Spoek Mathambo (real name Nthato Mokgata) self admits he is a slippery post-Apartheid glam-rap prince from Soweto and is descended from distant African royalty, or Jewish, or both. Undeniably breaking the notion and stereotype expectations of African musicians, Spoek takes advantage of timing and generation disparateness. Coming out of a post apartheid generation was a confusing time, shaking off a period in South Africa when things were oppressively different to a time of calm and progress creates bewilderment in one’s mind, and his music reflects this dissonance. His tunes also don’t sound South African either.  Primed in a generation where he feels split – no longer looking back on cultural ties, and fusing beats and sounds from synth mixers & samplers to kwaito beats, he’s music is progressive and sometimes sounds weird to some. He creates this trellis of an unyielding individual who pushes against expectation delivering surprising great dub-step & electronic tunes.

Spoek and his band Mshini Wam have their first Album “Mshini Wam”  - shortened from “Umshini Wami”  which when translated means “Bring me my machine gun” was released last July. They also have  ”b/w Gwababa” (Don’t Be Scared) which is a set of re-mixes of the single tracks “Mshini Wam” and “Gwababa”. His latest single realised just last month, “Don’t mean to be Rude” is an EP with even more remixes featuring Zaki Ibrahim. Spoek  has a ton of music tracks with other artists including one on Robyn’s Body Talk album – Dancehall Queen features as a bonus track and is a Diplo remix.

Spoek also recently released his brand new video on DazedDigital, Control.