Apple Music has released its latest Isgubhu DJ Mix, featuring an exclusive mix from South African DJ, producer, and Stay True label head Kid Fonque, available exclusively on Apple Music from Friday, 2 October 2026.
Isgubhu continues to serve as Apple Music’s home for African dance music culture, spotlighting the producers, DJs and underground innovators shaping the continent’s club scenes. Each month, Isgubhu highlights the boundary-pushing sounds redefining Afro house, 3-step, gqom and electronic music across Africa.
Scottish-born and South African-raised, Kid Fonque has spent more than two decades immersed in South Africa’s electronic music and club culture. Beginning his career in Johannesburg, he went on to establish himself as a DJ, producer, broadcaster and tastemaker, founding Stay True Sounds in 2016 as a platform for South Africa’s deep house and Afro house talent. His musical approach draws on deep house, Afro house and Afro tech, combining local rhythms with global influences.
Kid Fonque’s exclusive Isgubhu DJ Mix is a snapshot of the South African underground right now, moving between house, Afro, 3-Step and the spaces in between. Featuring a mix of established artists and newer names, it reflects the sounds he champions through Stay True Sounds and in his DJ sets across the country. “There’s lots of different flavours from South Africa’s underground scene,” he tells Apple Music about the mix. “It touches on House, Afro and 3-Step. It’s a mix about discovery, where the scene is right now and where it’s heading next. The future of electronic music in South Africa is incredibly bright.”
Speaking about the artists and tracks selected for the mix, Kid Fonque says: “The music I chose for this mix is very much in line with what I’m excited about sonically in South Africa right now. It moves from the raw, untapped talent of artists like Spotz, through to the colourful and forward-thinking sounds of Chronical Deep, as well as PAGEZ, Dr Feel and Beekay Monalayzzar. Ultimately, the mix is about discovery and sharing the music and producers that are moving me right now.”
Kid Fonque describes the mood of the mix as “bright and colourful, with some darker moments along the way,” with warmth and soul sitting alongside deeper and more electronic passages. For him, however, the overriding feeling is all about discovery: “That has always been a huge part of DJing – finding something that excites me and then being able to introduce that record or artist to somebody else.”
Speaking about the evolution of African dance and electronic music, Kid Fonque says South Africa’s music scene “constantly reinvents itself,” with new genres and sounds emerging year after year. “What excites me most is that producers here aren’t afraid to experiment. They take influences from house, Afro, jazz, soul and electronic music, but then interpret them in a way that feels completely South African. There’s also so much young, untapped talent coming through, so I genuinely feel like we’re still only scratching the surface of where African electronic music can go.”
Listeners can stream the Isgubhu DJ Mix by Kid Fonque exclusively on Apple Music, alongside the Isgubhu playlist, which continues to spotlight the best in African dance and electronic music.
Listen to the Isgubhu playlist now on Apple Music.
Isgubhu September 2026 (DJ Mix) mixed by Rosey Gold Tracklisting
- Spotz — When She Left
- Buddynice — Nothing Special
- umuntfuNje — Rush Hour
- Kudbeu & Kana — My Love / E Samba (Kid Fonque Edit)
- China Charmeleon & Brandon Dlhudhlu — Birds Sings (Ed-Ward Remix)
- Herbert & Momoko Gill — Babystar (Kid Fonque Refix)
- Thabo Tonick — Listen To The Kids
- Charles Webster & Atmos Blaq — Free
- PAGEZ, Dr Feel & Beekay Monalayzzar — Was You ft Kali Mija
- Chronical Deep — Imali
- Kid Fonque & Sio — Rekindled (Sun-El Muscician & Mpho.Wav Remix)
- Alexkid — Love We Have (Kudbeu & Kana Remix)
On the cover this month is FKA MASH, whose debut album EXITECHNO presents a new kind of expression for the DJ and producer. Released on his record label, September Bloom, the project ties disco, techno and deep house together over the backdrop of Soweto, with FKA MASH bringing influences from outside electronic music, from classical to jazz as he continues to push the boundaries of his sound.
Isgubhu also houses a collection of alumni playlists, editorial playlists, exclusive DJ mixes, and additional content from the best dance and electronic acts on the continent.
Check out Isgubhu only on Apple Music: http://apple.co/Isgubhu
