Juno nominated hip hop artist DL Incognito is looking forward to his Friday night show at Studio 54.
“Basically we want to put on a real hip hop show,” said DL Incognito, aka Ottawa raised, Toronto based rapper/ DJ Oliver Nestor over a fading cell phone from the middle of the mountains on the road from Jasper to Canmore.
“For people who have heard us, we’ll be performing music from the other records and we’ll be dropping some new music from a new record we’re going to drop really soon. For people who haven’t heard us, we want to introduce them to a real hip 
hop show,” he said adding the tour, which has included four gigs since beginning in Vancouver with a DJ gig last Wednesday, is going well.
“It’s strong, traditional early ’90s hip hop,” he said adding the new music shows continued evolution.
“The new record will be called ‘Someday is Less Than Second Away,’ and it’s almost done,” he said adding he has an eye on releasing in in the Spring, around April or May. The last CD, “A Captured Moment In Time” was released in 2008.
“Things change. I write about the the things in my personal life and things I’ve seen. But maturity is the biggest difference. Musically it’s a lot of the same stuff people have heard me do before, it’s samples and MPCs. There’s a lot of programmed drums,” he continued.
“But we’ll bring in live musicians to fill out the sound,” he said.
“It’s a pretty classic hip hop setup, just me and my DJ,” he said.
“I always felt different regions of the United States have different sounds and styles and Europe has its own styles. I think Canada should have a sound that people recognize as Canadians making good hip hop music. But the biggest problem is the major cities are so far apart,” he said.
“Me and Tech 12 worked on this album. So there are a lot of dope beats and dope rhythms and dope rhymes,” he said adding he remembers playing Lethbridge a few years ago though can’t remember where.
“ There are a lot of people who are real hip hop fans. There was a really good vibe there and he people who showed up really got it,” he reminisced.
“This show is really going to be good. DJ Dopey will be there and Len Bowen, who we are traveling with and also Rochester. It’s going to be a quality hip hop show,” he continued adding
“I’ve been in Toronto for the past eight years. And there‘s lots of artists there. There’s lots of new groups on the bills. And Ottawa has expanded. I don’t know what’s happening in the underground there, but it’s only a matter of time before Canadian hip hop artists are known internationally,” he said.
The show begins at 9 p.m., Feb. 11 at Studio 54. There is a $15 cover.
