Leeds Hip Hop Scene

Abdominal first grabbed the attention of students and hipsters everywhere in 2001, when he appeared on an early release by Brighton-based DJ Format, a painfully retro piece of conceptual kitsch-hop entitled “Ill Culinary Behaviour”. That track, and I would imagine the majority of the duo’s collaborative efforts since, re-worked the seam of sickly nostalgia already [...]

For their third birthday celebrations new bohemia brought in one of their strongest line-ups to date, and the packed out crowd were as eager as i was to catch one of the uk’s biggest names: DJ Format, not to mention the support acts: Dirty Diggers and Rup.
When I arrived, admittedly quie late on, there was [...]