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Lost Island
12+ albums
britishrapgolden agebritish rapUK hip-hop
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Lost Island are/were Styly Cee and Frisco. Here's their story: Styly Cee :"I've been into hip-hop since about 1983, when I was 11. In 1985 I started going regularly to the legendary Saturday afternoon breaking sessions at Rock City in Nottingham, getting the true roots and foundation of hip-hop culture. I think the first 12" I bought was Afrika Bamabaataa's 'Renegades of Funk'. This was the start of a serious habit, and by the late 80s I was getting the urge to DJ and make music, buying breaks, old funk and jazz records, working hard learning to mix and scratch, doing tapes for friends, spreading the word. This led indirectly to me doing a prime time show on Heatwave Radio, Nottingham's longest running pirate radio station. Through various hook-ups from the radio, I ended up doing some session scratching on tracks by K.I.D. for Kold Sweat, MSD, Docta D, and Tickle (now known as Frisco). After us hooking up that time, it turned out that me and Frisco both felt the same about the way the hip-hop scene was going, (downhill slowly), and we had both wasted a lot of years doing projects we weren't in control of: it was time to sort something out properly. So here we are: Lost Island." Frisco: "Frisco Boogie aka Mr. Fivemics first started practicing the art of hip-hop through B-boying around 1983, after joining a local crew called 'Supreme Force'. We travelled around the country, performing and battling other crews. I started seriously MCing in about '89-90, and this led to me re
