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Zulumafia Digital
34 releases tracked from 2015 · 31 producers · latest sep 2026
Scene: South African deep house
4 tracks · 4 charting artists · 11 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
ZuluMafia Digital released ZuluMafia's album Mark 6_4 (Part 2) under its catalogue number ZMD037. ZuluMafia is the alias of Simphiwe Nhlapo, a South African house producer born on 22 February 1994. The artist has spent more than a decade in the industry, with work that helped carry deep house culture in South Africa and abroad.
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
41% one genreSoulful House, then Deep House and Afro House
41% of the 34 releases we can tag · 2 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±28 BPM123 BPM typical, 79–135 across four in five releases
34 of 34 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
no tier7 chart entries
chart entries per record since July; 3 bars = most; no tier = no charts or under 10 records/yr
career stage
1.7 yrs medianProducers here had a median 1.7 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 9 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
last debut
1 month ago
new here DJ Stoks (Sep) · Kabza De Small (Sep)
format
68% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 25 of 37 · 3 various-artists compilations
◢ how often the roster changes
3
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
3 of 15
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
2.5
releases a year
5 records in 24 months
◢ first records here, by year
Grey counts releases that year. Full colour counts producers whose first record on this label falls in that year — including producers with no traceable earlier history, a wider population than the per-year rate above.
pathGroove On Recordings, Theko Price → Zulumafia Digital2 beforepath into
Zulumafia DigitalGroove On Recordings3Theko Price3Zulumafia Digital2 before ↓◢ path into Zulumafia Digitalwhere Zulumafia Digital artists released before and after
close ↑
01 · before · artists released here first
- Groove On Recordingstier 33 artists
- Theko Pricetier 23 artists
02 · this label
Zulumafia Digital
03 · after · released here next
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each count = artists here who also released there, out of 9 traced
7 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 31
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