South African powerhouse DJ duo Major League DJZ releases a new single for the year 2024 titled Margaret featuring Victony, assisted by Thakzin and Morda.
South African music powerhouse, Major League DJZ, is crafting the sound of the future with an exciting blend of immersive African sonics and futuristic production.
The twin power duo born Bandile And BaneleMbere have sustained a high level of commercial success and received critical acclaim across a career that spanned a decade and seen them play a critical role in rewiring the modern musical DNA of the rainbow nation while experimenting with elements from hip-hop, kwaito, afro beats, and amapiano.
Thanks to their throbbing brand of party-starting music, the brothers have achieved cultural icon status in their home nation and across the continent, collaborating with respected acts like Cassper Nyovest, Abidoza, Blaqnick, and Patoranking.
Born in exile to a family of anti-apartheid campaigners, the twin brothers grew up in Boston, Massachusetts Where their family moved in the same social circle as legendary South African musicians like Hugh Masakela, Caiphus Semenya, Letta Mbulu, and Miriam Makeba.
These associations offered the twins an unconventional education on South African jazz and popular African music which they paired with the hip-hop music that they loved in America.
Upon the end of South Africa’s apartheid regime, the brothers returned to the country and started to build a platform for themselves as party organizers. From throwing parties as high schoolers, the brothers began to experiment with DJ-ing, lining up for DJs who missed sets at their well-attended parties.
Additionally, the brothers have held special edition parties in honor of western stars like Akon, Fat Joe, and 50 Cent.
Possessing similar elements to kwaito, the brothers embraced amapiano, another homebrew sound, just as it was rising to national popularity in early 2020.
Two albums, Pianochella and What’sTheLevol, both released in 2020 helped to document their fascination with amapiano as they sauntered between light-hearted ballads and more uptempo party ravers on both albums in collaboration with guests like CostaTitch, Kamo Mphela, and Stunna.
The rising popularity of amapiano and the effects of the COVID-19pandemic which meant that people couldn’t congregate for their Major League Gardens shows meant that the brothers had to pivot to virtual means to keep their audience sated; this gap led to the creation of their wildly-popular Balcony Mix series.
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