#ProducersCorner – V.Underground

V.underground’s heart has been beating to the sound of the drum since he was 12 and never stopped.

He bought a sound system and that’s when the djing career started at the age of 14.

At the age of 18 he went to study production at the Soul Candi institute of music to grab more information in the music business world. In 2009 V.underground was awarded the opportunity to work at the Soul Candi Institute as an Intern.

In July 2010, Sergio Botelho (Managing Director of Soul Candi Records) approached V.Undergraound to work at the SoulCandi studios as an engineer and in-house producer.

Since then V.underground has worked with some of the prominent names in the industry (Lolo, Mphoza,

Jodi Gold, Duda, Antonio Lyons, Shimza, RJ Benjamin, J’something , Cuebur, Charlie Mindgame, Vaalsow, Lee Anne King and Mishka), doing remixes for the likes of Alex & Chris, Cofano (Italy), Brazilian Soul Crew (Brazil), DJN Project (USA), Alton Miller (USA), Monocles & Slezz, Shatti, Infinite Boys, Cuebur, RJ Benjamin, Kid Fonque, Cei bei (USA), Abicah Soul (USA) , Lars Behrenroth (USA), Nastee Nev , Carlos Mena (USA) and Deep Xcape.

Internationally he has released tracks under labels like: Open bar Music (USA), Afro Rebel Music (USA), Ocha Records (USA), Jaffa records (USA), Vialocal Records (Italy), Melomania Recordings (UK), Vibe Boutique Records, Abicahsoul Recordings (USA) and Deeper Shades of House (USA) Peng Africa(UK), (local Record labels) Soul Candi Records and Do It Now Recordings.

Both him and his label have done remixes that have made it big around the world. One which has reached top 10 number #3 and the other reached top 30 number #30 around the world.

He Co-owns a record label called ULTRA TONE RECORDS and the label has introduced some of the most talented artists in the industry, such as DJ Lite, Raza, Genvee, Rozelda Waters, Faith Faith Felque and Rona Ray (Russia). His album on CANDI ROOTS V2 got great respect and created havoc in clubs and on the airwaves in fact it got so much love that his single “GELO WANDI” was nominated for the MTN SAMA WARDS 2013 for BEST COLLEBORATION.

He also hosted a show on a local Radio Station (VUT FM) the show was called YOUTH CULTURE which had a great response, so much that even internationals live steamed just to listen to this young man. He hosted the only talk show in the Vaal area that only talked about music and helping out young and upcoming artists to know more about the music business industry with a good friend of his Lerato Masisi.

He has worked, produced and composed some of the tracks on Lolo’s album, co-composed “THESE STREETS” with Dr Duda (Mi-casa) and also helped Dj Mphoza on his album (Candi Roots volume 1).

Currently his Album is still out in stores called (Candi Roots volume 2) a three pack CD which also has other two albums from Mindgames and Bob ezy released under Soul Candi Records.

V.underground went behind the scenes for a while to focus on his artists, like Genvee the man behind tracks like Tears of the Ocean and Levels to name a few that left everybody shocked, the likes of Rona Ray the vocal songstress behind tracks like Tears Of the Ocean, World is Good with Chyma, Broken Hearted with Da Capo to name a few.

V.underground came back with a few remix projects from his last album.

Gelo Wandi that had 10 remixes from producers like Abicah Soul, Ta-ice, DJ Shimza, Darque and Azee Projects just to name a few that had a major response from crowds around the country. Also a remix package of Enough featuring RJ Benjamin with remixes from Punk, J Foreal and Roque.

That year V.underground was invited by Pioneer DJ to show case his music and speak to up and coming dj’s and producers.

Later that year Pioneer DJ contacted V.underground to be one of their Music production and DJ lecturers at Pioneer Institute of Music and also an event organiser for the institute. He taught lessons from intermediate lessons to advanced music production e.g Music theory, Music Business, Production, Sound Design, Mixing & Mastering etc.