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Andy Gill, The Independent, 20 April 2005

IT REALLY SHOULDN'T come as a surprise that the most vital new sound from the UK dance underground should come from a transplanted Sri Lankan now living in west London and adapting the style, patter and sounds of Jamaican dancehall culture to her own ends.

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