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Dj Risco

DJ Risco is one of the hottest hip hop producers in the uk and part of the group Constant Creation with Sheffields Suga Dugi and Joe Precise aka Joe Kobi. He has also worked with most of the best Sheffield artists incuding Hoodz Underound and B Strike, also the Rotherham mc's Yezza and Stag P. Look out for them all down at the Fundamentalz nights every Monday of the at West Street Live, Sheffield where DJ Risco and Jimmy Rich show there skills on the decks along side the top mc's on the open mic.

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Keaver & Brause

Keaver is a veteran of the Ceder studio system, known as a sound effects man but in fact, something of an innovator in electronic music. Brause, a dozen years younger and looking like a baby, has moved from Worksop to Berlin to London to Nottingham, working as a folk singer, and session musician, and is becoming more and more interested in beat sculpting. Their debut album "The Middle Way" twists a broad spectrum of elements to create hip hop founded electronics that relish the use of hazy samples and spiraling rhythms.

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Spiritual South

Formed in 1999, Spiritual South is the brainchild of Mark Robertson, a deejay, producer and

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Far From The Dance

Hail this musical collective that has evolved over many years to become the entity that it is today - Far From the Dance. The 6 members, all in their early 20s, have grown up together since meeting as young teenagers in the late 90s and shared many musical and life experiences along the way. This brings an extraordinary chemistry to their sound and live performance. Far From The Dance have "an incredible talent for songwriting" (Leeds Music Scene) drawing influence from a massive melting pot of musical...

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Spee 69

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Pusha T

Pusha T (born Terrence Thornton on May 14, 1977 in Bronx, NY) is a recording artist, occasional actor, and one half of the critically acclaimed hip hop duo Clipse, which formed in 1992 from Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is also the co-founder and co-CEO of Re-Up Records along with his brother Gene "Malice" Thornton, the other half of Clipse. He has since relocated to Norfolk, Virginia where he and his brother were raised. In September 2010 he announced that he has signed to Kanye West's G.O.O.D.

Black Olives

There are multiple artists with this name: 1) BLACK OLIVES formed in London in 2002 hitting it off headlining for the QUEENS GOLDEN JUBILEE on 2nd and 3rd of June 2002 at TIN PAN ALLEY JUBILEE STREET PARTY, supported by BBC Music Live. The band continued to expand their activity in the capital, being invited continuously to take part in Mathew Street Festivals 2002 & 2003 and other venues across the country.

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Doc Brown

Doc Brown (a.k.a. Citizen Smith) is a British rapper, born in North-West London. Being a son of 2 cultures (his mother is from Jamaica and his father an Englishman) he managed to combine a deep emotional voice with proper and precise language. His songs are usually political and patriotic, although containing some funny stuff.

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Dalek

Dälek (pronounced 'Die-a-leck') is an alternative hip hop duo from Newark, NJ. The group comprises MC Dälek (vocals) and the Oktopus (production). They have often toured with artists from radically different genres, such as Godflesh, Isis, Prince Paul, The Melvins, De La Soul, and Lovage. Dälek's music is dark, noisy and atmospheric, equally inspired by industrial music like Einstürzende Neubauten, the layered noise of My Bloody Valentine and the dense sound collages of Public Enemy.

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Emancipator

To some, it must seem like this young electronic producer came out of nowhere. Emancipator (Douglas Appling) played his first live show in July 2009, opening for Bonobo at the Roseland Theater (cap. 1500). Since then, he’s toured with Bassnectar, drawn crowds at festivals like Trinumeral and Symbiosis, and closed out Sound Tribe Sector 9’s late night parties in Denver at the request of the band.