Nathan Kofi

Nathan Kofi is an Amsterdam DJ, producer and music educator who signed his first record deal with Kevin Saunderson's KMS Records in 2013, then as Nathan Surreal. Taking his West African birth name, he folded hip-hop and breakbeat into the house and techno ethics of Detroit, Chicago and New York, alongside ambient and introspective work. He co-founded the De Lichting collective and label with Human Space Machine, Eversines and queniv, ran Kommune Amsterdam with a Red Light Radio residency, and became a resident at Noods Radio in Bristol. From 2022 he led cultural programming at De School until it closed in January 2024. He has released on Dekmantel, and his debut album I Am That I Am arrived on De Lichting in 2024.