Tricksta
We've seen a few articles and interviews by Tricksta on The Urban Shop blog now but who is this guy? Read on to find our what make him tick.
Tricksta’s obsession with promoting UK Hip-Hop began back in the late eighties when he started buying records by artists such as Demon Boyz, Duke, Overlord X, London Posse, Hijack, Icepick, Blade, Cash Crew, Gunshot, MC Mell’O’, Katch 22 and Derek B, amongst others. In 1990 he got offered a show on a local pirate radio station called Fantasy FM. The radio then enabled him to start building a rep as a club & mixtape DJ and in 1991 he went on to work at his local shop called Ruby Red Records. He worked there for five years, always pushing everything that was home-grown as well as writing for magazines such as Rap Trade and Jus Vibes and promoting & organising local Hip-Hop events. He left in the winter of 1995 to work for a group of independent record labels. In the four years he worked there he learnt valuable experience in the running of a label as well as making links in the industry on an international level as well as getting into music production and DJ’ing in America and all over Europe. It was January 1999 and it was now time for TRICKSTA to move on and use the ten years experience of working in the music industry for myself. His long time friend and DJ partner LATE was rapping in bands and collaborating with local artists, as well as penning a Hip-Hop album. In May 1999 we got our heads together and officially started the group Villains, the label Wolftown Recordings and the 100% Hip-Hop magazine RAGO. The rest is history… By 2001 he thought it was time for TRICKSTA to give a little something back to the scene so he started an underground mixtape series called UK Runnings. He hooked up with one of Wolverhampton’s best scratch DJ’s Amo who agreed to engineer the mixtape for him and after a year of compiling tracks and gathering together unreleased material UK Runnings "Volume One" was born. It was released for the streets, and was a CD that was given away to try and convert people into the British sound. Now UK Runnings is looked upon as one of the leading mixtape series in the UK as well as being the perfect vehicle for MC’s to get heard and get noticed. UK Runnings represents what is really happening in the scene placing well-known artists next to new artists and placing London rappers next to MC’s from Wolverhampton, Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Glasgow, Coventry and Manchester. In the five years that UK Runnings has been going they have dropped Volumes 1, 2, 2.5, 3 and 4, as well an Old Skool Mixtape on an underground level. Now we set-up the pace with this new series "National Anthems", a collection of the best music the UK has to offer. UK Runnings has just stepped up the pace… please support these artists and be part of the movement. Keep independent music alive!
Tricksta’s obsession with promoting UK Hip-Hop began back in the late eighties when he started buying records by artists such as Demon Boyz, Duke, Overlord X, London Posse, Hijack, Icepick, Blade, Cash Crew, Gunshot, MC Mell’O’, Katch 22 and Derek B, amongst others. In 1990 he got offered a show on a local pirate radio station called Fantasy FM. The radio then enabled him to start building a rep as a club & mixtape DJ and in 1991 he went on to work at his local shop called Ruby Red Records. He worked there for five years, always pushing everything that was home-grown as well as writing for magazines such as Rap Trade and Jus Vibes and promoting & organising local Hip-Hop events. He left in the winter of 1995 to work for a group of independent record labels. In the four years he worked there he learnt valuable experience in the running of a label as well as making links in the industry on an international level as well as getting into music production and DJ’ing in America and all over Europe. It was January 1999 and it was now time for TRICKSTA to move on and use the ten years experience of working in the music industry for myself. His long time friend and DJ partner LATE was rapping in bands and collaborating with local artists, as well as penning a Hip-Hop album. In May 1999 we got our heads together and officially started the group Villains, the label Wolftown Recordings and the 100% Hip-Hop magazine RAGO. The rest is history… By 2001 he thought it was time for TRICKSTA to give a little something back to the scene so he started an underground mixtape series called UK Runnings. He hooked up with one of Wolverhampton’s best scratch DJ’s Amo who agreed to engineer the mixtape for him and after a year of compiling tracks and gathering together unreleased material UK Runnings "Volume One" was born. It was released for the streets, and was a CD that was given away to try and convert people into the British sound. Now UK Runnings is looked upon as one of the leading mixtape series in the UK as well as being the perfect vehicle for MC’s to get heard and get noticed. UK Runnings represents what is really happening in the scene placing well-known artists next to new artists and placing London rappers next to MC’s from Wolverhampton, Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Glasgow, Coventry and Manchester. In the five years that UK Runnings has been going they have dropped Volumes 1, 2, 2.5, 3 and 4, as well an Old Skool Mixtape on an underground level. Now we set-up the pace with this new series "National Anthems", a collection of the best music the UK has to offer. UK Runnings has just stepped up the pace… please support these artists and be part of the movement. Keep independent music alive!
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