Archive for July, 2007

This is our live show from Thursday 19th July, featuring three very talented heads from the Leeds scene - DJ / Producer Kidkanevil and MCs Testament and J Bravo. Beats, cuts and lyrics as usual, plus some beatbox action from Testament and an impromptu film review section. Pure random…

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 A couple of weeks ago I was sent “Tricksta Presents… UK Runnings - TheUrbanShop.co.uk Mixtape CD”, a non-stop UK Hip-Hop mixtape featuring Blak Twang, Roots Manuva, Ty, Rodney P, Klashnekoff, Kyza, Turbucolisis, Kid Radical and many more… whilst including a 20 minute “roots mix” at the end of the CD.
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From Def Jux’s biggest selling artist Aesop Rock, his fourth album has a mixed bag when it comes to the stories the tracks tell: 39 Thieves tells the tale of high school mischief, The Harbor is Yours embodies the viewpoint of a children’s story whilst Fumes examines the ever too common story of relationships gone [...]

Going Under The Patio…

I was reading The Last Skeptik’s “Under the Patio” article  today and I have to agree with alot of the points he raises in his article regarding downloads and the UK hip hop scene… 

See, the best thing about downloading, illegally and legally, is that the word can be spread far and wide with minimal cost to [...]

This is a Hostile Takeover…

 Northern Hostility is an ever-growing, ever-changing music collective based around Leeds, York and Huddersfield but with affiliates and collaborators around the UK. It is still in its youth, we only started this April 2007 with members of loads of different crews and collectives, such as DS Fam, Battlers, Alphabetix, Invizible Circle, Watchmen, Moulding the Breaks [...]

The internet is showing leanings towards accepting this guy as the new truth - he’s on some whole Neo shit. Referencing DMT (dimethyltryptamine ) - for a laymen’s explanation check here) is a sure way to get my attention, since I’ve been reading about its usage and natural occurrence in our Pineal gland during dreams [...]