The EP also featured DJs and producers Surreal Sessions and the smash hit song Uyang’khumbula that tore up the Versace spring/summer 2019 runway and collection campaign.
Their 2017 EP Amaqhawe, is filled with pure gqom as a nod to the bustling streets of the Durban soundwave that reverberates the restlessness in electro, hypnotic trance synth and dark bass thumps. The following year was defined by the duo’s release of the Bottoms Revenge EP, a collection of ancestral gqom and gospel sounds, and combined hissing snares with psychedelic house influences. In the same year, they released their popular ode to Brenda Fassie, a video piece entitled “From A Distance”, as well as a much-talked-about live installation of “The Factory” at Stevenson Gallery’s SEX show. In 2015, living in Johannesburg as a collective, they debuted at Bubblegum Club Nights held at the Hazard Gallery in Jeppestown, where they presented the artistic musical performance ‘#WaitLorraine: A Wemmer Pan-African Introduction to Siyakaka Feminism’. When I asked them about their aspirations growing up, I could tell that they each had always been monumental in their own right, which manifested differently and translated into a journey they could eventually share with each other, and us. Particularly when our main commonality is living our truths and making our dreams come alive, an idea where one could consider Fela Gucci and Desire Merea as guiding lights and co-creators. Born and bred in Vosloorus, and also having spent a few chapters of my life in Katlehong, I could relate to Fela so much once we met in person and started unpacking our lives in conversation – our paths crossing just seems to have been the ultimate alignment of kindred energies, where the universe plugged likeminded people together. Interestingly, Fela Gucci and I grew up in the same areas in the East Rand in Johannesburg. He is still as genuine now as he was then.
I first met Desire Merea at the BAT Centre in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal in 2013, if my memory serves me well.
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