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Junior Natural recently recorded his upcoming album at Tuff Gong in Jamaica.

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The elite of Scandinavian urban artists on 1 cd and 1 dvd.

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J-RO

The first solo album with legendary J-Ro from Tha Alkaholiks.

Générations Tunes, vol. 1

The hottest urban tunes played at Paris’ mythic radio station Générations 88.2.

Générations 88.2

The legendary compilation box with 15 cds telling the story of the 15 years of Paris hip hop radio station number 1.

With the goal of inspiring youth to create urban music and to develop an international career, free workshops and shows will take place on 3 occasions in central Stockholm. The project goes under the name My Urban Music Day and is a warm-up before the EU-Music Days.
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BorderBlaster Talent Search is the latest initiative to develop the local music scene in Africa. The response for the first competition started out good. In the first round, 108 artists registered to take the chance to win the production of an album, including promotion and international distribution.
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BorderBlaster International has been asked to be a partner for the European project Diversidad.
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Make it Blast! is the first step in a movement to promote cultural exchange and create a platform for European urban music.
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Make it Blast

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Make it Blast

Make it Blast! is the first step in a movement to promote cultural exchange and create a platform for European urban music. The goal is to create a more integrated urban music scene in Europe to help individual artists to live on their music.

The project Make it Blast!was initiated at Södra Teatern in Central Stockholm in May 2008. It started with seminars, gathering representatives from all part of the urban music industry including record labels, artists, publishers, distributors, Information Centres, European Music Office, governmental institutions, journalists, producers, consultants, organizations, festival organizers and promoters to share experiences and exchange ideas. The participants started crucial reflections on how to break borders and build bridges between the different local music markets. Representatives from Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Holland, France, UK, Germany, Spain, Austria and USA participated at Make it Blast!.

In the evening, a platform of live shows took place. Over 20 artists performed live on one common stage and made the audience discover the diversity of European hip hop, reggae, soul and R&B music.

Make it Blast! was the first event that was organized by BorderBlaster International in cooperation with the Swedish Music Information Center, European Music Office, Diversités and Music Information Center Norway. It was the beginning of discussions that will take place around Europe with Diversidad.

Diversidad! is a multi-events project organized by European Music Office and Diversités with the support of the European Commission. A series of events will take place around Europe as part of the European Commission’s Call for the Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008.

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