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Future Friction - January 2008

28|01|2008

DJ's Inc are brothers Aman and Ajay Sahota. They started out as DJ's in the mid 90's and formed a roadshow, touring the world from India to Russia. After setting up their own studio, they began to produce bhangra and asian influenced beats. Their debut album 'The Graduate' will include vocals from Lembhar Hussainpuri and Kaka Bhainiawala as well as new vocalist Balbir Sufi and will release early 2008 on Entyce Records.

21|01|2008

Kidd Skilly is a rapper of Indian and Mexican heritage from Detroit, Michigan. He's influenced by artists such as Gurdas Mann and Panjabi MC and likes to create music with a purpose. As an artist Kidd Skilly performs live with a 5 piece band and has an underground Hip Hop and Bhangra sound. His first release was 'Bhangra chick' back in 2004 and he'll be dropping his debut album early this year featuring the track 'Ni Sohniye' with Akon.

14|01|2008

Stylus is a Garage producer from Burton-on-Trent. He's been Dj-ing since the age of 15 and progressed to producing music after studying it. He experiments with DnB, Hip Hop and Garage, but decided to focus on 4x4 baseline and started fusing Bollywood samples with it. He's finalising a mixtape and will be releasing a 12" Bollywood Baseline Ep in April.

07|01|2008

This week’s Future Friction is a three-strong collective of music producers from East London. They are Harish, Eddie and Hylton. Over the years they have worked with a range of genres varying from Drum N Bass to Hip Hop and are now concentrating on making music with an Asian vibe. Between them they have over 20 years experience in the music industry and 3 record labels under their belts. More recently, they have been working on their debut album together throughout 2007.

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