# IIndman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/IIndman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/IIndman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIndman > Source revision: 1349253402 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Phenyo Kgaffe** (born 25 November 1992) better known as **IIndman** (pronounced "second man") is an [electronica](/source/Electronica) producer and visual artist based in South Africa. He works under a media company named MARS, with his work published by Earth Sun Moon. ## Life and career Kgaffe is from Mahikeng, a small town in South Africa. From early 2007 he started taking his music into the [DAW](/source/Digital_audio_workstation) – [FL Studio](/source/FL_Studio) to record songs while creating visual art as a hobby. In 2009 he began working with [Mo'Molemi](/source/Mo'Molemi) on his album "Rebel Without a Pause" where he produced the song Lefika-Town feat. Spikey of Lyv Records at 16 years of age. He began doing visual work with [AKA](/source/AKA_(rapper)) of the I.V League for the South African [Hype Magazine](/source/Hype_(magazine)) Hip Hop Awards. He also worked with Dreamteam on the *Blow Up* Mixtape, dance crew - The Repertoires, [Chez Ntemba](/source/Chez_Ntemba), LiquidChefs SA with Very Special Saturday hosted by Fifi Costello and DJ Sliqe, visual artworks for the [SAMA](/source/South_African_Music_Awards) Award Winning DJ Sliqe, [Kwesta](/source/Kwesta), and *[Da King of African Rap](/source/DaKAR)* album art for [DaKAR II](/source/DaKAR_II) in 2016. He has also worked in advertising and marketing visuals for South African music events including GoodSundae for Benny Maverick & DJ Feel and Groove Afrika events. Besides being a visual artist, A Mahikeng-born musician who set his sights on taking South African electronic music to another level. With releases dating back to 2013, he showed that he was ahead of his time.[1] ## Music He began to work in [electronica](/source/Electronica), augmenting it with [abstract art](/source/Abstract_art) work.[2] In 2015 he released his debut electronic EP which [OkayAfrica](/source/OkayAfrica) said "IIndman's 6-track [*La Bella Vita*EP](/source/La_Bella_Vita_EP) is a crumbling tunnel of drum whips, muffled vocals, and scraped effects. Starting with the slow, key-floored title track and moving onto the choppy, percussion-based "Lemonade," the self-produced release only sees dim light with the fifth track "Never Let You Down," a grand composition of strings that begins with a deep-voiced birthday wish.[3]" Followed by single in the same year with Norwegian singer - Camilla Luna, it is said that he aims to blend ambient textures and lounge-y keyboard melodies together over drums and percussion in a manner reminiscent of [Flying Lotus](/source/Flying_Lotus) and [J Dilla](/source/J_Dilla), who IIndman lists as some of his musical influences.[4] He has also done a rework of ECHLN's song called 'Honey'[5] which IIndman's music is unique and compelled music Singapore-based label - Darker Than Wax to take notice[1] in 2017. ## Visuals Kgaffe would log on to [Tumblr](/source/Tumblr) where he received pictures and used them as a source of inspiration, experimenting on the computer, and started editing using [Microsoft Publisher](/source/Microsoft_Publisher) and [Microsoft Paint](/source/Microsoft_Paint), designing posters and abstract art. In 2009 he began working in [Adobe Photoshop](/source/Adobe_Photoshop), creating images with an urban-vintage tone in a dark futuristic environment.[6] He used the internet to connect with more people, clients and sources of artistic inspiration. He is also inspired by visual artists such as [Mark Ryden](/source/Mark_Ryden), [James Turrell](/source/James_Turrell), Oleg Dou, [Sara Golish](/source/Sara_Golish), [Vanessa Beecroft](/source/Vanessa_Beecroft), Marcel Van Der Vlugt, Amy Judd and [Ruud van Empel](/source/Ruud_van_Empel). ## Discography Main article: [IIndman discography](/source/IIndman_discography) ### Singles - *Flowers Rework* (Original by [Lapalux](/source/Lapalux)) (2014 - *Moment In Time* (Ft. Camilla Luna & Emamkay) (2015) - *ECHLN* - Honey (Ft. Hunter Rose) [IIndman Rework] ### Eps - *[1707](/source/1707_EP)* (as Muthafuckiniindman) (2013) - [*La Bella Vita*](/source/La_Bella_Vita_EP) (2015) ### Beat tapes - *Polaroids Beattape* (2015) ### Productions - *Lefika Town – [Mo'Molemi](/source/Mo'Molemi)* *(Rebel Without A Pause – Studio Album – 2010)* - *Rep My Town – ProfresherKT* *(Single – 2012)* - *Macknight – Otee* *(Macknight – EP – 2014)* - *Omnipotent – ProfresherKT* (Mogote – EP – 2015) - *Its Only The Beginning – ProfesherKT*[7] *(Afterschool – Studio Album) (2016)* ## References 1. ["Playing with beats giants: A story of how South African producer, Iindman, entered the international beats market - Nusoulhub Radio"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180102201511/http://www.nusoulhubradio.com/playing-beats-giants-story-south-african-producer-iindman-entered-international-beats-market/). *www.nusoulhubradio.com*. Archived from [the original](http://www.nusoulhubradio.com/playing-beats-giants-story-south-african-producer-iindman-entered-international-beats-market/) on 2 January 2018. Retrieved 2018-01-01. 1. thevindictivepoet. ["Tlhap IIndman: South Africa's notorious graphic..."](https://web.archive.org/web/20160813041106/http://www.blackafricanandbeautiful.com/post/103895514679/tlhap-iindman-south-africas-notorious-graphic). Archived from [the original](http://www.blackafricanandbeautiful.com/post/103895514679/tlhap-iindman-south-africas-notorious-graphic) on 13 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-07-12. 1. ["SA Experimental Beatmaker IIndman's 'La Bella Vita' EP"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160825185707/http://www.okayafrica.com/audio/iindman-la-bella-vita-ep/). 5 March 2015. Archived from [the original](http://www.okayafrica.com/audio/iindman-la-bella-vita-ep/) on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-07-11. 1. ["SA Electronica Beatsmith IIndman Shares The Downtempo 'Moment in Time'"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170202003907/http://www.okayafrica.com/audio/iindman-moment-in-time-electronica-beatsmith/). 15 May 2015. Archived from [the original](http://www.okayafrica.com/audio/iindman-moment-in-time-electronica-beatsmith/) on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 2016-07-11. 1. [SHESLANTS SOUND OF THE DAY: ECHLN – Honey (feat. Hunter Rose) \[IIndman Rework\]](http://sheslants.com/2017/09/20/sheslants-sound-of-the-day-echln-honey-feat-hunter-rose-iindman-rework) SHESLANTS. 20 September 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2017. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20171013065253/http://sheslants.com/2017/09/20/sheslants-sound-of-the-day-echln-honey-feat-hunter-rose-iindman-rework/) 13 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine 1. ["Kaffein online magazine issue 6 ambition"](https://issuu.com/kaffeinmagazine/docs/kaffein_online_magazine_issue_6_amb/20). Retrieved 2016-07-13. 1. Profresher KT, ["I.O.T.B. & Pina Butter"](https://www.amazon.com/I-O-T-B-Pina-Butter-Explicit/dp/B0189YOFCM), retrieved 2016-07-11 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [IIndman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIndman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIndman?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.