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 Kung Fu Kung Fu Vol.1
One of the UK’s, and London’s, finest Hip Hop nights gets a DVD treatment courtesy of Unorthodox Styles. Vol.1 covers the first six months of Kung Fu’s residency at Camden’s cavernous Underworld venue from Dec 01 to July 02, the time when it first became sponsored by Unorthodox Styles and became the must go to Hip Hop night in London’s monthly calendar (as evidenced by all the awards it received in the following years from the London and national press).
The DVD has plenty to offer for the regulars with highlights of 6 months’ worth of showcases, live acts and partying with the UK’s finest MCs, DJs and musicians. For those that have never been, if such people exist, the DVD gives you the chance to see all that you missed and hopefully convince you to get out of your rat hole and hop on down to Itchytown for the next one…
Clocking in at a hour and a half, the main part of the DVD manages to keep you nicely interested by mixing footage of the live acts with backstage chats hosted by A-Cyde and covering all the important, and not so important subjects that make up Hip Hop culture in this fair isle (do you really need me to tell you what those are?). Well shot and edited it makes for a faithful account of London’s favourite Hip Hop night. Oh and it also includes some nifty live footage by the likes of Scor-Cay-Zee, Jehst, Taskforce and Rawdog, Klashnekoff and Terra Firma, Phi-Li Cypher and many, many more (too many to list here anyway…). The whole thing is rounded off with some quality extras including a chat with Kung Fu regulars Harry and Sarah Love and Mystro who reminisce on the early and humble beginnings of the nights, a chat with resident artist (another first for a hiphop night in the UK) Solo One and two photo galleries (one courtesy of Solo one and the other courtesy of Spine paparazzi Jeff Metal).
If all this isn’t enough to convince you to part with your cash for this DVD, then I can’t say anymore but that you need this if you want to sit down in years to come with your children and grand children and show them how you use to do it back in the days… Trust me it’ll work, and if it doesn’t, you got yourself a slice of London’s music scene history… It’s bigger than Hip Hop you know?
The DVD is out now in all good record shops and selling outlets.
- Kper
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