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Jorun Bombay

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Released: Jan 1, 2009
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  • Genre: Hip Hop / Rap / Turntablism

    Location Halifax, Ca

    Profile Views: 37186

    Last Login: 12/14/2011

    Member Since 1/20/2006

    Website under construction

    Record Label Independant

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    ..Check out the steeze!.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Up until age 7, i was surrounded by portuguese / brazillian music like Jorge Ben Jor, Os Incríveis, Tom Ze, Nilton Cesar and everything in between.. at age 8, my family moved to the north end Halifax in the mid/late 70's and my musical surroundings drastically changed. I had been exposed to rick james, chic, kc & sunshine band, jackson 5 & Sugarhill gang for the first time. the story begins right here.. .. Although i'd been listening to hip hop since the start of the whole sugarhill era in '79, wanting to be part of all this started for me after hearing WHBI tapes in 1984 and Red Alert/Chuck Chillout/Mr. Magic & Marley Marl tapes in 1985. Started DJing and performing publicly 1986 and made demos.. opened for Run-DMC, Michie Mee, Public Enemy during the later half of the 80's. ..After some locals on my block got signed to a major deal in 1989 (MCJ & Cool G on capitol records) they left town and the scene here in Halifax pretty much died out altogether.. except for myself who kept doing my thing but it became boring cause no other hip hop groups were around so I assembled a large group of smaller groups.. called ourselves "Haltown Projex" and recorded them for almost no fee and did shows with them as their producer/DJ just so there would be a scene here. Our scene blew up a year later in 1993. ..Some of those friends i brought in included Buck 65 (who was called "haslam" back then), Sixtoo (who was called C.L. Scarr back then) , Classified (same name) and pretty much anyone who was someone in Halifax hip hop from 1993-2001. (literally +100 MC's and DJ's from the east coast of canada) ..I've released and/or appeared on 60+ albums/CD's/7 inch-12 inch singles either by myself or with others in the span of 15 years. (check my "Discography" blog for titles) My 10th complilation was released in 2005 entitled "Joruns Way". .. I was (and still am) the deepest crate digger on the east coast of Canada... supplying/trading breaks and old school joints to many a beathead. (with thanks to people like Soulman, Mike V and DustyKid for the knowledge) I am also an archivist and have OG reels and unreleased gems in my vault by some of the ppl i've recorded in the past who later got signed. Currently recording with Ghettosocks & TImbuktu for a project called "Teen Burger" and recently dropped a Vinyl release with UK Label DWG (Diggers with Gratitude) & longtime diggin homie Phill Most Chill / Soulman. More to come! ..I'm always DJing here locally and have one of the biggest and most successful old school funk/soul/roller boogie nights at a club called Tribeca (downtown Halifax) The event is called "ALL CITY" (Originally started by Double A who passed it onto myself) and i DJ there with guests DJ's and MC party hosts who specialize in rockin a party! Come peep us out if you're passing through. .. Edit note : I don't listen to rap demos or links of other peoples beats. When i'm not making hip hop i'm listening to non rap related stuff, so if you send me a link looking for feedback on your "rap stuff" chances are i will just ignore it. I'm not an A&R .
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  • Influences

    Lightnin' Rod .. Beatnuts .. Prince Paul ..Pete Rock ..Primo .. 45 king .. UTFO.. DJ Cash Money .. D.I.T.C. .. KRS-ONE .. Jurassic 5 .. Grandmaster Flash & Furious 5 .. Grandmaster Caz & CC4 .. Cool DJ Red Alert & Chuck Chillout .. Crash Crew .. Funky 4 plus one more .. Lisa Lee & Sha Rock .. Jazzy Joyce .. Marley Marl & MC Shan .. The Juice Crew (including Mr. Magic) .. Run-DMC & JMJ (r.i.p.) .. Afrika Islam .. Van Silk .. Busy B Starski .. Fantastic Romantic 5 MC's .. Donald D & Brother B (the b-boys) .. Fabulous 5 mc's .. The World Famous Supreme Team (WHBI w/ Jus Allah Superstar & Cee Divine the mastermind).. Rock Steady Crew .. Rammelle Z & K-rob .. DJ AJ, DJ Bobcat .. LL Cool J (Circa 85-95) .. P.E. .. Audio 2 & MC Lyte .. beat diggers like Cut Chemist .. Shadow .. Diamond D .. Afrika Bambaatta (& the Zulu Nation) .. Kool Herc .. Jazzy Jay .. Soulman .. .......just to name a few. .. .. And those real artists from the old school battle tapes.. all of them!!.. ..Needless to say, i'm a big fan of the funk/soul/roller boogie era as well. Everything from Kool & Gang (live version of summer madness is my joint!!!!!) Cymande (huge huge fan) Fred Wesley and the JB's, Roy Ayers, Pleasure (fantasy records), Trouble Funk, Vaughn Mason, One way, Keni Burke.. so many names.. this list can go for awhile. Kudu + CTI artists as well. (Bob James, Grover Washington Jr., Ron Carter, Idris Mohammad..etc) Blaxploitation funk like Johnny Pate, Edwin Starr, JJ Johnson, Barry White (R.I.P.) I was also raised on Latin/Brazillian/Portuguese music (Os Incríveis, The Clevers, Tom Ze, Odair Cabeca, etc.)
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  • Stumpy89

    Pink flamingos on yo' lawn. Happy day Jorun!!

    2 years ago
  • Mister Monark

    I'm looking forward to hearing the mastered version of that posse cut homie. Shit iz gonna be hot bars of fire!!!! Oh and good luck with the video with Socks tooo Jo. MEGA PROPS TO THE GOD FATHER OF HALI!!!!! PEACE OUT

    3 years ago
  • Sound Syster

    Too bad that you had a bad experience with one of your music suppliers.  Shatty.

    3 years ago
  • Silver Fox 125

    DAM IM SO GLAD THAT HIP HOP GAVE BIRTH TO YOU SON! ITS LIKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR! LUV YOUR SOUND BRO PEACE FROM SILVER FOX!

    3 years ago
  • Loc Dog

    Diggin the new track!

    3 years ago
  • ATHERTON

    this is so great

    3 years ago
  • Stumpy89

    Man! I hope your trip out west was FUN! Vitamin Tribe kids back with the Dank Daddy, sounds like an excellent party.

    3 years ago
  • 950 King

    Hey Jo, how's your summer going man? lol Everytime I'm diggin at Taz somehow me and John end up talking about you and your legacy, thanks again for keeping it real through all the years. I still bump all the tunes I have on vinyl or cd of Jorun...

    good luck in BC brotha, rock the house!!

    peace

    3 years ago
  • Stumpy89

    I'm a little early on this, but I hope you have a great day (on Sunday). You age like cheese... or maybe wine. Some kind of food where it gets better as it gets older. xo :P

    3 years ago
  • 950 King

    word up! sounds good brotha, looking forward to the new ish, def lemme know when thats droppin all go cop it at Taz or off u by hand wherever its available.

    u stay up Jo, keep hittin us with the classics. ..Hanging by a Thread.. is MASSIVE! peace

    3 years ago
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