Watch! Black Coffee Talks Music Industry Problems: “We Don’t Have Promoters In SA, Only Club Owners”

Black Coffee Talks Music Industry Problems: “We Don’t Have Promoters In SA, Only Club Owners” – DJ Black Coffee has always been the one to be candid about the state of the music industry and the obstacles that need to be overcome.

DJ Black Coffee has been infiltrating the music scene for more than 15 years and has witnessed numerous alterations, so when he explicated that we need to shield house music as a country, artists and fans need to take action.

The Gloabbly acclaimed DJ sat down with DJ Christos recently ahead of the Dance Music Summit in March to chat concerning promoters in Mzansi.

“We have no promoters, we only have people who own venues and clubs. Their mandate is to make money in their clubs so they will not really invest in a really nice sound system. They would rather invest in couches and how the place looks, because they are running clubs, they are not passionate about the scene.”

He explicated this contrary from those outside the country, where promoters are widespread and focus a genre more.

Black Coffee also revealed the future of house music, asserting that DJs were often obligated to play a mix of genres and concluded to the artist’s sabotaging house because it was not the favoured genre of those playing for “tables”.

Black Coffee further advanced in saying he wanted to create a platform exclusively for house music.

Black Coffee has always been vocal on the music industry and called for unity across genres late last year.

“Fake is a terrible word but there is no real unity. My dream is to create a family out of this where we can call each other for collaborations … Imagine Oskido, like he is, and when I have real problems I call him. I would like to see that. Where we don’t really know each other but you are able to say, ‘Yo’, he said at a press conference ahead of his Music Is King show last year.

The DJ has worked with some of the world’s biggest stars, including Diddy, Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, David Guetta and Usher.

We are glad he still wants to be affiliated with local music and growing the SA house industry, elevating it to its maximum capacity.

“I don’t want to be known just as the famous guy who toured the world and met great people. I want to help to develop home, Africa,” he told Drum.