Articles by Del F. Cowie

Gilles Peterson/Various

Gilles Peterson In The House

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

BBC Radio 1 DJ Gilles Peterson’s mantra has always been connecting the dots between seemingly disparate musical genres, and while this is a...

Ivana Santilli’s State of Mind

PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2008

For the past few years Ivana Santilli has spent time in dour London and home in Toronto, but mostly in New York, finding inspiration in unl...

Invincible

ShapeShifters

PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2008

Detroit has been a hotbed of gritty hip-hop music in recent years and Invincible is definitely doing her part in continuing to build on tha...

Planet B-Boy

Benson Lee

PUBLISHED May 30, 2008

Hip-hop culture’s global appeal has long been cemented, yet much of its b-boying (or b-girling) element hasn’t been documented since the cu...

We Got It 4 Free

How Hip-hop's Mixtape Culture Is Changing the Game

PUBLISHED May 24, 2008

Kardinal Offishall is a busy man these days. His latest single "Dangerous,” featuring R&B superstar Akon is poised to be the biggest song o...

DJ Yoda

FabricLive 39

PUBLISHED May 24, 2008

UK turntablist DJ Yoda built his rep with his quirky cut and paste mix-tapes and he’s brought the same attitude to this mix in the latest e...

eMC

The Show

PUBLISHED May 24, 2008

On any number of high-profile hip-hop super-group collaborations listeners have been programmed to be satisfied that their revered artists...

Hip-hop Opera

The Collaborators

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2008

Hip-hop and opera aren’t obvious bedfellows, but an Urban Music Series being produced by the Canadian Opera Company in conjunction with the...