At the age of 13 one of the best djs you are getting to know moved to London, UK. Simply and uniquely known as Mixolis from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
In the United Kingdom he became exposed to different types of music from Hip hop to Dance, but Garage was a sound that he fell in love with through listening to it on radio, friends and the culture in school, when it was really mainstream in the 90’s, another genre he secretly loved was dance although none of his friends were into that kind of music, Mixolis would listen to it at home and developed a really passion for the music.
Through listening to dance Mixolis got into house music, influenced by songs from artists like Masters at work, Mood to Swing, Frankie Knuckles stuck to his ear and have never left since…
A few years later Mixolis got into introduced to Djing by Slybee, who taught him the basics of beat mixing on cdj’s and from then on he taught himself most of the stuff and even taught himself how to use vinyl decks.
Around that time he was part of a crew called Touchdown Soundz. Mixolis got most of his experience from playing at various venues with Touchdown Soundz, playing at venues like Cougar Pinks, the exclusive Rex club (Piccadilly Circus in London) and a few residencies. Mixolis’s membership with Touchdown Soundz ended in December 2007.
Mixolis has met a lot off people over the years; one of them most influential on his development is one of the most underground producers and dj popular known as Roots O’batala aka Roots or FTL who is the owner and A & R Director of Asante Records who are famous for releasing tracks by Marlon D, Roots, Sis N Jones, Ian Friday, Glenn Underground, Joi Cardwell and Yoshihisa H as well as Boodhi Satva to name a few. Roots has been mentoring Mixolis from the day they met, Mixolis’s sound and style has been changing and it is now at a certain level that he has been trying achieve, through different live and production sessions.
Through a development of a special dj project, Mixolis has teamed up with one of his long time djing partners Blessings popularly known as Slybee to establish a dj duo called ambas’sadas.
ambas’sadas are live on Life FM 103.6 FM every Tuesday from 22H00 – 00H00 GMT with monthly guest djs and producers and also several interviews as well as soon on several internet radio stations also live sessions and monthly mixdown sessions for several internet site portals.
Stay tuned for more developments on Mixolis and ambas’sadas project venture – the explosion is about to erupt.
