New media in latvian hip hop scene
As i type the title, i am sure that i am not the right person to tell all the twists and turns about hip hop, rhyming or just being part of any union with crazy rhyme and beat makers. More – only small amount of people will find this post useful. Still, i could call myself a person with quite various musical taste, so i’ve been following the latvian hip hop scene for some time. Fun fact – haven’t turned on EuropeanHitRadio for long time now. Prefer crazy & creative rhyming instead of “standing under radiostations’ umbrella”. Some new media ideas could surprise you..
New challengers with experience, who call themselves “PKI” are quite popular. Two members even have registered domain “podkasts.lv” long time ago, before all the great podcasters of nowadays. Every week i see more and more hip hop artists in Twitter. Do rappers twitter? Yes, they tweet, while not rhyming!
More attractive new media from rhyme makers? I was suprised, when i saw Street Tv up in Vimeo. Regular informative show about latest events, new singles and visitors in studio. Seems nice idea for small Latvia.
Buying mixtapes online – at last. I could say – green thinking. Less and less people care about cd in shelf as long as they can dowload music from internet legally. Hopefully in hip hop, album costs less in web than in music shop. Too bad, i can’t say same about other genres..
Some portals to follow, in case interest has appeared:
- hhradio – radio of actual/oldschool latvian songs, forum, new events info and quite big attendance
- hiphopz- info about events, portal of all sorts, haven’t really used it a lot, dunno why
- ground - same old…same old. Great interviews from time to time, can’t deny
- abductor.rakstnieciba – new events, never miss the big things, blog in a good way
- viensvienspieci – same as above, in addition – you can buy some hoodies as well
- podkasts - podcats about latest news in lv hip hop
Probably there are more of portals and blogs alike, but these are the ones, that i’ve been checking for some time. Why all the buzz about hip hop? Well, this thursday most of the greatest latvian rhymers are going to come together for a great envent – hip hop in LV. More information in video below!
