Dr Octagon – The Return Of Dr Octagon LP [Casual]
Kool Keith AKA Dr. Octagon, is most renowned for being in the seminal, old school NYC hip hop trio, Ultramagnetic MCs. Hailing straight out of the mean side of the Bronx, Kool Keith has redefined the conventional hip hop styles and introduced a warped, bizarre take on the genre.
Foreign Beggars Live on Jools Holland BBC1 Tonight!!
Ok, well its more like Foreign Beggar, as human beatbox genius Shlomo from Foreign Beggars plays live on the BBC’s flagship music programme ‘Later with Jools Holland’ TONIGHT, Friday November 18th!!!!. Shlomo will be performing a 5 minute beatbox showcase alongside other guests including Sean Paul, Texas, Babyshambles, Salif Keita, Peter Kay and Teddy Thompson.
Conflix & Last Skeptik – Think Twice [Video]
Coming out on Filthy Habits the new single from MCConflix and super producer The Last Skeptik entitled Think Twice is a smooth stormer with a touch of inteigence and groove, components that are rarely married these days.
Area 51 – Know Who You Wit
Area 51 Entertainment, Inc. are back with their re-mastered presentation "Know Who You Wit '2006". A high powered rolling beat produced by DJ KQuick propels this powerful expose of the Area 51 click as they ask do you know who you rollin wit?. The main performers are MCs Snake Hollywood, AbSOUL & Nyghtmare. The re-mastering work was done by Randy at Analog Acoustics, Inc. and he has the resulting sound sweetly polished.
Jake Buchanan (Braincell Harmonics) Biography
My name is Jake and I live in the almighty Shropshire near a little town called church Stretton, as you can probably tell this may be the last place you would have thought of making hip-hop.
Choong Family – Memory Lane / Fall Back [Gridlockaz / Eastside Records]
Definition of Choong: anything that's heavy, gully, denoting a particular flavour of excellence.
Choong Family – The Story So Far…
Choong Family – Higher Elevation Album Sampler
Choong Family are blowing up the UK Hip Hop scene right now. Memory Lane is on the Choice FM A list, BBC 1Xtra B list and The Higher Elevation album has received amazing feedback for radio stations (see Fact File attached) The boys are receiving nuff love on the Music Channels too, four videos deep and in the process of making the fifth, Choong Family are ones to watch out for.
Keith Lawrence & Creature Comforts
Be sure to check the new animated series of Creature Comforts (ITV) from award winning Aardman Animations and look out for the Bling Dogs characters. As you probably know the voices are real life conversations and are filmed before the animation is done. For these dogs the voices are provided by Keith Lawrence and his brother Brian Cooper.
The Screen Nation Film & Television Awards
Oshin the Nomad of 57th Dynasty fame and later his own independently produced and directed UK docudrama series entitled Independent Hype, is now having his work acknowledged by way of his Screen Nation Film & Television Award.