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Just fresh from a wee Scottish Tour with Goldie Lookin Chain and Trip as Eastborn/Drop Zone Records Dj (personnally requested by GLC for the Scottish Leg of their tour)- 13T has strutted the boards alongside such exalted company as Run DMC,Gilles Peterson,Gil Scot Heron and Groove Armada, to Metalheadz,The Scratch Perverts,Carleen Anderson (The Young Disciples), The James Taylor Quartet,Jah Wobble,Peter Parker (Grand Central), Blade, Krashslaughta and, almost the entire roster of Wall of Sound and Talkin Loud.13t has even shared the billing with The Fall,Bad Manners,Njoi & The Bassheads,Primal Scream,Oasis,Blur,The Manic Street Preachers,Bjork,Cypress Hill,Rage Against the Machine,Teenage Fan Club and Belle and Sebastian!
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Channel 4,BBC ,Scottish TV and various Channels in the US have also requested and used his music.Presently, The 13th Tribe's personnel rank among some fine players from both here in the UK to as far afield as Senegal,Cameroun,Nigeria,Algeria,Haiti,Maghreb,Guinea Conakry Y Equatorial,Venezuela,Cuba,Jamaica,Spain,Portugal,France,and the USA.Levis have sponsored 13t Limited Editon CD releases,as have Sound City,and they have sessioned for various projects such as Linn Recordings (which allowed 13t to work with Pop producing guru Callum Malcolm who produced Orange Juice,Josef K,Simple Minds,Clannad,Capercaille,The Blue Nile etc) He has also sessioned with projects on Jon Peel darlings Creeping Bent records.
13t has worked with members of Teenage Fan Club,Belle and Sebastian,Snow Patrol,Simple Minds,Serf,Savalas,Dj Harri-Subculture,The Bluebells.Way back in 96 13t started an ongoing cross-Atlantic collaboration with Timbaland,Little Brother,Foreign Exchange,Camp Lo and Miles Davis drummer/remixer The Apple Juice kid.The Result was an Ep called 'Inside The Pyramids'. and featured the talents of the aforementioned Apple juice kid,Shana,Stefan and Omatide 13 from NCs Lower Thirds.
13t has just recently signed up to inimitable UK Hip Hop Label Drop Zone Records.He is set to release an Album and an EP as well as producing beats for Eastborns forthcoming album '13 Bloodlines'.An Ep with Dub DnB guru Morphy i also on the cards -its been a long time coming and promises to be a stunner!! As soon as the Albums are tagged and bagged a World Tour is in the offing,taking in 3 Continents and including gigs in Africa,S America,N America,Europe,Japan,Canada and Australia.http://dropzonerecords.com/artist_of_the_month.sht
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Heres what some poeple think of 13ts vibes
'Scotlands Best Kept Secret' - Gill MIlls (iCast ,Radio 1,BBC,Channel 4,Big Brother,NME Radio)
'Hotter than a chilli-totten hottentot and Smoother than a well chilled Red Stripe....its funky, groovily eclectic music that steals like a magpie and soars like an eagle'- Calvin Bush (Melody Maker,MUZIK Magazine Staff Editor)
'Circa '96 Rides Again,Listen And Learn!' - Charlie Dark and Tony Nwachukwu (Attica Blues-Mo Wax, CDR, BurntProgress)
'yeah! well funky!' - Giles Peterson,Worldwide, Radio 1,Talkin Loud,Brownswood Recordings
Last yr they appeared on ground breaking fledgling label 2600recordings debut compilation CD called Home Entertainment.The CD also featured tracks from Ninja Tune artist Zilla/King Cannibal,as well as tracks from famed underground producers/remixers/djs such as Buddy Peace,Lukid,Sasqwax,Mr Cooper,Sir Howdy etc It met with great critical aplomb in the countrys music press
“Wandering, interesting, organic beats with a lo-fi charm†- One Week To Live
“Some of the best underground instrumental hip-hop in the UK" - (4/5) The Beat Surrender
“An album of art music that simultaneously bristles with static and sooths with blissful pastoral folk†- (3/5) Hip Hop Connection
“Some seriously ear popping shit on a DIY ethic†- 3 Bar Fire
"Perfect for that moment when you want lie back and just be completely immersed in the music†- (3.5/5) Bandidge.com
"Fine instrumental hip-hop grooves" - IDJ
"Extremely well crafted stuff" - ATM
"Pushing the boundaries" - (3/5) Echoes
“This comes highly recommended!" - Bbarak Magazine
“The world needs many more cds like this!†- (6/7) Lazy 8
In 2009 expect an abundance of seismic ear candy from this well seasoned groove platoon.