Shelflife Sound 011: TNXBK
Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, Tinx's Nigerian-South African heritage offers a unique Pan-African perspective on contemporary fashion and cultural identity. As DJ TNXBK, she blends electro, afrotech, amapiano, gqom, and throwback house, playing at Joburg’s coolest underground events. She continues to influence the fashion and music scenes through her work in styling, creative direction, fashion journalism, and her newly founded clothing brand, *akobe studio.
Tinx has collaborated with iconic brands and publications like Vogue.com, Telfar, Adidas, Reebok, MAC, Diesel, Levi’s, Rocking The Daisies, Heineken, and SA Fashion Week African Fashion International. These collaborations have solidified her reputation as a visionary creative with a keen eye for detail and an innate understanding of youth culture and fashion trends.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of Cape Town and a Master’s in Fashion Marketing and Visual Communication from Polimoda in Italy, with additional qualifications in Graphic Design from Vega, Fashion Business from HEC Paris, and Styling from Conde Nast College in London.
TRACKLIST:
1. People Aint Dancing - Kah-lo & Billrn Ted
2. Nasty ( XNYWLF & Love SixRemix) - Tinashe
3. Brighter Days (Underground Goodies Mix) - Date & Camera
4. Hoping (Matthew Herbert High Dub) -Louie Austen
5. Xigubu (Medium Points Mix) - DJ Ganyane ft FB
6. Lady (Hear Me Tonight) - Darren
7. Massive (Toolate & Akalex Remix) - Drake
8. The Cure & The cause - Fish Go Deep
9. Could Even Ever Be like this (Extended Mix) -Idris Muhammed
10. Dare (Soulwax Remix) - Gorrilaz
11. Cassius 1999 - Cassius
12. Afroparadise - Fedesse
13. Father Stretch My Hands (Toolate Remix) - Sunday Service
14. R.I.C.O (AKZ & Korex Afrohouse Remix) - Drake
15. Re-Latch (NIE UKG Remix) - Disclosure ft Same Smith
16. Too Many Men (MXTT HXLL remix) - Skepta
17. Love (FaceTime Remix) - Keyshia Cole
18. To Be Real (Ale Rossi, Egnever & Marco Pedro UKG Flip)
19.2 Sugar (NC Edit) - Wizkid & Ayra Starr
20. Can You Feel It (Soundbwoy Killah Remix) - Chrissy
21. Entropic - Leonce
22. Good Puss (TOBEHONEST remix) - Cobrah
23. Guess (AYYBO Remix) - Charli XCX
24. Beautiful Dirty Rich (Danyo - Taahliah Remix) - Lady Gaga
35. Lose Control (NC x Nala Remix) - Missy Elliot
26. Renegade Master(Edit) - Davis
27. Kids (Santo Remix) - MGMT
28. Crew - Goldlink ft Brent Faiyaz
29. Kaytra flip - Unkown Artist
About SL Sound:
Our SL Sound mix series on Mixcloud is a bi-monthly series which, along with our Spotify playlists, endeavours to showcase whats cooking around us.
We represent tunes and people we love & support, and share them here so you can enjoy too.