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Jixels: the keyboard behind Poukwa, Nouveau La and Jéré Sa

Published October 20, 2026

Jixels is a keyboardist, producer and bouyon artist anchored in Guadeloupe, whose public catalogue runs from 2023 to 2026 with more than twenty singles. RFI presented him, on its Couleurs tropicales programme, as the master of the keyboard on “Poukwa”, the bouyon banger by Krys with Edday. His most searched track on Shazam is not a solo track, however: it is “Nouveau La”, his collaboration with BRG Hollywood, which passes 213,000 Shazams. This profile follows that much requested keyboard, from the end of year releases of 2023 to the 2026 “Jéré Sa” with DJ BOKO, and it also names the name his published credits carry, Jonathan Elusca, which quick profiles never pick up.

Who Jixels is: a keyboard, a name in pixels, a credit in plain sight

Jixels presents himself first through an instrument. When RFI programmes “Poukwa” on Couleurs tropicales, the reference programme for Afro Caribbean music, it describes the track as the collaboration of the Guadeloupean singer Krys with Edday, an essential bouyon artist in the Antilles, and Jixels, master of the keyboard. The label is published by a national radio and it states the essential: in modern bouyon, the keyboard is not an accompaniment, it is the melodic engine, the direct heritage of the WCK keyboards that founded the genre in Dominica. Jixels belongs to that line of keyboardists that singers fight over for their choruses.

His Guadeloupe anchoring reads in his own publications and in the local carnival press. His TikTok account carries the handle jixels971, the 971 of Guadeloupe, and he announces his shows there signing the double code of his circuit, 971 and 973. In 2026, the Ville du Gosier account, reporting on the Goziéval, the carnival of Le Gosier, wrote that MMG, the group of Jixels, is a new group that won the heart of the public that night. Studio keyboardist, stage man and carnival man: the three faces are documented, and they are all Guadeloupean.

Then there is the name behind the name, and it is the point this profile holds from its sources. Published credits attach the name Jonathan Elusca to the Jixels tracks as writer and composer: sole writer and composer of “FÈ SA TRANBLÉ” on Deezer, co-writer of “TEAM MDC (VOU)” on Shazam, and composer of Edday “She miss me”, where he is credited beside the writers of the track for a song that carries Jixels as featured artist. One Deezer line writes it Johnathan Elusca, with an extra h, and this profile flags the variant instead of smoothing it. No published biography confirms or narrates that name: it exists, in the record opened, only as the signature of the credits, and it is presented here exactly as such.

2023: PEACHY, TEAM MDC (VOU) and the JIXELS STUDIO’Z label

The commercial discography of Jixels starts in the autumn of 2023. “PEACHY”, signed JIXELS and TEAM-MDC, was released on 18 October 2023, and the independent counter MyStreamCount credits it with 6,250 streams on Spotify. On 6 December 2023, “TEAM MDC (VOU)” came out under a label that already carries his name, JIXELS STUDIO’Z, at 160 BPM, with four credited songwriters: Jonathan ELUSCA, Sebastien UNIMON, Shandy NERTOMB and Jean-Brice LOLLIA. The track is classed Christmas by Shazam, and its artist page files it in the same festive family: the platform gives him the Holiday tag, end of year party music.

That end of year filing is not a catalogue accident, it is a season strategy the sequel confirms. In December 2024, Jixels published “XMAS CHO”, an avowed Christmas track, and his catalogue keeps that winter point in the middle of carnival and summer releases. Bouyon lives by the rhythm of the Antillean calendar, carnival in February and March, end of year parties in December, and the Jixels catalogue follows that calendar from its first two releases: an October track for the return of the dancefloors, a December track for the holidays. The TEAM-MDC name, for its part, returns as a collective around the keyboard, present from “PEACHY” onward and in the very title of the December release.

From 2023, the form is therefore set: short singles, cut for the platforms and the mixes, a label under his name, and writing credits where his signature name appears in plain sight. What 2023 does not yet show is the scale of the collaborations to come: the following year, almost every Jixels release embarks a different crew of Gwada voices, and it is that capacity to federate that will make the reputation of the keyboard.

2024: the year of the crews, from BALAOU FRIT to YO KA PALÉ

In 2024, the Shazam page of Jixels lines up a series of singles whose features draw the map of his scene. “BALAOU FRIT (MORNE FLEURET FREESTYLE)”, featuring LESTEF KJF and in a Radio Edit version, became his reference freestyle track: the tracklists of the Digga D Sewo Jam mini mix programme it as Jixels and Lestef KJF, “Balou Frit”, among the carnival tracks of Dominica and the French Antilles. “Kiss Me” brings together Lady Spicy, LGC and LeCus. “RIP YTF” embarks SPARTA, LONA, YK and 128 BOYZ. “SHE LIKE TNB” invites LESEB MDC, and “YO KA PALÉ” is made with Erwinchy.

The same Sewo Jam mix documents another line, easy to miss: “You Mad”, credited to Reo, DJ Lucshiy, Jixel and Edday, with the name written Jixel in the singular in that tracklist. This profile reports the published spelling without correcting it, because it says something about the real circuit of bouyon: tracks circulate first in DJ mixes, with credits typed on the fly, before being stabilised on the platforms. Jixels is of that generation whose discography reads in two places, in the official catalogues and in the tracklists of the selectors, and the two readings complete each other.

Musically, 2024 confirms the role of the keyboard as signature. The tracks are built as vehicles for the guest voices, with keyboard introductions and choruses that carry the melody while the singers and MCs take turns. It is the historic model of band bouyon, where the keyboardist holds the centre, transposed to the era of the streaming single: a keyboardist producer, a rotating crew, a release pace that follows the seasons. By the end of 2024, Jixels had published enough tracks to be a name the others seek out, and 2025 would verify it with two collaborations of another calibre.

One thread runs quietly through those crew years and deserves a line of its own, because it is the kind of pattern only a credit by credit reading reveals. The letters MDC are already there in 2023: TEAM-MDC co-signs “PEACHY”, then gives its name to “TEAM MDC (VOU)” on the JIXELS STUDIO’Z label. In 2024 they return inside the Jixels catalogue with LESEB MDC, featured on “SHE LIKE TNB”. In 2026 they are still circulating around the same network, with LESEB inside the crew of “ARE U FEELING” and of “VODY 22” the year before. No source opened for this profile explains what MDC stands for, and this profile does not guess: it notes only that a crew signature accompanies the keyboard from his first commercial releases to his most recent ones, the sign of a home team behind the rotating guests.

Poukwa and Nouveau La: 2025, RFI, the charts and the 213,000 Shazams

“Poukwa”, signed Krys, Edday and Jixels and published in 2025, is the track that changes the scale. RFI presents it as the bouyon banger of the Guadeloupean singer Krys, released on the very day of the Couleurs tropicales broadcast, with Edday and Jixels in collaboration. The same year, a Grenada chart reproduced by iCharts places “Poukwa” at the top of its track ranking, ahead of the rest of the season chart. For a keyboardist, being the third name on a number one track of a Caribbean chart and programmed by RFI in the same year is the consecration of the role: the keyboard no longer accompanies the hit, it co-signs it.

Yet his biggest counter is not “Poukwa”. On his Shazam page, the most searched Jixels track is “Nouveau La”, by BRG Hollywood featuring Jixels, credited with 213,000 Shazams in total, far ahead of “CHUT” and its 15,500 Shazams, Aknose “Kalollipop” featuring JIXELS, at 6,630, the LESTEF KJF “MORNE FLEURET FREESTYLE”, at 6,080, and “Poukwa”, at 5,410. The page totals 276,770 Shazams for the artist. Soca and bouyon podcast tracklists confirm the circulation of the track: the Soca Podcast programmes it as DJ IBO and Brg Hollywood featuring Jixels, “Nouveau La”, in its 2026 carnival selections.

The year 2025 also counts two crew releases under his name alone: “AN MAS LA”, with EDDAY, FANA and MAS’MOUL MASSIF, which attaches Jixels to the world of the mas groups of the Guadeloupe carnival, the same world the Le Gosier Goziéval documents for his MMG group, and “VODY 22”, with LE CUS, LESEB, SHEYTA and UGLYBOY. And on Deezer, “FÈ SA TRANBLÉ”, with NOLOUME, MAICKY, NATHOX and VIVI, runs 3 minutes 24 with Jonathan ELUSCA as sole published writer and composer. Between the co-signed hit, the most shazamed feature and the carnival crews, 2025 makes Jixels a pivot: the keyboard through which the voices of Gwada pass to sound bouyon.

The stage: Kourou, the cruises and the DJ mixes

Jixels is not only a catalogue name, and his own publications show him on stage. On his TikTok account, he captions a show at the food festival in Kourou, in French Guiana, with the hashtags bouyon, 973 for Guiana and 971 for Guadeloupe, and the word merci in capitals: the Gwada bouyon circuit therefore overflows as far as French Guiana, as our bouyon in Guiana page documents for the genre as a whole. Another of his videos shows him testing dancehall for the first time with his brother FANA, with the wyflriddim hashtag, the riddim the mixes of the scene circulate in the same season. A spectator of the Bblack Cruise Festival films him and calls him the real showman: the label is published by a third party, and this profile reports it as such.

A preview published by CaribbeanEMagazine for the 2025 World Creole Music Festival of Dominica listed Jixels among the DJs of Night 2, alongside DJ MJ, Little Boy Quan and Ezra D’ Fun Machine. This profile presents that line for what it is, a preview line from an online magazine, and not a performance report: no report opened for this research describes the Jixels set in Roseau. The nuance matters, because the WCMF is the great festival of the genre, born around bouyon in Dominica, and being listed there, even in a preview, places a Gwada keyboardist in the conversation of the festival. The rest of his documented stage presence stays Antillean and Guianese: Kourou, Le Gosier, the cruises and the party nights of the mixes.

It is through the mixes, in any case, that his name travels most surely. The selectors of the circuit, Digga D for the Sewo Jam, the soca podcasts that open their 2026 carnival lists, programme “Balou Frit”, “You Mad” and “Nouveau La” among the tracks of Dominica, Saint Lucia and the French Antilles. Bouyon has always travelled that way, from DJ to DJ before travelling from platform to platform, and the Jixels catalogue, designed in short singles and features, is cut for that journey. Our bouyon playlist follows the same routes, from Roseau to Pointe-à-Pitre.

2026 and the limits of the record: Jéré Sa, Touchdown and what remains to confirm

The year 2026 opens with a burst. Shazam lists for Jixels “AMBIANCE”, with MANAGYALIS and SHEYTA, “An plen kyè”, with Lorenz, “CHUT”, with YOSHY and LEJO, already his second most shazamed track, “ARE U FEELING”, with DINHO, LECUS, LESEB, MANAGYALIS and SHEYTA, “I FEEL GOOD”, and the “INDECISION RIDDIM” EP. Two tracks tie him to his closest circle: “Touchdown”, signed Edday and Jixels, and “Jéré Sa”, signed YSN, Edday, DJ SOFTEE and Jixels, with DJ BOKO as a feature published in the very title. Deezer adds Edday “She miss me”, with Shanika and Jixels, where Jonathan Elusca is credited as composer. The keyboard of Gwada is, in 2026, at the centre of the Edday network, and that network is one of the most active in Antillean bouyon.

This profile finally states its limits. No biography, no interview and no statement of origin by Jixels were found in the sources opened for this research: no date or place of birth, no training path, no family name published other than through the credits under the name Jonathan Elusca. The Shazam figures and the listening counter of “PEACHY” are platform snapshots, dated to the day the pages were opened, and the Grenada ranking is a chart snapshot reproduced by a mirror. No official link is therefore carried in the structured data of this page beyond the catalogues, and any confirmed element will complete this profile with its date.

The essential, however, is already audible: a keyboardist from Guadeloupe become, in three years of singles, the co-signatory of a track saluted by RFI, the most searched feature on a BRG Hollywood track, and the recurring partner of Edday, Krys and Lestef KJF. Fourteen verified recordings form the core of his page, from “PEACHY” in 2023 to “Jéré Sa” in 2026. Listening starts with “Nouveau La” and “Poukwa”, continues with “BALAOU FRIT” and “FÈ SA TRANBLÉ”, and plugs into our bouyon playlist for the rest of the Gwada circuit.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Jixels?

Jixels is a keyboardist, producer and bouyon artist anchored in Guadeloupe, active in singles since 2023. RFI presented him as the master of the keyboard on “Poukwa”, the Krys track with Edday published in 2025. His most searched track on Shazam is “Nouveau La”, with BRG Hollywood, at more than 213,000 Shazams, and his catalogue counts more than twenty singles between 2023 and 2026, including “BALAOU FRIT”, “Poukwa”, “Touchdown” and “Jéré Sa”. His own TikTok account carries the Guadeloupe code in its handle, jixels971, and his published credits attach the writer and composer name Jonathan Elusca to his tracks.

Which name signs the writing and composition credits of Jixels?

The name Jonathan Elusca, and it is the fact other profiles do not pick up. Deezer credits him as sole writer and composer of “FÈ SA TRANBLÉ”, Shazam credits him as co-writer of “TEAM MDC (VOU)”, released under the JIXELS STUDIO’Z label in December 2023, and Deezer credits him as composer of Edday “She miss me”, with Shanika and Jixels, under the spelling Johnathan Elusca. This profile reports those published credits, with their spelling variant, without inventing a biography around that name.

What is “Poukwa”?

“Poukwa” is a 2025 single credited to Krys, Edday and Jixels. RFI, on Couleurs tropicales, presented it as the bouyon banger of the Guadeloupean singer Krys, in collaboration with Edday, an essential bouyon artist in the Antilles, and Jixels, master of the keyboard. A Grenada chart reproduced by iCharts placed it at the top of its ranking. On Shazam, the track counts 5,410 searches, which makes it one of the most identified tracks of the trio.

Why does Shazam class Jixels as end of year party music?

Because his first commercial releases are December season tracks. “TEAM MDC (VOU)”, released on 6 December 2023 under JIXELS STUDIO’Z, is classed Christmas by Shazam, and “XMAS CHO” follows in 2024. The Jixels artist page therefore carries the Holiday tag, festive music, while the core of his catalogue is carnival and party bouyon. It is a catalogue artefact that tells a true thing: Jixels publishes at the rhythm of the Antillean calendar, from the end of year parties to carnival.

Does Jixels play live?

Yes, according to his own publications and the local press. His TikTok account documents a show at the food festival in Kourou, in French Guiana, with the codes 971 and 973, and a video by a spectator of the Bblack Cruise Festival calls him the real showman. At the 2026 Goziéval, the Ville du Gosier account presents MMG as the group of Jixels, a new group that won the heart of the public. Another of his own videos shows him testing dancehall for the first time with FANA, on the wyflriddim hashtag, proof that his stage life also runs through the freestyle and sound system side of the circuit. A preview of the 2025 World Creole Music Festival also listed him among the DJs of Night 2, a preview line that no report opened for this profile confirms as a performance.

Where can I hear Jixels?

Start with “Nouveau La” with BRG Hollywood, his most shazamed track, then “Poukwa” with Krys and Edday, “BALAOU FRIT” with Lestef KJF for the freestyle, and “Jéré Sa” with DJ BOKO for his most connected 2026 release. Our bouyon playlist follows the same circuit, from Guadeloupe to Dominica.

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