Põhja-Tallinn is a district of the capital city of Estonia, but also more than that.

The eponymous hip-hop group, which was created in 2007, has constantly strived to improve and find its own lane. 
Thus far, there have been three distinct line-ups. The first consisted of twelve MC's residing in Põhja-Tallinn,
who joined forces to create a gargantuan, eight-minute long borough anthem. 100 copies of the single were printed. 
 
The next line-up, consisting of five MC's remaining from the aforementioned line-up, recorded an 8-track EP, 
which they uploaded to the internet for free. 
Their first video - made on a non-existent budget - was subject to an impressive 100 000 views over the course of a few months.
  
The third act took place at the 2011 Estonian HipHop Festival, where a band of three MC's, a female vocalist and a three-member instrumental band - 
originally intended to give only one performance - took to the stage. 
  Over the course of the first few rehearsals it became clear that the collective was in great harmony and team spirit was strong. 
The rest has been something of a long family trip in the Estonian music world.
 At the moment, the band is mulling over the creation of new material and planing to release 4th studio album soon.

Contact, bookings etc. paul [at] hiphop .ee

Epp Kõiv - vocals
Eksotik - beats
Kaarel Rundu - lyrics

BERT ON BEATS (Mindnote Records)

BERT ON BEATS 2009-2018 (Mindnote, MadDecent/Jeffree's, ManRecordings, MainCourse, Enchufada, Mixpak) 

promos and remixes:
bertonbeats@gmail.com

In his hometown Tallinn, Estonia, Bert Prikenfeld has been a household name since the mid 1990s. Starting his career more than 25 years ago as DJ Critikal, Bert soon became Estonia´s Nr.1 hip hop DJ, playing various club shows and starting to produce. Bert soon moved to Drum n´Bass and released his first album in 1999 that followed album with S.I.N (Sound In Noise). Throughout the 00s, Critikal forged his sound engineering skills in productions for various Estonian and Finnish music projects. Around 2010 the new project Bert On Beats was born that firstly focused on early dubstep and the wave of new, „ghetto“ genres like Kuduro or the Rio Baile Funk. During that period Bert On Beats remixed artists such as Vybz Kartel, Buraka Som Sistema, Rudimental or Gotan Project. His global bass tracks have were played by DJs such as Diplo, Annie Mac, Toddla T, Burns, FatBoySlim, Sinden, Brodinski, Feadz and Foamo amongst others.  

In 2018 Bert On Beats started to invade the territories of darker Techno and Cinematic soundscapes. Since then Bert has released 4 albums TEN, NINE, EIGHT and SEVEN browsing these darker sonic corners of dance music. Bert On Beats album TEN won the best Electronic Album of the year in Estonian Music Awards 2020 and rest of the numeric albums have been nominated 3 years in a row in the same category.  
Bert has won 4 times Best Producer Of The Year award and 3 times Best Mixing/Mastering Engineer award at Estonian Music Industry Awards. Bert is also teaching students at University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy from 2018.

I use mainly Akai Mpc 2000xl, Sp-404 SX, Ensoniq 16+, Korg Ns5r, Logic and some other stuff. Tallinn / Estonia.

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