Rusangano Family is made up of 2 MCs and 1 DJ. Based in the West of Ireland, the trio has been steadily building their own unique brand of dynamic bass-led music that owes little to genre clichés and style restrictions. Despite their diverse cultural backgrounds, the group operates first and foremost as a family unit. They want you as part of the family too. While the trio have been working together closely over the last two years, Rusangano Family is the amalgamated title that would see the unit push forward with from March 2015.
Exploring issues such as identity and belonging, Rusangano Family deliver a hefty dose of honest double-edged lyricism over skewed soul samples, 808 beats and sliced-up breaks. Wearing their hip-hop and electronic influences proudly on their sleeves, Rusangano Family aren’t an act willing to conform to the styles associated with their respective backgrounds. Instead of struggling with the id...
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Rusangano Family is made up of 2 MCs and 1 DJ. Based in the West of Ireland, the trio has been steadily building their own unique brand of dynamic bass-led music that owes little to genre clichés and style restrictions. Despite their diverse cultural backgrounds, the group operates first and foremost as a family unit. They want you as part of the family too. While the trio have been working together closely over the last two years, Rusangano Family is the amalgamated title that would see the unit push forward with from March 2015.
Exploring issues such as identity and belonging, Rusangano Family deliver a hefty dose of honest double-edged lyricism over skewed soul samples, 808 beats and sliced-up breaks. Wearing their hip-hop and electronic influences proudly on their sleeves, Rusangano Family aren’t an act willing to conform to the styles associated with their respective backgrounds. Instead of struggling with the idea of being different, they celebrate it. Sure the rules are only there to be broken. Releases such as the 'Surface Tension EP' and the 'Rusangano/Family' album have led to support slots with Run The Jewels, Young Fathers, Snoop Dogg and BadBadNotGood, as well as headlining dates at festivals all around Ireland, including Body & Soul, Other Voices and Hard Working Class Heroes as well as the Liverpool Irish festival. In December 2014, the trio dropped the single ‘Grand Job’, which garnered numerous plays on BBC Radio1, while ‘Rusangano/Family’ was listed as the best Irish album of 2014 on Nialler9.com and featured in the overall top ten albums of 2014 in the Irish Times. January 2015 has seen the release of MuRli's 'Surface Tension EP' to large acclaim and airplay on the BBC and Indie Shuffle.
Their new single 'Heathrow' was featured in NPR's 'Songs We Love' on December 1st 2015.
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“One of the best opening acts we’ve had. Great energy, nice kids. Some of the beats are crazy.” - Tackstar The DJ (Run The Jewels)
"Certainly groundbreaking, potentially game-changing and righteously grandstanding" - Jim Carroll (The irish Times)
"A scene-stealer and maker at once" - Niall Byrne (Nialler9.com)
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