Okmalumkoolkat is a Techno act from South Africa, ranked #1130 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 298,600 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #21 in South Africa and #139 in Techno among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has grown 44% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 208K to 299K. They have 207,575 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 45/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “Woah”.
Who Okmalumkoolkat is
Simiso Zwane (born Brian Simiso Zwane; 27 July 1983), commonly known by his stage name Okmalumkoolkat (sometimes stylized as OkMalumKoolKat) is a South African rapper and half of the rap/electronic duo Dirty Paraffin from Umlazi Township in Durban. Smiso Zwane is known for singles such as "Mswenkofontein" featuring $tilo Magolide & uSanele.
Biography from the Okmalumkoolkat article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Okmalumkoolkat, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Latest releases
21 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Listener trend
7 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 299K in the week of Sep 28, 2026.
Scene ranks
Around them in the chart
Artists to compare
Acts at a similar level in techno, and the biggest names from South Africa.
Okmalumkoolkat vs the field
Settle it on the numbers — monthly listeners, rank and trend, side by side.
Okmalumkoolkat in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Okmalumkoolkat have?
Okmalumkoolkat has 298,600 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Okmalumkoolkat's world ranking?
Okmalumkoolkat is ranked #1130 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Okmalumkoolkat from?
Okmalumkoolkat is from South Africa, where they rank #21 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Okmalumkoolkat make?
Okmalumkoolkat is categorised as Techno in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as gqom, afro tech.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.