Articles by Del F. Cowie

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  Roots Manuva

  Reluctant Hero

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

  "I can't bloody think straight in here. Everybody's talking shit!" Rodney Hylton Smith, aka Roots Manuva, sounds like he's about to lose it...

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  Mark De Clive-Lowe

  Tide's Arising

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

  This New Zealand-born keyboardist has been paying his dues behind the scenes for a while now but has been most recognised recently for bein...

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  Living Legends

  Classic

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

  Apparently this is the first time the Living Legends crew has genuinely convened to create an album together and, if that’s the case, it sh...

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  Perceptionists

  Black Dialogue

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

  The tension lingering below the surface of this collaboration between Boston hip-hop veterans Mr. Lif, Akrobatik and Fakts One is tangible...

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  Copywrite

  Cruise Control Mixtape Vol. 1

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

  It’s been a couple of years since Copywrite’s punch line-heavy shock value rhymes showed up on The High Exhaulted. Since then the Ohio-bred...

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  Lizz Fields

  By Day By Night

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

  Having started the demand for her music by playing and selling it in the part-time furniture store she worked in, Lizz Fields’ debut record...

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  Smith & Mighty

  Retrospective

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

  For a while in the mid-’90s, Bristol was one of the most influential musical cities on the planet with Massive Attack, Portishead and Trick...

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  Various

  Rewind 4

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

  Ubiquity’s series of reworked versions of popular and obscure records is keeping a finger on the pulse of new and emerging artists who are...