This week, the PAM Club welcomes up-and-coming DJ and producer Thakzin, illuminating the South African afro-house scene with his taste for groove and well-made melodies.
Born in 1993, Thakzin grew up in Ivory Park, a suburb of Johannesburg. It was his keyboardist father who passed on his taste for music by teaching him the piano, a jazz sensibility that we find today in his work. Like many young people of his generation, he jumped into house music with both feet, starting to mix in 2007, then producing…