| Basemental Platform
: Street-Intellects...Serious Hip Hop
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Consisting
of Disloyal Member, Trevor Automatic, Cap Cynical Two,
C-Daddy Dash, Erik Petkowinskyn and Non-Depiction,the
crew has been busy producing and releasing product on
the street since 1998. Strictly underground coffee here,
cause BMP doesn't give you a second to sleep. With grungy
digital break beats and far-from-simplistic rhyme sequencing,
these cats are sure to be in any underground head's
collection. |
In
their own words : "Our music is presented
in a non-popular, beyond-conventional form of Hip-Hop,
which surfaces from the dungeons buried deep underground
in the heart and mind of the Hip-Hop-Kind spread throughout
the universe in all its greatness. We crush poetic
meter and cadence with broken syllables of decadent
verbs that strike discords of forbidden truth and
understanding. For anything less isn't worth our time."
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Watch : Video |
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Clip of Basemental Platform "Klapkop" featuring
Kaniff : click
here to watch |
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Basemental Platform's
interview : |
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Years of democracy : "Influenced the movement
in terms of the access to the overseas underground community
… Some cats from the States don’t even know
Company Flow, while its known to cats from here. It
opened up the market, making the underground more accessible
to establish international links on a global scale.
Don’t belief the hype too, cause cats still need
to put in the extra efford…cats wont just like
your sound because you are from a democratic country,
you got to represent the hard-core -ish and be real
about what you’re doing. |
| Thats the
focus of BMP- to be more sincere about the time
and that how we are manifesting / representing
ourself … Commentating about whats going
on and what we are doing. Hip Hop is an universal
language / movement beyond just a local thing
that is happening here in S.A. " |
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Basemental
Platform in few dates |
- They've thus far released
two full-length albums,Urban Noize(1998) and Extended
Playback(2003).
- In 2003 they had an album-launch
tour, in which they performed at Sky Bar and Bart
Centre (Durban)
- Aug.2003 BMP formed their
own independent entity, Silvah Needle cc., specialising
in audiovisual production, particular music, through
multimedia elements i.e. graphic design, IT and
street gear.
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The first
time I saw these cats rock the mic was at the
Fire on the Mountain (2002), and wow... how they
killed it! Madd peepz was like "yo did you
catch the BMP set..." They really was the
suprise act at the Festival and totaly stole the
show. Madd people have been sleeping on the S.A.
underground and this was like a much needed wake-up
call if you haven't been catching on to the freshest,
dopest -issh! Already, just by playing there tracks
over radiocampustoulouse there has been mad interest
in the BMP... Street Intellects; the track that
got most response is "Klapkop". |
| Everybody
wants to know what it stand for... cause in a
way through the music people can really get an
idea what is going on in S.A. in terms of slang,street
culture and whatnot! |
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To
be continued ... |
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