#ProducersCorner – Jas Artchild

DJ and Producer Jas Artchild is a South African Electronic Music producer from Pretoria who is obsessed with sound design, breaking barriers and mashing up various sounds to create unique music and his own take on what Artistic freedom is.

Born Thabang Matseke, Jas Artchild is known for his unique and insane chords that he shares and tells stories about unseen worlds with. He is an artist who views his musical pursuit as an art form. As a Deep House, Lo-Fi, Jazz and Lounge music producer who blends all his favourite genres to create unique, weird yet heart-warming music, Jas Artchild is always about pushing boundaries.

An artist who produces a sound that describes his inner strange musical self. As the name implies, he is an artist who views this musical pursuit as a paramount artform. With collaborations with Jazzuelle and releases from ‘Moiss Music Black’, ‘Stay True Sounds’ , ‘Candid Beings’ and had his debut album ‘kaleidoscope Eyes’ at ‘Selville Records’, his journey is just beginning.

Selville Records late 2021 was extremely excited to present Jas Artchild’s debut album ‘Kaleidoscope Eyes (Deluxe), The original album caught the attention of Jullian Gomes, Kid Fonque to name a few.

On the deluxe they delivered 7 incredible remixes

After getting a standing ovation for his debut album, Jas is back with a Deluxe Edition featuring remixes from UK’s Medlar, who has stamped his reputation in the electronic dance music scene and releasing under labels such as Jimpsters’ Delusions of Grandeur, Wolf Music Recording to name a few, and has collaborated with the Afro Beat legend, Dele Sosimi and remixed for Disclosure and more.

Next up is Cuebur, a very familiar name in the South African house scene since back in the Soul Candi days, bringing in his glitchy rendition of Jas’s Technicolor, followed up by Garden Grooves label boss, Cape Town’s very own, W.NN.E, bringing heat for the dance floor with his flip of Tetragrammaton.

And then we go to Gqeberha’s KDY 97, a regular in the Selville family, making a name for himself and flipping Kasi Astronaut with his signature bassline to keep your head nodding. And then there’s blaqkongo, a musical maestro bringing his texture heavy flip of Astronomer’s Handbook. Next up is Soweto’s very own Tahir Jones, he needs no introduction, he has made his name in the house scene, and he flips Tetragrammaton and to close off it’s the label boss himself, Zito Mowa. He brings his boogie to Tetragrammaton.