrossed in the sounds of Hip-Hop, which he terms “a real movement”. Having been an ardent follower and active participant in the local and international Hip hop scenes, Gmbos’ subscription to the Hip-Hop culture made him a fully fledged member of the Hip-Hop movement. 
Three years later, Gmbos decided to follow his heart and pursue his dream by moving to Rocky Street in Yeoville, Johannesburg. He quickly realised that in order to survive, he would need to find himself a job. He held down a few jobs in order to sustain his livelihood and saved up for purposes of investing in Dj Equipment. He started off his equipment collection with two channel mixers and an SL 1200 Technic, then he started learning how to mix using Vinyls . 
Having had a somewhat brief introduction to the world of music, Gmbos moved back to Benoni in 2005 where he hooked up with the Legend, DJ Sizwe Quinton Twala, aka DJ Sizwe. They then decided to open a Vinyl Record shop and a DJ School in their home town (Benoni) to bring music to the youth and make it more accessible to the community, as well as share it with those who have the same passion. In 2006 Gmbos went to London to visit a store called Vinyl Junkies at Soho for a week to research on how to manage a Vinyl Record Shop.
Upon his return, he opened an account with Vinyl-Distribution-Worldwide Dance Music and it was at this point that V-Funk Records shop was born at Cranbourne Avenue in Benoni. In 2006, Mandla Doctor Gwembe aka Axctacy introduced Gmbos to the world of digital music, exposing him to various production softwares: Reason, Cubase and Fruity Loops. It was at this point that he got introduced to composing electronic music. 
His Vinyl Store V-Funk Records was featured on BPM Magazine Editions #34, #35 and #36 in 2008, but, Gmbos’ big break came in 2010 he when got a digital distribution deal with Nick Holder, a label owner of DNH Records based in Canada. Through this deal, his Music was distributed on various online music channels (Traxsource, Beatport and Juno Downloads) and a portion of his production was compiled by Sony House Africa CD Rumble in the Jungle (Sacha – Journey Gmbos Dope Mix). Gmbos’ Discography is a follows: House Africa Grooves – Nick Holder (Gmbos - Forever Begins) – Zinx Retrospect Instrumental - Gmbos-Analog (Main Mix); Gmbos –Elements of Mind Body & Soul feat Lil Soul (Main Mix) and in 2014 Gmbos feat Trigger-Absolute Seduction remixed by Abicah Soul.
Jus Nativ a DJ/Producer from Soul Candi remixed “Good to You” a Gmbos ft Lady L track (Jus Nativ Remix). Gmbos also worked with Infinite Boys on the Round & Round Remix (Gmbos Remix).

www.gmbosrecords.co.za            

Lilac Jeans Records is a music label from South Africa, Johannesburg which was formed by Linda Sikhosana (Menu) & Floyd Nkonyane together known as Lilac Jeans.

LILAC JEANS is a Duo of Linda Sikhosana (Menu) and Floyd Nkonyane (Floyd) from South Africa, Soweto. They emerges to expose the quality music and its referential genres of Jazz to soul, Dance, Club and soulful house all in the border of their unique style. Soul, Harmony & Groove is just a simple way or aspects of Lilac Jeans usual sound. The formation of Lilac Jeans started in the year 2009 formed by Linda Sikhosana (Menu) & Floyd Nkonyane (Floyd).

LILAC JEANS is one of the respected producers/DJ’s in the house music scene for the outstanding qualities in their exceptional productions and DJ-sets. When the formation of Lilac Jeans started they were always passionate and believed in different elements of house music.In the year 2011 August they released their first Entry Project digitally “Lilac Jeans Ft. Snash - Zithande” which scored number 1 on Y-FM Hot 99 Dance Charts hosted by Just Mo, again on Y-fm it was number 1 on The Bomb Show hosted by the twins and continued to get air play nationwide. Two remixes of Zithande done By Menu and Floyd was also chosen for a digital album called Various Artist Vol .1 compiled by Scifi-Productions and hit immediately the Traxsource Top10 in December which is the best house music download site. More over Lilac Jeans gained local & international exposure for their perfect quality music, they were offered an opportunity to remix for Legendary Jonny Montana Featuring Blick Bassy one of Africa's most respected and talented vocalists which hasn't gone unnoticed and resulted in him winning numerous prestigious awards. They continued spreading their good flavour of house music remixes for Cabana Recordings owned by another well respected Justin Imperiale from United States, more companies started loving their music House Africa Records owned by DJ Christos, Vinny Da Vinci and Tim White from South Africa gave them the opportunity to remix a classic pop record that made a lot of history in South Africa during the 90’s “Brenda Fassie – Weekend Special” which is now available for downloads on www.traxsource.com, their remix they did for DJ Hypnosis Feat. Nickson - Far Away (Lilac Jeans SciFi Vocal Mix) topped the Traxsource charts it entered the Soulful House Charts, Top New tracks & Top Single. The number of record labels started to increase as they did remixes for Scifi-Productions (South Africa), Hood Natives (South Africa), Do iT Now Recordings (South Africa), Peng Africa (London), Distant People (London), Nicholas Vautier (France) and still collaborating with more labels.
Not only they do it well as producers or remixers, but also their DJ-ing skills have played a huge role in helping them building up their reputation they have performed their songs live around South Africa and have a lot of tours that will be soon outside the country. The trademark of Lilac Jeans sound is their love for jazzy harmonies joined with killer underground beats. Due to their successful work in various areas there is no denying that Lilac Jeans has established in the top-league of the most prolific dj/producers in the house scene. In 2013 their album titled Now Or Never was featured on House Afrika Sessions 4 released by House Afrika Records. 

Projects available on traxsource:http://www.traxsource.com/label/17983/lilac-jeans-music

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