• Published
    Jan 18, 2013
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    126 MB
  • Length
    00:55:00
  • We talk South Africa, Sud Electronic and booking agencies with the multi-tasking industry figure.
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  • Lakuti is a South African born DJ, booking agent, label boss, promoter and general industry all-rounder. Her name is perhaps most closely linked with Sud Electronic, the London party and label she ran alongside Portable. The event came to an end in 2011 after a ten year run, although the label was dusted off again this year after a five year hiatus, with a new global focus. Lakuti is also the head of Uzuri, an imprint she began in 2007 which has since grown to include a booking agency, representing New York house artists like Fred P, DJ Qu and Levon Vincent alongside a dozen or so others. Although she's been based in Europe since 1997, Lakuti got her house music education growing up in Johannesburg. She became involved in the city's thriving scene during the 1990s, attending clubs like the highly influential 4th World and parties in warehouses right across the city. We started our recent conversation even further back than that though, as she recounted her experiences growing up in the township of Soweto before the end of apartheid in the country.
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