In fact, listening to the last track, Hold Strong ft. Zano, you might be forgiven for thinking he had layered the tracks’ vocals over the instrumentals from Call Me, added some drums over the bridge and called it a day. I’m sad to say that the album doesn’t live up to its title or the very high hopes I had for it. Ironically, the album has received a nod for Best Produced album at the upcoming Metro awards. Maybe they know something I don’t.Considering his meteoric rise to fame, it would be easy to stereotype Black Coffee as just another black diamond, a BEE beat magnet out to mine the insatiable upwardly mobile urban house party market. But as he proved on his South African Music Award-winning album Home Brewed, this DJ and producer defies convention. Sidestepping Afro-house clichs and stage-managed highs in favour of restrained sophistication, Black Coffee's penchant is for true Afropolitan house: home-brewed but fresh and future-focused. Expect almost sculptural balance and beauty.
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