Irish Hip Hop SuperThread

The next few people I plan to put together a bio style thing on are The Infomatics and The Animators. I know these can be a pain to put together, so if anyone has any requests let me know and I'll see what I can do.

The Infomatics have only ever released one album, this was back in 2008 and is called "Kill or Create". This in my opinion was a landmark album in Irish hip hip. It broke down barriers in sound with musical influences from accross a heap of genres. They also introduced alot of live instrumentation into thier performances and recordings. The 2 MC's in the band also had something to
say and could slow things down or deliver in a rapid fire tempo.

The line up consisted of Bugs, BOC, Steo and Mr. Dero.

They won the Sony Ericcson Artist of the Year in 2009.

They also gained national exposure from The Raw Sessions series around the same time.

As far as I know they havent performed as a group together in a number of year now. I've managed to catch them LIVE a few times and the performances were excellent.

Here's a sample track from Kill or Create


Any fan or supporter of the national hip hop movement should really try to source a copy of this. you can even hear the album in full here -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbPbKL_ZFXQ&list=PLCQNxPV-JejrXj_F3NvIs8e-LoFCmjjtc&feature=share

As far as where they are now, MC Steo is still heavily involved in music. He is part of the Spectrum Drum N' Bass crew where he does his DnB MCing at thier events. He's also on the Spectrum show on RTE Pulse on Sunday nights.

He has also collaborated with a host of big names in Drum n Bass and featured as a singer/MC on a number of tracks.

Many people may not know this, but he is actually a great singer as well.
And he is also an excellent beat maker, I dont know him, but we've crossed paths on a number of occassions, and he's good friends with some of my friends. Because of that loose association to him I've managed to hear alot of his beats, and I was blown away. I'm not sure if he ever has plans to do anything with them.

As far as the other members of The Infomatics, I've no idea where they are at now.

As a follow on from the post on Alan Newman earlier in the thread, Boss Level 2 is shaping up nicely, video is in the works and the track has been aired once I believe on the Hip Hop Stop radio show.

If you friend the Boss Level page on FB, you get some promo bits and pieces and verses that are really good.

Also, this interview from the set of BL2 was released today:


You can catch the beat for BL2 in the background of the video, got some whomp to it.

BL3 is also in the works, confirmed rappers so far are:
Siyo, Bitter Rocc, Collie, Shaool, Akil the MC from Jurrasic 5.


And here's another new track from him as well:

https://soundcloud.com/alan-newman/wine-roses-by-alan-newman

LD put up some descriptions of his albums on FB last night. Interesting reading so Going to quote them here

LD50

Wrote the majority of this album aged 20 in a much different mindstate to today, some bars from as far back as 18..Time flies! Was rough around the edges but still proud of the **** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5wyFoRfLtw

LD50 Pt.2

Was in the zone with this one, we knocked it out in 11 months. All the contributors killed it, especially GI. This and Illosophical in my opinion cemented him as the go to beatmaker in the country. Plus we made the media pay attention too. Definitley proud of this one. http://lethaldialect.bandcamp.com/album/ld50-part-ii

Upcoming 1988 album

Collabed with JackKnife-J on this one after hearing Intervention. The tone is different from older material, no concepts, no socio-political rap. Just true stories, personal ****. Took two years to write because it was a bit out of the comfort zone but its just about done now and has my most honest **** to date and some of J's best beats to date. Keep an ear out for 'Still A Dark Horse'. Proud of this **** also. Hope you's enjoy it! Will be out before summer.
https://soundcloud.com/jackknifej/lethal-dialect-x-jackknifej

The Animators are giving away thier Sketch album for free for a limited time:

http://theanimatorsireland.bandcamp.com/album/sketch

Dynamic is a guy who's been around a few years now. His most recent outings where his Boss Level Bits verse which you can see on the Boss Level Page on Facebook. He also was in the Boss Level 1 track.

He's gearing up for an EP release with FUDman on beats, here's the promo video that went out over the weekend. The EP will be called 'This That and the Other'



You can also check out the rest of his tracks on his youtube channel -> https://www.youtube.com/user/dynamiceire1

He is one of the new generation of homegrown rappers that is putting a huge effort into his craft, diverse delivery, decent beat selection, not a rapper that's heavily reliant on similaes, can tell a story. So it's alot easier to listen to then some people's albums recorded over on a 'VTech My First Cassette Recorder', and he's not trying to battle an imaginary person in the room.

I particularly like this one:

A few new things have appeared recently.

First up is the preview for Boss Level - Part 2

Lineup is Myster E, Kid Antics, Murka Murkry, Spekulativ Fiktion, Tenchoo, Bradshaw, Bexi and Genesis Elijah

Bitter Rocc has released the video for The Dream featuring Chris Haze


His next projext is announced at the end of the video.

There's part 1 of an interview with Bitter Rocc on the Project A Apparrel blog
http://projectaapparel.tumblr.com/post/81982327157/bitterrocc

Muirshin Durkin wrote: »

a little fact about bitter rocc, he features in Oasis - Shakermaker video, hes the kid at the start.

He grew up accross the road from them