As part of the festival's hugely popular hip hop programme, Pogo and TY ran a DJing and MCing 'taster session' for up to 40 aspiring young Moroccan hip hop artists and enthusiasts. The multimedia demonstration introduced different forms of DJing and DJ skills whilst looking at a wide variety of music styles and how to fuse them. The duo also performed at Club COC, Casablanca, before travelling to Rabat to meet and work with some of the capital's most established DJs.

'We really enjoyed exchanging experiences in Morocco ... We learnt as much from the Moroccans as they learnt from us.' DJ Pogo.

DJ POGO
DJ Pogo has been busy carving out a rock solid niche for himself adding numerous turntable trophies to his accolades, from the 1997 DMC crown, to clenching the group championships with fellow cohorts the En4orcers (Cutmaster Swift, Madkut and DJ Biznizz). From the club, to the radio or alongside a band, he still continues to push his stellar skills beyond the geographical boundaries of tactical turntablism.

TY
A veteran of hip hop, Ty's debut recording back in 1995 was on one of I.G. Culture's (New Sector Movement) legendary One Drop Inter Outer albums. He has worked with the likes of MC Mell'O', Jonzi D's Apricot Jam, and DJ Pogo and has recently featured on albums and singles by the Nextmen, Unsung Heroes, Funky DL, Procryptix and Krispy. He hosts one of London's best-known and longest running hip hop nights, Lyrical Lounge. In 1997 he released singles with well-known DJ Shortee Blitz. As a duo they are now signed to Bear Mountain, a US imprint owned and run by Maceo from De La Soul. He has appeared as a presenter on Channel 4's Flava and been invited to share the mic with luminaries such as Talib Kweli, De La and Jeru Da Damaja. He has even dropped verses for Eric Benet! His debut album Awkward has just been released.