Mzansi house is growing wings and reaching further than has been known in the past. Recently BlackCoffee released his album on traxsource under Realtone Records and to most househeadz you know this is as good as being knighted by the queen.

I'm still recovering from a gig I attended in London (Manoo & Ben Watt) and the first track of the main set was none other than 1000 seconds. I got a nod of approval from Manoo as if to say feel at home, homeboy.

For a while I felt proud and thought maybe he played the track for me, having spoken about his gigs in South Africa and Swaziland etcetera and it was not such a bad assumption to make. Now when I think of it, I know exactly why he played the track. 1000 seconds is a big tune, blackwhole landed on a goldmine and I'm not sure if they know it yet.

I knew the song and so I caught a natural high when I heard it but most of the people caught onto the essence of the track. I knew it, they felt it. I'm still in awe of the reaction from the deep house ma