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Invasion (Dragon Fli Empire Album)
''Invasion'' is the second album by Canadian hip hop duo Dragon Fli Empire, released in 2005 on Makebelieve Records. It was viewed as a progression in the duo's sound and features guest artists from Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, Tacoma and Portland. Several tracks were included in different CD compilations. The track "Roc the Crowd" (featuring and produced by Ohmega Watts Ohmega Watts, real name Milton Campbell, is an American hip hop producer and vocalist from Brooklyn, New York. He releases music under the name Ohmega Watts and as a part of the Lightheaded crew. Biography Campbell was born and raised in Broo ...) was released as a 12" vinyl single on Bigfoot Records in 2007. Music video A video for the track "Our Way" was directed bRamin Eshraghi-Yazdi featuring the Calgary breakdancing crew Original Rudes. Track listing ''(Note: Tracks 16-18 are listed as FAS Krew Bonus Kuts)'' References 2005 albums Dragon Fli Empire albums {{2005-hiphop-albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon Fli Empire
Dragon Fli Empire (abbreviated DFE) is a Canadian hip hop duo formed in 2002 from Calgary, comprising Tarik Robinson, also known as Teekay ( MC/ producer), and Adam Hicks, also known as DJ Cosm ( DJ/ producer). DFE's first album, ''Conquest'', was released in August 2004. It was followed by ''Invasion'' in 2005, ''Intermission EP'' in 2008 and '' Redefine'' in 2009. Their music is inspired by classic hip hop beats like those of Pete Rock, Large Professor and Prince Paul. History Dragon Fli Empire formed in May 2002. They released the original version of their debut album ''Conquest'' locally in the summer of 2002 as a limited edition CD-R. The song "Mount Pleasant", a track about observations while riding Calgary Transit received airplay on CJSW-FM, CKUA and CBC Radio 3. An official version of ''Conquest'' was pressed and independently released in August 2004. The album was re-mastered and three tracks from the CD-R version were replaced with newer ones, including the DFE the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Hip Hop
The Canadian hip hop scene was established in the 1980s. Through a variety of factors, it developed much slower than Canada's popular rock music scene, and apart from a short-lived burst of mainstream popularity from 1989 to 1991, it remained largely an underground phenomenon until the early 2000s. Canada had hip hop artists right from the early days of the scene—the first known Canadian rap single, Mr. Q's "Ladies' Delight", was released in 1979 just a few weeks after The Sugarhill Gang's historic "Rapper's Delight",Michael Rancic"Finding Mr. Q" '' Hazlitt'', March 17, 2021. and the first French rap single, Lucien Francœur's "Le Rap-à-Billy", was released in 1983."Aut'Chose: Chaud comme un jukebox" . '' Exclaim!'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conquest (Dragon Fli Empire Album)
''Conquest'' is the first album by the Canadian hip hop duo Dragon Fli Empire, released in 2004 on Makebelieve Records. Although the 2004 release is officially considered DFE's first album, there was a locally circulated CD-R version released in June 2002. The 2004 version replaced three tracks from the CD-R version with new ones: "D-E-F", "From Under" and "Beauty Full 2.0". The album is most notable for the popular track "Mount Pleasant", a song about Teekay's observations while riding Calgary Transit. Music video Only one video was made for the album. "Beauty Full" was filmed around Calgary in late 2002 and cameos are made by several emcees in Alberta's underground hip hop community. Track listing References 2004 albums Dragon Fli Empire albums {{2004-hiphop-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intermission EP
''Intermission EP'' is a "between albums" disc by Canadian hip hop duo Dragon Fli Empire, released in 2008 on Makebelieve Records. As the first offering of new music from the group since 2005, the EP was designed to renew interest in the group before the release of their third full-length album Redefine. It proved to very popular on Canadian campus radio, reaching number three on the Earshot and Chart Attack hip hop charts. Two tracks from ''Intermission'' were nominated for Radio 3's 2008 Bucky Awards—"CGY" for Most Canadian Song and "Outside Inn" (featuring Cadence Weapon) for Best Collaboration. DFE used outside production from Moka Only Daniel Denton (born November 14, 1973), better known by his stage name Moka Only, is a Canadian underground hip hop artist. He has won 3 JUNO Awards, 5 MuchMusic Video Awards, and has been nominated for 11 Western Canadian Music Awards. Origina ..., Nohow and Metawon on the EP. Track listing References 2008 EPs Dragon Fli Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exclaim!
''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly Exclaim! print magazine publishes 7 issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. The magazine has an average of 361,200 monthly readers and their website, exclaim.ca, has an average of 675,000 unique visitors a month. History ''Exclaim!'' began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at Ryerson's CKLN-FM in 1991. It was started by then-CKLN programmer Ian Danzig, together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded. The group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since. Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start. James Keast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohmega Watts
Ohmega Watts, real name Milton Campbell, is an American hip hop producer and vocalist from Brooklyn, New York. He releases music under the name Ohmega Watts and as a part of the Lightheaded crew. Biography Campbell was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, by West Indian Parents from Jamaica. He lived in Brooklyn for eight years before moving to Laurelton, Queens, New York. He grew up listening to many types of music including reggae, calypso, soca, death metal, 80's pop and hip-hop, but only started to take a serious interest in music when he was around 11 years old. He gravitated towards hip-hop, listening to "Golden Age" artists including Run–D.M.C., LL Cool J, Big Daddy Kane, Dana Dane, BDP, Eric B. and Rakim, Pete Rock and CL Smooth and Gang Starr, but the artists who influenced him the most sonically / production wise were artists in the Native Tongues Posse, such as A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, and Black Sheep. Ohmega Watts' first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touch And Nato
Touch and Nato are a Canadian hip hop duo from Edmonton, Alberta. The members are Touch ( MC), and Nato ( DJ/ producer)."Touch & Nato Are The Representatives Intelligent Design" ''Exclaim!'', By Thomas Quinlan Aug 14, 2007 History The group's debut album, ''...Are The Representatives in Intelligent Design'', was released in June 2007 to positive reviews from HeroHill.com and '' Now Magazine'' and HipHopCanada.com. It featured collaborations with |
Tariq Hussain (musician)
Tariq Hussain, frequently billed as Tariq, is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was born in Cowansville, Quebec. His father, a Pakistani immigrant, was very concerned with his children getting a good education and it was only in his mid-teens, after his father had died, that Hussain began playing guitar. At Bishop's University, he studied theatre arts. He started devoting most of his time to a music career upon moving to Calgary, Alberta in 1995, releasing his first album ''Splat'' independently that year."Cowtown inspired Tariq to plug in: Former folkie finds success with rock". ''Montreal Gazette'', July 19, 1997. In 1997, he was signed to EMI Music Canada."Tariq opts for pop-roots sound: New disc 'feels much more like me,' Calgary artist says". ''Edmonton Journal'', July 1, 2005. His album ''The Basement Songs'' was produced by Steven Drake of Odds and won critical acclaim, with music writers citing the maturity of the folk-rock songwriting, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Albums
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2005. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2005 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{DEFAULTSORT:2005 albums Albums An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records coll ... 2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
