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Township Funk and the Delight/Danger of Spin Offs20 August 2008
DJ Mujava’s Township Funk should have been the sound to my summer but, as we don’t get those anymore, it’ll have to suffice as the sound of my autumn August. It’s simplicity and melody are what first brought me to the track, buts its the scrappy, almost primal sounding drum machine that really gets me passionate about it.
DJ Mujava – Township Funk
Prefixing a third-world-ghetto to the word ‘funk’ seems like a cynical ploy to capitalize on the success of others, but Township Funk genuinely hails from a scene, Kwaito, born out of the townships of South Africa. Better versed blogs can tell you all about Kwaito, if you care to read on, but my research found nothing I care to share (except for this slice of brilliance). In fact, unlike Funk Carioca, the one thing that this track fails to do is get me intrigued about its origins or make me daydream about the township parties it came from. The most obvious influences to my ears, tend to push me away from other world ghetto pop/global ghetto funk and point me towards cheesy but irresistible Euro House. This rather famous banger in particularl:
Rune – Calabria
If Township Funk can run for nearly as long as Calabria, then don’t be surprised to soon see the Trance Mix, the massive vocal house mash up, the even bigger danish dancehall remix and the biggest of them all: the hip-hop remix of the dancehall remix (plus the obligatory Dominican rap remix of the hip hop remix of the dancehall remix).
In short, get ready for the possibility of getting very bored of hearing Township Funk, very quickly.
In ode to the aforementioned Trance Mix of Calabria here’s another heavenly Euro Trance track by the same producers:
Drunken Monkey – E
(Oh god, this video is so good.)
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