Month: January 2007

Swift It Major is undeniably one of the UK’s rising stars, with two well versed mix CD’s ‘Welcome To Induction’ & ‘Road Work’, Swift is now embarking on his debut album entitled ‘A Park Bench Drama’, and hitting the ground running for 2007 with the release of his first single off the album, ‘Charlie’s Angels’. We caught up with Swift to hear more on the project…

The Swollen Members release their fifth album, (and first UK release through TVT) which is entitled ‘Black Magic’ in January 2007. ‘Black Magic’ is fuel-injected with passion and marks a triumphant return for Swollen Members.

Baltic will welcome some of the most innovative and dynamic graffiti artists working in the North East today into the gallery in January as it presents The G Word.

DJ IQ first shot to fame by winning the youth version of the DMC competition. Since then he has continued to build his DJ rep and is now stepping up his game by including production into his list of abilities. This is his latest production for which he has assembled one of the most awesome MC line ups to grace wax.
 

Dubblege is set to the next man of the moment. He has been pressing on the scene for a while now and with the video now out for last years Lips 2 Da Floor he is set to step up the pressure and take everyone by storm. Not afraid of getting on some people's nerves here he takes several side swipes at grime MCs and does it with a great deal of aplomb.

Award winning artist Akala works with home-grown talent to create an exclusive track, “Respect Yourself” following the nationwide lyric writing competition, Rhyme4Respect.

Cyclonious' talents first came to my attention due to a trip he made northwards to play at Leeds' Urban Mondays night. Having heard some of his tracks, I wanted to find out some more about him so I made the connection and in the process sorted out the following interview for your reading pleasure.
 

If you haven’t heard of The Disablists, you must have been living under a rock for the past few years. They are not only the three-time British Team DMC champions, but they placed second in the world in 2006.