Featuring enough boundary blurring styles to please the real music fan as well as names to attract a disparate listenership the lastest release from the excellent First Word Records is ’17 Samurai’, an album of remixes of Kidkanevil tracks. True to Kidk’s original design this selection of reworks will take you on a rollercoaster of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sir Smurf Lil’
‘The A Loop Theory’ – Asaviour & DJ IQ (album review)
April 8th, 2009
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‘The A Loop Theory’ is the Yin to ‘The Borrowed Ladder’s Yang. Asaviour’s earlier album almost saw him ‘do’ the UK Hip Hop thing and that’s out of his system he’s freed himself from the constraints of expectation and tradition. And let’s not forget DJ IQ, they’ve both spurred each other on to create something [...]
Savvy Interview
February 3rd, 2009
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“When I hear the words UK Hip Hop I can’t lie; the thought of unfinished beats, raps about rapping come to mind…” Asaviour has been on the rise for a few years now and his forthcoming LP ‘The A Loop Theory’ will surely cement him a place at the top of the UK Rap pile. [...]
Sarah Shows Love For UK
January 9th, 2009
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1xtra’s Sarah Love shows love for the UK in this weeks show. The majority of UK features are part of a UK spotlight mix although Jehst and Jack Flash feature elsewhere in the show alongside a load of other great Hip Hop. Good to see someone on 1xtra doing what we all thought 1xtra would [...]
Jehst “The Mengi Bus Mixtape” hosted by Sir Smurf Lil and mixed by DJ IQ (Review)
August 13th, 2007
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Jehst’s position as one of the most respected lyricists in the UK is more or less a given nowadays. His dense, intelligent rhymes take some getting into and his style is distinctive enough to divide opinion, but once you’ve break past the barrier and enter his world, the extent to which he dominates and defines [...]
