djaga

Hip Hop

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About

Djaga emptied cans on the streets ever since 1983. He got inspired by the dynamic Hiphop culture when it was emerging in the early eighties with artist like Run Dmc, Grandmaster Flash, Slick Rick, T La Rock, Public Enemy, BDP, Just Ice, Big Daddy Kane, Eric B & Rakim, Stetsasonic, N.W.A, Schoolly D and Graffiti artists like Lee, Seen, Dondi, Mode2, Bando just to name a few......

Around 1989 Djaga started to produce beats and rhymes. Djaga is the founder of Hiphop bands like Y.M.I, Ancient Scriptures and Scriptonic. In 1994 Djaga and his band Y.M.I made their first video clip "Pancras East" they won the European Cultural Festival Award. He produced three tracks for the album "From Streets to Stages" in 1995, and in 1997 they made their second video clip "The Reason in you" His band Ancient Scriptures won the Dutch Price in the year 2001 and started performing everywhere in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. In 2003 Ancient Scriptures made their last video clip entitled "The Show" a song about the corners of the world.

In 2004 Djaga started to produce music-scores for theatre and multi disciplined stage performances. His first music score was for the theatre play "Chitchat Blues".
Several stage-plays like: "Mixed Identities", "Lost in the city" and "Identity Matters".
In 2005 Djaga produced the Hiphop album "Blueprint - The morning shapes the night" an album that covers the complicated Eurasian history.
It takes you back to the 16th century where colonization was a daily issue, and where people were born of mixed race and culture. A journey along the landscapes of time to the present.
Djaga and his musical partner C.J composed four songs with the Royal Dutch Marine Orchestra. Beside guest-appearances and album featurings for the likes of Poor Man Friend, he produced tracks for mc's like Mic-Nif, Pape-Man, Dice Rollz, Nu-Clear Family and several others.

In the year 2006 Djaga moved to Indonesia to start working on his Hiphop documentary "Explore Boundaries" a documentary about the Indonesian Hiphop community. Also he is working on several music projects with Indonesian artists like the comic designer "Thoriq", Turntable / Mc Crew "Cronik" and the soulful "Ms. Irma" with who he's working on the album entitled "ONE LOVE".
Moving to Indonesia didn't stop him from working International and with his main partner in music "Mic-Nif" he's still works on their album called "Pages of Life" a highly emotional driven album, that captures the highlights of both mc's lives.

Ceremonial Cycles

Djaga - Ceremonial Cycles will be released this year.
With "Ceremonial Cycles", his first solo album, Djaga sparks the atmosphere with beats, rhymes and life.
In "What kinda world" Djaga spits...

"A world of cultural conflicts, miscommunication
Since the cradle of mankind among the global population
Invasions, aggressions and battles with Satan's disciples
Between heaven and hell, where earthlings dwell with rifles
Tribal wars, depicted in epics and ancient titles,
angels and demons battle for supremacy in the bible"

Throughout the whole album "Ceremonial Cycles" he shifts from revolutionary rebellious music with protesting and enigmatic lyrics, to feel good vibes with personal reflections. A combination that reflects his life and surroundings.
In the song "Illosophy" Djaga explains his travels through the landscapes of the mind.

"Denying our existence leads to a contradiction
We try to establish relations between science and fiction
Is your existence caused by the existence of another?
The color that I see, the same as my brother receives"

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