Groove Magazine International Issue 3 Issue 3

GM.: You both play on our local radio stations. What shows do you host and what is that experience like? Icytat: I'm currently doing a house music show that I both produce and co-present called the House Of Royalty Star FM 9:25 a.m. to 10 a.m. It actually started as an experiment because they wanted a show that was genre based so to speak. So I came up with the concept and wrote down a structure of how basic a house music show would be like and they saw it and appreciated it. It's been great been on radio since November 2013. GM.: Which artists/DJs would you like to work with locally, regionally and internationally? Icytat: Locally we have worked with quite a lot of big names in house music like Hope Masike, Rutendo Denise, Fungai Nengare, and Oliver Mtukudzi. We also did a lot of remix's with US based artist, Dave Odd, who is the guy who did the “Single Ladies” house remix. We would love to work with DJ Euphonik obviously, he literally mentored our love for house, DJ Kent, DJ fresh and on an international level we would like to work with Rihanna. decks Icytat: I'm yet to see a place like Maestro in Zimbabwe cause on the days we place it's strictly deep house music which is a hard genre even for the basic house lovers to really grasp but this is the most popular worldwide, deep house is what goes ﬁrst before you get your trans or vim, so maestro is something else, we play every Friday from 7 pm to 2 a.m. To me it's like a miracle cause you can't ﬁnd a place especially in Harare were they appreciate house music, deep house to be speciﬁc and it's been quite an experience. And the highlight for this year was when we did the Frankie Knuckles tribute, it was nice. We had guest DJs Elroy from Power FM and Reverb7. Eskay: It has been awesome because I get to play my genre of interest which is deep house music. Eskay: I work at ZiFM Stereo where I do two shows called 'The Sunday Old School' and the 'Love Lounge'. The Sunday Old School is my best show; I prefer it to the other as I get to appeal to a wider audience which includes the young and old especially those who have an appreciation for old school music-I love those people. And then there is the Love Lounge which is equally good. The show is about love in all its forms, we talk about relationships, help people fall in-love and if they are already in-love-make them fall back into love. It's been an experience; I only started doing the Love Lounge about one year ago but before that when I started I was doing a graveyard shift. On the GM.: You are currently resident DJs at Maestro Restaurant Lounge, how has that experience been? Eskay: I have worked with Reverb7, Hope Masike, my partner in crime, Icytat, T Bass, P Styles, Jason Le Roux, Hosea Sengende, DJ V, they are a mouthful. Regionally I have played alongside DJs Black Coffee, Euphonik, and Qness on the Oliver Mtukudzi track. I would like to work with Armin Van Burden, David Guetta but mu biggest dream is t

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