Eksman

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Kevin Forrester better known as MC Eksman is a Drum and Bass musician, originally born in Brockley, South London in 1980. Eksman started his career back in 1996 and spent many years writing, polishing his performance and enhancing his lyrics until launching himself into the forefront of the Drum and Bass scene. His first big break came in 2003, when he got he was recognised as ‘Best Newcomer’ at both industry favourite Knowledge Magazine awards as well as the Accelerated Culture awards. These two events saw his public profile take off dramatically, and raised his profile from an underground MC to many bookings for UK & International promotions. His success story continued going from from a virtual newcomer to a forefront of the scene, where in 2004 he lifted the ‘Best Lyrical MC’ title from Skibadee - an award, for which eleven thousand people had voted worldwide.

Since then Eksman has gone from strength to strength with the release in 2005 of Drive by Car, produced by Bingo head honcho DJ Zinc. Other releases included "Bad Man" on Frontline Recordings and "They Don’t Know" on D Style Recordings. This year also saw Eksman win ‘Best MC’ in the BBC Radio 1xtra Online awards and he featured as the first guest on the popular radio station.

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[edit] Style and Delivery

Eksman's style encompasses heavily syncopated lines, tight lyrical flow and very technical vocal trickery in order to hype the crowd.

[edit] Awards

MC Eksman currently resides as the Number 1 MC in drum & bass confimed by winning the Raveology National Drum and Bass Awards 2007, taking both the available awards for MC’s: ‘BEST LYRICAL MC’ and ‘BEST CROWD HYPE.’. Over 8 thousand people worldwide voted, with the results announced by BBC’s Fabio and Grooverider, established rave promoter Raveology are one of the most recognized awards in the scene.

In addition to this Eksman was also crowned ‘BEST INTERNATIONAL MC’ at the National German Drum and Bass Awards, adding yet another trophy to his ever growing collection.

  • 2003 - ‘Best Newcomer’
  • 2004 - ‘Best Lyrical MC’
  • 2007 - ‘Best Lyrical MC’ & 'Best Crowd Hype.’ (Raveology National Drum and Bass Awards)
  • 2007 - 'Best International MC' (National German Drum and Bass Awards)

[edit] Prolific Releases

2006 saw the release of "Na Blood" featuring Herbzie and Shortston which was the first full length vocal drum and bass video. It had regular showing on Channel U, the digital music station. 2006 also saw three releases "Bingo Beats", "Roll Slow" (produced by Zinc), "Blap" with Nicol and Majistrate and Energy produced by D Kay.

[edit] Trivia

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  • As well as being a renouned Drum and Bass MC, Eksman also has a 2:1 in Computer Science.
  • The legendary jungle producer Remarc is his older brother.

[edit] Collaborations

MC Eksman is a member of a group or 'crew' of established drum and bass artists known as New Breed.

New breed members include -

  • MC Eksman
  • MC Herbzie
  • MC Foxy
  • MC Fatman D
  • MC Shortston
  • MC Evil B

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