On friday the 6th hip hop lovers in Utrecht will flock together at Tivoli for the 5th edition of ‘Utreg Centraal’ to celebrate and support their hometown artists of our culture. The event will be organised by Boemklatsch and Habek, which will result in a broad representation of all hip hop and related styles by a wide range of performers.
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As you can see on the flyer the suspects of the evening will be
- Arts The Beatdoctor
- Atactic
- C-Mon (C-Mon & Kypski)
- theFringe
- Illvester
- Jae (ex-Stropstrikkers / Hof van Jaeden)
- John Sniffler
- Kapabel
- Kypski (C-Mon & Kypski)
- Kyteman
- Mike Mago
- Mseize
- Nicks
- Pax (ex-207, Illicit)
- perCeptie (of I.S.)
- Prace
- Randstad Rollaz
- Reazun (ex-207)
- $jammie The Money (Nobody Beats The Drum)
- Skiggy Rapz (Keynote Speakerz)
- Stabiel
Between the acts, Mseize will be the one mixing everything together. For an impression of last year’s party you can download the Utreg Centraal 4 mixtape here.
The event will start at 22:15 and the damage to get in is EUR 10,-. Not too shabby for such a line-up eh? Also, the visuals for the night will be done by Ramkraak.
I’ve got a personal sidenote on the event: Since I’m a beat-lover, I have totally no objection to more styles being represented at Utreg Centraal next to hiphop. But seeing some of the names on the line-up makes me wonder how far this will stretch in the following years.
Seeing as most of the Boemklatsch guys have switched over to the dance side I wonder whether they will play that, or break out their old hiphop records. And aren’t Randstad Rollaz a dubstep crew? That’s kinda far from hip hop if you ask me. The only thing I could find on John Sniffler is a link to a guy with that name being the Dutch Air Guitar champion…. hm.
Like I said, I have nothing against broadening your view in music and I love beats. But while hip hop is massively upfront in our money-infused society (mixtapes/sneakers/fashion), the music itself is being represented less and less and traded in for 1- or 2-year lasting hypes.
No matter what happens though, and although the site has only been up for 1 year, thebeats.nl crew has been in this game for over a decade and we’re keeping our ground. We embrace the past, the future, the progressions and the changes, but we acknowledge that we love the core of hip hop and we will not trade in that core for anything that’s hip right now.
Pfew, now that that’s out there.. let’s forget the politics on friday and have a blast!
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