African YouTube
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mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
really? I really like fire fables, I think he's out-Portisheading Portishead on heartbreak and reportage of 'realness', the video's heartbreaking, really good use of straight-to-camera blog style thing.
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
doh sorry just got what you meant, edited now
that sounds amazingly like an old chicago track circa 88'.
Fuck me, you couldn't be more right about this part.
Your chest for turning me on to this.
That Mujava track has been released on Warp.
Digital release too, Beatport etc.
Already been mentioned here, but I dont frequent that sub-forum...
http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=7971&highlight=mujava
Digital release too, Beatport etc.
Already been mentioned here, but I dont frequent that sub-forum...
http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=7971&highlight=mujava
Benny Bunter
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The Strange Story of “Township Funk,” The Unlikely Hit That Helped South African Dance Music Go Global
After breaking through on YouTube in 2008, DJ Mujava disappeared back into the South African townships that gave his song its name, as questions of authorship lingered.
Here in the Northern Hemisphere, the first people to hear “Township Funk” discovered it online. Luke Williams and Oli Isaacs were getting their indie label This Is Music up and running when Williams stumbled upon the track on the music forum Dissensus, where a user had posted the song’s video in a thread called “African YouTube.” It was an era of extremes: Minimal techno and dubstep, both niche sounds, were in full swing, and buzzing, overdriven electro house was cresting. But MP3 blogs and YouTube were also fueling listeners’ restlessness for something new.
“I was like, ‘What the hell is this? Who is this guy?’” Williams says now. Struck by how that synth lead uncannily recalled long-forgotten strains of UK rave, he decided the song deserved a wider audience.
woops
is not like other people
there are more edmunds on this forum than there are lukes
sus
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Unbeknownst to Williams, another Dissensus regular, Marcus Scott, who did A&R work for Warp, had stumbled upon the same African YouTube thread. Just a few days after Connor’s meeting with Williams, Scott called him up with a request: Could Warp license the song? Connor worked out an agreement that, in retrospect, seems almost quaint: This Is Music would get it for the UK, and Warp (which was distributed in South Africa through Sheer Music) would get it for the rest of the world.
john eden
male pale and stale
Much busier back then with more posters. Still overwhelmingly male and white though. A lot of people just posting about music or just posting about philosophy so it was less cohesive than now.