uk hip hop

[aleks]

anyone can recommend some fresh hip hop stuff from the uk?

[Funkbox]

Just wanting to tell you that i dont know of any good jip-hop
Sincerely,
The Hip-Hop is dying Foundation

[JE:5]

Some of my faves

Aspects
Taskforce
Braintax
Phi-live cypher
Roots Manuva
London Posse
Hijack.......

Not uk hip hop but well worth checking out -

Hawd gankstuh rappuhs mc's wid ghatz

Anti pop consortium.

[dorksword]

V Knid esq
Pulsating Member



Well all the Techno Animal stuff is with US MCs, and their sound is more of an international noisenik style - they have most in common with DHR and Tigerbeat and other such perveyors of distortion. I repeat, the New Flesh album is the most coherently British hiphop album I've heard in a long time, as it has the experimental electronic elements, but also has a lot to do with soundsystem culture - there are licks and tricks from reggae, drum & bass and uk garage all over it. Hopefully LEX records will help to develop things like this, as they are getting uk artists to work with all the Anticon type artists. I saw Mama Fortuna's Theatre Company, who are signed to LEX, recently and I was blown away - they mixed soundsystem type of beats and Anticon kind of orchestral samples with electronic cut-up stuff that was almost Yee-King like, and their rhyme flows were phenomenal - fast and mad and abstract and not trying to be blacker-than-thou, not trying to be american, not even trying to be cockney, just rolling in estuary english cross-class colloquial style. They were good. Skitz is quite a good producer too, if a bit stuck in the post DJ Premier indie hiphop vibe, and his live show with Rodney P is proper larging it style, none of the slight apologeticness that can blight UK hiphop... Vadim and Plus One are doing some brilliant DJ sets with Killa Kela beatboxing, chucking in a fair bit of D&B, and definitely on a distinctly English tip... Apects doing their funny Devon voices could be a bit jokey, but their rhyme skills and production are proper, and their live show has loads of wicked party funk and bouncing of lines between the MCs, kind of like the Beastie Boys at their best... Were they involved with the SI Futures album? I saw them supporting Si's live show...



V Knid esq
Pulsating Member

[Killer tomato]

out da ville....straight outta nottingham

[aleks]

thanks...

[expdlbntrnt]

try www.hushush.com > hednod ... hip-hop from m.j.harris !!! very very NICE !!!