LONDON: Dublin Castle

Tuesday 13th February, 2024

7:30pm

Event information

LAW ABIDIN CITIZ3N is the electronic hip-hop rave project of London born Levi Oak-Reid. Oak-Reid writes, records, performs, and produces all of the project’s music. As a touring act, LAW ABIDIN CITIZ3N consists of a wide variety of artists, creatives and musicians.

Fusing the sonics of the ’80s and 90s with taut pop melodies and modern electronic production, debut album ‘SCUM: Self-Centred Urban Male’, released late 2023 features “extremely creative sampling, badass drums and bass, and other sparkling electronic features”

”Self-Centred Urban Male is edgy and salient, but an improvement on it’s early rap inspirations by incorporating more attractive melodies, lush pads and other sounds that lean towards ambient”. – SynthBeat.com Essentially a dance night, albeit one which is revelatory in its mixture of house beats, hip-hop, ambient electronic, throw-back samples and its celebration of the 80’s and 90’s rave culture.

From mixing Nigerian tribal chants echoed around the sweet cries of ‘Fade to Grey’ by Visage on SCUM’s opening track ‘Mother Mary’. Sampling a favourite erotic movie intertwined with Chris Isaak’s ‘Wicked Game’ subset over thumbing tribal beats on ‘Breathe’, or a electronic 90’s electronic hip-hop track sampling The Spice Girls – ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ on ‘Giving Is Good’. A Linkin Park construct hip-hop tribal beat sampling Ru Paul’s 90’s smash ‘Supermodel’ exclaiming “From dreams I have awoken, you call me bitter as if for life is sweet and I am liquorice and not heartbroken”. Jefferson Airplane inspires ‘Chasing Rabbits. ‘Levitation’ samples ‘Sweet Harmony’ by The Beloved and ‘The Power of Goodbye’ from Madonna‘s 90’s Ray of Light album. produced by William Orbit.