Jaco aka DarkBeatz is a Cape Town Producer andDj, whos first love for music came from his early B boy days. As breakdancing goes hand in hand with hiphop music, his love for Djing soon followed. His love for house music was always there and the genre which grab his attention the most, was Latino house music as it was bouncy and had a nice energy to it, He then went to the Uk for about 3 years and while in the UK, producing started, bought a laptop and his first real scratch cdjs, in his spare time he played around withFl studioand also self tought the art of hiphop scratching.
There is no specific genre when it comes to his producing music and djing, but Dutch Tech House is where his love is. To test whether his tracks were good enough for a record deal, he got some Cape town djs to them, after that tried a few record labels but no luck, eventually gave Flexual Records , which owned by Mark Stent,(WORLDS STRONGEST DJ) a demo an got a deal after finishing the WONK – LETS AVE IT remix. Some of his releases can also found on Beatport.com
He also featured on Cape Town’s radio station Goodhopefm The 411, which is hosted by Tyrone Paulsen, where he showed that he is also a forced to be reckon with in the Dj side of things, but Flexual Records is now his home and you can be sure to see some banging releases from Darkbeatz in the near future.