Active Member
| Active Member | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Perama Piraeus, Greece |
| Genres | Low bap |
| Years active | 1992–2015 |
| Labels | Warner, 8ctagon, Imantas |
| Members | B.D.Foxmoor, Sadahzinia |
| Past members | DJ Booker, DJ MCD, Real D, Xray, DJ Smartie Al |
Active Member is a Greek hip-hop/low bap group, founded in 1992 by Michalis Mitakidis (a.k.a. B.D.Foxmoor),Nikitas Klint (a.k.a. X-Ray) and Dimitris Kritikos (a.k.a. DJ MCD).
Being the first Greek low bap group to release an album, Active Member had dominated the hip-hop scene in Greece for many years. Although the genre had already existed for more than a decade, it was still unknown to the majority of Greeks in the early 90s. However, the group redefined their music in 1995 with the release of the record To Megalo Kolpo (The Big Trick). Their newly founded subgenre has since then been called Low Bap and it is characterized by the slow bass, rhythm, and the emphasis on lyrics in the songs.
Presently, the group is one of the most widely recognized in Greece, staying away from the rest of the Greek hip-hop scene though. They are deeply involved in the music industry and community, including organizing events such as the annual Low Bap Festival in Athens. They also encourage the youth to enter the scene, and have released records comprised by demo songs sent to them by new performers.
The Word, Life, and People in equilibrium with the Culture, Media and Survival.
The place
Until the early 90s, one in Greece - especially in Europe and worldwide not imagine that in a few years everyone will be talking about a new music scene for a new makeshift formation - social and musical - to be heard Low Bap in the name and linking so many people together. No one imagined what was to be born in Perama, a seaside suburb of Piraeus Labour and Western Attica.
Perama always considered underdeveloped. This is partly due to the fact that the first inhabitants of Perama, in the early 20s, were refugees from Asia Minor. The residents fought for years with unemployment and the conflicting interests around the ship repair zone - a key center for the local economy. In such a place is common for young people with talent, skill and passion for life, forced to give up dreams, study and career for a job in the boats. So it was always very difficult, for example for a musician to be able to survive doing what he knows best: in this case the music. All of the above, then, the tortured mind of a young man, who lived in Perama, named Michael Mytakidis.
M. O Mytakidis (or BDFoxmoor) watching the hip hop music and its evolution since 1979. In an effort to make better known this music in Greece, searched, found and brought together a core of people with common concerns. Then, having few financial and technical resources, these people put a common goal, to build the foundation for a conscious music scene in Greece. And the built ... They made it.
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