The Ghana Meets Naija has been known to be a musical concert showcasing musical talents from both Ghana and Nigeria; this year however, organizers, Empire Entertainment in a quest to include all facets of the music industry has revealed plans for a battle between the biggest DJs from both countries on the night.
The showdown which is being termed as a turntable-ist battle royale is set to go down between Nigeria’s highest rated DJ,mixtape specialist and Naeto C’s official disc jockey, DJ Neptune and Ghana’s finest DJ and Sarkodie’s official disc jockey, DJ Mensah.
This would be the first time; deejays from both countries are being pitched against each other and its set to become an exciting part of the show set for the Dome on the 30th of June 2012.
Meanwhile both deejays look to be prepping for a major showdown with DJ Neptune, revealing that in the coming weeks he would be releasing a special Ghana Meets Naijamixtape Vol.1 to prep music lovers ahead of the phenomenal clash at the Dome.
AkeemOladunni known as the Ever-blazing DJ Neptunes, has over the years grown to become recognized as Nigeria’s biggest party dj and has consistently churned out the biggest mixtapes on the Nigerian music market, and has managed to penetrate the African market with his Nigerian HiphopMixtape Volume 1 to 5. He recently release the Naija Party Mixtape and is receiving rave reviews from fellow Ghanaian
and Nigerian Djs.
He started deejaying , from his secondary school days in Lagos, later graduating from the University with a masters degree in Audio Engineering.
Having this qualification cascaded him through his employment years as a qualified Chief Audio Engineer, where he held this position for many years at Galaxy Television Station. This showcased "The Notorious DJ Neptune" skills not only as an audio engineer but as a professional DJ also, this exposure enabled him to organise live performances and live broadcasts and to promote upcoming local and international artists.
Having this exposure lead him to promote himself professional
as a DJ and he started getting hired for local events such as birthday parties, weddings, Christenings, local clubs and Carnival celebrations.
More recently he wants to help promote Nigeria through music. For Nigerian music to be recognised worldwide. "The Notorious DJ Neptune" is heavily involved in Afro Beats, Hip Hop, RnB, and Bashment. You can now find "The Notorious DJ Neptune" spinning his "wheels of steels" every Friday and Saturday at Traffic Nightclub in Luton Beds where he is a resident DJ.
"The Notorious DJ Neptune" is now based in the United Kingdom but still represents Nigeria to the fullest through music everywhere he goes Ghana’s Untouchable, DJ Mensa is a force to reckon in the game of hip pop, R n B, High life and Hip life in Ghana and has been working as a DJ for eight years.
DJ Mensah began his deejaying career with Sound Max entertainment and went on to have short stints with Bull Dog and Yegoalanight club, Aphrodisiac Night Club and club 202 respectively. He was also famously the official DJ for Empire Entertainment a few years ago.
He holds an HND in purchasing and supply and a degree in marketing as well as certificates from the Ghana institute of Journalism in (voice and speech training), in marketing, communication, public relations and advertising.
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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