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Crazy Options

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Crazy Options were a collective of Hip Hop practitioners based in Buckingham located on the outskirts of Milton Keynes. The members (Danny Cooli, DJ Halo, Kraze One, Mr Lusta) collaborated on several events, live performances, recordings and releases during the mid to late 1990s. The group name originated from a piece of artwork created by Mr Lusta that was displayed at the collectives first event held in a bar called Tudor Rock located on the Buckingham high street during the mid 1990s. 

Crazy Options Crew – Tudor Rock, Buckingham 1995.

Crazy Options initially formed as a DJ collective during the summer of 1995. After organising and playing at several local events an opportunity to create a studio recording was presented which resulted in the group’s first unofficial demo entitled “Take a look around”. At the time of its creation Kraze One and Mr Lusta were studying sound recording part time at Audio lab studio located in Buckingham and as part of the course structure they were able to create a recording using the studio equipment. Continue reading →

MC Iceski Interview (The Criminal Minds)

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MC Iceski is one of the first generation of pioneering rappers from both Milton Keynes and the UK. MC Iceski founded the musical section of Hip Hop collective The Criminal Minds with DJ Halo and Spatts during the late 1980s and together released several critically acclaimed Hip Hop, Rave and Drum & Bass recordings. At the time this interview was conducted The Criminal Minds have recently returned to their Hip Hop roots with a brand new recording entitled “Regroup the loops” which contains contributions from all original members.

MC Iceski – Hamburg, Germany, 2010.

Greetings and thanks for sharing your story. For any readers that are maybe unaware, could you give us a breakdown of how The Criminal Minds formed? 

Well, this is well documented, but the short version was that I met HALO at Bletchley college where SAFE-D was also studying. We hooked up, started writing together & TCM was born as a rap crew, previously being a Graffiti outfit in Buckingham. I used to hang with Spatts from the break-dancing days & we all got together. The rest is history.  My brother Warren (Grafik) was always there & it was great to have him as part of the crew from the early days.

The Criminal Minds (DJ Halo, Spatts, Safe-D, MC Iceski, Grafik).

What inspired you to start rapping/writing lyrics and how old were you when you discovered Hip Hop?

I got into Hip hop in the mid 80’s, it started with break-dance’, and I remember the whole New York scene and culture at the time just blew me away.  Graffiti, Break-dance’, Hip Hop music, the clothing, DJ’s scratching, Mc’s, man I was totally hooked.  At first it was Continue reading →