THIS SECTION BASICALLY GIVES YOU A TASTER OF WHAT IRISH HIP HOP IS AND WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE - RECENTLY THE QUALITY HAS BEEN GETTING BETTER AND BETTER THIS IS ONLY A SMALL SELECTION OF WHAT WE ARE ABOUT - IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE IRISH HIP HOP SCENE AND HEAR LOADS MORE AUDIO CUTS THEN U NEED TO FOLLOW THIS LINK TO H2EIRE'S AUDIO SECTION BIG UP TO KEYO FOR PERMISSION ,I DONT THINK THAT IRISH HIP HOP WOULD BE THE SAME WITHOUT THE WORK HE PUTS IN,LETTIN US KNOW WHATS HAPPENIN AND LETTING US HEAR SOME OF THE BEST TUNES AROUND - I'M CLAPPING AS I SAY THIS THE FILES ARE IN MP3 FORMAT - I HOPE THE ARTIST HAVE NO PROBLEM IN ME POSTING THESE CUTS I'M DOIN IT TO BIG EM UP AND FOR NO OTHER REASON
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I THINKS ITS HARD TO HAVE AN IRISH AUDIO SECTION WITHOUT HAVIN THESE GUYS THEY ARE THE ORIGINATORS OF THE TRUE IRISH SOUND, THOSE THAT CLEARED THE WAY FOR THOSE BELOW TO DO WHAT THEY DO.4 MEMBERS STRONG RI-RA,MR.BROWNE.SLOOSH AND 5 TIMES IRISH DMC CHAMP DJ MEK ITS BEEN ABOUT 5 YEARS SINCE THEY BROKE UP BUT AT THE HEIGHT OF THERE FAME THEY PLAYED ALL OVER IRELAND AND EVEN WARMED UP FOR U2 IN CROKE PARK IN 93.THERE DISTINCTIVE DUBLIN STYLE IS WHAT THEY WERE ALL ABOUT AND HHC SIMPLY CALLED THEM "MAD IRISHMEN"- I THINK THAT SAYS IT ALL. DOLE QUEUE IS PROBABLY THERE MOST FAMOUS TRACK - A TALE ABOUT A TYPICAL THURSDAY MORNING I REALLY LIKE THE TUNE AND THER LYRICS ARE REALLY ON POINT. SINCE THEN THE 4 HAVE GONE THERE OWN WAYS, MEK WINNING MORE TITLES PUTTING OUT MIXTAPES AND EVEN A VIDEO CALLED "MEKSTRAVISION" AND AN ALBUM CALLED "MEKANISMS" ON THE WAY LATER IN 01 RI-RA HAS ALSO BEEN PUTTING SOME TRACKS DOWN AND WILL PROBABLY MAKE AN APPEARACE ON MEKS ALBUM AS FOR BROWNER & SLOOSH - WHO KNOWS. FOR MORE SCARY EIRE AUDIO CHECK OUT HERE
FIRST UP TIM a.k.a. EXILE EYE - TIM IS ORIGINALLY FROM THE U.S. BUT IS NOW LIVIN HERE FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS - GIVE OR TAKE HE SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME IN CORK - WHERE HE HE WAS PART OF THE INVINCIBLES ALONG SIDE MR DOPE AMER...IRELAND : DJ HARVEY - THEY PUT ON NUMEROUS LIVE GIGS AROUND CORK BRINGING PEOPLE LIKE HAZO,MEK AND COOL C TO THE ATTENTION OF CORK HEADS , PUT ON A CLUB NIGHT CALLED SHORT FUSE AND EVEN HAD A HIP HOP WEEKENDER TO COINCIDE WITH THE SOUTHERN SOULS AND DISCO FESTIVAL IN 98.ALSO IN 98 TIM PUT OUT HIS OPTIC NERVE EP AND THIS IS WHERE THE TRACK I HAVE CHOOSEN COMES FROM IT WAS A THROW UP BETWEEN "MIND IS A TRIGGER" FT BUSTA C - A TALE OF THE TWO SIDES OF JOYRIDING AND THE TRACK I HAVE CHOOSEN THE DAWN.IT HAS A DISTINCTIVELY IRISH FEEL TO IT - CLICK ON THE LINK TO FIND OUT WHAT I'M TALKIN ABOUT. RECENTLY - TIM MOVED TO DUBLIN WHERE THERE ARE DEFO MORE KNOWLEGABLE PEOPLE WHO APPRECIATE SKILLS LIKE TIME HAS NOT JUST LYRICALLY - BUT PRODUCTION WISE ALSO .HE HAS JUST PUT OUT A 12 INCH ON SIMON MILLEGANS LABEL EQILIBRIUM THE ESSENCE/SUPER SUBVERSIVE, HE FEATURED ON 2 CUTS ON JEREMY MURPHYS ALBUM - BOTH EXELLENT CUTS - AND RECENTLY THERE HAS BEEN NEWS THAT HE WILL BE RELEASING AN EP ON EQUILIBRIUM IN LATE MAY 2001.
HOME BREW CONSIST OF 4 MEMBERS - MC'S RELEVANCE,CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT & GRAMMAR AND DJ COOL C AND HAVE BEEN PERFORMING CONSTANTLY IN DUBLIN OVER THE PAST MONTHS AND FROM WHAT I HEAR HAVE BEEN COMPILING A SERIOUS FOLLOWING.THEY TEND TO SEE THE FUNNY SIDE OF THINGS ANDF THATS WHY I LIKE EM SO MUCH THE TRACK I PICKED FOR THESE GUYS IS A LIVE TRACK FROM A SHOW IN EAMONN DORANS FROM JULY 3RD 2000 UNFORTUNATLY RELEVANCE WAS ON THE MISSING LIST AND THE SOUND IS'NT THE BEST BUT STILL U GET A GOOD IDEA OF WHAT THESE GUYS ARE ALL ABOUT - THE TRACK I CHOOSE IS RELATIONSHIT.HOME BREW WILL ALSO BE FEATURING ON JEREMY MURPHY'S ALBUM - 3 FROM THEM AS A GROUP AND 1 FROM MOONLIGHT .
SINCE I ONLY HEARD THESE TRACKS YESTERDAY - I REALLY CANT SAY TOO MUCH ABOUT THESE GUYS ONLY THE LITTLE I KNOW WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT THEY PRODUCE SOME OF THE BEST HIP HOP I'VE HEARD THIS YEAR ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!! THEY CONSIST OF 3 MEMBERS AND ARw A DUBLIN BASED CREW CONSISTS OF THE EXPERT (PRODUCTION) , MESSIAH J (VOCALS) AND MAYHEM (CUTS) AND ALSO WITH BASS AND LIVE DRUMS BY PAUL DUNNE SOME TIMES. I COULD'NT DECIDE WHICH OF THE TWO TRACKS I LIKE TO POST SO I PUT UP BOTH OF EM THE DOSE and THE PRESENCEFT RELEVANCE FROM HOME BREW SINCE POSTING THIS MATERIAL - CC HAVE GONE ON TO SUPPORT MARK B AND BLADE, THE PHARCYDE AND JERU WHICH HAS DONE A LOT TO HEIGHTEN THEIR PROFILE BUT ALSO THAT OF IRISH HIP HOP IN GENERAL.TO TOP IT ALL OFF THEY WILL BE RELEASING A 12" IN JUNE 2001 ON VOLTA SOUNDS( A UK LABEL) BLOODRUSH/THE DOSE, DEFO WORTH WAITING FOR
OK THIS GUY IS FROM CORK - REAL NAME JEREMY MURPHY AGE 20 LAST YEAR HE WON THE LEBOWSKIS HIT THE DECKS COMP AND THAT BROUGHT HIM TO THE FOREFRONT IN CORK GOT HIS ASS A SHOW ON RADIO FRIENDLY AND THE FOLLOWING GREW. THEN HE WON THE SIEMENS STUDENT DJ COMP - FIRST PRIZE AN ALBUM!!!! SO OVER THE SUMMER HE PROCEEDED TO RECORD HIS FIRST ALBUM HE RECRUITED SOME OF IRELANDS BEST - EXILE EYE AND HOME BREW THE ALBUM NAMED "MY MIXER MADE ME DO IT"[ WHOEVER CAME UP WITH THAT NAME IS A FUCKIN GENIUS ] AND IS OUT ANY TIME NOW.THE TRACK I CHOOSE TO POST IS A TRACK FT EXILE EYE THE IDEA BEHIND IT WAS TO BE A STANDOUT IRISH HIP HOP TRACK TO SHOW THE REST OF THE WORLD WHERE WE ARE ME THINKS THEY DID IT !!!!!JUGGERNAUTS IF U WANNA GET YOUR ASS A COPY OF THE ALBUM GET TO HERE
DEEP SOUTH CONSIST OF 3 MEMBERS - 3 CORK DJ'S WHO HAVE BEEN PLAYIN IN SIR HENRYS IN CORK FOR A COMBINED FOR OVER 30 YEARS. STEVIE G,SHANE JOHNSON AND GREG DOWLING STEVIE COMES FROM A HIP HOP/ RnB BACKGROUND AND GREG AND SHANE ARE STRICTLY DEEP HOUSE - TOGETHER AS DEEP SOUTH THEY BRING A JAZZY FORM OF HIP HOP, THERE FIRST INSTALLMENT IS A TRACK CALLED ETERNALLY NOT AND FEATURES NEW ZELANDER, MIKKI DEE.MORE IS DEFINATELY ON THE WAY, MORE TRACKS FT MIKKI DEE COMIN OUT ON AMERICAN LABEL I RECORDS