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Elvis Maswanganyi, better known as DJ Mujava, is a South African DJ.
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Early life and background
He was raised in the Pretorian town of Attridgeville, where local taxi drivers distributed CDs of his music to their fares.
Career
His electronica track "Township Funk" was released on Warp Records on 15 September 2008. It has been played on the BBC popular music station Radio 1 by DJs including Gilles Peterson. He also mixed a half hour session on 20 September 2008 on the internet radio station BBC Radio 6 for an episode of 6 Mix hosted by Iyare. He has been featured by other BBC DJs such as BBC Asian Network's DJ Kayper and Sonny Ji, and BBC Radio 1Xtra's DJ Edu and MistaJam.
He is signed to This Is Music Ltd (home of Simian Mobile Disco) in the UK and Warp Records internationally. He was voted number 34 on the NME "Cool List 2008", and is a featured artist on the NME website.
His last known collaboration was with South African DJ and renowned Musical Producer DJ Qness with whom he remixed the single XXX0 originally by UK based pop singer M.I.A, and the original version to the single also featured Jay-Z on the release package.
References
- Sheer Publishing DJ Mujava Biography - http://www.sheerpublishing.co.za/Default.aspx?NewsID=26&SearchText=&Value=News&TabID=16&Type=FullArticle
- Gilles Peterson track listing - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/gillespeterson/tracklistingarchive.shtml?20080918
- Discography - http://www.discogs.com/artist/DJ+Mujava
- Release date - http://www.last.fm/music/DJ+Mujava/_/TOWNSHIP+FUNK
- 6 Mix - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dmg8y
- BBC Asian Network track listings - http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/bhangramixtape/tracklisting_archive_20081018.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/djkayper/tracklisting_archive_20081001.shtml
- BBC Radio 1Xtra track listings - http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/djedu/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/mistajam/20090911.shtml
- NME cool list 2008 - http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&p=5229&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
- NME entry - http://www.nme.com/artists/dj-mujava
- NME on his signing to Warp - http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php%3Fblog%3D15%26p%3D4402%26more%3D1%26c%3D1
External links
- Township Funk music video on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l5-zQlgoEE
- Live at DISK/CTM09 in Berlin
Categories:- Living people
- South African musicians
- South African DJs
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