SIBO KANO # www.myspace.com/sibokanobana

The Roots

Sibo Kano is a MC, producer and poet inspired by all styles of urban music. From lo-fi Rock and Reggae through Hiphop, Regueton and Kwaito until House, D&B, Dancehall and Electro. He entered the music scene as a DJ. In 1995 he discovered drum&bass/jungle and started to spin jungle records right away. Sibo Kano has written poetry of all kind since his earliest youth but in 1994 he started to write lyrics with the goal to perform them on stage.

Frame 313

He released his first demo tape in 1998 (The Rhimeshot Mixtape") on which he rapped conscious lyrics in Dutch and French. That same year he began to hook up with the Wasteland crew. Together with JDoubleL he formed the producers/DJ collective Frame 313. Various gigs were organized in Ghent and Brussels during the early years of the new millennium. Frame 313 focused on a mix of Rap with electro, jungle and D&B and mixed some ragga and dubstep/2step/grime records into it. They featured on many Je M'en Fish label nights all over Belgium and released a track on the first JeM'enFish compilation (2001).

THE Wasteland

In 2001 Wasteland released an Up & Coming compilation of Belgian hiphop artists. Frame 313 produced the closing track of that first compilation ("Old Skool Blabber"), mixing a heavy dancehall beat with 72soul's slick rhymes. Later on Sibo Kano produced beats for various Flemish hiphop artists on Watseland's compilations and on MC Koenfoe's first demo tape.

Mobassik

In 2002 Sibo Kano left for Latin America, worked there and got inspired by the huge Regueton wave. When he came back he was full of energy to make it happen. In 2003, while spinning some records at a party at the Brussels University he met MC Binara. Both started to work together on tracks in 72soul's home studio. They recorded an album featuring 72soul and Sumi, mixed by the Zambezi Hippos. In 2006 a limitied edition got distributed by their own Litimo publishing and released via iTunes and eMusic. In 2007 another limited edition of 200 copies will be distributed in the Belgian independent record shops. Their single "Bila Mzozo" got good airplay on radio's like FM Brussel and won the demopoll of Flanders main radio Studio Brussel in 2005.

Today

Today Sibo Kano keeps on working in the Mobassik collective in which more and more producers and MC's get involved. He still rhymes in French or Dutch (with a that Belgian Waffle accent), produces beats (Roxy's "Mister Big Hair"!) and writes his own style of polyglot straight forward pop-poetry. He plans to travel the world again and will leave for Africa in September 2007. More news will come.