Pioneer Unit

Ben Sharpa and Milanese have been rocking crowds out in Europe for the last couple of months and the response to their unique brand of hip hop and UK bass music has been amazing. The day after rocking a crowd of around 4,000 people at Dour in Belgium, Sharpa and Milanese gave Extrema in Eindhoven a taste of the future.

Extrema is one of the largest festivals in The Netherlands, with an estimated 40,000 people in attendance. The musical line up was mostly commercial techno, so Sharpa and Milanese really stood out. The Novalectra tent was packed to capacity and the pair killed it with a big performance.

Check out the photos…

Ben Sharpa, Milanese, Dplanet (click for larger image).

Beach with fake palm trees! (click for larger image).

The Sharpest Knife in the Drawer + hottie (click for larger image).

Fuck me, I’m fabulous! (click for larger image).

Sharpa and Milanese rockin’ it (click for larger image).

The crowd feeling it (click for larger image).

The crowd feeling it even more (click for larger image).

Sharpa Soul Power (click for larger image).

Click here to see the full set of photos on Flickr

That’s how we rrrrrrrrroll!!

Just a quick update to let you know that we haven’t disappeared off the face of the planet.

Pioneer Unit is on tour in Europe at the moment. Ben Sharpa has been killing it with Milanese all over the place and I’m chilling in Amsterdam until the 30th of this month.

There will be news and photo updates in the next few days. Hold tight!

Please bear with us if you’ve emailed recently - we’ll definitely get back to you as soon as we can.

Peace!

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Our very own Ben Sharpa has just finished a recording session with critically-acclaimed UK Hip Hop crew, Foreign Beggars. They got together to record a track about the lunatics taking over the asylum, which by all accounts, is a banger.

For those of you that haven’t heard of Foreign Beggars, let me put you in the know… the crew have achieved a range high profile accomplishments from appearance s on Bjork’s Medulla album and the Gorillaz single Tomorrow Never Comes, to remix production for Amp Fiddler and Corinne Bailey Rae, and touring the States with James Lavelle’s UNKLE outfit. Whilst also having collaborated with a slew of hip hop heavy weights including Stones Throw’s OhNo, Guilty Simpson, Wildchild and Dudley Perkins, producer supreme DJ Vadim, Dabrye, Scratch Perverts, Skinnyman, Task Force and Spain’s Griffi and Tote King they have worked from a host of other genres including Vex’d, Virus Sundicate, Natalie Williams, Noisia and Ram Record’s Subfocus.

Ben is currently on tour in Europe, performing with groundbreaking UK Bass Music producer Milanese. Check him out at Bangface in London on July 11th, Dour Festival in Belgium on July 18th and at Extrema Festival in The Netherlands on July 19th.

Foreign Beggars on Myspace

Foreign Beggars on Dented Records

Foreign Beggars Official Site

That’s how we rrrrrrrrrroll!!

Breis (UK) / DJ Spooky (US) / Ben Sharpa (SA) - (click for larger image).

Your boy Ben Sharpa is on tour out in Europe right now. Last Saturday he participated in MCs for Life as part of Bass Festival. Other participants include Black Thought, Lord Finesse, Rich Medina, Ursula Rucker, DJ Spooky, Tumi, Nappo, Omekongo, Lebo Mashile, Charlie Dark, Hymphatic Thabs and many more.

The photo above shows Ben chilling with Breis and DJ Spooky.

That’s how we rrrrrrrrrrrroll!!