Windhoek
Music Producer Engelbert Odiegile Moncho, well known as Mr Don, the Founder of Don Moncho Record label, is on the mission to discover the undiscovered musician and keeping the Township Disco genre alive.
Mr Don is the only Namibian producer who works together with Tom Wardle on the Undiscovered Africa album. “I came across the promoter Wardle through Facebook, who felt that we need to bring up undiscovered artists through the whole of Africa onto a platform of recognition, and the Undiscovered Africa album was released and it’s currently here in Namibia. I contributed on one track, track six Township Disco,” explains Mr Don. He says the song is an encouragement to artist of the Township Disco genre to keep the genre going because it is here to stay not to die out. The song features a combination of various Township Disco artists.
Mr Don says Namibian artists are not limited. “There are so many talents out there which are not yet discovered and I am here to keep certain genres alive like Township Disco and Afro Pop. Although Township Disco genre has lost its value and support, that doesn’t mean there are no Afro Pop Disco artists,” notes Mr Don.
He has been in the music industry for a while now starting as producer artists with the group ‘Kopano’ in 2002 releasing the album Walala Wasala in 2003. “We received a warm welcome by the public then but due to certain personal problems the group did not manage to continue and I started operating my own studio,” he says. The Don Moncho record label is based in Wanaheda in Shannon Street.