The Criminal Minds

The Criminal Minds were early 90's UK breakbeat hardcore producers with releases on White House and Labello Blanco. DJ Halo and Chase 1 formed The Criminal Minds in 1985,and while at college DJ Halo met Iceski who would become the lead emcee in The Criminal Minds. Upon meeting another DJ called Spatts they released their first EP entitled 'Guilty As Charged', this EP was funded by Halo selling his decks and the group, plus friends and family chipping in with some cash. Soon after Safe D and CMD/Grafikstyles joined the group adding there awesome vocal styles and natural all round b-boy-ness to the posse, then saw the release of 'Tales From The Wasteland' again independently on their own label. As the years went on the crew made many more tracks and where a big part of the oldkool hardcore/d&b dance scene in the uk which are hailed as true classic's. further hip hop realease's are Widowmaker, Break shit up e.p. and Regroup the loops in which Grafik financed in full the video On the Run(pt2), funded by his tax return, was the last E.P that Grafik/w.swain/CMD would appear on and is currently taking a rest from TCM to pursue his own projects as Grafik styles and is creating/producing hip-hop and many other genres from chill to movie scores. Tcm are set to come with another E.P. and are also currently behind 32TROOP which is an uber collaboration of hip-hop artist's from the more classic years of Rap. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.