Elvis Maswanganyi (born c. 1985), better known as DJ Mujava, is a South African DJ and electronic music producer. He has released music through

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, This Is Music and Sheer House.

Life and work

Maswanganyi was raised in the

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n town of Atteridgeville. His electronica track "Township Funk" was released on

in 2008. It was played by

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. He mixed a half-hour session in 2008 on BBC Radio 6 for an episode of 6 Mix hosted by Iyare. He has been featured by BBC Asian Network's

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and Sonny Ji, and BBC Radio 1Xtra's DJ Edu and MistaJam. He is signed to This Is Music in the UK and Warp Records internationally. He was voted number 34 on

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in 2008, and is a featured artist on the ''

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'' website. The film "Future Sound of Mzansi" produced by

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and distributed by ''

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,'' features an interview with DJ Mujava in which he says that being arrested for marijuana possession resulted in detention in Weskoppies psychiatric hospital and being forcibly injected with drugs that have affected his subsequent music production. His last known collaboration was with the South African DJ and record producer DJ Qness, with whom he remixed the single" XXX0", originally by the UK based pop singer M.I.A.

Discography

Albums

*''Sgubhu Sa Pitori'' (Sheer House, 2006) *''Sgubhu Sa Pitori 3'' (Sheer House, 2008)

Singles

*"Township Funk" ( This Is Music and

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, 2008) *"Township Funk Remixes" (This Is Music and Warp, 2009)

References

External links

Official page
on Myspace * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mujava, Dj Living people South African musicians South African DJs South African house musicians Warp (record label) artists Electronic dance music DJs Year of birth missing (living people)