TLP.1(HARDNOISE)

ABOUT TLP.1(HARDNOISE). THE ELUSIVE TLP.1, IS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE GREATEST MC’S TO HAVE EMERGED FROM THE BRITISH HIP HOP SCENE. THE FOUNDER MEMBER OF LEGENDARY UK HIP HOP "BRITCORE" PIONEER’S HARDNOISE , ONE OF SIX SOUTH LONDON TEENAGER’S WHO AS VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN, RANKED OUTSIDERS, EXPLODED ONTO THE UK UNDERGROUND HIP HOP CIRCUIT IN 1990 ,WITH A MONSTER WHITE LABEL ENTITLED ‘UNTITLED’,…………”HARDNOISE, START THE PANIC!!!”.THEY WERE SOON SIGNED TO SIMON HARRIS’S INDIE MUSIC OF LIFE RECORD LABEL, WHERE ‘UNTITLED’ HAD AN OFFICIAL RELEASE.THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY THEIR SECOND CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AND REMARKABLY LAST 12” DOUBLE “A” SINGLE, “SERVE TEA,THEN MURDER” AND ”MICE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LION PART 1’’.HIP HOP CAUGHT A PRE TEEN TLP.1’S ATTENTION AT AN ALL BOY’S, SECONDARY SCHOOL ASSEMBLY, WHERE HE WITNESSED A BREATHTAKING BREAKDANCE PERFORMANCE BY A GROUP OF OLDER PUPILS,A COLLECTIVE CALLED "THE GROOVE PATROL"(SOME MEMBERS ALSO BECAME TNT ROCKERS).IT WAS THE VISUAL IMPACT AND THE STRIKING ELECTRO (HIPHOP) SOUNDSCAPE THAT CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF TLP.1.A YEAR OR SO ELAPSED AND TLP IS ENCOURAGED TO TAKE UP EMCEEING ( JUST FOR THE SAKE OF IT) BY A SCHOOL FRIEND,AT A TIME WHEN HIPHOP WAS STILL PREDOMINANTLY INSTRUMENTAL, AND REGGAE (DJ’S) ‘TOASTERS’ OR ‘CHATTERS’ WERE MORE PROLIFIC, THEY SOON FORMED A PARTNERSHIP,TLP.1 WAS THE UNASUMING,UNPREDICTABLE , LYRICAL TECHNICIAN,THE “CLARK KENT” OF THE OUTFIT, ALSO THE MAN BEHIND THE BEATS,WHERE AS HIS ASSOCIATE WAS THE OUT GOING DESIGNER LABELLED, LADIES MAN, THEY HAD ASPIRATIONS OF CUTTING A DUBPLATE/ WHITE LABEL ,BUT TLP.1’S LYRICAL PARTNER BACKED OUT AT THE LAST MINUTE.TENSIONS HAD RISEN BETWEEN THEM WHICH CULMINATED IN THE BANDS DEMISE, AND SUBSEQUENTLY THEIR FRIENDSHIP.IT EMERGED THAT TLP.1, WAS THE TALENTED ONE OF THE PAIR.UNDETERED,AND MOTIVATED EVEN MORE SO, A QUIETLY CONFIDENT TLP .1 CONTINUED TO EXPLORE AND EXPERIMENT WITH BEATS,MIXING,DJ’ING AND LYRICS AS A PASTIME, WHILE CONCENTRATING ON HIS STUDIES.ON LEAVING SECONDARY SCHOOL TLP.1 OFFICIALLY BECOMES….. TLP.1 (THE LYRICAL PRINCE 1),AND CONTINUES WITH HIS MUSICAL PURSUITS BACKED BY AN INCREASINGLY STRONG DESIRE TO MAKE A RECORD, TLP.1 SEEKED THE ADVICE OF “SUZIE Q” OF THE COOKIE CREW, WHO WERE LOCAL GIRLS, AND THEREAFTER PUTS TOGETHER HIS OWN DEMO, ON WHICH TLP.1 ALSO PERFORMS THE DJ CUTS.TLP.1 IS NOW SCOUTING FOR POTENTIAL “HIP HOP” DJ’S FROM AMONGST HIS ASSOCIATES,TO BECOME PART OF A DOUBLE ACT , BUT TO NO AVAIL, TLP’S LAST RESORT WAS ONE OF HIS CHILDHOOD FRIENDS ‘CLARKIE’, WHO WAS HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH REGGAE SOUND SYSTEMS,ALTHOUGH ‘CLARKIE’ WAS ENTHUSIASTIC,HIS EFFORTS AS A HIP HOP DJ PROVED TO BE DISASTEROUS, BUT HIGHLY AMUSING.’.ON COLLEGE INDUCTION DAY, TLP MEETS ‘J’ ,WHO BECAME DJ ‘CUTABOVE’, WHO WOULD LATER CHANGE HIS NAME TO DJ SON. TLP.1 INFORMS “J” OF HIS MUSICAL AMBITIONS, AND SHOWCASES HIS DEMO TAPE, THEY BOTH CLICKED, ENDED UP AS CLASSMATES, AND INSEPERABLE FRIENDS. TLP.1 IS INTRODUCED TO CUTABOVE’S BROTHER, AN ASPIRING DJ MADA, AND FRIEND NYCE D, TLP.1 TAUGHT CUTABOVE HOW TO PERFORM DJ CUTS ON DEMO.TLP TAKES TO THE STAGE FOR HIS FIRST PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, AT A LOCAL EVENT CALLED ‘I’LLIN’ FOR UNDER 18 YEAR OLDS, BASED AT THE BRIXTON FRIDGE, SOUTH WEST LONDON WITH DJ CUTABOVE. TLP.1 HAD PREVIOUSLY DARED HIMSELF (NUTCASE!) TO GO ON STAGE INFRONT OF A NOTORIOUSLY ICEY CROWD…AND WAS REWARDED WITH A GOOD RESPONCE.AT COLLEGE, TLP.1 AND DJ CUTABOVE MEET, DJ A.J AND MC GEMINI ,WHO WERE A YEAR ABOVE THEM. TLP.1 AND GEMINI WOULD BECOME LYRICAL SPARING PARTNERS,TLP INSPIRED BY GEMINI’S ENTHUSIASM AND COMPETITIVE NATURE,’STEPS UP HIS GAME’ AND STARTS TO TAKE COMPOSING LYRICS MORE SERIOUSLY, TLP PLAYS GEMINI SOME OF HIS PRODUCTION IDEA’S, GEMINI’S ORIGINAL DEMO “BLACK HOLE OF PANDAMONIUM” (WHICH PRE DATES HARDNOISE) IS PUT TOGETHER BY TLP.1. ACCORDING TO GEMINI’S SPECIFICATIONS,UTILIZING THE “APACHE” DRUM BREAK, AMONGST OTHER SAMPLES.HARDNOISE BEGINS TO TAKE FORM: GEMINI’S TRACK SETS TEMPLATE FOR HARDNOISE SOUND, AND INSPIRES TLP.1 TO CREATE AND WRITE ‘PURE DESTRUCTIVE POWER,’ THE TITLE OF WHICH IS TAKEN FROM A LINE IN GEMINI’S “PANDAMONIUM’’ LYRICS.AROUND THIS POINT, AT COLLEGE THE COLLECTIVE HAVE DECIDED TO BECOME A BAND,TLP.1 HAS NAMED THE GROUP HARDNOISE. OFFICIAL LINE UP: TLP.1,GEMINI,SON,MADA,AJ,NYCE D. ‘PANDOMONIUM’ IS RE-PRODUCED AT DJ DAZZLES HOUSE, HARDNOISE DEMO’S GET THE ATTENTION OF GREEDY BEAT LABEL OWNERS, ‘PURE DESTRUCTIVE’ IS CHOSEN FOR FIRST RELEASE, BUT LABEL GOES INTO ADMINISTRATION.DISAPPOINTED BUT DETERMINED,THE BAND SHOP THEIR DEMO'S TO NUMEROUS RECORD LABEL'S UNSUCCESSFULLY,THEY ARE TAGGED AS BEING "TOO HARDCORE!".TLP.1,GEMINI,SON,AND AJ, BUMP INTO A CHARACTER SELLING RECORDS,FROM A BAG OUTSIDE OF THEIR COLLEGE. THIS TURNS OUT TO BE “BLADE”, THEY DISCOVER THAT THEY ARE ON COMMON GROUND, PHONE NUMBERS ARE EXCHANGED AND HARDNOISE ARE SOON INTRODUCED TO BLADES PRODUCER ‘MASTERMIX’,WHO ON HEARING THE HARDNOISE DEMO’S SEE’S THEIR VERY RAW POTENTIAL. AT A LATER DATE,TLP.1,SON AND GEMINI ARE AT MASTERMIX’S STUDIO PUTTING TOGETHER “UNTITLED” DEMO, TLP.1 RETURNS TO THE STUDIO AFTER A TRIP TO THE LOCAL SHOPS TO SUPPLY PROVISIONS AND DETECTS THE BARE ESSENTIALS OF UNTITLED UNDERNEATH A DELUGE OF SAMPLES.HARDNOISE ARE IN COLDSTORAGE STUDIO’S BRIXTON,OVERSEEN BY “MASTERMIX,” ALONG WITH ENGINEER “NO SLEEP NIGEL” FOR THEIR WHITE LABEL RENDITION OF “UNTITLED” WHICH WAS INITIALY DUE TO BACK BLADES NEXT RELEASE AT THE TIME. TLP.1 ORIGINALLY WANTED TO PUT HIS VOCALS DOWN SECOND, BUT MASTERMIX INSISTED THAT TLP.1 OPENED THE TRACK, IN THE STUDIO TLP.1 PROVIDES ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION FOR “UNTITLED” WHICH IS’NT ON ORIGINAL DEMO HARDNOISE PRESS AND RELEASE 300 WHITE LABELS OF “UNTITLED”, THEY ARE SOON SIGNED TO MUSIC OF LIFE RECORDS, WHO HAD TURNED DOWN PREVIOUS DEMO’S, UNTITLED IS RE-MIXED AND RE- EDITED FOR OFFICIAL RELEASE,SADLY,“NYCE D” PASSES AWAY SHORTLY AFTER.FOR THEIR SECOND AND FINAL RELEASE HARDNOISE ARE BACK IN THE COLD STORAGE STUDIO WITH ENGINEER “NO SLEEP NIGEL” TLP.1 AND GEMINI HAVE DECIDED TO WORK ON THEIR OWN TRACKS. GEMINI CAME UP WITH “SERVE TEA,THEN MURDER”, (WHICH BENEFITED FROM TLP.1’S ADDITIONAL DRUM PRODUCTION) AND “MICE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LION,PART 1” A POWERFULL DRUM AND BASS DRIVEN TRACK SELF PRODUCED BY TLP.1 APPARENTLY NO ONE HAD HEARD TLP.1’S LYRICS, UNTILL HE STEPPED INTO THE VOCAL BOOTH,AND IT IS RUMOURED THAT HE PUT DOWN HIS VOCALS, IN ONE TAKE!!! THAT WAS THE LAST WE HEARD OF HARDNOISE AND THE LEGENDARY TLP.1

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