Third Sight feature – Published in Serie B magazine, 2006

An unedited version of this q&a interview is available online at spinscience.org.uk and ukhh.com.

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Even though they dropped their first album nearly 8 years ago, Third Sight are still considered as one of the finest US rap groups by fans worldwide. The gap between their first, and now classic, LP ‘Golden Shower Hour’ and the recently released ‘Symbionese Liberation Album’ doesn’t seem to have dented the fanbase or reputation a bit either. Like fine wine it gets better with age. Composed of Jihad the Roughneck on mic duties, Dufunk and D-Styles on production and cuts, Third Sight are slowly but surely stamping their print all over 2006 with a new LP that’s proving successful, features the likes of MF Grimm, Ricci Rucker and Raggedy Andy and is one of the nicest hip hop LPs we’ve heard in a while with beats, cuts and rhymes to shame most other crews. So with this in mind it was only right that we set up a conference call with this talented trio and find out some more about the music, the crew and other little known facts.

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DJ Supreme feature – Published in Serie B Magazine, 2005

An unedited version of the q&a this interview is based is available online at www.spinscience.org.uk and ukhh.com.

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DJ Supreme is a legend for two reasons. The first is that he was the brains and hands behind the production and cuts for the acclaimed UK group Hijack, who delivered one of the defining albums of European hip hop in the early 90s. Turning heads around Europe and the world, Hijack’s sound was dubbed Britcore, a term it embodied in every aspects. The second reason is that Supreme is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential originators of the scratch movement. Alongside DJ Undercover, they brought forward new styles and techniques that took people by surprise and inspired a whole generation of scratch DJs from Qbert to Woody via Primecuts. But this legendary status was only achieved years after Hijack broke up following their first and only album, ‘The Horns of Jericho’. And so 15 years on we managed to track Supreme to his Swiss home and find out more about the history of Hijack, the cuts and the music. Ahead of a new DVD documentary, Supreme brings some knowledge to the table. Sit down for a tasty history lesson.

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