The last 2 weeks have been absolutely crazy for DJ MUJAVA, his tune TOWNSHIP FUNK might well become one of the tunes of the year !
The youtube video has had the internet and blogs buzzing for weeks now and DJs from all over the planet have been hailing Township Funk as ONE OF THE CLUB HITS OF THE YEAR.
Props and club support already from Erol Alkan, Trevor Jackson, Radioclit, Sinden and Hot Chip (UK), Laurent Garnier and Joakim (FR), Modeselektor and Shir Khan (DE), 2ManyDJs (BE), Crookers and Bloody Beetroots (IT), Martyn (NL) and more...
That's for the hype but now DJ MUJAVA is making a leap into the mainstream with NATIONAL RADIO SUPPORT in the UK as well as GLOWING REVIEWS and FEATURES ...
DJs ZANE LOWE, PETE TONG, ROB DA BANK and GILLES PETERSON have all been playing Township Funk in the recent weeks.
ZANE LOWE said it was a hit on his first play, and played the track a few times since !
Further radio support comes XFM, where JOHN KENNEDY played the track every night as his X-posure 'Big One' , KISS FM' Patrick Forge and Sinden and many more.
QUOTES AND PROPS FOR DJ MUJAVA's TOWNSHIP FUNK
PRESS QUOTES:
"The hottest track on the planet, 'Township Funk'." -- NME.com
"A devastating slice of drum-enraged, bleepy-funk fuelled booty house with an infectious melody, this has huge crossover appeal." -- MIXMAG (Craig Torrence)
"Infectious beyond belief, this is primal, soul-stirring house music". -- MUSICWEEK
"The most distinctive and arresting piece of dance music you'll possibly hear all year." , "Indestructible African Techno." --TIMES ONLINE (Track of the day, 29/07/08)
"Woah, this is stupid fresh. With a tribal, Kuduro beat and ominous dark wave synth base, the pinging, acerbic keys of this oddity will burrow their way indelibly into your consciousness. Potentially one of the most different and ruthlessly effective club hits of the year." -- CLASH
"Cracking tune" -- TIME OUT
"I had no idea that Kwaito- black South Africa's answer to garage - sounded like this: a kind of slowed-down, funked-up, maddeningly catchy version of the bleep techno Warp used to specialise in.
Equally remarkable is the dancing in the video." -- GUARDIAN (Alexis Petridis)
"For some time the writing's been on the wall that South Africa's thriving house scene was going to uncover an international producer sooner or later. Mujava might just be that producer with this strange, minimal groove that's part old school Low Countries techno (think Speedy J), with a little Claude Von Stroke thrown in, part classic Chicago trax and part Africanism." -- DJ MAG
DJ QUOTES:
ZANE LOWE (BBC Radio1, UK) "This is a Hit!"
RADIO CLIT (Mental Groove, UK) "SINGLE OF THE YEAR mega bomb, absolute banger, a radioclit classic that we played non stop for the last year. this is classic material, this is going down in music history."
TREVOR JACKSON (UK) "Been playing this for over a year off a dodgy mp3 i ripped from youtube, this is a seriously good club record, the raw energy of early house in a naive but totally renegade style. love it!"
SINDEN (Kiss FM, UK) "Big love for this! The edit been heating up every set."
CROOKERS (Mad Decent, IT) "f***in' love the track!"
JOAKIM (Tigersushi, FR) "Really Good"
LAURENT GARNIER (FR) "Yes yes yeeessssss. Please send me the music, i looooove it"