Citizen Deep - Dtjoh feat. Jessica LM

  • Cinematic Afro house with grand, stirring vocals.
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  • South African producer and DJ Citizen Deep shows his versatility alongside vocalist Jessica LM on this welcome follow-up to his 2021 hit album ARCADE. "Dtjoh" comes as a refreshing Afro house amuse-bouche, layering striking minor chords with a percussive edge that lends warmth to techno-inspired sounds. As far as African dance music goes, native phonologies have usually been used to both feed and free a sense of self in sound. Here, Jessica LM turns the idea of Western producers adopting meaningful African vocals in electronic music (with no real depth of understanding) on its head, coming up with vocals in a made-up language and still turning them into meaningful cinematic phrases. (Just have a look at how many people are asking what they mean on YouTube.)