Culolethu Zulu aka Culoe de Song might be one of the youngest people to ever have attended an Academy. But with an intuitive grasp of rhythm and soul that you rarely find outside the epicentres of South Africa’s pulsating house music scene, this 18 years-old from the shores of Durban has been dropping dancers’ jaws after linking with previous Academy participant Blackcoffee. Let him take you where the rhythm began, with his Catalunya Calling show that is now up on Red Bull Music Academy Radio.

Drawing inspiration from deep house and afrobeat alike, Academy class of '08 Culoe has only recently delved into production and already gained the attention of Berlin’s Dixon who played his Bright Forest at Cielo in NYC and has apparently signed the record to his no-bullshit house music imprint Innervisions.

Catalunya Calling - Culoe De Song (Soulistic Music, Innervisions, Durban)