Up Hygh consists of the two producers, songwriters, MC’s and DJ’s Pure Purpose and Rick Skizzo, both determined to engage the retroactive elements of soul music with the futuristic styles of hip-hop and r&b.
Both Pure Purpose and Rick Skizzo were born and raised in the regions around Stockholm (Sweden) and met each other in school as they studied music production. After collaborating on numerous recording projects, it felt natural for them to team up officially under one name. Thanks to “the godfather of funk”, Damon Frost of Hearin’ Aid, the young duo were schooled in MPC technology, sound engineering and early p-funk styled music. This started the evolution to what Up Hygh are today. Crusty 12-bit handclaps in an un-quantized manner around deep b-lines that makes the systems peak. Semi-organic, semi-electronic, semi-retro, semi-futuristic. |
