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Artist
Filip G & Respecta
12+ albums
german
about
Filip G & Respecta are leading the charge of the German Reggae scene and taking no prisoners. A crazy mixture of hot-blooded dancehall beats, cold blooded verbal attack, full blooded reggae vibes and sanguine Caribbean vibes is about to rain down on the club scene like a hot shower. The music tells stories written by life itself ("wish they'd never happened to me"), proclaiming spontaneous nonsense and calling for a more relaxed approach to life. The vibe of Filip G & Respecta is perfect, their samples come from all parts of the globe and their lyrics play on words as others do with instruments. Their rhymes are always full on, without turning nasty – well, not too nasty at least... "Morning glory or cafe latte"? Anyway – the main thing is it's working in the dance. Whatever expectations you have of Filip G & Respecta, they probably won't be fulfilled. Instead you get a skip to the left, a leap to the right, more dodging and the next surprise – but always with the fat beats and fiendish vibes that never let you go. Filip G, a.k.a Filip Gross, and Respecta, a.k.a. Stephan Meyer, have known each other for a long time. Respecta already started his dancehall career in the mid eighties when he dropped the baddest tunes like bombs all over the clubs. Educated by Steelie & Clevie & King Jammy's just as The legendary Rodigans Rockers Radio Show for years this seemed the only way of life. In the mid-nineties, Filip G & Respecta joined forces for a project called Da Bad Sounds, com