Dance music meets hip hop at Beatcheck
Two music genres will come clashing together at Beatcheck on Friday June 20 as one of Britain’s biggest hip hop MCs joins a top name dance act.
UK hip hop veteran Rodney P will take the mic alongside The Dub Pistols at Revolution Bar providing a huge night of soundclash entertainment.
The combination is a smash for Beatcheck, which has now been providing beats, breaks and underground dance music in Milton Keynes for over two years.
Promoter Jason Charles said: “We’ve had a few MCs at Beatcheck over the years, but never one as renowned as Rodney P. The guy’s been at the top of his game for over twenty years so it’s a great for us to get him to the concrete city.
“The Dub Pistols are also one of Beatcheck’s favourite dance acts, so we can’t wait to hear them do their thing together. It’s going to be huge.”
Rodney P is widely regarded as the Godfather of British Hip Hop. He was one the first to rap in his authentic London accent, inspiring a whole generation of British MCs and producers. Performing since 1987, his name has become synonymous with the genre and he has produced, performed or masterminded some of its biggest tracks.
Add to this five years as a BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ, installations at the Tate, work with slam poetry artists, solo albums and music documentaries and you start to see the importance of Rodney P in the UK scene today.
He has also recorded with big UK Hip-Hop giants such as Roots Manuva as well as R&B, dance and electro acts including the Brand New Heavies, Bjork, Roni Size, Nitin Sawhey.
This latest collaboration, in the form of the Dub Pistols, comes in the wake of the dance act’s 2007 album Speakers And Tweeters, on which they teamed up to record tracks.
Like Rondey P, The Dub Pistols are also renowned in their field, having spent the best part of a decade at the forefront of beats culture. The duo, AKA Barry Ashworth and Jason O'Bryan, add a much-needed rock n roll swagger to the UK's dance scene, chewing up hip-hop, dub, techno, ska and punk and spitting them out in a renegade futuristic skank.
Their genre-mashing abilities have led to remix work for the likes of Moby, Crystal Method, Limp Bizkit, Bono, Korn & Ian Brown, Busta Rhymes, and Rodney P, as demonstrated at Beatcheck this month.
They will be joined on the night by Beatcheck residents who will be providing their usual supply of cutting edge beats breaks and basslines until way past a sensible bed time.
Come check their beats.
Beatcheck
The Dub Pistols Soundsystem ft. Rodney P
Friday 20 June
Revolution Bar
Milton Keynes
9 til 3
£4/5
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