{"id":57568,"date":"2015-09-28T15:44:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T15:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=57568"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:28:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:28:37","slug":"best-next-sin-calais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2015\/09\/28\/best-next-sin-calais\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Next: Sin For Calais"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The south London hip-hop and DIY clothing lords.<\/p>\n

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Taken from the 10th Anniversary Issue of Wonderland.<\/em><\/p>\n

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South London\u2019s Sin For Calais are six young musicians with heavily-embellished, gold ringed fingers in a lot of creative pies. \u201cWe\u2019re not specifically all musicians, but we do influence each other\u2019s work,\u201d Corinthian Sin – who makes the clan\u2019s clothes alongside Yems Calais – explains.<\/p>\n

With stage names and even job titles in their microcosmical empire, the clan revolve around lead rapper Lash Vanegro, and producers Casvanasche and Tokyo. They\u2019re carving out a fresh new sound, where R&B meets trap and dancehall. Music that\u2019s \u201cby the youth, for the youth,\u201d Tokyo says. \u201cI put grime bars over the Calais beats and it works,\u201d adds Lash Vanegro. \u201cIt\u2019s a genre within itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even at their first show in Brixton earlier this year, the troupe commanded attention. \u201cWe walked on stage squadded,\u201d recalls Jay Calais. \u201cEveryone made a little walkway for us.”<\/p>\n