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SIN Cru, which stands for Strength in Numbers, was born on
the top deck of a red bus in 1995 and has since grown into
a strong collective encompassing all areas of hiphop culture.
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Kilo
Visual arts co-ordinator
Since
1984 Kilo has been expressing his artistic talents via the
use of spraypaint. After gaining international recognition
for his artwork he turned his hand to the art of video production.
In 1992 he produced the UK's first quarterly magazine style
video series, Visual Grafix, focusing on graffiti and Hiphop culture across the world. Distributed both nationally
and internationally, with a total of 20 videos, Visual Grafix
has now expanded into a successful video production company,
Visual Grafix Productions, specialising in 'street culture'
videos and producing everything from club visuals to corporate
promotional videos including Lewis Sterling clothing and features
on the Stussy Tribe series. |
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Ill Boogs
Performing arts
co-ordinator
Ill Boogs has been actively involved in the UK Hiphop scene for
the past eighteen years, twelve of these as a dancer with
a reputation within Bboy circles for his creative approach
to the dance form. In addition to being a Sinstar and member
of the Deadly Sins (the Sinstars battle/competition crew),
his main responsibilities within SIN Cru, alongside TrubL
Roc, are the co-ordination of all dance (Bboy/Bgirl) bookings,
events and workshops as well as regular club bookings around
the UK, these include the 'Fresh 2000' event (Birmingham)
and the Scrambling Feet birthday battle jam in Switzerland
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TrubL Roc
Artistic Director
Since 1986 TrubL has worked as a Hiphop
dancer nationwide for clubs, theatres and television. She
began teaching in 1997, and with local colleges has introduced
Breakdance into secondary education. As Projects Co-ordinator
for Hiphop collective SIN Cru, she mentors a youth Breakdance
crew, giving guidance on teaching, performance and choreography.
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Ben Swift
Nonsinthetik
Ben Swift is an illustrator/designer/photographer/b-boy/dj
based in London, England. Camberwell College of Art graduate,
original Hip Hop kid, SIN Cru member & the face behind
Nonsinthetik. A soldier armed with a Pilot Hi-Tecpoint v5
pen taking part in the 21st century style wars! Ben's distinctive
bugged out b-boy characters & ill illustrations turn throw-a-way
flyers into collectors items. As a result he's gone on to
represent for a variety of cool ass clients both here &
Stateside including Addict, Nike & Reebok. Ben’s
done the cover art for all of Richy Pitch’s releases
on 7 Heads Records NYC & publications such as Trace, Time
Out, The Guardian Guide, The Financial Times, Smash Hits,
Hip Hop Connection, Knowledge and Spin have all copped a dose
of the Nonsinthetik niceness. That’s word to Big Bird!
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Disorda
Suspect Packages
With
over 10 years involvement in the promotion and exposure
of UK based Hiphop artists, which includes mass production
of uk only mix tapes around the world, regular radio
shows on a number of stations around the uk and abroad,
and deejay and a&r work for various clubs/labels. Disorda
now has his own business retailing in UK Hiphop via his
company Suspect Packages. Day to day involvement with pretty
much every single rapper/group within the UK gives Disorda
that advantage over most for being on the ball when it
comes to who's doing it, and who's about to do it. |
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SIN
Cru
Community is an un-incorporated
group run by a volunteer
committee.
chair:Claire
Marsh chair@sincru.co.uk
vice chair:Bill
Pengelly vice@sincru.co.uk
secretary:Elisa
Pena-Prime secretary@sincru.co.uk
treasurer:
Carolyn Blake treasurer@sincru.co.uk
fundraiser:
Jonathon Goodacre fundraiser@sincru.co.uk
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