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RADAR
Available winter 2008 on vinyl + download on Damian Lazarus' Crostown Rebels label
Music week: " Riz MC's debut commercial single sees the MC spitting a biting vocal atop an edgy, cinematic production. His most accomplished work yet."
iDJ
Well, if you haven’t heard about this artist you will want to know more once you’ve heard this release….Radar’s lyrical content really does gets you thinking about the world, and Locodice help by taking you to the dancefloor.
4/5
Top Tune
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Riz MC proves that he has a lot to offer with this infectious anthem, ‘Radar.’
Sounding like a darker, more intense mixture of Hadouken! And Dizzee Rascal, ‘Radar’ boasts a pounding bass line and a chorus so catchy you can’t shake it off. The B-side, ‘People Like People’, is another exhilarating fusion of computerised beats and witty rhymes and the innovation displayed renders Riz MC an exciting artist for the future.
DJ Mag: "stupendous…just as street smart as book smart…the money shot by a country mile…essential. (5 stars) "
Geekpie: "This is one of the best releases to come out this year because it is so spot on in every way and meticulously put together. Riz MC is the sound of the future. Go out, find this, own this, download this, press play, bob your head and recognise."
BANNED from MTV and UK radio (see blog), covered in newspapers, TV and Radio news around the world...have you got the POST 9/11 BLUES? Sing a long...
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Get Cape Wear Cape Fly:
“Musically he expertly mixes political satire, social commentary and smart analysis to a mixture of electronica and orchestration”
Scroobius Pip:
"Riz has the ability to effortlessly get a point across whilst maintaining a vibrant, uptempo sound"
Nitin Sawhney:
“He has something to say and is very versatile. A real talent.”
Akala:
“fucking amazing”
Sway:
“Love the EP. Lyrically he’s really saying something, and these days that very rare”
The New Times, Florida
….Aside from rocking various stages to rave reviews in three cities [in the US this Spring], he also left behind a bombastic five-song EP, Confirm/Ignore, that's as refreshing and jarring as anything to be released this year….His wordplay challenges authority, pisses at conformity, and confronts issues of race and class unlike any rapper in the States, period.
Channel4.com
“His songs are explosive, lyrically driven descriptions of modern life. Riz pokes at social and political ills, as he puts it, "things that piss me off". He'd like us to listen to the words, but if we aren't bopping along and having a laugh, he'll be disappointed.”
“in the process of refreshing both the UK’s acting and music industry...we know Riz MC is About to Blow, it's just a matter of when...” - RWD Magazine
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TOUCH Magazine - 'On the Rise'
“sick beats and rebellious lyrics......hip hop is either crunk or clever. Riz MC is one of the few that can do both”
mos def, the prodigy, talib kweli, bjork, Gill Scott Heron, Massive Attack, Wu-Tang Clan ’enter the 36 chambers’, Leftfield, Roni Size & Dynamite MC, The Roots, LTJ Bookem & MC Conrad, Erykah Badu, Cinematic Orchestra, Goldie, Nitin Sawhney, Mighty Moe, 4Hero, Shabba D + Skibba Dee, Gilles Peterson Worldwide, Switch, Diplo, Radiohead, Timbalaand, High Contrast, Zero dB, J Dilla, Fourtet, Doves, Curtis Mayfield, Big Punisher, Nas, D.O.C., Dr. Dre + Snoop Doggy Dogg, US hiphop 1992-1996 (and all o that good stuff that used to be on ’the Box’), ROOTS MANUVA
Fabric ’true playaz’ nights, zenith daytimers, movement @ bar rhumba
apocalypse now, the thin red line, the godfather trilogy, BBC News 24 vs. CNN vs. Al Jazeera vs. Fox News vs. NDTV, the inheritance of loss, the autobiography of malcolm x...
TimeOut Chicago: "Makes Eminem sound like Lil' Bow Wow...relishes defying type...a verbal sociologist who gets down at drum 'n' bass parties while formulating broad social critiques....No MC on the planet can claim a résumé to rival Riz's"
-- RADAR / PEOPLE LIKE PEOPLE out now on itunes, beatport, and vinyl, released by Crosstown Rebels
-- Nominated BEST ACTOR at BIFA's for SHIFTY (released spring 2009) alongside Colin Farrell
-- 'Dead Set' on Channel4, 'Wired' on ITV (autumn 2008)
-- 'Britz' wins BAFTA and RTS awards, showing in USA autumn 2008, nominated for an Emmy
-- Picked by Massive Attack to support their opening show at Meltdown Festival.
-- FABRIC LIVE main room slot
-- Glastonbury leftfield stage main support for Revd. and the Makers (BBC Intro stage last year)
-- US showcase tour (with Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Laura Marling, These New Puritans + more) gets rave reviews
-- Radio1 Maida Vale session with the Ting Tings + Late of The Pier
-- Mos Def support at Warehouse Project
-- BBC Electric Proms with Zero dB
"spine tingling" - joe whiley, BBC Radio1
"made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck" - huw stephens, BBC Radio1
"I'll remember it for as long as I live" - bobby friction, BBC Radio1
Founded the infamous hipdop/dnb clubnight HIT&RUN - currently in its 7th year in Oxford and Manchester.
MC battling - finalist at
JumpOff spin-the-mic beat some heavyweight names to become champion of 'Bombay Bronx' (the club night of RADIO1 DJ Nihal) and then
Then acted in Road to Guantanamo which won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival (with a fare share of drama on the return journey when I was illegally detained by British Intelligence , as you can read about in the blog on this page)
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Then 'Gadaffi: the Opera' with Asian Dub Foundation, Aftershock with Nitin Sawhney, and appointed EMERGING ARTIST IN RESIDENCE at the Southbank Centre, London.
Acted in Peter Kosminsky's 'Britz', which wins TV BAFTA and RTS for best drama, and is nominated for an Emmy.
Im A Music Producer, I Range From All Genre And Just Generally Go With The Flow lol I Got Some New Instrumentals On My Page And Would Really Appreciate If You Could Find Any Spare Time To Come Through And Check Them Out Still Ey?
All Feedback Is Welcome And Appreciated, Thankyou And Many Blessings.
"There has never been a movement in this country that has not included music." Says Mike Knarr founder of the new revolution infused music station, "The biggest political events in our nation's history have been concerts."
Enter Polygraph Radio, a new 'Truth Music only' patriot radio station that streams music 24 hours a day in full stereo. On Polygraph you'll hear artists you know and many you've never heard of from genres all over the world all sharing one thing, they only sing about issues that matter to us.
Polygraph practices an open mic policy says Knarr, "Its open season on freedom of speech and we intend to keep our broadcasts free from any type of censorship."
Explaining the Polygraph vision Knarr stated, "We plan to take the music revolution to every city, imagine 'Truth Concerts' where activists and musicians team up to wake up the public using music!". Details are forthcoming concerning the first of it's kind "Truth Concert" event.
When asked about hosts and he introduced us to "Radio Gun" Jack Blood who joined Polygraph Radio to interview some of the biggest names in the music industry today. Knarr plans to adding more artists and hosts as the network grows.
Polygraph is giving away MP3 downloads from selected artists on their site and plans to have contests to incorporate their listeners. Every revolution has music, the founders had the drum and fife, the 60's had Hendrix and John Lennon, and we now have Polygraph Radio.
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Polygraph Radio is based in Pennsylvania, broadcasts 24/7 and features familiar and up and coming artists. Polygraph Radio can be heard at at http://ww
Thanks for acceptin. Liking all your work from your acting to your music, you're bringing something new to both scenes!! Come and check out my music if you get a chance, and let me know what you think, altho it is a bit old still.
P.s. I also wanted to know how your family and parents took your career move? were they supportive or not so, cause I'm a muslim too and wanna do what you're doing.
Hope you're around for this big one @Dingwalls on Thursday (no work Easter!). Im DJing and The Hanging Ropes are supporting Transglobal Underground (BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music winners) and Dreadzone Soundsystem.
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