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Protoculture
Protoculture is the production alias of Cape Town–based South African producer, DJ, sound designer, and label founder Nate Raubenheimer. Best known for melodic progressive trance and progressive house with psychedelic roots, he has spent two decades building a catalog that moves between early Cape Town psytrance textures, Armada-era uplifting trance, and the warmer progressive sound he now pushes on his own imprint Marula Music. Armin van Buuren has praised that “everything he touches turns to musical gold,” and his tracks have been played by Armin van Buuren, Paul Oakenfold, BT, Ferry Corsten, and even Bryan Adams. Beyond releasing and touring (Tomorrowland, Fuji Rock, Glastonbury, Ministry of Sound, Ushuaïa Ibiza), he designs factory presets for u-he, Xfer, UVI, Plugin Alliance, Sonic Academy, and Black Octopus, and is a Certified Bitwig Partner and educator. His latest single “Frequent Flyers” (Marula Music, June/July 2026) samples John Gillespie Magee’s poem “High Flight,” tying psychedelic atmosphere to progressive trance momentum.
16.9M
Total plays & views
- Projects
- 10
- Since
- 2014
Verified streams · verified today
16,931,636
+4 K a day · +132 K a month, on average
10 projects · 1 artist · since 2014
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16,931,636
69 days · Total
Most played
Most played
Annapurna - Radio Edit
Protoculture
4.492.374
4,5 M
Seconds
Protoculture
3.254.382
3,3 M
Pale Blue Dot
Protoculture
2.395.563
2,4 M
Thirty Three South (Mixed)
Protoculture
1.789.205
1,8 M
Talisman - Radio Edit
Protoculture
1.755.375
1,8 M
Go
Protoculture
1.748.002
1,7 M
States Of Flux
Protoculture
1.069.870
1,1 M
Shiva
Protoculture
307.359
307 K
Frequent Flyers - Original Mix
Protoculture
61.167
61 K
Frequent Flyers (ASOT 1282) [Progressive Pick] - Dub Mix
Protoculture
58.339
58 K
Has worked with
1 artists.
Catalog
10 releases.
2026
2
Bio
Protoculture is the production alias of Cape Town–based South African producer, DJ, sound designer, and label founder Nate Raubenheimer. Best known for melodic progressive trance and progressive house with psychedelic roots, he has spent two decades building a catalog that moves between early Cape Town psytrance textures, Armada-era uplifting trance, and the warmer progressive sound he now pushes on his own imprint Marula Music. Armin van Buuren has praised that “everything he touches turns to musical gold,” and his tracks have been played by Armin van Buuren, Paul Oakenfold, BT, Ferry Corsten, and even Bryan Adams. Beyond releasing and touring (Tomorrowland, Fuji Rock, Glastonbury, Ministry of Sound, Ushuaïa Ibiza), he designs factory presets for u-he, Xfer, UVI, Plugin Alliance, Sonic Academy, and Black Octopus, and is a Certified Bitwig Partner and educator. His latest single “Frequent Flyers” (Marula Music, June/July 2026) samples John Gillespie Magee’s poem “High Flight,” tying psychedelic atmosphere to progressive trance momentum.
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- Total
- 16,931,636