Ben Sharpa from Soweto, South Africa, has been getting support from Jarring Effects since his track on “Capetown Beats” compilation in 2008. Furthermore, Mary Ann Hobbs played his tune “Into the Black” on BBC Radio1 and in november last year Ben Sharpa has returned with a new full length album.
Growing up in an alien culture, since his parents relocated to Chicago, Illinois, fleeing from South Africa’s brutal Apartheit regime, Ben was inspired by the radical new voice that Hip Hop was giving the oppressed. In 1993 he came back to South Africa for the first free elections and quickly establishing himself as a major force in underground hip hop, known for his crews with experimental, abstractedly asynchronous beats and stream of consciousness rhymes.
“B.SHARPA”, his new album, is now at the forefront of a new wave of soundsystem music, underpinned by heavy, hybrid hip hop beats with influences from electro, dub, Detroit techno, dancehall, electronica and glitch.
