Ghoul (ZA)

The Alias of Jay-Dee Verheem, a Techno Producer/DJ based in Pretoria, South Africa. He started producing in early 2021, and has since then released and signed with established labels such as Black Snake Recordings, Reload Black, IAMT, Space Kraft, Sonaxx & Teknotribe. Supported and play-listed by artists such as The Yellow Heads, Spartaque, Mosher & Jospeph Capriati. His style is highly focused on the dark, disturbing and nightmarish sounds coupled with immensely tribal based grooves and hard hitting bass-lines layered with Trance'esque synths. His perspective when it comes to music can be attributed to the philosophy of “obZen”, which means finding Zen in the obscene and obscure, explaining that our inherent human feeling of “fear” is a very raw emotion that is captured in its essence with these styles of music. It is the ultimate form of expression