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Rebel MC, Screaming Soul & DEFDFIRES @ Jamm, Brixton, 1st May
Straight after the comedy night in Catford, I made my way down to funky Brixton town to go and Jam at the Jamm on Kennington Road, I’d just missed Rebel MC do his thing, but luckily caught DJ Snuff on the decks, Screaming Soul and DEFDFIRES performing on stage…Screaming Soul smashed it, heavy bass lines and dub infused beats alongside revolutionary conscious lyrics – our own Nas & Damian Marley duo, straight up! DDF next up with their double time raps and funky beats, big up Jazza on the dance moves still, Prymary Source, EL and Nemesis ripping up the mics, its been a while so it was extra special to see these guys nicing up the place, check out the myspace pages for a sample of the music…
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Jack Jones ft Tugga War & Gappy Ranks – Oh No! Video Feb 2010
A pleasure once again to be on set with the FullyFocused production crew and director Teddy Nygh, with an interesting eye for artistic talent, this time round HipHop vet Jack Jones teaming up with dancehall artists Tuggawar and Gappy Ranks. The outcome is a well shot colourful video, best viewed at 1080p! If your connection can handle it…
Well done to all involved, I myself had just had a bad bike accident a few days before and had to move around set at much slower pace than usual, a challenge still!
Stills from the shoot below with full video at the bottom.
Lyrix Organix @ The Paradise Club, 24th September 2009
Travelling west to Kensal Rise was a funky night of live music and comedy in a cosy little venue called Paradise. Beat boxer Special K opened up with some funky voice skills just before Doc Brown took the stage, a man who I’d photographed 5 years ago at the Jump Off when he was tearing up emcees on stage. Now coming with a completely different flex, DocBrown incorporates rap and comedy to the extent that it just flows nicely and makes sense and makes you laugh! Big up Doc on this, something I haven’t seen live before, he also came with a great theme of using cards to explain and translate street slang into formal English, one of the funniest parts of his set.
Up next was the revolutionary Aruba Red who uplifted the venue with Soulful Reggae infused music, followed shortly by Maverick Sabre who did pretty much the same, almost like an Irish version of the artist Natty, Maverick has some lovely soothing conscious lyrics sung in a way that just captivates the mind and allows it to relax in tune with the guitar strings and lyrics. If that wasn’t enough, the Empress Floetic Lara then stepped up to feed minds with a deeper level of lyrical talent, opening up her set with “Passionate Poets” (check it out on her myspace page) – the kind of song that you appreciate so much it makes you wish you were the one who wrote it! If your thinking on that level anyway…
A wicked night, nuff respect to Dan Tsu who put it all together and also rocked the stage during the jam session at the end.
Behind the Scenes – Interview with Rebel MC & Paul Ibiza, 17th August 2009
Award winning film director Teddy Nygh of Fully Focused Productions has decided to piece together a 20minute film featuring interviews from many of the foundation artists that were responsible for blessing our airwaves and creating a platform for future generations to shine. The film will be part of Home Grown: The Story of UK Hip Hop which will be held at the Urbis Museum in Manchester from the 15th October until March 2010, full details here.
On the sunny Earthday of Marcus Garvey, we travelled down to Brixton to interview Rebel MC, old skool music vet from back in the day, although not considered a HipHop artist, his music is most definitely related.
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Along on the journey was none other than Paul Ibiza (Ibiza Records), who gave us many entertaining stories of running warehouse raves back in the 80’s, as well as the experiences of hooking up with everyone in the scene while meeting up at the Music House in Holloway Road to get dubs cut, these were some interesting times to be in the music biz…
Paul Ibiza being interviewd by Teddy
Rebel and Paul had a lot say and, like many others from their generation, believe the time has come for the stories to be told. To date, no one has really documented the revolution that we have on our hands, being part of something massive from the early beginnings and seeing the developments and impact music has had on all our lives and will have in the future, we hope to bring you more on this very soon, watch this space.
Headknocker @ Musiques En Stock festival, France, 2nd July
Meet the Headknocker crew – Tibbo, Renn, G Easy & Patrice…
Jammin in the beautiful mountainous region of north-east france, Headknocker turned up to rock the crowd in many places, including one of the funkiest jam sessions ive been to in a town called Annecy, I was feeling the vibe so much I had to put down the camera and pic up the mic!
Next up was the Musiques En Stock festival in the town of Cluses, Haute-Savoie, a few thousand people turned up to feel the force in the sunshine and knock heads with the natty dredd…much love goes out to the French family who looked after us like we were their own, we will never forget you!
Below are some shots from the trip…promo video below the pics…MA
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