Back for the first time 2011, Enjoy…Soulthane

My acute music memory goes way back. I remember listening to my elder brothers grooving to Change, SOS Band, BBQ etc. Despite being so young, that music stuck with me all my youth. Then three other ardent musical encounters just injected my enthusiasm for soul music. Around ‘90/91 my brother came back from his trips to the UK with a lot a radio shows. One had a house session mixed by DJ Trouble on Kiss FM and it was bananas. Also, my boy’s uncle gave us a soul/hip-hop tape mixed by the London based legendary Zim DJ Joe Breeze. Then we had a kid that came to our high school straight from the UK and he had a soul mix tape that drove me nuts with tracks like Toni Tony Tone’s “Keep it to myself”. I’m yet to find out for sure who did it but it may have been Lady G, whose mix tapes I got more of, compliments of my boy Hilgie. 

Born and raised in Mutare, I was an loyal trooper of the music scene going from Tich Mataz’s Go-Go Time days before heading down south, The Hitman’s ‘Jacking Zone’, Double K’s live radio mixes, then came a man I believe changed the game, Otis ‘The Flow’. When I left Zim in the mid-90s, George Munetsi was the hot **ish dishing exclusive tracks like the Lighthouse Family, Casserine and Jovan. I give major props to all the Radio and Club soul assassins who kept blazin’ heat seekers East to West: Paradise in Mutare, Bretts/Turtles, Circus, Flamingo, Harpers, and TOTT & Vision in Bulawayo. Nuff repect to the true skool: Josh, PJ, JB Int’l, Zed, Stan Pound, Tommy Dutch, Jim The Soul Spinner and many thanks to my soulbro, MUSIQAVE.