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DJ Format AKA Matt Ford’s debut album “Music For The Mature B-Boy” is one of the slowburn success stories of 2002. An album of soulful, funk fuelled hip hop packed with infectious beats and lyrical dexterity, it delivered in spades on the promise of his early releases for Mo’ Wax and Bomb Hip Hop. Received with quiet acclaim in the press it quickly became a word of mouth triumph, going on to establish itself as one of the most successful debut artist album’s in UK hip hop/alternative urban/dance scene. The campaign was successful for a number of reasons not least it’s supporting batch of three incredible music video’s all directed by then unknown Ruben Fleischer. The most famous of these will undoubtedly be the rap and breakdancing costumed animals of ‘We Know Something You Don’t Know’ featuring the vocals of Chali 2na and Akil of Jurassic 5 - played out by a shark and tiger respectively on the big screen it is an unforgettable piece of feel good hip hop. “Music For The…” also led to Matt supporting Jurassic 5 on their European tour, and through subsequent touring in 2003 establishing Format & Abdominal as one of the hottest live hip hop tickets in town culminating in triumphant appearances at the Reading & Leeds festivals of 2004 and worldwide touring taking in the whole of Europe, North America and (most recently) Australia.

“We played a lot of shows, but Leeds & Reading was an amazing moment for me because it had been a while since the album, a while since me & Abs had toured and the first time doing shows with D-sisive, explains Matt.

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  • JeremyAce4

    Newsome.

    last month
  • stonedh1

    Statement of Intent!!!!!!!!

    March 2012
  • zoots14

    Statement of Intent!!!! Format Arrives!!!!

    February 2012
  • Krumbumbes

    May be some one possess the playlist of European Vacation Mix ? Format+Florian Keller+Dom Servini+Laurel b2b 4hours mix explode my mind )

    November 2010
  • Krumbumbes

    happy-funky ! завтра заценим живьем, ткзть )

    November 2010
  • MrNake

    like his style?!)

    November 2010
  • killslumber

    We Know Something... (c)

    September 2010
  • wegface_1989

    Fabric. 27, now you're talking! Fucking ace bit of putting a compilation album together!

    July 2010
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