Destroy and Rebuild is the debut album from one of Sydney’s most thought provoking lyricist. The talented rhymster’s debut release provides an insight into a dark world constructed within the walls of a racing mind. Providing an intriguing introduction, How Sick, produced by Nebs, gives listeners the perfect introduction to a story which shaped both he and brother Kerser’s success.
Anotha Day Anotha Dolla displays the skill and creative abilities of this south west Sydney MC. From here one can’t help but feel totally emerged and somewhat hypnotized by a roller coaster of emotions. Rates explains his life and the turbulent ride which has landed him in psych wards and run ins with the law, but at the same time proving he isn’t one to give up. It’s not hard to see why this artist has such a loyal and thankful fan base.
The album boasts solid features including Sydney’s king Kerser, crazily talented Jay Dee (United Forefront), and Geelong’s very own Fatty Phew, all bringing their own flavour to this crazy album. With great production from Discourse, Tornts, Nebs, Elliot Waite, Geko and Seven Six. Destroy and Rebuild truly is a journey from start to finish.
Track Listing 01 How Sick 02 Anotha Day Anotha Dolla feat. Alyson Murray 03 Appalin’ 04 Falling Down feat. Ginger Van Es 05 Off in a Race feat. Jay (UF) 06 Poison 07 Under rated feat. Kerser 08 Hard Times feat. Fatty Phew 09 Call it a Lack 10 Lost 11 Udbay
Little Wonder Productions is proud to present LWP003, Doc Felix – The Right Direction feat Dialect. This is the third release from Little Wonder Productions and is now available for pre-order.
Little Wonder Productions is a hip-hop, funk & soul label involved in the production, manufacturing and distribution of it’s products on various audio formats. The Right Direction will be available as a digital download and also as a limited edition 10″ vinyl, which will be sure will fly out the door. You can secure your copy here.
You could forgive Horrorshow the temptation to return as if in triumph with their new single Unfair Lottery. Their consistent outshining of expectations to date suggests something special in the chemistry between lyricist Solo and producer Adit.
Where others may be swept up in delusions of grandeur, Horrorshow dig deeper into our collective psyche, looking for pre-polished signs of life. Unfair Lottery finds them with a renewed sense of purpose, crafting a thoughtful song tackling the idea of privilege—a theme often overlooked in local hip hop culture. This is not a song of guilt, it’s a refreshingly honest play on being “male, middle class and white”.
Adit acts as a conductor employing glissando-laced strings and operatic sopranos with a cinematic array of samples and live instrumentation. He’s a producer inspired, credited with the bulk of Spit Syndicate’s recent album and truly a studio fiend in great form. This is the first taste of the highly anticipated third album from Horrorshow.
Need we remind you?
• ARIA Award-nominated debut The Grey Space (2008) • Critically adored triple j feature album Inside Story (2009). • Sellout national tours • Main support on Bliss n Eso and Hilltop Hoods record breaking national tours • Big Day Out, Splendour, Groovin the Moo, Splash Festival (Germany), Sydney Opera House (Dr Seuss Meets Elefant Traks), Spiegeltent.
Horrorshow Unfair Lottery Launch Shows: Friday June 21 – Annandale Hotel SYD with Dialectrix Saturday June 22 – Northcote Social Club – MELB with Remi
With production handled entirely by Plutonic Lab, and cuts by DJ 2Buck, masterful Sydney based MC, Dialectrix presents The Cold Light of Day. The third LP since signing with Obese Records in 2008, lead single New Generation heralded the album’s release almost a year ago, and has anomalously enjoyed month after month of high rotation on triple j in anticipation.
A vernacular acrobat, Dialectrix combines rhythmic precision and variety, with content spawned from cathartic necessity. The album showcases his renowned technical skill and polish, reinforcing his reputation as one of the best in the business. The triad of skilled musicians set the release apart. All meticulous, slaves to perfection; the trio have found a remarkable wavelength based around shared standards. The result: a transcendent album, that pushes boundaries of genre convention with purpose and conscientiousness.
“Sonically The Cold Light of Daysits alone as being musically diverse, while being rigorously grounded in the settings of traditional Hip Hop.” –Dialectrix
Still faithful to their roots, Plutonic Lab and Dialectrix have built on the foundations of traditional hip hop, revolutionising the genre by incorporating live instrumentation and electronic elements. DJ 2Buck’s selection of premium cuts always consummately timed, give the album character and scope. Vocal guests include the legendary Def Wish, P-Smurf (Big Village), Chip Fu, Momo (Diafrix), and a verse from the dexterous 2Buck.
The LP focuses on the many varied themes explored by Dialectrix, each complimented by Plutonic Lab’s custom-made soundtrack.
“I keep working with Pluto because we make music like a band. There’s a synergy and chemistry we get that you just can’t buy or fabricate and I’d consider him one of my best friends.“ –Dialectrix
In the track Fire in the Blood, there is no ignoring Dialectrix’s raw emotion as he wrestles with nature vs. nurture. He relays his deepest fear; passing alcoholism and violence onto his son. Written in an extremely tumultuous period of his life, he has labelled Fire in the Blood “the most raw and honest track I’ve ever made”. Plutonic sets a melancholy scene with haunting vocals, and angry beats.
Take Flight is a laid-back, vibing number inspired by Dialectrix’s travels around Australia. His lyrics reflect on the beauty he has encountered in the places he’s been, and people he’s met, but also the inherent guilt he feels about enjoying a place which was stolen from its original people. With lounge piano, subtle strings and synth nuances, the track cruises.
Opening track Shadow In The Light, is surmised as one of the artist’s personal favourites. Plutonic Lab brings his explosive percussion skills to the forefront and fuses them with syncopated synth sounds, creating a kind of sonic exclamation mark. Second single and immediate standout Go flawlessly combines bold indie rock guitar with pulsing beats, propelling Dialectrix’s impeccable flow forward. The theme for the track is the inescapable presence of ‘time’, racing the clock his flow is exacting and relentless.
The Cold Light of Day is a quality display of true skill and passion. It is safe to say the future of hip hop is safe in the hands of Dialectrix, Plutonic Lab and DJ 2Buck.
“I’d say our music ultimately is thinking music. It’s designed to make someone contemplate what’s around them, and judge things critically. It’s meant to do nothing more than talk about one man’s experience in hope of making someone else feel better.” –Dialectrix
Tracklisting: 1. Shadow in the Light 2. New Generation 3. My World 4. Go 5. Black and Gold 6. Take Flight Ft. Momo (Diafrix) 7. Style Ft. 2Buck + P. Smurf 8. First World Venom 9. Cold Light of Day 10. Fire in the Blood 11. We Ride Beats Ft. Chip Fu + Def Wish 12. No One Believed 13. The Greatest Trick
With his new album Gratitude coming out on May 17, P-Money is pleased to announce a series of Australasian tour dates in celebration of the highly anticipated release.
Joined by Duck Down Music label mate David Dallas as well as special guests for shows in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, alongside Australian shows in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, P-Money is set to take Gratitude directly to the fans, while David Dallas will be previewing new material off his own forth-coming album.
In the lead up to the May 17 album drop, P-Money has been releasing some of the album’s tracks for free on pmoneymusic.com with the latest single The Hardest feat. M.O.P released online recently. The new album also showcases some more of the Duck Down Music family with Talib Kweli, Buckshot and Skyzoo all taking up feature spots.
You can also expect to hear from Havoc (of Mobb Deep), Freddie Gibbs, M.O.P., Fashawn, Roc Marciano, Nicole Wray, Jamall Bufford (formerly Buff1), STS, Monsta G, Blaison Maven and Pac Div, as well as the best in local talent including revered hip-hop outfit @peace and soulful songstress Aaradhna. Aaradhna’s latest, critically acclaimed album Treble & Reverb was produced by P-Money and includes the #1 platinum single Wake Up, is nominated for five accolades at the 2013 Pacific Music Awards and was also a finalist in the 2013 Taite Music Prize.
Following on from the huge success of The Rose Tint and limited edition release Buffalo Man, David Dallas’ new album Falling Into Place is set to drop in July. Hailing it his greatest work to date, don’t miss your chance to hear it first. Gratitude will be available in-stores and online from May 17, with pre-orders available now from JB Hi-Fi.
New to the game but old to its’ ways, 21-year-old Melbourne lyricist Remi ‘REMi’ Kolawole exudes a unique style, rhythmic flow and an honest delivery. His semi tongue-in-cheek braggadocios style, by no means overshadows his lyrical abilities.
Remi’s rapping persona is comfortable sitting amongst varying musical backdrops and tempos, and his singing voice is as smooth and catchy as the hooks he sings. Expertly balancing singing and rapping, Remi’s content is highly self referential, littered with pop-cultural tid bits and tales of a life equally footed in fantasy as it is reality.
On the back of releasing two EP’s in 2011 (‘Childish’ and ‘Five Beats I Love’) his debut 2012 album ‘Regular People Sh#%t’ not only cements his previous forte’s, but also displays a confidence in showing several new ones.
The album (produced in full by local duo J Smith & Dutch) covers a varying subject matter and has equal nods (lyrically) to everyone from Slum Village to Drake as it does Black Thought and early Kanye West. Remi is being championed as a refreshing, young, evolving, gifted, forward thinking talent to watch, and rightfully so.
His latest effort comes in the form of a brand new single titled Sangria, and is the title track off his upcoming mixtape F.Y.G Act:1. More information coming soon. Sangria is produced by Sensible J x Dutch.
Supastition and Stoupe (formerly of Jedi Mind Tricks) have joined forces to create the music collective, Vestige, which will focus solely on releasing concept albums based around one common theme. The first project will be entitled The Inanimate Life which documents the fictional life story of a man born to an unfit mother and how his life spirals out of control due to her actions, as well as his own mistakes.
The story and lyrics were written by Supastition with Stoupe and his production team (Bad Tape) handling the music which meshes together hip hop, downtempo, and live instrumentation. Vestige combines the renowned storytelling abilities of Supastition matched with the cinematic feel of Stoupe’s production. The MC/producer duo have been crafting the concept album for the past year while agreeing not to publicly discuss it until its completion. Vestige: a trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.
Supastition is also in the studio working on an upcoming EP with German-based producer, Rik Marvel. The Guilt Trip EP continues Supastition’s return to vintage sounding hip-hop with Rik Marvel handling all of the production duties. The EP will be released via Supastition’s Bandcamp tentatively scheduled for July 2013.
Emerging from Sydney’s underground hip hop scene, Dutch has been involved in the hip hop world for a number of years now. Growing a musical partnership with respected producers Ta-Ku and Cam Bluff , Dutch is fast becoming a highly regarded artist with unquestionable potential.
Dutch is almost set to release his first and highly anticipated album Arcadia in early 2013…
What is most exciting about Arcadia, is the textured blend of Dutch’s first picturesque mixtape “The Point Of No Return” released in 2011, and the daring and collaborative sounds newly developed over the two years since. The album features a stack of highly talented producers such as Cam Bluff (360, spit Syndicate), Ta-Ku (Illy, Drapht), Cam Gilmour (drummer for Illy) and also J-Squared (Pegz) and a plethora of incredible rappers, soon to be announced, but includes Hue Blanes, Puks, and more.
Dutch has been working hard to deliver an energetic, thought provoking and dynamic album. With tracks like the brand new Hank Moody, an ultimate party song with a bit of a twist which is produced by Ta-Ku, to the track My Way, tackling very personal yet entirely relatable issues of 20 something Australians everywhere. Arcadia is definitely an album that has both extremes – positivity and despair – and all the other shit in between. More information to come soon.
The Must Volkoff production album White Russian is scheduled for release later this year. The first taste comes in the form of two tracks on limited edition 7″ vinyl featuring Mata & Koots. Pre-orders will be shipped with signed posters and digital download cards.
The Must Volkoff 7″ vinyl is available for pre-order/download now. Check the video for Side A Two Sheet Landscape feat. Mata, Side B Grub feat. Koots coming soon. Paypal downloads are available from here.
Tracklisting: Side A: Two Sheet Landscape feat. Mata Side B: Grub feat. Koots
Melbourne-based rapper Mantra is thrilled to announce that he has signed with Ten To Two Records – the team behind records from Xavier Rudd & Seth Sentry this past year – ahead of the release of his new single Loudmouth this Friday May 3, 2013.
As one of Australia’s most crucial new talents, ‘your favourite rapper’s favourite rapper’ Mantra is standing on solid ground with five years of touring, two full length releases and a triple j feature album (2011’s Speaking Volumes) already under his belt. Kicking off his career as a producer before being encouraged to pick up a mic, Mantra has emerged as one of the brightest stars in local hip hop. The autobiographical single Loudmouth celebrates the act of following your own destiny, and is the perfect way to usher in the next era of his career as he settles into his new home at Ten To Two Records.
This is 2013’s first signing for Melbourne-based independent label Ten To Two Records, which was launched in November 2012 by label director Ross Macpherson and No Dice Management partner Rowan Robinson with Arts Martial’s Promises Will Get You Nowhere.
Mantra will be hitting the road in support of Loudmouth this June, playing four select shows in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Tickets will be available next Thursday May 9 here and the usual outlets.
The ‘Loudmouth’ Single Tour – June 2013 Saturday 1st – Rosemount Hotel, Perth WA Thursday 6th – Northcote Social Club, Melbourne VIC Friday 7th – Coniston Lane, Brisbane QLD Friday 14th – The Standard, Sydney NSW
