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Phi-Life Cypher

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Luton-based Phi-Life Cypher are one the country’s best and most skilled live hip hop crews. Having cemented their reputation for rocking underground hip hop clubs up and down the country, Phi-Life have also recently appeared live on the Brit Awards, toured with the Gorillaz and have been voted Best Live Act at Cambridge Kings College too! They are best known for their accomplished stage presence, ridiculous freestyles and intelligent, frenetic rhyming.

They are a 4 piece group – Life, Si-Phili and (new member) Skit Slam are the emcees and DJ Nappa providing the beats (DJ/Producer). Their live show typically lasts around 45 minutes, however when Life begins his freestyles, crowds often find themselves caught up in his infectious raps and demand more.
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Discography

Releases:
Baddest Man (12", Single)   Compressed Knowledge 1998
Baddest Man EP (12", W/Lbl)   Not On Label 1998
Earth Rulers (12")   Jazz Fudge 2000
Millennium Metaphors (2 versions)   Jazz Fudge 2000
The Instrumentals (2xLP)   Jazz Fudge 2000
Herbaholics (12")   Jazz Fudge 2001
The Chosen Few EP (12")   Jazz Fudge 2002
The Chosen Few EP (CD, EP)   Jazz Fudge 2002
Higher Forces (2xLP)   Zebra Traffic 2003
Higher Forces (CD)   Zebra Traffic 2003
Over (12")   Zebra Traffic 2003
Rap It Up (12")   Zebra Traffic 2004
Remixes:
Clint Eastwood (6 versions) Clint Eastwood (Phi Li... Parlophone ... 2001
G Sides (Album, Comp) (6 versions) Clint Eastwood (Phi Li... Parlophone ... 2001
Word Lab 2: The Next Chapter (CD) Ya Don't See The Signs Wordplay Records 2001
Objectif 2002 (2xCD) Clint Eastwood (Phi Li... Les Inrockuptibles 2002
Appears On:
Fingerprints Of The Gods (12") Fingerprints Of The Go... Ronin Records 1998
Sunday Best 2 (2 versions) Fingerprints Of The Gods Sunday Best Recordings 1999
Cordless Mics At 20 Paces / Domestic Science (12") Cordless Mics At 20 Pa... Ronin Records 2000
Countryman (Album) (2 versions) Cordless Mics At 20 Paces Ronin Records 2001
G Sides (Album, Comp) (5 versions) The Sounder (Edit) Parlophone ... 2001
Gorillaz (CD, Enh, Album + CD) The Sounder Parlophone, EMI Music (France) 2001
Rock The House (Maxi) (2 versions) The Sounder EMI Records ... 2001
The Legacy: Episode 1 (CD) Cordless Mics @ 20 Paces Ronin Records 2001
Wordplay, Crushin Fools Everyday (CD, Promo) Ya Don't See The Signs... HHC Magazine, Wordplay Records 2001
Ya Don't See The Signs (Maxi, Single) (3 versions) Ya Don't See The Signs... Wordplay Records 2001
Combustible (Maxi) (2 versions) Ghetto Rebels Ninja Tune 2002
In The Red (Album) (4 versions) My Verse 1st Ninja Tune 2002
It Ain't Nuttin' / Time To Build / Distinguished Jamaican English (12", Single) Distinguished Jamaican... Ninja Tune 2002
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Album) (3 versions) Distinguished Jamaican... Ninja Tune 2002
Time 2 Build / Distinguished Jamaican English (12", Promo) Distinguished Jamaican... Ninja Tune 2002
Time To Build (Maxi) (3 versions) Distinguished Jamaican... Ninja Tune 2002
U.S.S.R. The Art Of Listening (Album) (6 versions) Ghetto Rebels Ninja Tune ... 2002
Boxfresh Presents USSR: The Art Of Listening (CD, Mixed) Ghetto Rebels Boxfresh Records 2003
Walky Talkyz (CD, Album, Promo) New Rulesz Scenario Records 2005
Playback (CD) Cordless Mics At 20 Pa... Zebra Traffic 2006
Tracks Appear On:
D-ROM Issue 5 (CD, Comp, Smplr, Enh, Promo, P/Mixed) Compressed Knowledge D-ROM Limited, DJ Magazine 1999
Promo Mix (CD) Drop Bombs (Instrument... Not On Label 2000
Skitz & Rodney P... Original Fever (CD) Over Touch Magazine 2000
Taskforce Presents: DJ Louis Slipperz £10 Bag (2 versions) Untitled (Exclusive), ... Music From The Corner 2002
Dark N Cold Presents: The Untapped Project Vol 2 (CD) We Bark Big Dark N Cold 2003
Disco Pogo For Punks In Pumps Vol. 13 (CD, Comp) Over Jockey Slut 2003
Flip The Script (CD) Free Knowledge Magazine 2003
Mono - When Shapes Join Together (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) Cypher Funk Tru Thoughts 2003
Routes One (CD, Comp, Mixed, Promo) Cypher Funk Tru Thoughts, Zebra Traffic 2003
Undercover Cuts 6 (CD, Promo) Cypher Funk (Mr Thing ... Undercover Mag 2003
Undercover Cuts 8 (CD, Promo) Free Undercover Mag 2003
Channel U Presents: Underground Chapter 1 (2xCD, Comp, P/Mixed) Herbaholic, Herbaholic Long Lost Brother Records 2004
DJ Championship UK Final 2004 (DVD-V) Live PA DMC 2004
The Ex Files: Doc 1 (CD) Cypher Refunk Dat Sound Productions 2004
Tru Thoughts / Zebra Traffic Sampler (CD, Comp, Smplr) Over Tru Thoughts, Zebra Traffic 2004
Undercover Cuts 10 (CD, Enh, Promo) Herbaholics Undercover Mag 2004
The Dugout (CD, Comp, Enh, Dig) Who's This (DJ Nappa R... Zebra Traffic 2005
Playback (CD) Worldwide, Ill Force, ... Zebra Traffic 2006
Shapes Compilation 2006 (Part 2) (CD, Comp, Ltd) Red Alert Tru Thoughts 2006
The Dugout EP (12", EP) Red Alert Zebra Traffic 2006
Unofficial Releases:
Greatest Hits (CD, Enh) The Sounder (Edit), Cl... Not On Label 2004
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YouTube Videos

Phi-Life Cypher - Earth Rulers