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Band Members: AC & TERRA SLIM
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Add to My Profile | More Videos BUY SKINNYMAN’S ALBUM TOO OUR REVIEW ON www.brit-asian.co.uk AC & Terra, two MC’s representing North West London have been on a ’do it yourself’ grind to the fullest. Selling over 20,000 copies of their mix album ’Human Trash’ on the streets with no help from industry A&R’s or the media in general has been amazing achievement! Many would recognize AC from the Mentor Kolectiv who had a Top 10 video on MTV Base with ’Broke’ as well as featuring on the hit record ’Pasand’. AC was also heavily featured on Mentor Kolectiv’s album. AC & Terra together sound like a refreshed version of Dizzee Rascal which has had the likes of Channel U backing their video ’Human Trash’. This record gained heavy rotation on the TV, they appeared on BBC Radio One’s Tim Westwood Show as well as being voted as ’Unsigned Song of the Week’ for ’If you want it’ on Ras Kwame’s show . AC & Terra secured the number 1 spot for ’Too Much (Grime Remix) on Bobby & Nihal’s weekly radio show while BBC 1Xtra and DJ Semtex in particular has been a heavy supporter of AC & Terra. Overall the duo have gained respect for their dark humour, brutal lyrics and attitude from all over the spectrum. These guys have been putting the graft in and the hard work is paying off as they have performed throughout Europe from Norway to France as well as a Russian tour in the pipeline. Influences for duo stem from Shy FX , Twisted Individual , Goldie, Mobb Deep , MOP & Big L. Brit-Asian ranks AC as one of the hottest MC’s out there, a lot of MC’s rap for the sake of it and chat S!*t which doesn’t make no sense! But the way AC puts his rhymes together, its clever, its funny and its real street associated content! Accompanied by Terra’s flow its music that hits you upside your head! Expect their new record ’ Youthanasia’ to be hitting the streets soon.OUR INTERVIEW ON WWW.THESITUATION.CO.UK By Jeevan Panesar After bursting on to the UK scene with the singles ‘In England’ and ‘Go Go’, AC & Terra had already gained respect for their dark humour, brutal lyrics and attitude. So notable was their impact that impressive acclaim with the underground release of their mixtape ‘Human Trash’, was sure to follow. With an incredible 8000 copies sold through pure hard graft, the terrors are set to take their success further with the same philosophy: do it yourself – all the input, from the PR to the production of the mixtape, has been without the helping hand of a record company piggybank. The Situation caught up with AC amidst his busy schedule to talk about the pair’s hard work, solo projects and future plans, the media and the roguish attitude that has been instrumental in their music and success.Hey AC, congratulations on the album ‘Human Trash’, (20,000 now!) copies sold now independently. How you feeling? Yeah, we just hit that target pretty much this week. It’s alright, but I want to sell more... like (twenty) thousand at least, which we should do in the next couple of (weeks) or so, then I’ll be happy. And it’s just been me and Terra selling it on the street... in the shops we’ve only sold about five copies! You have to make your own buzz first though, then it’ll sell in the shops. And through these sales we’ve funded our video, ‘Human Trash’, which is on rotation on Channel U. The album – what’s with the name ‘Human Trash’? We were watching that film ‘Romper Stomper’ where Russell Crowe is a Nazi and he’s talking about all the immigrants saying they’re ‘human trash’ (laughs). So some ironic humour there. But we’ve both lived in areas where we’ve experienced some form of racism so we connected on that – I’m mixed race and Terra’s Dominican and Jamaican. So there’s a lot of stuff around that theme on the album – we’re not preaching – just talking about it in a funny way. Pretty much like the other things we talk about – girls, money, how men act – it’s all about experience and illustrating different mentalities we’ve come across. You talk a lot about the establishment – where does that come from? What does it mean to you to have this anti-establishment attitude? Well, I wouldn’t say I’m completely anti-establishment – Terra is. He’s the anarchist but I can’t speak for him. But I think that there is a problem. Britain is like a big playground and whichever group was there first rules. Because of these stereotypes that build up around ethnic groups, the newest group gets the police harassment or resentment. I mean, after the 7/7 bombings, I got stopped and searched in my car about 15 times in a month – you get annoyed after a while. All the stuff on the album concerning the police has really happened to us – we’re not on some gangstarism sh*t, but that’s how they treat us. STILL DO GET STOPPPED AND SEARCHED ALL THE TIME!!!!How would you describe your style? One thing that’s got me with the album is the skits where you both just start yelling and screaming... (Laughs) That’s just the way we are all the time anyway. That’s just part of our personalities. A lot of people are like what the f*ck is all this?! But if they think we’re taking ourselves seriously then they’re pretty stupid. You got a favourite song on the mixtape? I can’t answer that... it’s too hard! Who would you say has influenced you with your music? A lot of Drum & Bass producers, I would say - Shy FX, Twisted Individual, Goldie... I always liked Hip Hop stuff with Drum & Bass influence – I was never into Garage – it was too chessy for me. That’s why I like Grime.. it’s edgier and darker. Terra is more Hip Hop inclined with influnces from Mobb Deep and MOP. Big L has got the same kind of dark humour as us. Selling your album independently, do you feel that getting the respect and recognition on the street before hitting the shops and going mainstream is the way to go then? Definately... for us anyway. Because our music is kinda humorous in a dark way... certain people on the scene didn’t really understand it.. thought we were taking ourselves seriously. But the people on the street they get it... they understand our humour. A lot of people in the media don’t really get it if it doesn’t conform to what they understand to be ‘urban music’ or ‘UK Hip Hop’. I know certain journalists don’t get us beacuse we did a track called ‘3310’, where we talked about all the mobile phone robberies that we’re happening at the time, and they thought we were encouraging and supporting it. So what you up to at the moment then? Next week we’re in Paris. We’re hooking up with these French Grime producers called Ego 6. I met them on the street when I was selling the CD and we did a couple of tracks with them, and they’ve been putting our music out in Paris. So we’re just going out to a rave there so that should be cool. Then I’m going to Norway, then we’re in High Wickham, then we’re in Leeds. So we’ve got a hectic week. So are you familiar with the scene in Europe, do you know what to expect from the crowds? No, this is going to be a totally new experience for us, so I’m looking forward to it. You’ve been on the performance circuit in clubs for a while now. Is that where you feel most comfortable with your music? Yeah man, definately. When I was doing Drum & Bass gigs, the crowd was always hype... not like these UK Hip Hop raves where people just stand around lookin screw faced (laughs). So I’m used to a lively crowd. We started in the smaller clubs and we’ve moved up... it’s slow progression but we’re getting there!Good stuff. So you and Terra... how did you get together? Well I used to be a Drum & Bass MC and I was doing that for at least a year before I started writing any lyrics. I was working in double glazing – selling double glazing – and I met Terra there. We just used to rap to each other in our breaks! So we decided to do something together. I knew a producer, so we went to his and started doing tunes together with Terra’s brother Genesis. But me and Terra are on the same wavelength, with our humour and that, so we started working with this other producer Eric Lowe and we put out ‘In England’. It sold pretty well and got some good reviews so we stared making our own beats, which eventually led to ‘Human Trash’. But we’ve been working hard though... doing different hustles to afford the studio time – promoting for clubs in the West End. We got the album done and just started selling it. We work well because we have the respect to work together but also the freedom to do our own thing. Is there anyone you want to work with on future projects? I think Durrty Goodz is heavy at the moment. What’s more important to you – success or respect? Success – respect will stem from our success. The music industry doesn’t matter to me anymore – it’s the kids on the street that matter to me – the teenagers who buy our album. That’s who our album is for... they get us and they’re not consumed with the bitterness of the music industry. The kids – its all for them. Any plan for the future? Yeah we’re working on solo projects – Terra’s working with his brother Genesis Elijah’s label Escape Route Music, and I’m working on my own mixtape that I might put out through them too. We’re also working on our next mixtape, which is called ‘Youthanasia’. Our seperate projects will lead to a broader fan base so it’ll all work out – it’s all good.OUR REVIEW ON WWW.BRITISHHIHOP.CO.UK AC And Terra - Youthanasia - Escape From The Land Of The Wastemen CD [2GR] Written by Nino Saturday, 27 October 2007 AC And Terra - Youthanasia - Escape From The Land Of The Wastemen CD [2GR]ENERGY. MC’s need it too. They don’t just sit and chat. They spit. They perform. And AC and Terra rip apart platinum heavy tracks like tissue paper. This is rowdy dangerous rude boi energy. If this album was a dance move it’d be the krumper’s trademark ’beasty’.Whether it’s conscious or purely natural the guys have this rare ability to violently yank you inside their tracks with them. They ent spitting on top of the song. They’re part of it. Expanding and defining the beats like any good 6 step, they let the music create the lyrics and liveliness these tracks are dripping with.There’s bare lyrical justification of something more people need to give rappers props for; the way they twist, fold and layer language like hot pastry. It’s past anything books and raas will ever teach you. With lines like ’I don’t see a lot of warriors but I see a lot of sheep’ and a perfectly reasonable explanation for many things we somehow all get oursens into - I’m not actually that bad a person. It’s just, ’I had bad luck and trouble everywhere I go’. If a rooster crows only when he sees the light, then somebody must be shining a 4000kW beam in these speng’s eyes.At first the 23 solid track list impresses me. Yet somehow they still kind of pull it off. Thanks to the cleverly constructed beats and raw energy they thrust into the entire disc. It’s like breaking through a 2 year old drum skin you kept putting off replacing, in the middle of a gig. You feel like declaring to the entire crowd what a pleb you are. But instead you unscrew the offending drum, throw it at ‘em and work the rest of the kit like crazy.As a hip hop activist and youth mentor. I want them to approach a new technique with which to lay the blatantly righteous points they are trying to make. From the stress on the weakness behind carrying metal to ’Baby Father Drama’.As a bgirl and drummer. I’m full of respect and I just can’t get enough of these beats. Especially on ’Hush’, ’We’re Not’ and as a saviour for the fast food fuckwit track ’Supersize Me’. ’Make Your Mind Up Time’ has this manic marching band beat that makes the lads worthy of stadium audience themsens. Then you get the Desi Refix of ’Rowdy’. Whoah.Hold up. Did I just?... Did you just?... DID YOU HEAR THAT?! Well, there go my hips.I cannot find one single faulty with this track. And my Desi roots which I have been neglecting lately due to a lack of weddings and fresh Bhangra gigs, are suddenly sparked into action. Trust me. Bhangra personalises hip hop in such an incredible way we’re only gonna see more and more of it all over the place. Also gotta big up AC and Terra for their hands on approach to producing. It’s simple... If you want a job done properly...Plus, if you always try your best and do it all ursen, you never have to regret failure or find ursen laying the blame on anyone else. AC and Terra are becoming the change they want to see.Passivity is no longer an option. Creativity is suddenly a necessity. Of course, the all important anthem comes in the form of ’This Is England’. Here I picture hoards of kids chanting along with two fingers in the air. Aye. This is England. And we’re lucky to be here. Cos you now what?This is talent. This is fresh. And this is locked in my multicoloured mind. Will AC and Terra slip through the fingers of the honest buck audience they deserve?Well, if you want guarantees - Buy a fucking toaster.By NinoLook out for ’Keep It Together’ from AC and ’Work OF A genius’ from Terra Slim very very soon.* http://www.myspace.com/acandterraAC And Terra - Youthanasia - Escape From The Land Of The Wastemen CD [2GR]This is a copy of our review on www.sputnikmusic.com: was sold this CD in the streets of my hometown of portsmouth. The reason im reviewing it is because i think the words needs to get out about this band. They have managed to sell thousands of copies of this album though self-promotion, the album was released on their own label and the Cd was sold to me by AC himself. By doing this these guys have managed to be creative within their music, with dark lyrics and reasonably threatening music balancing out some funny and upbeat songs.Music:The music here has speedy a pounding qualities with the use of dark synthesisers giving way to supremely speedy and urgent beats. The musical style is a suitable balance of grime, garage and D n B sounds. The vocal style is speedy and angry at times but also spoken word and laid back at others.Their use of strange samples bewteen songs gives this 21 track album a storytelling feel as it is supposed to be. The musical content here sets out multi layered beats all of which lay down the feel of the song and the lyrical content. The use of multiple effects is one of the main attractions to me. They manage to stick to the hip-hop style they have chosen but use the multitude of effects and samples to give the CD variety.I think that there are two slight problems here though, I think that the music always creates a certain menacing feel even on the songs which are not along those lines. This could be the point i am not too sure. I think i might be nit-picking. I also think that despite the variety given by the multiple samples the musical content of this album cna become a little repetitive.Lyrics:The lyrical talent present is something which is, in general, clever and varied. I was told by AC when i bought the album that if i was in england then i could understand the idea of the lyrics. I agree, however this is not the kind of "look how british i am! aren’t i cool with my indie cred!" british lyrics. They are intelligent commentaries as seen form the inside.One of the issues covered by this album is the idea of the club lifestyle. One of the songs which covers this is "City Never Sleeps" in which these guys sing of the days they spent staying out all night and raving. They tribute the song in the chorus to the "ravers i used to know". The song is moderately moving and is a clever commentary. The other song of this kind is "If U Want It" which refers to the possibility of dying at a drug filled rave, this one is (as you may guess) quite critical.Another thing covered is the relationships of men and women. One of my favourites is "Lose Weight?" which is a quite funny song about how fat AC’s gf apparently is. In the end she loses weight and starts cheating with all of his friends. It’s a very clever and hopeless kind of comedy. There is also the very critical "Slosh" which is a very good song but reflects an attitude towards "Sloshes"(girls who are very slutty) i cannot necessarily say i agree with so it can put me off slightly to listen to. But all in all they show alot of knowlegde of relationships and typical attitudes between men and women and they are far from sexist.The issue i feel for most in this album is the issue of race. Terra lets lose on the racist people of England (of which there are far too many incidentally) in "Problems". AC holds nothing back in the song "P-Word". As two guys who appear to have suffered at the hands of racism they manage to give very emotional performances with hugely conrtoversial and smart lyrics. They know what they are talking about for sure. There is only one problem i really have with this aspect and that is the use of racist terms (all of which are ironically used fo the sake of making a statement). This is a problem i personally have in general with hip-hop. But alot of people will not have this problem, because AC and Terra are clearly very anti-racist and know what it is like first hand.There are also some more general tracks. Suahc as "Human Trash" and "We Might Never ft. Genesis Elijah" which both have a global social commentary and show the DIY underground ethics these guys have. These two tracks are two of my favourites.OverallThis album is not perfect but is great! It shows a great deal of potential and proves that there is alot more good british hip-hop to come. It is lonely a 4 because there is room for improvement but it is very good. Socially conscious lyrics rapped over multi-layered music are definitely AC and Terra’s winning formula.OUR REVIEW ON www.ukhh.com: Sometimes, with no hype or fanfare, you stumble on tracks that make you go, “Oh shit!” simply because they are so different from the rest of the tracks currently doing the rounds. I think this slab of vinyl emanated from the East End of London but background details are as shady as a winter afternoon.The concept behind the track is as bold as the St. George’s Cross on the inner label; no flowery shit or fluffy lyrics here, just an onslaught of lines that paint as vivid a picture of what it’s like to live in Blighty right now as anything I’ve heard in recent times. Over a no nonsense beat that sounds a little like the backdrop to the Skinny verse on Fingerprints (that’s big sounding with some tough as fuck drums to match), A.C and Terra smack you in the face with line after line of brute truth including everything from racist attitudes, to white girls on the tip, to KFC, to Tube etiquette, to what they’ll do with their best friends fiancée given half the chance.What makes it sound so fresh is that it doesn’t conform to the same template a lot of emcees and DJs are using on the current circuit. This is more like a no shit blast of aggression you’d have expected to hear from Gunshot or Hardnoise a decade ago. It’s a totally agged-out blast of uncompromising vocal expression.
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