Taking house sound to another level
Spira Tlhankane | Thursday June 29, 2017 15:42
The album was recorded at Molefinyane Media Group and Black Money Makers Studios. The album features the likes of Mosako, BK Proctor and Shinkie, Phatsimo just to mention but a few.
Gilroy’s house sound represents both the groove based Southern African sound blended with a deeply soulful and raw international sound. He draws inspiration from funk R’n’B, soul and house kwasa. One of the songs in the album entitled victory has an element of the local house kwasa sound with deep, thick melody that oozes out of any speaker. What Gilroy also did in the song Amazing Love featuring Sbugie and BK Proctor is that he was able to perfectly bond these influences of the classic house and deep soul.
The best thing about the album is its scope and the ability to get together different genres from different countries. A lot of different artists like BK Proctor and Mosako mix together and most importantly there are hints of clearer African drum machines.
Taken as a whole, the album slides effortlessly between and through genres, at time, soul influenced, at times tech-inspired, always Detroit through and through and as politically uncompromising as ever.
One of the promising artists featured in the album, Seithati, is giving the sound its identity and along with others they appear more prominently. In terms of relevance in the dance floor, some of the tracks simply are going to be perfect for the more house DJs.
Looking back, Gilroy told Showbiz in an interview that his passion for music started in the year 2002 after casually playing a keyboard at home. “This passion then later took me to playing in the church band. In 2004, my cousin and I (Pako Molefinyane) formed a group named MGM (Match God Made), which we got to produce two albums under,” he said. Gilroy said the albums did not thrive because of the quality.
He added that they later met with Thabang Garogwe who featured in their third album, which never got to be released. “In the year 2006, we re-branded and called the group Thee Supremacy.
We had an opportunity of meeting up with the amazing Tshepo Lesole who produced our fourth album and just like the previous albums it never got to be released,” he said.