Press releases, bios and promotional texts
A dab hand at biographies and newsletters, blurbs long and short, liner notes and promotional texts, and putting words to the promotion of singles/EPs, albums/compilations, and upcoming/established artists/DJs/producers/events.
EXTENSIVE experience in print/online reviews covering hip-hop and most forms of dance music.
Features & reviews in print and online for Seven/DMC Update, Hip-Hop Connection, Breakin Point, Rime Magazine (US), Undercover Magazine, One Week to Live, IDJ, Remix (US), FACT, Clash, BigShot (US), Mrblunt.com (US), Worlddj.com, Datatransmission.co.uk, Monolith Cocktail.
Promotional work for BBE, Be Yourself Music, Armada Music, Clarisse Records, Chased Management, Publicity Lab, KD Music, Lewis Recordings, YNR.
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Press releases, bios and promotional texts
Slovakia’s LUISEDEMARK follows the marvellously murky ‘My French’, played out by Bingo Players and R3HAB, with the twisted tech house thunderbolt ‘Talum’. Whereas ‘My French’ got straight on the warpath and wouldn’t let go, ‘Talum’ is a more intricate masterblaster with a deceptively funky centre, spraying leaping bass-synths from one corner of the club to the next. Featuring a massive breakdown toying with emotions - slowing down, speeding up and dripping with menace to make any arena stand...
Clarisse waste no time in bounding into the next century of deep and funky club sounds by giving fans their just desserts with the introduction of Argentinean DJ and producer Gruuve. Siding with tribal beats and with his own MUUV imprint to match, Marco Carola, Stefano Noferini, Roger Sanchez,...
Nationally distributed blurb via Darling Department accompanying greatest hits release
Column - Rapture & Verse for Monolith Cocktail
Album Review/Matt Oliver Telemachus 'Boring And Weird Historical Music' (High Focus) LP/Available Now His involvement with everyone who's anyone in UK hip-hop - Verb T, Ocean Wisdom, Kashmere, M9, The Last Skeptik, Jam Baxter and legions more - lead to The Guardian lauding Telemachus/Chemo as "one of those slightly obscure figures who has helped British...
Album Review/Matt Oliver Ill Move Sporadic 'Drug Corpse II (Body Disposal)' (Starch Records) Album/Available Now "You never know when you might need to know skills/in body disposal, it's no frills" - Necro, 'Dead Body Disposal', 2001 Just like volume one, but more drugged up and expecting more cadavers on the slab.
Reviews & features - Clash magazine
Man's not hot at Selfridges... Man's not hot at Selfridges... Kickass in the new Hyperflex+ jeans... Kickass in the new Hyperflex+ jeans... Admin / / / 06 · 09 · 2012 The white-skin with blonde hair has a striking, Eminem shock of the new to it, topped with a trademark ponytail that swings like a mace, recalling Madonna's Blonde Ambition with a smattering of Gaga meets Mira Sorvino.
At the risk of retreading an old argument to which there is rarely a definitive answer, who historically is the most significant trailblazer in hip-hop: Grandmaster Flash? Kool DJ Herc? Grandwizard Theodore? Soulja Boy Tell'Em? How about Roger Linn? Wait, who was that last one again?
Although they're very much an active rap act in the present day, there's no doubting that 's moment came at the first time of asking, when they released a debut album so striking, and so influential since, that everything that's followed has inevitably been measured against it.