#djoon

A shelter for dancers & music lovers, DJOON has been a first step in Paris for many artists, bringing over icons such as Lil’ Louis, Kerri Chandler, Black Coffee, Dixon, Âme, Levon Vincent, Folamour, The Martinez Brothers and more to France and often Europe for the very first time, and playing a key role in bringing the afro-house sound to the old continent. Borrowing its name from a Persian…

The Louvre Museum is literally an all day process to get appropriately 80% of the exhibitions knowledge, read the storytelling, and absorb the artwork. There is a big difference between Smithsonian and the Louvre Museum is the human storytelling. The Louvre Museum is the best to connect the history of the countries before North America (or the United States of America). I took photos of the exhibits or paintings related to me, my organizations, my heritage, my favorite season, and my favorite month. France and Catholicism is very ingrained or entwined with each other in telling the biblical stories in most of it surrounding Jesus Christ. On -1 level, I saw Richelieu 101-105 L'Olympiade, Sculptures/France, Denon 169-185 Sculptures/Europe, Islamic Art, and Greek Antiquities. Names from places and people run so deep, and explains some of the towns, cities, and people named in USA. On Level 0, in Richelieu wing, I saw Sculpture / France 200-226, Near Eastern Antiquities 230-316 and Denon wing, Sculptures / Europe 400-403, Roman Antiquities 339-405. On Level 1, on Richelieu wing, I saw decorative arts / Europe section 500-632, Sully wing Egyptian Antiquities section 633-641 and Greek and Roman Antiquities 651-703, Denon wing rooms 700-734 Paintings from everywhere including the Mona Lisa. In Denon wing, I ate at the cafe for lunch and it is easy to get lost in the Louvre. Thanks to the Louvre staff who helped me along the way. On Level 2, I had to zip through Richelieu wing and Sully wing to see Paintings / France and Northern Europe in rooms 800-952 because the museum was closing in 15 minutes.

At the initial stages of the rise of Black Coffee in South Africa, after he had released his first ever album titled Black Coffee in 2005; Oskido, Dj Fresh, Greg Maloka, Dj Christos, and Glen Lewis, at their annual South African music conference invited Frank Rodger and Lionel Marciano (who was Frank Rodger's manager at the time and sound engineer at real tone records , France).

Dj Chirstos, at the music conference, told the two about Black Coffee and gave them his demo. Few months later after the music conference, Lionel Marciano got hold of Black Coffee after being enticed by his work on the demo and proposed to license two songs on the demo on vinyl in France. The two songs were Thetha (wathula nje) remix by Victor Ntoni and Even though remix by Bantu Soul (which later featured in his second album Have another one). The two songs became popular in France and neighbouring countries.