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Sound Design / Original Music
Enhance your branding or next creative project with captivating Afro-Electronic compositions.
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Atelier 1996
Atelier 1996 is Nilote Company’s apparel studio, which provides sustainable, empowered clothing solutions for Africa & the Diaspora.
Nilote Team
DJ Black Low is the lead composer at Nilote Sound Design. He has been featured in Beats 1 Radio, Pan African Music, and Resident Advisor as a recording artist.
“I’ve liked music a lot from a young age. I used to produce Hip-Hop & commercial House before I started producing Amapiano. When I started out, I used to listen to a lot of commercial house. I used to DJ at places in my neighborhood, parties, & weddings. I wasn’t getting big gigs.
As a young producer living in the townships of the greater Pretoria area of South Africa’s Gauteng province, there were few avenues available for me to pursue a career in music. My trajectory shows the vulnerability of this pursuit.
I had started producing in 2013 and it so happened that I lost my equipment in 2014. I couldn’t afford to buy equipment. In 2017, a friend of mine who had been making music found a job and decided to quit music.
He gave me his equipment and I was able to start producing again. That’s when I started getting back to it. I tried to pick up where I had left off, with hip hop and commercial house but I found that amapiano was the popular music. I liked it, so I started producing it.”
Bertrand Felix Rudahunga Is the founder & creative director of Nilote Company, the senior designer for Nilote Atelier 1996, & an additional composer for Nilote Sound Design. He has a wide scope of experience from PPC marketing, copywriting, retail fashion, & lifelong love of music & design.
This diverse background inspired the formation of Nilote Company along with being a first-generation immigrant.
Our mission is to empower Africa & the Diaspora & tell stories that show how expansive Blackness is. Nilotes are a group of some of the oldest tribes in East Africa, where life started. Because Blackness is the beginning of life, Black contributions are limitless.
Nilote Company will display this with each creative project that we work on, as well as projects that we agree to consult & collaborate on.
