DJ Marfox
Portuguese DJ
DJ Marfox (born Marlon Silva in June 1988) is a Portuguese DJ best known for pioneering batida or batucada, a music genre that emerged from Lisbon's housing estates. Batida and Batucada are referred to as the "ghetto sound of Lisbon", and they incorporate African-influenced dance music such as kuduro, kizomba, funaná and tarraxinha with house and techno.
Taking inspiration from a Nintendo character, 'Marfox' merged part of his first name "Marl" from "Marlon" with Star Fox, a character he played as a teenager.
Career
Silva was born in Lisbon, Portugal to parents from São Tomé e Príncipe. He started deejaying as DJ Marfox in 2002.
In 2005, together with DJ Pausas and DJ Fofuxo, he founded DJs do Guetto and a year later they released DJs do Ghetto Vol. I, a digital compilation made up of 37 tracks, onto eMule. This compilation, which has since been re-issued as a free download by Príncipe Discos, has been viewed as the foundational release of the ghetto sound of Lisbon.
His first solo album, Eu sei quem Eu Sou (I Know Who I Am), released by Príncipe Discos in early 2011, was described by Philip Sherburne as “an atomic field of taut drums, hiccupping yelps, zapping synths and pinprick details."
In 2014, DJ Marfox released an EP called Lucky Punch on Lit City Trax and performed on the Red Bull Music Academy in New York, as well as in the Warm Up—the live music concerts curated by MoMA PS1. According to Cedar Pasori, DJ Marfox's participation in MoMA PS1's highly acclaimed experimental electronic music series, which took place on 30 August 2014, "reinforced the accelerating spread of Afro-Portuguese dance music around the world." The album Lucky Punch was listed as one of DAZED's top ten albums for August 2014.
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