Durban, South Africa, has been one of the hottest scenes for dance music for a few years now, and Black Coffee, real name Nathi Maphumulo, serves as its elder statesman. He first appeared at RBMA years ago as one of two South African participants at the 2003 Red Bull Music Academy in Cape Town. His style of Afropolitain house is, in his words, “home-brewed but future-focused.” Maphumulo’s recording career began in 2005 with a remix of Hugh Masekela’s 1972 hit “Stimela,” and has gone on to include five solo albums, the latest of which is 2015’s *Pieces of Me*, which went double platinum in South Africa.
