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Bow, London
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Bow is a district in the East End of London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is built-up and mostly residential, and 4.6 miles east of Charing Cross, the area was formerly known as Stratford, and Bow is an abbreviation of the medieval name Stratford-atte-Bow, in which Bow refers to a bridge built in the early 12th century. Bow is adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and a section of the district is part of the park, Old Ford, and with it Fish Island, are usually taken to be part of Bow, but Bromley-by-Bow immediately to the south, is a separate locality. These distinctions have their roots in historic parish boundaries, stratforde was first recorded as a settlement in 1177, the name derived from its Old English meaning of paved way to a ford. The paved way is likely to refer to the presence of a causeway across the marshes. Land and Abbey Mill were given to Barking Abbey for maintenance of the bridge and this endowment was later administered by Stratford Langthorne Abbey. By 1549, this route had become known as The Kings Way and this has since been expanded to a four-lane road. In 1311 Bow remained a village, often cut off from St Dunstans. Permission was given to build a chapel of ease to allow the residents a place to worship. The land was granted by Edward III, on the Kings highway, in 1719, the parish became independent of Stepney and St Mary Stratford Bow consecrated. The parish included the Old Ford area, which has also known as North Bow. Located at 117 Bow Common Lane, E3 the church building by Frederick Arthur Walters opened in 1894, the parish is home to the Vietnamese chaplaincy in the Archdiocese of Westminster. Located at 179 Bow Road, E3, the building by Gilbert Blount opened in 1870. Formerly the parish was run by a community of Dominican nuns, a convent of Benedictine nuns was established at the nearby Priory of St Leonards, in modern Bromley-by-Bow. Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely, And frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of stratford atte bowe, For frenssh of parys was to hire unknowe. This was a reference to the Prioress having learned the distinctive Anglo-Norman dialect of French. French still had the cachet of being the language of the royal court, Fairfield Road commemorates the Green Goose fair, held there on the Thursday after Pentecost. A Green Goose was a young or mid-summer goose, and a term for a cuckold or a low woman
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Dizzee Rascal
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Dylan Kwabena Mills, better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is an English hip hop recording artist and record producer. His music spans grime, UK garage, bassline, British hip hop, and R&B. Mills was born in London. His Nigerian father died when Rascal was young, and he was raised in Bow, London, in a single-parent family, by his Ghanaian mother Priscilla, about whom he says, I had issues as a kid. The way my mum helped was by finding me a different school every time I got kicked out and he attended a series of schools in East London and was expelled from four of them, including St Pauls Way Community School. He also went to Langdon Park School in East London, reportedly, it was around this time that a teacher was the first to call him Rascal. Cagey about exactly what Rascals youthful madnesses entailed, in interviews he mentioned fighting with teachers, stealing cars. In the fifth school, he was excluded from all classes except music and he also used to attend YATI. He was a friend of footballer Danny Shittu, whom he described as almost like a big brother. Unusually among his friends, he read the heavy metal magazine Kerrang. and was a fan of the grunge band Nirvana. Around the age of 14, Dizzee Rascal became a drum and bass DJ, also MCing over tracks as customary in sound system culture. Aged 16, he self-produced his first single, I Luv U, in 2002, he jointly formed the Roll Deep Crew, a 13-piece garage collective, with former school friends. He also signed a deal with the record label XL. During his early career, Dizzee worked with his mentor Wiley to create the still-unreleased song We Aint Having It and he made some instrumentals including Go and Ho and Streetfighter, which used some music from a video game. The set which features many seminal early grime artists was filmed, which was rare for the era, after winning a Sidewinder Award for Best Newcomer MC in 2002, Dizzee was a judge in the Sky1 show Must Be The Music. He also did a verse on the Roll Deep remix of Lets Push Things Forward on the 2002 Weak Become Heroes CD and 12 single by The Streets. Dizzees first solo album, Boy in da Corner, was released to critical acclaim in August 2003. The album would peak at #23, in the same week the album was released, while performing with Roll Deep Crew, the rapper was stabbed six times in Ayia Napa. Many tabloids suggested that this event was connected to an apparent feud between Dizzee and garage act So Solid Crew, and his pinching Lisa Maffias buttocks
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Tate Modern
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Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London. It is Britains national gallery of modern art and forms part of the Tate group. It is based in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark, Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1900 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art. Tate Modern is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the world and it is directly across the river from St Pauls Cathedral. The power station closed in 1981, prior to redevelopment, the power station was a 200 m long, steel framed, brick clad building with a substantial central chimney standing 99 m. The structure was divided into three main areas each running east-west - the huge main turbine hall in the centre, with the boiler house to the north. For many years after closure Bankside Power station was at risk of being demolished by developers, many people campaigned for the building to be saved and put forward suggestions for possible new uses. An application to list the building was refused, in April 1994 the Tate Gallery announced that Bankside would be the home for the new Tate Modern. In July of the year, an international competition was launched to select an architect for the new gallery. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Herzog & de Meuron were announced as the architects in January 1995. The £134 million conversion to the Tate Modern started in June 1995, the most obvious external change was the two-story glass extension on one half of the roof. Much of the internal structure remained, including the cavernous main turbine hall. The history of the site as well as information about the conversion was the basis for a 2008 documentary Architects Herzog and de Meuron and this challenging conversion work was carried by Carillion. Tate Modern was opened by the Queen on 11 May 2000, Tate Modern received 5.25 million visitors in its first year. The previous year the three existing Tate galleries galleries had received 2.5 million visitors combined, Tate Modern had attracted more visitors than originally expected and plans to expand it had been in preparation since 2004. These plans focused on the south west of the building with the intention of providing 5, 000m2 of new display space, the southern third of the building was retained by the French power company EDF Energy as an electrical substation. In 2006, the released the western half of this holding and plans were made to replace the structure with a tower extension to the museum. The tower was to be built over the old oil storage tanks, structural, geotechnical, civil, and façade engineering and environmental consultancy was undertaken by Ramboll between 2008 and 2016
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Alesha Dixon
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Alesha Dixon is a British singer, dancer, rapper, model and television presenter from Welwyn Garden City, England. She found fame in the all-female R&B/garage trio Mis-Teeq, the trio disbanded in 2005 and Dixon pursued a music career as a solo artist, signing to Polydor Records. She began recording her solo album, Fired Up, in 2006. In 2007, Dixon won Strictly Come Dancing and her television exposure led to a successful comeback, which included her signing to Asylum Records, an offshoot of Warner Music Group. In September 2009, Dixon became a judge on the series of Strictly Come Dancing, replacing Arlene Phillips. The replacement of Phillips by Dixon attracted criticism, as some questioned the extent of Dixons dancing knowledge, in 2010, Dixon returned for the eighth series of Strictly Come Dancing and released her third studio album, The Entertainer. In January 2012, shortly after completing the series and her third year as a judge on Strictly Come Dancing. As a television presenter, she has hosted Your Face Sounds Familiar, Text Santa, Alesha Anjanette Dixon was born in Welwyn Garden City to a Jamaican father, Melvin, and English mother, Beverly Harris. Maternally, she has two half-brothers, and on her fathers side, she has three half-brothers and a half-sister and she was educated at Monks Walk School, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. Dixons parents split up when Dixon was four and Dixons father moved away, between the ages of eight and ten, Dixon witnessed her mother suffer domestic violence from her partner, she only spoke publicly about the issue 21 years later, in 2010. The negative times and the times have blocked anything that was good. I believe that child has the right to grow up in an environment where they feel secure and fearless going into the world. Dixons first job was at Ladbrokes, although she aspired to become a PE teacher after leaving college, whilst travelling back home on the train she was approached by another scout who was forming a band and asked if she was interested. Dixons career began in 1999 when she met Sabrina Washington as they joined a dance school in Fulham, south west London. Together, they decided to form a band when Dixon and Washington, Dixon and Washington proposed that Nash join the group and together they formed a trio. They were soon signed to Telstar Records with the addition of a new member, Zena McNally, in October 2000, Dixon, then relatively unknown, featured on the single Rumours by Damage, which charted modestly at 22 on the UK Singles Chart. The genre of the track departed from the bands R&B style, in favour of a sound, however. In January 2001, Mis-Teeq released their first single, Why, the track remained commercially unnoticed until a garage remix was produced and the track charted at 8 in April of that year
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Anish Kapoor
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Sir Anish Kapoor, CBE RA, is a British sculptor. Born in Bombay, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art. He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, when he was awarded the Premio Duemila Prize, in 1991, he received the Turner Prize and in 2002 received the Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Kapoor received a knighthood in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to visual arts and he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Oxford in 2014. In 2012, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government which is Indias third-highest civilian award, an image of Kapoor features in the British cultural icons section of the newly designed British passport in 2015. In 2016, he was announced as a recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace and he owns exclusive rights to use Vantablack for artistic purposes. Anish Kapoor was born in Bombay, India, to a Hindu father, according to Kapoor, his mother had an Indian-Jewish upbringing, her father being the cantor of the synagogue in Pune. At this time, Baghdadi Jews constituted the majority of the Jewish community in Mumbai and his father, from a Hindu Punjabi family, was a hydrographer in the Indian Navy. Kapoor is the brother of Canada-based academic Ilan Kapoor, Kapoor attended The Doon School, an all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, then in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. He is said to have hated his time at Doon, in 1971–1973, he travelled to Israel with one of his two brothers, initially living on a kibbutz. He began to study engineering, but had trouble with mathematics. In Israel, he decided to become an artist, in 1973, he left for Britain to attend Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art and Design. There he found a model in Paul Neagu, an artist who provided a meaning to what he was doing. Kapoor went on to teach at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1979 and in 1982 was Artist in Residence at the Walker Art Gallery and he has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s. Anish Kapoor became known in the 1980s for his geometric or biomorphic sculptures made using materials such as granite, limestone, marble, pigment. These early sculptures are frequently simple, curved forms, usually monochromatic and brightly coloured, using powder pigment to define, while making the pigment pieces, it occurred to me that they all form themselves out of each other. So I decided to give them a title, A Thousand Names, implying infinity. The powder works sat on the floor or projected from the wall, the powder on the floor defines the surface of the floor and the objects appear to be partially submerged, like icebergs
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British hip hop
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British hip hop is a genre of music, and a culture that covers a variety of styles of hip hop music made in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is generally classified as one of a number of styles of urban music, UK rap has also been heavily influenced by US hip-hop. British hip hop, particularly that originating from London, was superseded by grime, however, after a post-millennium boom period. In 2003, The Times described British hip hops broad-ranging approach, following an initial flurry of interest from major record labels in the 1980s, by the early 1990s the scene had moved underground after record companies pulled back. In the mid-1990s hip hop in the UK started to experiment and diversify — often mutating into different genres entirely, such as trip hop, knowledge, was Englands first documented rapper. Unlike in the US, the British hip hop scene was cross-racial from the beginning and this is due to the fact that various ethnic groups in Britain tend to not live in segregated areas, even in areas with a high percentage of non-white individuals. These places allow youth to share an interchange with one another including musical genres such as hip hop. Cross pollination through migrating West Indians helped develop a community interested in the music, the integration of sound systems represent a distinct British Caribbean influence. Sound systems allowed for powerful syncopated bass runs and the ability to bring sound to different venues creating a club culture. Releases were still few and far between, and the scene remained predominantly underground, mainstream radio did play British hip hop on occasion, and instrumental in giving the scene wider recognition were DJs such as Dave Pearce, Tim Westwood, and John Peel. The most direct influence was, however, on Graffiti painted in London Underground trains, Kinetic Effect hit the scene in the early 1980s and was part of the rap outfit 2 the Top as D-Koy. In 1981, he teamed with Insane Macbeth to record Borderin Insanity, which was released in 1993, in 1995, Kinetic Effect recorded Man Bites Dog/The Effect of Fear Their song The Rhythm I Give ‘Em, made the UK Top 10 Hip Hop chart. Other notable rappers of this era include London Rhyme Syndicate, Cash Crew, Shogun MC, Hijack, MC Untouchable, the first UK record label devoted to releasing UK hip hop acts was founded in 1986. Simon Harris Music of Life label was home to rapper Derek B — the first UK rapper to chart success. Building on Derek Bs success, Music of Life went on to sign such as Hijack. Their Hard as Hell series mixed homegrown talent like Thrashpack and the She Rockers with US artists such as Professor Griff, Music of Life was swiftly followed by other labels such as Mango Records and Kold Sweat. Another successful British hip-hop artist that emerged from Music of Life was Asher D, caveman and Outlaw Posse developed a jazz influenced style, whilst MC MellO mixed jazz and hardcore. Other acts and styles developed from the hip hop scene, resulting in new genres to describe them — for example Massive Attack with trip hop, or Galliano Us3 and Urban Species with acid jazz
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Wiley (musician)
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He first tasted success as a member of UK garage crew Pay As U Go, with whom he had a top 40 hit, Champagne Dance in 2001. Wiley has continued to make music while also releasing mainstream singles, such as the UK Singles Chart top 10 hits Wearing My Rolex, Never Be Your Woman. As a teenager, Wiley featured on radio stations such as Rinse FM and drum. In 2000, Wiley went from SS Crew to join The Ladies Hit Squad, Gods Gift from Deck Collecters Crew, Flow Dan and Riko Dan joined soon after. In 2002, the collective achieved a top 20 hit with Champagne Dance, Wiley also received wide recognition in 2000 for his UK garage record Nicoles Groove which he produced under the stage name, Phaze One. After Pay As U Go disbanded, Wiley went on to form the Roll Deep entourage and they moved away from a traditional UK garage sound, and eventually found themselves creating music that would be termed grime. From 2001 onwards, Wiley began producing instrumental singles on his Wiley Kat Recordings label, the most famous ones are the Eskimo, Avalanche, Ice Rink and Snowman. These led to a record deal with XL Recordings. In 2004, Wiley released his album, Treddin on Thin Ice on XL. Singles from the album include Wot Do U Call It, a record questioning what name should be given to his music, and Pies. Many reviews, including that by Pitchfork Media, made comparisons between Wiley and his previous labelmate Dizzee Rascal, who had achieved success with Boy in Da Corner the previous year. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian noted the comically polarised fanbase Wiley had accrued, At one extreme, lengthy essays are posted on issues as the differentiation between Humean and Kantian views of motivation in the lyrics of Bonnie Prince Billy. At the other extreme, it is favoured by inner-city teens who appear to communicate entirely in a mix of street slang. During this period, Wiley occasionally referred to his music as eski, also, Wiley released mixtapes under the name Eskiboy. Wiley was quoted in conjunction with his theme, Sometimes I just feel cold hearted. I felt cold at that time, towards my family, towards everyone, thats why I used those names Many of Wileys early vinyl releases, such as Eskimo, were released under the alias Wiley Kat, this name was derived from a character in the cartoon Thundercats. However, the Kat is never used by Wiley anymore. In 2006, Wiley released his second album Da 2nd Phaze on the Boy Better Know label and this was followed in by Wileys third album Playtime is Over on Big Dada Records, an album which followed his eskibeat roots
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Tinchy Stryder
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Kwasi Danquah, better known by his stage name Tinchy Stryder and also as The Star in the Hood, is a Ghana-born English rapper, entrepreneur and investor. Stryder has released three studio albums, Star in the Hood, Catch 22, and Third Strike. Stryders business ventures include the clothing line Star in the Hood and he gained a B. A. in Digital arts, Moving image and Animation at the University of East London. He began making music in 1997 and started in business almost immediately after completing his A-levels in 2006, Stryders recordings date back to 1998. He appeared in 2000 on pirate radio along with Dizzee Rascal and Wiley and his pseudonym Tinchy Stryder derives from Strider and from the nickname given to him Tinchy, his height at 5 ft 3 in. In 2002, the grime group Roll Deep was founded by Wiley and they were making music that was a derivative of garage. For a while, there was not even a name for it, the name grime was the one that stuck. While performing with Roll Deep, Stryder performed some songs including, U Were Always in 2002 and he also performed on Roll Deeps 2004 mixtape, Creeper Vol.2. 1 in March 2005 and Guns and Roses Volume, the debut album by Stryder, Star in the Hood, was released on 13 August 2007 on Takeover. The album spawned two singles, Breakaway, which was released on 9 April 2007 and Something About Your Smile, was released on 6 August 2007. Bonus track Mainstream Money was also released as a single in November 2007. In 2008, Stryder released his extended play, Cloud 9 The EP. This was succeeded by him and grime record producer Maniac collaborating on the album, Tinchy Stryder vs. Maniac, only one single was released from the album, Rollin, which was released in October 2008. Stryder began a partnership with English record producer and songwriter Fraser T Smith, the single Stryderman, was released on 20 July 2008. It was the first single taken from Catch 22, the second single, Take Me Back, was released on 19 January 2009. His third single, a collaboration with the English hip-hop band N-Dubz entitled Number 1 and his fourth single from Catch 22, Never Leave You, was released on 3 August 2009 with the album following on 17 August 2009. Never Leave You peaked at number 5 on the European Hot 100 Singles on the week of its release, Catch 22 debuted at number 11 on the European Top 100 Albums. The fifth and final single from Catch 22 is Youre Not Alone, in February 2010, Stryder headline toured for the third time, he invited the English singer Example and rapper JME as his supporting acts
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Skepta
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Joseph Junior Adenuga, better known by his stage name Skepta, is a British grime artist, songwriter, record producer and music video director. His fourth studio album, Konnichiwa, was released on 6 May 2016 to critical acclaim, Adenuga has stated ‘DIY’ music is the future and told Time Out magazine, I’m not a rapper. His influence on contemporary British popular culture as a key figure in the scene saw him appear on Debretts 2017 list of the most influential people in the UK. Following the formation of Boy Better Know, Skepta clashed with fellow MC Devilman for the DVD Lord of the Mics 2, shortly after the clash, Skepta released a mixtape entitled Joseph Junior Adenuga. He is the brother of fellow musician Jme and radio presenter Julie Adenuga, Skepta was originally a DJ from Tottenham-based grime crew Meridian Crew. Following the formation of Boy Better Know, Skepta clashed with fellow MC Devilman for the DVD Lord of the Mics 2, shortly after the clash, Skepta released a mixtape entitled Joseph Junior Adenuga. Skepta publicly released his debut album Greatest Hits on 17 September 2007, Skepta self-released the first single Rolex Sweep in September 2008 and reached number 89 on the UK Singles Chart. Skepta then released the album Microphone Champion on 1 June 2009 and he then also released single Too Many Man with JME, Wiley, Frisco and Shorty, which went to chart at number 79. Three singles charted in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, cross My Heart came in at number 31 and dropped out of the Top 40 a week later. Doin it Again spent 3 weeks in the top 100 album charts, in 2011 Skepta caused a big controversy by releasing a hardcore music video of his single All over the house. In 2012, Skepta released two singles from his forthcoming album. Both Hold On and Make Peace Not War were Top 40 charting singles in the UK but were a departure from Skeptas usual sound, Skeptas second major label album was intended to be released in the fourth quarter of 2011, entitled The Honeymoon but was delayed till 2012. After a disappointing response from the first two singles Skepta decided to release a mixtape, titled Blacklisted. It was released on 2 December 2012 along with music videos to support the prior to the release. The singles music video won the award for Best Video at the 2014 MOBO Awards, upon receiving the award, Skepta stated that the video cost him £80. In late 2014, Skepta released another single titled It Aint Safe featuring A$AP Bari and this was followed in early 2015 with Shutdown, as well as features on Red Eye to Paris by Flatbush Zombies and the remix of Ojuelegba by Wizkid, also featuring Drake. Skepta and others joined Kanye West at a show in London. He was also named one of GQs 50 best dressed British men in 2015, in an interview it stated that Skeptas making his acting debut in 2015 film Anti-Social Released initially in May
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Virgin Records
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Virgin Records is a British-founded record label originally founded by English entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972. It was later sold to Thorn EMI in 1992, today, the operations of Virgin Records America, Inc. are still active and headquartered in Hollywood, California, as it operates exclusively under the Capitol Music Group since 2007. US artists include Knox Hamilton, LTric and Rise Against, in fact the first real store was above a shoe shop at the Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street. After making the shop into a success, they turned their business into a fully fledged record label, the name Virgin, according to Branson, arose from Tessa Watts, a colleague of his, when they were brainstorming business ideas. She suggested Virgin – as they were all new to business – like virgins, the original Virgin logo was designed by English artist and illustrator Roger Dean, a young naked woman in mirror image with a large long-tailed serpent and the word Virgin in Deans familiar script. A variation on the logo was used for the spin-off Caroline Records label and this was soon followed by some notable krautrock releases, including electronic breakthrough album Phaedra by Tangerine Dream, and The Faust Tapes and Faust IV by Faust. The Faust Tapes album retailed for 49p and as a result allowed this relatively unknown band to reach number 12 in the album charts, other early albums include Gongs Flying Teapot, which Daevid Allen has been quoted as having never been paid for. Under the guidance of Tessa Watts, Virgins Head of Publicity, shortly afterwards, the Notting Hill record shop was raided by police for having a window display of the Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Heres the Sex Pistols in the window. After modified versions of the label came the red, white and blue design introduced in 1975. The current Virgin logo was created in 1978, commissioned by Simon Draper, brian Cooke of Cooke Key Associates commissioned a graphic designer to produce a stylised signature. In 1983 Virgin purchased Charisma Records, renaming it Charisma/Virgin, then later Virgin/Charisma, before folding the label in 1986, in the process they acquired Genesis and comedy group Monty Python. The Charisma label was reactivated in the US in 1990 and enjoyed success with such as Maxi Priest, Right Said Fred,38 Special. When this Charisma label was retired in 1992, all of its artists were, as before, in 1987, Venture Records was created for new age and modern classical artists including Klaus Schulze, who had been associated with Virgin since the early 1970s. 10 Records Immortal Records Delabel Caroline Records was a label used from 1973 to 1977. The name and logo were used for some American editions of Virgin records in the 1980s and 1990s. Caroline was primarily used for independent distribution until the label was reactivated in 2013, today, Caroline Records acts as an independent label taking the place of EMI Label Services, after Virgins former parent company EMI was purchased by Universal Music Group. Front Line Records was a label for issuing Jamaican and English reggae music from 1978 to approximately 1987, a short-lived associated label, Dindisc, had Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and The Monochrome Set during its brief existence, after which its recordings became part of Virgins catalogue. Noo Trybe Records was a hip hop label that existed from 1994 to 1999
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Grime (music genre)
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Grime is a genre of music that emerged in East London in the early 2000s. It developed out of earlier UK electronic music styles, including UK garage and jungle, and also influence from Jamaican dancehall, ragga. The style is typified by rapid, syncopated breakbeats, generally around 130 or 140 bpm, rapping is also a significant element of the style, and lyrics often revolve around gritty depictions of urban life. Other prominent artists include Ghetts, Jme, Skepta, Stormzy, prominent grime crews include Boy Better Know, Newham Generals, Roll Deep, and Ruff Sqwad. In the mid 2010s, grime began to receive attention in North America. Grime emerged in the early 2000s in Londons East-end and it has origins tied with UK pirate radio stations such as Rinse FM, Deja Vu FM, Freeze 92.7 and Raw Mission. This indicated the movement of UK garage away from its house influences towards darker themes, among the first tracks to be labelled grime as a genre in itself were Eskimo, Ice Rink and Igloo by Wiley, Pulse X by Musical Mob and Creeper by Danny Weed. Dizzee Rascal garnered widespread acclaim and commercial success with Boy in da Corner winning the 2003 Mercury Music Prize. Grime has since received exposure from television stations including Channel U, Logan Samas show on London radio station Kiss FM, Grime is not an offshoot of early electronic music, but rather a subgenre that draws from a wide variety of influences. The genre’s popularity grew exponentially in the United Kingdom, as people across the musical spectrum appreciated Grime’s eclectic mix of instrumentation. This hybridization united many different music scenes, allowing for it to spread in the same word-of-mouth and mixtape-based style as hip-hop and it also paved the way for more electronic music artists to incorporate stronger African and Caribbean influences in the future. Grime never received the same attention worldwide that it did in the UK, much like many other less mainstream forms of British electronic music, its main scene and fan base remained in the United Kingdom. From 2013 onwards producers started to create what they called instrumental grime and they battled in so-called war dubs, in April 2014, Meridian Dan reached #13 in the UK Singles Charts with his single German Whip featuring Big H and Jme. Two months after that, Skepta reached #21 in the UK Singles Chart with his single Thats Not Me featuring his brother Jme. Two months later, Lethal Bizzle released the single Rari WorkOut featuring Jme and Tempa T, as of 2015, Lethal Bizzle has four of the highest charting grime songs to date. In February 2016, Ministry of Sound and DJ Maximum released a compilation entitled Grime Time. In May 2016, Skeptas fourth studio album, Konnichiwa, entered the UK Albums Chart at number two, the album explored grimes relationship with the United States, and features appearances from ASAP Mob members Young Lord and ASAP Nast as well as production and vocals from Pharrell Williams. The album was awarded the 2016 Mercury Prize, in February 2017, Stormzys album Gang Signs & Prayer, was the first grime album to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart
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Love Music Hate Racism
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Love Music Hate Racism is a music-oriented campaign based in Britain. The campaign involves concerts aimed at spreading an anti-racist message and it follows in the tradition of the 1970s Rock Against Racism campaign. LMHR was set up in 2002 in response to the increase in support for the far right. The first big LMHR concert was a festival in Manchester’s Platt Fields Park, headlined by Doves, in October 2007, popularity for the group dramatically increased following a big campaign in the music magazine, NME. In December 2007, the announced that it would mark the 30th anniversary of the RAR/ANL carnival. Love Music Hate Racism website LMHR Carnival 08 LMHR Carnival 09
