By The Grvy Editorial Board
Artist: Othello’s Groove · Genre: Afro-house · Released: November 2024 · Format: Single
Every catalog has a first word, and Make Me Yours is this one’s. Before the Deep House Party, before the Amapiano run, before any of it — there was this single, a love song released into the world in November 2024. In hindsight it reads as a statement of intent: Othello’s Groove arrived not with a club banger but with romance, setting the emotional terms for everything that followed.
The title says the quiet part out loud. Where so much electronic music treats love as decoration, Make Me Yours puts it at the center — longing as the engine, not the accessory. It’s the kind of track that works at 2 a.m. in two very different rooms: the dancefloor and the bedroom. That duality would become the project’s signature — rhythm you can move to, feeling you can’t shake.
As an opening move, it’s a confident one. No throat-clearing, no tentative genre exercises. Make Me Yours announced an artist who knew exactly what he wanted to say and trusted the groove to carry it. Everything after — the parties, the after-hours, the amapiano — is a conversation this single started.
Context: Make Me Yours lands in a lane carved by South Africa’s Black Coffee — deep house with a lover’s patience — and the melodic wing of Berlin’s Keinemusik crew, who proved electronic music could be tender without going soft. The single sits comfortably in that lineage rather than imitating it, and it shares shelf space with the amapiano-pop crossover wave Tyla rode to global charts the same year.
Verdict: Where it all began — and it still holds up. 4/5
Listen: streaming on all major platforms
Next in From the Catalog: Othello’s Groove throws the first party with Deep House Party.
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