Here's the music
I make.
A lot of my work sits somewhere between Afrobeats, Amapiano, African cinematic music, hip-hop and music for television. Sometimes those worlds overlap, which is usually when it gets interesting.
Looking for an instrumental for your own song? That's over in the beat store ↗. This section is mostly about my music for screen and custom briefs.
A few directions
I work in.
African Cinematic
Afro-centric · Spotify ↗African Percussion
Afro-centric · Spotify ↗Sports & Urban
Hip-Hop & Urban · Spotify ↗Narrative & Factual
Tension & Underscore · Spotify ↗Pop Vibes
Pop Vibes · Spotify ↗Christmas
Christmas · Spotify ↗Dramedy & Children's
Dramedy & Children's Music · Spotify ↗Commercial Releases
Tracks I've recorded, produced, mixed or mastered · Spotify ↗Listen to the music.
See where it has landed.
Three tracks from my catalogue, with usage or distribution sources I can trace to my royalty statements.
Uptown
670,000+ public Spotify plays
Uptown, with Justin Perrow, has passed 670,000 plays on Spotify’s publicly displayed track counter. The count changes over time.
Blue Banger
The Ranakas, Our Perfect Wedding & Sky Sports
My SAMRO television statement lists The Ranakas (Season 2) and Our Perfect Wedding (Season 10). A later foreign statement also lists Sky Sports Golf.
Fountain of Youth
CNN Inside Africa
Fountain of Youth was used on CNN’s Inside Africa. That placement accounts for most of what I have earned from this composition. A separate royalty statement also contains SoundCloud and CNN reporting for one distribution period, not the full lifetime total.
Spotify plays here are publicly displayed stream counts and change over time. Broadcast placements and royalty statement amounts measure different things; one royalty distribution is not a complete lifetime earnings history.
A few lessons from the work.
Royalty statement examples and music for screen: what I've actually been learning.