Some records feel like they were waiting for the right names to land on them. “Written In Destiny” is one of those. Mixmag Award winner Temazkal links with Walshy Fire of Major Lazer, vocalist Taylr Renee and co-producer Gotlucky for a Colorize release that sits right in the current sweet spot of Tribal / Afro House and Melodic House. The mix and master come from SLATIN, and Colorize tucked the track into Colorscapes Vol. 8, the label’s annual compilation curated by PRANAA and Tritonal. That is not a random playlist dump. That is the imprint saying this one belongs with the year’s standouts.
Temazkal is an Argentine DJ and producer now based in Madrid. His thing is the emotional side of Melodic House married to organic Afro House rhythm. In a short run he has put music out on Colorize, Enormous Tunes, Sekora, Monowave Records, ChillYourMind and Paraíso. Support has come from Nora En Pure, Sultan + Shepard, Ferry Corsten, Rebūke, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, EDX, Faul & Wad, THEMBA, Eran Hersh and Nitefreak. He has shared stages with Guy J, Guy Mantzur, Nora En Pure, Korolova, Innellea, Hozho and Deborah De Luca. He also runs the collaborative project NUVORA with Gotlucky and Descoqueo. If you caught his earlier work with Walshy Fire and Gotlucky, this new cut is the same circle tightening rather than a one-off guest feature.
Walshy Fire brings the Major Lazer weight and the dancehall-to-global-house instinct. Taylr Renee is the voice a lot of people already know from “Fansy $hit.” Gotlucky is in the production chair again. Put that on Colorize, a label that still means something in the melodic and progressive lane, and you get a record built for both peak-time floors and the longer, more cinematic house sets that keep filling festival tents in 2026.
The genres tell you what to listen for. Tribal / Afro House wants percussion that feels lived-in, not looped-and-forgotten. Melodic House wants a line that hangs in the air after the drums drop out. “Written In Destiny” is pitched as that meeting point: organic rhythm under a more emotional, progressive-leaning frame. Colorize picking it for Colorscapes Vol. 8 is useful context. That compilation is how the label frames its year. Landing on it means the track already survived the internal filter that most new Afro-melodic records never see.
Afro House and Melodic House keep colliding because dancers want both the body and the lift. Labels like Colorize, and artists who move between Buenos Aires, Madrid and the Major Lazer orbit, are the ones making that collision feel inevitable instead of trendy. Temazkal’s catalog already lives in that space. This collab just puts bigger names on the same file.
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What do you think of Temazkal’s sound on this one? Drop it in the comments if this is going in your next Afro-melodic set.
