Kid Fonque
aka Allan Nicoll has played a vital role in South African electronic music and
club culture over the last 20 years, trending from DJ to promoter and producer to a career as
label manager and radio and TV host.
He made his DJ debut at the legendary 206 ov
er twenty years ago, and has since DJed
alongside Gilles Peterson, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Tom Misch, Bonobo, Skepta, Henrik Schwarz,
Âme, Rich Medina and more
over the years
...
He founded the Stay True Sounds label in 2015, and its key artists include Fka Mas
h, Dwson,
Jazzuelle,
Zito Mowa, China Charmeleon and Sio. In 2019, he launched sister label STY
TRU BTS to
showcase South African beats, soul, hip
-
hop and electronica. Thus far, the label
has released
radiant records from Sej_, YoursTruly, Wun.Eye, Mateyu
and more.
As a producer, he’s collaborated with Theo Parrish, Charles Webster, Zaki Ibrahim, Atjazz,
D
-
Malice,
Jonny Miller and many more, and on his debut album, 2019’s ‘I Move To A
Different
Beat’ he worked with Ty, Ziyon, Card On Spokes and others. The
album received
rave 5/5
reviews from the likes of Gilles Peterson, Alex Barck (Jazzanova) and Rainer Tr
ü
by.
In
early
202
1
he
release
d
a collaborative album with Jonny Miller called ‘Connected’, with
features from Toshi, Sio, Lay
-
Far and Jaidene Veda
whi
ch got ‘Album Of The Month’ on
Apple
Music
Africa and ‘Album Of The Week’
on
Traxsource
.
His Selective Styles radio show started on national broadcaster 5FM in 2016. The biggest
niche
radio show in SA, it won Best Dance Radio Show at the 2019 Dance Music
Awards.
Other Stay
True Sounds winners at the awards were SculpturedMusic’s ‘Sad To Think’ (Fka
Mash Glitch Dub), which won Remix of the
Year.
TV show Kid Fonque
Presents True Music Sessions premiered on Channel O in 2019, and in
the
13
-
episode series, Kid Fonque chatted to cutiing
-
edge musos such as Sio,
Lemon & Herb,
Kususa,
Daev Martian and
Gina Jeanz.
Free of boundaries
–
be they genres or borders
–
Kid Fonqu
e traverses styles, from bass and
broken beat to bossa nova, hip
-
hop and every shade of house, and crosses mediums. He’s the
de facto spokesperson for Mzansi’s electronic music scene and one of its proudest
proponents