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Recommend me some foreign Hip Hop
Ok i've been really gettin into some nasty Russian Rap: "Kasta" the flows are nasty even though i dont know what they are saying and the beats are hot.... can somebody recommend me some really cool foreign hip hop groups any language is fine. just something with some sick beats.. thanks!!
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Here are three ESSENTIAL albums you need my friend.
Below are the albums and reviews for you......................
ORISHAS "A LO CUBANO"
"Orishas are, primarily, a Paris based quartet. Three Cubanos and one Frenchman who deliver one of the headiest mixes of contemporary music to be found anywhere. Taking their name from that given to the Gods of Santeria Orishas's album is the meeting point, and melting pot, for Franco-Latino hip-hop, rap and salsa.
The band were formed when two of France's best known hip-hop producers, Don di Niko and Livan, linked up with Paris based Cuban musician Roldan and two rappers from the premier Cuban outfit Amenaza. After getting together to record some initial demos the band realised that they had something special, Rap Cubano.
The real skill in A Lo Cubano comes in the way that they have combined the disparate sounds of the separate cultures to create something which sounds completely natural and organic. On tracks like Represent and 1.9.9.9. they bring Cuban musicianship to the hip-hop format, while delivering their own personal manifestos. Represent tells the band's own history, talking of the tough lives the Cuban trio lived while growing up in the Cayo Hueso district of Havana and their eventual escape into the Orishas project..
Perhaps the best example, on the album, of the marriage of the two cultures can be heard on 537 C.U.B.A. where they take the traditional song Chan Chan and completely overhaul it. Originally performed by Company Segundo, who appeared in the Wim Wenders film Buena Vista Social Club, in the Son style Chan Chan is the chosen street anthem of Cuba. The Orishas version turns it into a ghetto anthem for the Cuban Diaspora, telling of the hardship of the expatriate experience.
Cuban music has gained huge acclaim worldwide thanks to the Ry Cooder project and Orishas should add to that standing. Coupled with the distinctive French hip-hop style, which has influenced US artists like the Wu Tang Clan, this music speaks of oppression and despair felt by those who have to live outside their homelands and have to suffer the daily burdens of intolerance and discrimination. It is a breathtakingly beautiful album and looks like being the soundtrack to the summer."
TTC "CECI N'EST PAS UN DISQUE"
Remember hip hop in New York back in 1995? Puffy was at the height of his commercial dominance, mainstream rap had never seen so lacking in fresh ideas and there seemed no alternative. Then, within a year, Mos Def, Company Flow, the Arsonists, J-Live and many more exploded onto the scene, the New York Underground was born and attitudes were changed forever.
Fast forward to Paris in 2002. The situation might look familiar. Despite its commercial successes, French hip hop seems short on ideas and creativity, is dominated by two camps and apparently has nowhere left to go. Live shows have been stymied by the threat and fear of violence. Of vision, humour or integrity there seems very little sign. What better time, then, for the small Paris Underground to stand up and be counted? Artists like La Caution, James Delleck and, yes, TTC. While too many minds restrict themselves to rapping about how they "cut you like a knife", institutionalised censure or the effects of globalisation, Tido Berman, Teki Latex and Cuizinier have chosen the path of originality. Or, more precisely, they have not had to choose. The three MCs of TTC don’t try to be original, they simple aspire to be honest. Or kind of honest, anyway.
"Tido has a funny haircut and likes spending his days re-inventing the French syntax, Cuizinier is all thugged out," explains the rubber-faced Teki, "and I'm that old funny dude obsessed with lesbianism!"
TTC’s first, self-released single, "Game Over ‘99" came out, unsurprisingly, in 1999. When one of the group’s producers, Mr Flash, dropped off a copy with Will Ashon of Big Dada that summer he was blown away.
"My French isn’t great, but the three voices contrasted so well and had so much character I instantly wanted to sign them. I was playing it to anyone who would listen, just laughing at how technically good they were. It was only later that I found out just how dirty the lyrics were. Then I liked it even more."
Since signing, the group have released two singles for the label. First came "Leguman" which dealt both with superhero vegetables and a detailed description of the Parisian Metro. Then there was "Elementaire," where the trio re-imagined hip hop, went on about talking space cakes and took the Michel out of wack French rappers. During this time, TTC have also made contacts all over the world, exploring the true internationalism of the underground scene with the result that they are well known from the USA to Japan and have even played a heap of shows in Finland.
Their live performances are also well on the way to becoming legendary being, as they are, an exact opposite of what one would expect from a traditional French rap group. They don’t jump, they don’t dance, but undulate with their eyes closed most of the time, usually half-cut. Almost insulting the public by spending more time talking about their lives than actually rapping, they develop a strange spectacle, full of surprises and disguises, somewhere between performance art, comedy and the Sex Pistols. Some people in Paris hate them for it. Those people are wrong.
"Ceci N’est Pas Un Disque" ("This Is Not A Record") finally offers the group the opportunity to let their imagination run freely over twelve tracks. As Teki puts it, the album is "about three entire lifetimes spent receiving incredible, overly saturated and extreme amounts of information from various sources such as interactions with people, school, work, the media, modern pop culture, etc... our interpretation of that crazy amount of information and the way it affects us, how it reflects in our way of dealing with our own feelings, expressing our emotions and just basically expressing ourselves through music." This leads to results that sound like Abba on the Paris Underground anthem "Pollutions", Company Flow’s off centre b-boy abstraction on "Subway", the noise of footsteps in the snow sampled on "Danser", Autechre"s electronic-rigour on "En Soulevent Le Couvercle", the twisted logic of David Lynch on "Reconstitution" and straight-up anti-cool-rich-kids satire on "Pauvres Riches.
With guests including Doseone and producers including DJ Vadim, "Ceci N’Est Pas Un Disque" is funny, sick, serious, heartfelt, kitsch, abstract, bumping, internationalist and very, very French all at the same time, with enough ideas to shame those who think hip hop has said all it can say.
And if it seems like the band might be beginning to take themselves too seriously, then wait till you hear that "we consider things such as friendship, respect and education important."
Teki snorts another laugh. "Haha, not really."
Your English Language Guide to "This Is Not A Record"
Your genial host, Teki Latex, talks you through what he’s talking about (if you see what we mean).
1- Nonscience
The concept of nonscience is a cross between total nonsense and the opposite of consciousness. Basically, it's a lot of childhood images put together with no real logic, which form a nice picture.
2- (je n'arrive pas à) Danser
I can't manage to Dance... I can't manage to enjoy my life the way I know I should, I can't manage to be understood by people the way I would like to. Tido's beat is so porno.
3- De pauvres riches
Happy healthy wealthy people who think it's "hip" to live a hard life. Rich kids dreaming of the ghetto. Bourgeois - bohemes. The chorus is pure sarcasm, so, no hard feelings, kiddos.
4- Teste Ta Comprehension
Us messing with the letters T T and C in each and every possible way. Tony danza, Terminator and Conquistador.
5- Pas D'armure
Doseone rhyming in french at the beginning of the trackactually reminded us of a bunch of cheesy french crooners, which is an excellent thing. A festival of flows on the topic of interactions between humans and misinterpreted behaviours, over an incredible beat by Para One.
6- Reconstitution
We watch too many movies such as Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway or Memento.
7- Subway
Teki Latex is the rail, Tido is the train, Cuizinier is the underground gallery... and the parisian metro becomes a peplum.
8- Pollutions
We team up with La Caution to form L'Armée des 12 and talk about various kinds of pollution... especially pollution of the mind and just basically how putting things in places where they don't naturally belong can destroy lives.
9- Soudaine montée d'adrénaline dans l'éloge
With the help of James Delleck, we describe the mixed feelings that we get right before we hit the stage. The thin line between stress and motivation.
10- Toi-Même
This is the follow up to "Toi" (b-side to the Elémentaire EP). Wack MCs, we dislike them. "All those rappers don't scare me, as a matter of fact i'm not sure they're scarying anyone, like those bandana-wearing vandals in Michael Jackson videos". DJ Fab's beat will make you bounce like it's actually possible to bounce while listening to a TTC track.
11- En Soulevant Le Couvercle
We are talking about this revolutionary feeling-proof emotional shield we built for ourselves.
12- Elémentaire
The 4 elements of hiphop are now officially water air earth and fire, tell your friends.
And last of all the absolutely superb debut by France's legendary Saian Supa Crew "KLR".
Bag these IMMEDIATELY!!!!!
Below are the albums and reviews for you......................
ORISHAS "A LO CUBANO"
"Orishas are, primarily, a Paris based quartet. Three Cubanos and one Frenchman who deliver one of the headiest mixes of contemporary music to be found anywhere. Taking their name from that given to the Gods of Santeria Orishas's album is the meeting point, and melting pot, for Franco-Latino hip-hop, rap and salsa.
The band were formed when two of France's best known hip-hop producers, Don di Niko and Livan, linked up with Paris based Cuban musician Roldan and two rappers from the premier Cuban outfit Amenaza. After getting together to record some initial demos the band realised that they had something special, Rap Cubano.
The real skill in A Lo Cubano comes in the way that they have combined the disparate sounds of the separate cultures to create something which sounds completely natural and organic. On tracks like Represent and 1.9.9.9. they bring Cuban musicianship to the hip-hop format, while delivering their own personal manifestos. Represent tells the band's own history, talking of the tough lives the Cuban trio lived while growing up in the Cayo Hueso district of Havana and their eventual escape into the Orishas project..
Perhaps the best example, on the album, of the marriage of the two cultures can be heard on 537 C.U.B.A. where they take the traditional song Chan Chan and completely overhaul it. Originally performed by Company Segundo, who appeared in the Wim Wenders film Buena Vista Social Club, in the Son style Chan Chan is the chosen street anthem of Cuba. The Orishas version turns it into a ghetto anthem for the Cuban Diaspora, telling of the hardship of the expatriate experience.
Cuban music has gained huge acclaim worldwide thanks to the Ry Cooder project and Orishas should add to that standing. Coupled with the distinctive French hip-hop style, which has influenced US artists like the Wu Tang Clan, this music speaks of oppression and despair felt by those who have to live outside their homelands and have to suffer the daily burdens of intolerance and discrimination. It is a breathtakingly beautiful album and looks like being the soundtrack to the summer."
TTC "CECI N'EST PAS UN DISQUE"
Remember hip hop in New York back in 1995? Puffy was at the height of his commercial dominance, mainstream rap had never seen so lacking in fresh ideas and there seemed no alternative. Then, within a year, Mos Def, Company Flow, the Arsonists, J-Live and many more exploded onto the scene, the New York Underground was born and attitudes were changed forever.
Fast forward to Paris in 2002. The situation might look familiar. Despite its commercial successes, French hip hop seems short on ideas and creativity, is dominated by two camps and apparently has nowhere left to go. Live shows have been stymied by the threat and fear of violence. Of vision, humour or integrity there seems very little sign. What better time, then, for the small Paris Underground to stand up and be counted? Artists like La Caution, James Delleck and, yes, TTC. While too many minds restrict themselves to rapping about how they "cut you like a knife", institutionalised censure or the effects of globalisation, Tido Berman, Teki Latex and Cuizinier have chosen the path of originality. Or, more precisely, they have not had to choose. The three MCs of TTC don’t try to be original, they simple aspire to be honest. Or kind of honest, anyway.
"Tido has a funny haircut and likes spending his days re-inventing the French syntax, Cuizinier is all thugged out," explains the rubber-faced Teki, "and I'm that old funny dude obsessed with lesbianism!"
TTC’s first, self-released single, "Game Over ‘99" came out, unsurprisingly, in 1999. When one of the group’s producers, Mr Flash, dropped off a copy with Will Ashon of Big Dada that summer he was blown away.
"My French isn’t great, but the three voices contrasted so well and had so much character I instantly wanted to sign them. I was playing it to anyone who would listen, just laughing at how technically good they were. It was only later that I found out just how dirty the lyrics were. Then I liked it even more."
Since signing, the group have released two singles for the label. First came "Leguman" which dealt both with superhero vegetables and a detailed description of the Parisian Metro. Then there was "Elementaire," where the trio re-imagined hip hop, went on about talking space cakes and took the Michel out of wack French rappers. During this time, TTC have also made contacts all over the world, exploring the true internationalism of the underground scene with the result that they are well known from the USA to Japan and have even played a heap of shows in Finland.
Their live performances are also well on the way to becoming legendary being, as they are, an exact opposite of what one would expect from a traditional French rap group. They don’t jump, they don’t dance, but undulate with their eyes closed most of the time, usually half-cut. Almost insulting the public by spending more time talking about their lives than actually rapping, they develop a strange spectacle, full of surprises and disguises, somewhere between performance art, comedy and the Sex Pistols. Some people in Paris hate them for it. Those people are wrong.
"Ceci N’est Pas Un Disque" ("This Is Not A Record") finally offers the group the opportunity to let their imagination run freely over twelve tracks. As Teki puts it, the album is "about three entire lifetimes spent receiving incredible, overly saturated and extreme amounts of information from various sources such as interactions with people, school, work, the media, modern pop culture, etc... our interpretation of that crazy amount of information and the way it affects us, how it reflects in our way of dealing with our own feelings, expressing our emotions and just basically expressing ourselves through music." This leads to results that sound like Abba on the Paris Underground anthem "Pollutions", Company Flow’s off centre b-boy abstraction on "Subway", the noise of footsteps in the snow sampled on "Danser", Autechre"s electronic-rigour on "En Soulevent Le Couvercle", the twisted logic of David Lynch on "Reconstitution" and straight-up anti-cool-rich-kids satire on "Pauvres Riches.
With guests including Doseone and producers including DJ Vadim, "Ceci N’Est Pas Un Disque" is funny, sick, serious, heartfelt, kitsch, abstract, bumping, internationalist and very, very French all at the same time, with enough ideas to shame those who think hip hop has said all it can say.
And if it seems like the band might be beginning to take themselves too seriously, then wait till you hear that "we consider things such as friendship, respect and education important."
Teki snorts another laugh. "Haha, not really."
Your English Language Guide to "This Is Not A Record"
Your genial host, Teki Latex, talks you through what he’s talking about (if you see what we mean).
1- Nonscience
The concept of nonscience is a cross between total nonsense and the opposite of consciousness. Basically, it's a lot of childhood images put together with no real logic, which form a nice picture.
2- (je n'arrive pas à) Danser
I can't manage to Dance... I can't manage to enjoy my life the way I know I should, I can't manage to be understood by people the way I would like to. Tido's beat is so porno.
3- De pauvres riches
Happy healthy wealthy people who think it's "hip" to live a hard life. Rich kids dreaming of the ghetto. Bourgeois - bohemes. The chorus is pure sarcasm, so, no hard feelings, kiddos.
4- Teste Ta Comprehension
Us messing with the letters T T and C in each and every possible way. Tony danza, Terminator and Conquistador.
5- Pas D'armure
Doseone rhyming in french at the beginning of the trackactually reminded us of a bunch of cheesy french crooners, which is an excellent thing. A festival of flows on the topic of interactions between humans and misinterpreted behaviours, over an incredible beat by Para One.
6- Reconstitution
We watch too many movies such as Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway or Memento.
7- Subway
Teki Latex is the rail, Tido is the train, Cuizinier is the underground gallery... and the parisian metro becomes a peplum.
8- Pollutions
We team up with La Caution to form L'Armée des 12 and talk about various kinds of pollution... especially pollution of the mind and just basically how putting things in places where they don't naturally belong can destroy lives.
9- Soudaine montée d'adrénaline dans l'éloge
With the help of James Delleck, we describe the mixed feelings that we get right before we hit the stage. The thin line between stress and motivation.
10- Toi-Même
This is the follow up to "Toi" (b-side to the Elémentaire EP). Wack MCs, we dislike them. "All those rappers don't scare me, as a matter of fact i'm not sure they're scarying anyone, like those bandana-wearing vandals in Michael Jackson videos". DJ Fab's beat will make you bounce like it's actually possible to bounce while listening to a TTC track.
11- En Soulevant Le Couvercle
We are talking about this revolutionary feeling-proof emotional shield we built for ourselves.
12- Elémentaire
The 4 elements of hiphop are now officially water air earth and fire, tell your friends.
And last of all the absolutely superb debut by France's legendary Saian Supa Crew "KLR".
Bag these IMMEDIATELY!!!!!
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dutch rap groups Opgezwolle, Fakkelbrigade, Duvelduvel, de Jeugd van Tegenwoordig are worth checking out.
http://www.myspace.com/dubstancenieuwenor
http://www.myspace.com/dogmaskdubstance
it's a clubtrance ting, you wouldn't understand..
http://www.myspace.com/dogmaskdubstance
it's a clubtrance ting, you wouldn't understand..
Not really 'foreign' as such, but Ri-Ra from Dublin, his ex-crew Scary Eire, The Infomatics, and Limerick's Rubberbandits are all worth checking out.....
http://www.myspace.com/maddaxxe
http://www.myspace.com/rubberbanditspranks
http://www.myspace.com/scaryeire
http://www.myspace.com/theinfomatics
http://www.myspace.com/maddaxxe
http://www.myspace.com/rubberbanditspranks
http://www.myspace.com/scaryeire
http://www.myspace.com/theinfomatics
Finnish stuff
-Kemmuru.Aksim's beats are good.
-Loost Koos aka Lost Cause. They've a couple of releases in English as well.
-Thono Slowknow aka Tono Slono
-Michael Black Electro. Kind of fusion of hip hop, dubstep and skweee
-Murmurrecording's (Ceebrolistics, Plankton aka Dead-O, Iwere, Salvador aka Mindman...) stuff from their hip hop years. Some good experimental stuff. Nowadays they're more into dubstep, techno and ambient
-Kemmuru.Aksim's beats are good.
-Loost Koos aka Lost Cause. They've a couple of releases in English as well.
-Thono Slowknow aka Tono Slono
-Michael Black Electro. Kind of fusion of hip hop, dubstep and skweee
-Murmurrecording's (Ceebrolistics, Plankton aka Dead-O, Iwere, Salvador aka Mindman...) stuff from their hip hop years. Some good experimental stuff. Nowadays they're more into dubstep, techno and ambient
here is a german group called apollo gold. they released an album on my label a few years back called "Schlichtes Gold". top quality stuff.
http://www.myspace.com/apollogolden
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Apollo+Gold
http://www.myspace.com/apollogolden
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Apollo+Gold
http://www.projectsquared.net
PSQ001 002 003 004 005 out now (12"/digi on Project Squared)
PSQ006 AnD & Tom Dicicco out 27 June 2011 (12"/digi on Project Squared)
PSQ001 002 003 004 005 out now (12"/digi on Project Squared)
PSQ006 AnD & Tom Dicicco out 27 June 2011 (12"/digi on Project Squared)
this is dopetantor wrote:Finnish stuff
-Kemmuru.Aksim's beats are good.
-Loost Koos aka Lost Cause. They've a couple of releases in English as well.
-Thono Slowknow aka Tono Slono
-Michael Black Electro. Kind of fusion of hip hop, dubstep and skweee
-Murmurrecording's (Ceebrolistics, Plankton aka Dead-O, Iwere, Salvador aka Mindman...) stuff from their hip hop years. Some good experimental stuff. Nowadays they're more into dubstep, techno and ambient
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NTM - Supreme NTM
La Caution - Arc En Ciel Pour Daltonien / Peines De Maures
IAM - L'école Du Micro D'argent
TTC - Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque
Fabe - La Rage De Dire
Triptik - Microphonorama
La Caution - Arc En Ciel Pour Daltonien / Peines De Maures
IAM - L'école Du Micro D'argent
TTC - Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque
Fabe - La Rage De Dire
Triptik - Microphonorama
Subroadcast every tuesday from 10pm to 0.30am (Belgian time) on http://www.run.be/ (écoute la RUN) => Dubstep, Jungle, Electro, Acid, Hip-Hop,...
http://www.myspace.com/crewstace
http://www.subversivesounds.be
http://www.myspace.com/crewstace
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Don't really know about that much about european hiphop except from my own country; Sweden.
You should check out the old album "Modern Day City Symphony" from Looptroop. The beats are amazing. The same thing goes for Promoes "Government Music". They are both produced by Dj Embee, really crisp sample-based stuff.
Some Songs to keep an out for: (find them on youtube or whatever)
Timbuktu - The Botten is Nådd
Looptroop - Zombies
Looptroop - Long Arm of the Law
Looptroop - Thief
Promoe - Big in Japan
Myspaces: Some of the biggest names in Swedish hiphop
Timbuktu [Swedish] http://www.myspace.com/timbuktuonline
Looptroop Rockers [English] http://www.myspace.com/looptrooprockers
Adam Tensta [English] http://www.myspace.com/adamtensta
Promoe (one of the looptroop members) [ English / Swedish]
http://www.myspace.com/promoe
You should check out the old album "Modern Day City Symphony" from Looptroop. The beats are amazing. The same thing goes for Promoes "Government Music". They are both produced by Dj Embee, really crisp sample-based stuff.
Some Songs to keep an out for: (find them on youtube or whatever)
Timbuktu - The Botten is Nådd
Looptroop - Zombies
Looptroop - Long Arm of the Law
Looptroop - Thief
Promoe - Big in Japan
Myspaces: Some of the biggest names in Swedish hiphop
Timbuktu [Swedish] http://www.myspace.com/timbuktuonline
Looptroop Rockers [English] http://www.myspace.com/looptrooprockers
Adam Tensta [English] http://www.myspace.com/adamtensta
Promoe (one of the looptroop members) [ English / Swedish]
http://www.myspace.com/promoe
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