User talk:Kwetsi/sandbox

Kwetsimani Mashiyana (born March 14, 1992) professionally known as Deejay Jar, is a South African House and hip hop record producer from Giyani, Limpopo currently based in Johannesburg. He is not signed yet. In addition, he is the member of Jar Records production team, JarBeatz. He is also a member of the house music production Django Roots with the other member Dj Giftoz and Lucky, a production group that he founded back in 2013. Jar's music sound has been well known for his heavy use of hard hitting kicks, jazzy snare drums, jazzy rhodes, sub basses, strings, woodwind and keyboard instruments commonly incorporated throughout his productions.

Jar started his career by playing piano and learning about beats, measures, and bars. He started experimenting with digital audio workstation Cubase which he uses to this day. However, he has also incorporated music production workstations such as Reason and Fruity Loops. The basis for his stage name came from the bucket he used to seat on when he was young. During varsity school, he also founded his own production crew with his friends, DR(Django Roots).

Initially spending hours in his room experimenting with Cubase. In late 2011, he began publishing his instrumentals to various rappers and posting instrumentals on his hulkshare and kasimp3 page, hoping to gain further exposure in the music industry. In 2012, Deejay Jar produced "New Fresh Kids" mixtape by Dee Michaels and Ab-Crack, and also produced "Mbonga",a single by Ngove Boys.

By mid 2013, Deejay Jar also produced tracks on Dee Michaels's Gone Forever, Ab-Crack's Mixtape Monster,Wellie King's Hated by the season. Deejay Jar also worked with artists such as Provie, Tyrone Bane, Thibla, Ruff Kids, Sway Crew and GRANT and went on to produce more than 50 songs between 2012 and 2013.

In early February 2013, Deejay Jar mixed a hit that was untitled " Document 1". The hit was publicly played at "Vuhungaselo Stokvel" by Dj N'wasei, people liked the hit, that's where he started doing house music for his own albums.

In late 2013, Deejay Jar released his first single titled "Garingani wa garingani" originally produced by Dj Giftoz. Deejay Jar took the song to Lapeng, people liked it " I could not believe people was dancing to my astronautical bang".

In early January 2014, Deejay Jar produced 3 hits for GRANT and recorded 2 songs for Ruff Kids. All was done in Cubase and Reason daws. Now he is about to release his first album named " Not Forgotten".