Month: January 2006

After releasing “Dance With Me”(remix) on her own label Stellar Entertainments earlier this summer Estelle is back with double A-side promo release “Too Long”/ “Everyday Struggle”.
 

Jalporte from Derby has been putting it around for a while now and making a name for himself around the midlands. He is linked closely with Deprogrammed and has worked with Gnostix, but now his solo career is set to launch and so britishhiphop.co.uk had to catch up with him. Check out what he had to say...

Gouki Productions are from Macclesfeild / Manchester and consists of Chris (MC), Rob (MC), Ben B (MC), Ants (Producer), Jut (Producer) and Matt R (Producer/MC). They have been progressing with their thing since 2002 and are now spreading their proverbial wings.
 

Patriot was born as Jamie David Oldnall on the 19th of June 1986 in Birmingham, England. From a young age music and theatre became a big part of his life, and from the age of five Jamie started writing songs and gained a great obsession with expressing his emotions through theatrical attributes.

Kano has been nominated for Best Urban Act at the 2006 Brit Awards. To vote for Kano all you have to do is register on the website then you get the chance to have your say.
 

Colarj Records are currently promoting The Leano with his debut album Steps To Leanoland. This CD has created quite a storm receiving reviews from a host of leading sites including ukhh, dogmanet.org, NME, Leftlion and it has been played as 'Freshie Of The Week' by Adil Ray on BBC Asian Network.

Beatboxing is one of the few Hip Hop elements that is still relatively untapped by the mainstream, but things may be changing as this elements popularity rises. Seeing people like Kela or Rahzel can blow you away. Dates for the first four heats of the 2006 UK Beatbox Championships have been announced:
 

LB is a new cat on the block to me. But regardless with bangers like this LB is set to become quite well known soon. This track is on an upbeat jump up vibe and LB has some quick fire flows to go along and this should go a long way to curing some of these winter blues.
 

DJ Samo is a party DJ from Cornwall in the South West, but is originally from Scarborough, who is well known for playing hype live sets. Recently he appears to have hooked up with MC Carpetface, but before that coming out on Aerosolik records DJ Samo has produced a couple of mix CDs which are hot to def. The first one which I peeped was See You After The Break which is 1 hour and a quarter of funky sounds.

Supanover has long been at the center of North London's Mud Family and has had a few heavy tracks out. Now he returns with a dark and moody black and white video for his When R They Gunna C? track which is available on Kemet Records. If you ain't heard of Supanover by now you are about to in a big way.