Biography
The Grim Reaperz are a duo of hip hop producers from the French underground rap scene, consisting of Oxydz and Crown.
Together with a mutual love for hip-hop citing influence from producers such as Alchemist, Stoupe and DJ Premier, they decided to collaborate and eventually merge their skills together under a new name, Grim Reaperz.
Oxydz and Crown are well known for using unique samples uncommon to hip-hop production which create a very diverse but distinctly original brand of music.
Grim Reaperz have worked with some of the most influential underground hip-hop MC's from across the globe, including Raekwon and the supergroup Army of The Pharaohs.
Crown has been a DJ since 1998 and began producing in 2004. Crown's first album, Just Listen, included features from Raekwon, Main Flow and Brooklyn Academy. Crown is also closely affiliated with Scylla (Belgium) and produced the first “MC vs Beatmaker” video. He has collaborated on two tracks on the acclaimed Army of The Pharaohs album The Unholy Terror, "Agony Fires" and "Dead Shall Rise". Crown has worked with artists from a wide range of countries, including South Korea, Canada and The United States. Crown is known and respected for his ability to create tracks using complex combinations of chopped samples that come from wide-ranging genres of music.
Oxydz has been been involved in hip-hop production since 1995. He released his first track in 1999,“L'art d'utiliser son savoir”. Soon after he began collaborating with a various range of MC's from the French underground hip-hop scene, such as 2Bal, Sages Poetes de la Rue, Expression Direct, as well as many others.
After producing over 100 tracks between 2007 and 2009 Oxydz started to focus on expanding his music beyond the underground hip-hop scene in France. Oxydz utilizes samples, sampled and pitched live instrument lines as well as hispersonal collection of synthesizer presets, to produce dark, rich and melodic tracks. He is also an accomplished audio engineer as well as a designer and webmaster.
Links :
Grim Reaperz on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/grimreaperzbeatmakers
Band Camp : http://grimreaperz.bandcamp.com/
Official Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/user/GrimReaperzBeat
Official Blog : http://grimreaperzbeat.skyrock.com/
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