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    The Original Language Lab was a Club night started in London in 1982. It was the very first night that celebrated the then new culture of Hip Hop and Rap...It’s effect on London nightlife was huge, taking music out of the discos and placing it in seedy underground venues something that back then was almost unknown...

    Spawning many pretenders The Language Lab's influence changed the face of clubbing forever and it's effect was felt right up until the acid house explosion of ’88 and then some...

    In the 21st century, B-Boy culture in it's modern form is back to take it's place in the mainstream. Most of us have grown tired of the Bling mentality of modern Rap, so we turn to the origins of Hip Hop music which are devoid of the usual negative anti-social and racial stereotypes and harken back to a time when multi-faceted creativity ruled supreme… Mix that with the current sounds of Blouse, London Hard hop or whatever you wanna call it and you've got the formula...
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    “Then there was the time that the Wild Bunch - which Massive Attack grew out of - took part in a sound clash with the Rapologists at the Language Lab, one of the first serious Hip Hop clubs in London in the early Eighties..."

    Robert de Naja. Massive Attack. The Observer 18 May 2008...

    http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2279780,00.html

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    "Breakdancing, rapping, scratching and graffiti art all became a recognised part of the vocabulary of youth culture and dance music. But hip hop was still treated with contempt by many. Here in Britain, even though as early as 1982 young black and white kids were already forming their own break-crews, and clubs like London's Language Lab were packing them in to hear Britain's first generation of rappers..."

    The UK Record Mirror 1986 (Now defunct, it was the Source of it's day.)

    http://www.globaldarkness.com/articles/roots_of_hiphop.htm

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    Now that we're back, we're gonna embrace the energy of those early years mix it up with the sounds of now and reignite those Old Skool spontaneous happenings with a futurist twist...

    Language Lab 2009... Let's take it to the Streets...

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