Darque bounces back with new single ‘Shakara’
The wait is over for house music lovers, after Molapo Malatjie, better known as Darque bounced back with a single Shakara featuring Nigerian born talent Rhey Osborne on vocals.
POLOKWANE – The word Shakara is derived from a popular Fela Kuti song titled Shakara Olu Oje which means to show off.
The producer from Seshego is fast becoming a versatile house DJ and music producer in South Africa and abroad.
He has produced a number of albums under his disco biography such as Rare Earth Elements, Deep Forest Session 1 and 2 mixed by Jaguar Paw and Jungle Fever Vol 1 and 2 mixed by Wishing Soul and Kaleido.
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After two years of international schooling, in a variety of countries, he returns to the music industry, and is ready to take on the world.
Darque is known for his Afrocentric and quality sound, having worked with the likes of Shimza in the past, he is ready to perfect his own craft.
“My latest single Shakara is slowly becoming a favoured on national radio, with the likes of Thomas or Bad Boy T, comparing his sound to the likes of Black Coffee. This comes as no surprise, as I was mentored by the international Nkosinathi Black Coffee Maphumulo and have a song together called Ready for The World which featured talented artist Kaylow,” said Darque.
He said he is not new to this industry. “I’ve worked on so many hits in my seven years in music and I’ve tried my best to be humble about it, but time waits for no man. I think I am finally ready to face the music industry head on. Marketing your brand and music is very important, thus he will now take his music to the masses. My history in music is very rich and I am grateful that my father had such a wide range in taste of musical culture. Being a young person, I feel it is important to feed this generation with both sounds without creating conflict or confusion. This musical genius has an art in finding rooted artists and sounds then turning them into relateble tunes,” he said.
He said he started his journey in DJing and production at the age of 16. “For nine years I had my ear on the ground to find only the best music, ranging from jazz to international deep house music.
“I created my technical and audio proficiency the old-fashioned way by playing every weekend and producing music,” says Darque.
Darque has worked with famous local in international DJs like Deep Forest, Andy Compton, Kaylow, Kojo Akusa, Da Capo, Henning’s Project, Reelsoul, Black Coffee, Darryl D’Bonneau and Robert Owens.
