SoulPoizen

Nkosingiphile Ngiba aka SoulPoizen has established himself as a house music producer, remixer and DJ based in Durban, South Africa. His passion for house music drove him to pursue his career in music production from 2009 and has been growing in his unique style since then. SoulPoizen has been influenced mostly by the likes of Black Coffee, Boddhi Satva, Atjazz, &ME, Osunlade, Larry Heard, Fat Freddy's Drop... just to name a few. In his own way, he has managed to manipulate such sounds to illustrate his own perspective of deep blended sounds filled with African and Soul Elements. His style of blended afro-tech with deep elements is a unique formula which you can't help but to just fall in love with. This has captivated the attention of many local and international acts that he has been working with on many projects, and has been featured on numerous releases by other house gurus (Betasweet, Blaq Soul, Soule Villain to name a few). Indeed the house music world is captured by his music hence being featured on many DJ podcasts such as Modern Soul Radio(LA) , DJ Andy X's Basement Mix on Channel O and has even received the honor of been featured on compilations like The Finest Lady of House 4 compilation by Afrotainments' own DJ Cndo. During the existence of AFROdesiamp3.com, a site that has given a lot of South African producers an opportunity to showcase their work to the global environment; SoulPoizen together with Black Motion, Black Coffee, Culoe De Song, Oskido and Ralf Gum were one of the leading brands on the site. In this list of heavy artists, SoulPoizen has been maintaining a very tight competition with tracks like “Shadows of the Moon” holding the number one spot for over two months, with all these heavyweights behind him. This has attracted a lot of media and mostly the radio to feature his works and even invite him for live interviews and mixes. Radio stations like GagasiFM, MetroFM, and others continue to play his music to this day. Writers like Mike Fossati of SpiritOfHouse.Com have also appreciated SoulPoizen’s work that he wrote a review on his release together with Sobz titled “Believer” in 2011 under Soul’O Music and Intombi Emnyama featuring Mthuthu in 2014. The release(Believer,2011) held the number one spot on the site. In 2011, SoulPoizen established his own production house and events management company Herbs & Soul Music, which has been bringing heavy material in the digital space through movements like AFROdesia and Traxsource. His company currently stands with himself as a producer/deejay and Gqamile G-Soul as the events manager. His label has worked a lot with the likes of Sisonke, Aevasole, Dj Feevos(Greece), Betasweet, Benny T and Sobz. SoulPoizen has by far proved to be among the best underground producers and he still has a lot to offer to the music scene both as a Producer, Re-mixer and DJ. SoulPoizen's talent is truly remarkable and has a bright future ahead of him. In 2014, Herbs & Soul Music together with Motherland released his debut album "Nature Frequencies" featuring the likes of Thukie, Darian Crouse and some super remixes. He was also in the top 36 finalists in SA amongst Chymamusique, EmoBoys, John Lundun, Tonich HD, Dj Mshega, Dj Mlungu and many others... on SABC 1 1s and 2s (a reality show for upcoming deejays & producers).