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M1NT Hong Kong – Presents The Most Talked About DJ In France, DJ Cut Killer Date:October 17th October, 2008 Time: From 10pm Bio: To introduce the most talked about hip hop DJ in France is to introduce his label: DOUBLE H PRODUCTIONS. Created by Cut Killer with East (R.I.P.), Double H Productions is known today for being a serious and famous structure in the Hip Hop industry. But who’s behind Double H Productions? Let’s go back to Day One… In an interview for The Truth, a hip hop magazine, Cut Killer says it all: “I started Djing at parties in 1988; I worked hard, participating to DMCs contests. Then I wanted to take it to the next level: the production. Everything started from there. “ And he can’t stop: the DJ who first launched the mixtape on the French territory and helped new rappers becoming leaders of the national scene, got involved in a lot of projects until the creation of Double H Productions. It was founded with East, the rapper who named the label and they started to develop it. Cut Killer opened shows in Paris for such artists as Method Man, Cypress Hill, Warren G and a few others. He went on tour with MC Solaar (famous French artist who did a featuring on the European version of Missy Elliott’s All‘n My Grill), performed in the movie La Haine (Hate), and did some scratches for different artists’ LP, while nobody was missing a Cut Killer Show on Radio Nova. Work, Will and Skills: that’s what it took to help the label become quickly a reference in the hip hop industry with Cut Killer as its main artist. While the press can’t stop talking about hip hop as a phenomenon, Double H Productions stays on top of the different aspects of the business : production, promotion, parties, tours and, of course, marketing. Indeed, street marketing is a major point in the communication and promotion strategy of the label and that is the reason why the label has founded its own street marketing, Double H Street Team, since 1996.
Things got serious with the release of the mixtape concept as a CD that would include his own productions.
The Hip Hop Soul Party serie-a double CD of International Hip Hop and Rn’B starts in 1995 on MCA (Hip Hop Soul Party I in 1995, Hip Hop Soul Party II and Hip Hop Soul Party III in 1996). In 1997 the released Cut Killer Show, of one of the most famous compilation, which was named after the radio show –that now airs on the hip hop number one national radio, Skyrock, every Saturday nights between 10 pm and midnight - and the parties that are a real show. Released in 1998, Operation Freestyle is an innovative concept where underground rappers meet for the longest Freestyle ever. 1999 is the year that emphasizes the collaboration between all the Double H DJs on the particular Double H DJ Crew with only in-house productions. It is also the year when the LP R&B 2000, produced by Cut Killer and DJ Abdel and which featuring artists such as Cunnie Williams, Carl Thomas, Alfonzo Hunter, Horace Brown, released in France, and then Europe and Japan. In 2000, following the certified platinum album Les Princes de la Ville from 113, who won the award for Best Artist of the Year and Best Rap Album of the year at les Victoires de la Musique (the French Grammy Awards), Hip Hop Soul Party Episode IV went gold after staying on top of the French billboards for 16 weeks…Cut killer has been involved in movies scores and soundtracks as La Squale, Le Raid, Gamer and in productions that allow American and French rappers to spit their flow on a 12” serie: Blahzay Blahzay and Triptik for Dat Shit on the Volume I, Cocoa Brovaz (ex-Smiff’n Wessun) on the volume II. Other compilations followed: Cut Killer Show 2 (more than 120 000 sales) in April 2001, Hip Hop Soul Party V (180 000 sales) in November 2001, Ragga Killa Show in March 2002, and 1 Son 2 Rue in August 2002. Coming this year on the January 21st Hip Hop Soul Party VI, and then a lots of others projects in collaboration with famous underground French Djs, such as DJ Cream and DJ Queen P, who are predicted to be part of the next future leaders in the Hip Hop industry.
Cause that’s his fight: satisfy both the underground and mainstream crowd with tight Hip Hop and Rn’B from a label whose influence spread both nationally and internationally.
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