Selektah Kolektiboa | th

Establishing his own spot amongst the ranks of East Coast hip-hop's seminal figures, DJ/producer Statik Selektah utilized his turntabling skills and ingenuity in PR and promotions to break some of the region's most promising artists, bearing his own influence on the national mixtape circuit. Born January 23, 1982 in Lawrence, MA, Patrick Baril was exposed to production equipment at a very early age, tinkering with his parents' eight-track machine, cassette recorders, and turntable. By middle school, he was already DJing school functions, but he was inspired to be a true wheels-of-steel artiste after hearing DJ Premier scratch and mix records...

Selektah Kolektiboa is a music group and, at the same time, an open-ended project aimed at making black music, with its myriad of faces and styles. Apart from organisation of fiestas and working as a sound system, it is the pioneering group for hip-hop in Basque. .