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I first started making beats back in 1988 at Box Studios owned by Alan "Razor" Reeke, in south London. The crew I rolled with then were called Touchdown MC's which consisted of Myself, JCMC and TR Reble XWe sent a demo track to Jazzy M of legendary pirate station L.W.R. since we knew him from Mi Price Record shop in Croydon. He passed it on to Andrew Beer of Warrior Records, who then got in touch with us to do a track on his compilation album called "Stupid Fresh".TR and myself parted soon after and Released a track under the name of RHYMESIDE on the Highly rated UK compilation "Harcore vol 1" which was also released in '88 on BPM Records. The track was entitled "This Ain't Nothin'". Both of the above tracks were engineered by No Sleep Nigel.After chillin' musically for a couple of years, I then hooked up with fellow producer Sir Prestige [before he created his S.M. production label] and formed a group called Bedlam. This consisted of 3 emcees; [Mr.] Ripper, Sly The Eastwing Spy and once again JCMC.We created an album which we planned to drop ourselves, but the group split before this could materialise. Ripper went on to feature on a long time friend of mine, Insane Macbeth's LP. The track is called "The Title Track" with Ripper spittin' the lyrics as an artist feature.Ripper again hooked back up with me to feature on one of my projects. The track can be heard on my My Space homepage. It's titled "Marked 4 Death"I'm now currently remixing a soon to be release LP of an up and coming artist called Wiser. This is planned to drop in the summer of this year. My own projects are also still in the making.I connected with My Space in order to link other artists, so if your wanna do collaborations or are in need of a producer, then just get at me through myspace connection.Bless!
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Member Since: 2/15/2006
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Influences: Hip Hop: Ced G from Ultramagnetic MC's, Tone Love outta Tuff Crew, I.G. Off, DJ Chuck Chillout, Kool Herc, Kool DJ Red Alert, Whiz Kid (R.I.P.), Marley Marl, The 45 King, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Dr. Dre, DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ Ca$h Money, Dj Premiere, The Bomb Squad, Hijack, Hard Noise, etc... --- As for emcees, the list is never ending; Ultramagnetic MC's, Kool Keith, Rakim, Kool G Rap, Canibus, Ras Kass, KRS-One, Chill Rob G, Ice-T, Lakim Shabbazz, Brother J (X-Clan), Big Daddy Kane, Schoolly D, King T, NaS, TR Reble X, Kamanchi Sly, TLP-1, Crazy Noddy, Freshski, Chu Champion, MC Mell'o, HuntKillBury Finn, Kinetic Effect, [Mr.] Ripper, The Icepick, Grizzly, MC Duke, MC D, No Parking MC's, Overlord X and many more... --- Respect to: Insane Macbeth, DJ Fingers, Mo Rock, DJ Streets Ahead, Imperial Mixers, Mastermind Roadshow, Cosmic Jam (R.I.P.), DJ Richie Rich, (O.G, UK), Sergeant Rock, DJ Don't Ramp, The Demon Boyz, Twilight Firm, Imperial Mixer (P), DJ Pogo, Cutmaster Swift, Katch 22, She Rockers, Monie Love, Cookie Crew, MC's Logic, The Reckless 2 from N.London, Mike Allen, Tim Westwood, Marc Anderson, Tony Bevans, Dave Pierce and exquisite engineers Alan "Razor" Reeke of Box Studios & No Sleep Nigel. etc... [most of these guys helped build the firm foundation of UK Hip Hop] --- Musicians: James Brown, Dexter Wansel, Curtis Mayfield, Barry White, Roy Ayers, Issac Hayes, AWB, Grover Washington Jnr, Soul II Soul, Fatback, Eddie Henderson, Johnny Hammond, Ramsey Lewis, Joe Tex, Arthur Prysock, Eddie Kendricks, Lyn Collins, Deodato, Jam & Lewis, Sherrick, Funkadelic, Ike Turner, Booker T & The MG's, Lonnie Liston Smith, The Blackbyrds, Side Effect, Dayton, Atlantic Star, Light of The World, Isley Brothers, The Jones Girls, Chic, Patrice Rushen, Can, Johnny Pearson, Madness, The Specials, The Selecter, Supertramp, ELO, Keith Mansfield, BB & Q Band, Change, Bar-Kays, Cameo, The Commadores, Alan Hawkshaw, Mountain, Led Zepplin, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple & many more... --- Respect also goes out to all those London Pirate Radio stations that kept the funk to soul to hip hop music alive; JFM, Invicta, LWR, TKO, Skyline, Horizon, Solar, Starpoint FM, Kiss FM, Passion Radio, RJR, Rock to Rock, Groove FM, Lightning, Powerjam, Bassline, Station FM, Twilight & Joy FM...and not forgetting my ol' sound system crew 'Taste of Paradise': Rockerrs, Redbeard, Swayzee, Sweet P, Leroy the engineer man [Reloy], Newton, as well as myself.
Sounds Like: 1] Hard hittin' Underground beats chopped and twisted samples for the lyrical craftsman emcees that want to keep it real. 2] Synth produced cuts with funky programmed drums. more melodic for you mainstream rappers. 3] Mad Off-Key, but creative samples, combined with synth sounds to give an un-orthodox vibe.
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Wussup peeps? Decided to post up another track of mine; "So Drunk, So High" featuring Sly The Eastwing Spy from Lime Green. This was recorded about 2 years back a few months after the Ripper featured ...
Posted by Apollo Belladona on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:58:00 PST

About Apollo Belladona

I first started making beats back in 1988 at Box Studios in south London. The crew I rolled with then were called Touchdown MC's which consisted of Myself, JCMC and TR Reble XWe sent a demo track to J...
Posted by Apollo Belladona on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:49:00 PST