Tracklist

#1 Doorway
#2 Taxman Returns
#3 Be Like Us
#4 Vibrator
#5 Dippin'
#6 Live At The Apollo
#7 Neva Argue
#8 Infected
#9 Hit'Em High
#10 Kane 'N' Abel
#11 Won't Give Up
#12 Apollo (Various Production Remix)
#13 Neva Argue (Various Production Remix)

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Virus Syndicate / Sick Pay

Planet Mu

formats available

CD
$13.00
ZIQ 215 CD
600116821522
Street Date:
November 11th, 2008
Ship Date:
November 3rd, 2008
MP3 DOWNLOAD
$9.90
Street Date:
November 11th, 2008
Ship Date:
November 3rd, 2008

Virus Syndicate is DJ/producer M.R.K.1 (formerly Mark One) and MCs Goldfinger, JSD, and Nika D--Manchester's foremost grime crew, represeting the Northwest UK scene in their inimitable style. This integral part of the UK grime scene has played numerous Sidewinder raves and countless shows on Rinse FM and Manchester's Unity, with radio support from Cameo, Semtex, and Mary Anne Hobbs. Their debut album, The Work Related Illness, was everything one could ask for--a cartoon gangsta movie of an album with a beginning, middle and end. All the tracks linked into each other in a narrative and the entire album told the story of the life of the Virus Syndicate! The follow-up, Sick Pay, is more of the same, with both Bhangra and electro influences coming to the fore in tracks such as "Dippin'" and "Vibrator." Additionally, the Syndicate revisits the Taxman with another tale of urban robbery, and the autobiographical "Live at the Apollo" rests on a surf guitar riff that will rock any party.