S.M.A

S.M.A. (Street Magic Art) is a music band consist of 2 members : DJ Space on music production and Disastah aka ????t??t??a? on the mic. Their music journey starts back in 1997 when DJ Space(Thanos), having already since '96 started experimenting with producing electronic music and Djing, and Disastah (Giannis) created the first form of this group and 'recorded' their first song. The name of the group after some changes ended out to be XLNZ (Xtra Large Noise Zone).

In 1999 Alchimistis (Stathis) has helped XLNZ organize a small live performance, added his voice and lyrics to the tracks of that time and finally ended up to join the group. That was the time when they started their essential steps in the scene together with Fatal Strike, another group of that time which Dj Space has already been collaborating with. The highlight of that moment was the Municipality of Pylaia Festival (Thessaloniki) at 2000. Stepping to the end of the year 2000 the already famous since '94 graffiti crew S.M.A., contacted the two groups (XLNZ, Fatal Strike) in order to rebuild the crew having more and new writers and adding b-boys MC's and Dj's under the same name. The triad joined the lead MC of Fatal Strike: Escape (Marios), adding also his skills in producing and rhyming. A period started with continuous participation in live performances (some of them worthy remembered moments of Thessaloniki's Hip-Hop) and the constant support from the whole crew as a multitask entity under the name Street Magic Art. At summer 2002 was when the first problems appeared: writers and b-boys already started leaving the crew, Escape abandoned the group in virtue of having alternative ideas about the music produced by the group(despite that,S.M.A. still collaborate with Escape in many areas) and Alchimistis left Greece and moved to Germany for about 2 years due to the demands of his studies. The last one was a factor that hardened recordings a lot and almost froze out the live performances. But that was not enough to intimidate the group. Some tracks were produced during that time, but with Alchimistis's definitive return in 2004 radical changes had taken place.

At the end of 2007 SMA released their major label debut album "To Kimilio" through Grand Royal Productions and EMI Music. At the end of the same year was also released "Manifesto", the first EP of "Filiki Eteria" (The Friendly Society), the new greek super-group created in 2007 consisting of SIfu VERSUS, SMA, Adamantas, Sparky T, Diveno & ISO XL.

May 2009 : Alchimistis leaves the band and a month later, Disastah & DJ Space decided to release their second, already completed (since 2008), album "St? ?eta??" ("In The Meantime"), independently (limited copies) exclusively through Lotus Record Store "www.lotus.gr" ( http://www.lotus.gr/record_info.php?ID=20021)and parallely for free download through "www.hiphop.gr".

Present Time : SMA are working on Disastah's Solo Album "??ap?µ??a ?p????" (Beloved Blues), a project based on sampling classic rock and blues songs, including collaborations, apart from DJ Space, with some of the best producers and MC' s in greek hip hop scene. "??ap?µ??a ?p????" is about to be released in April 2010. In the same time SMA are recording their third album, once again under the exclusive "built from scratch" production of DJ Space. More Info coming soon.Stay Tuned!!!