2012′s Golden Era Mixtape was the second in the series of mixtapes showcasing the talent, depth and skill of the artists on the Golden Era Records label, including artists Briggs, Hilltop Hoods, Adfu and more. Released on the triple j hip hop show with Hau, TheGolden Era Mixtape 2012 featured a host of dope tracks including Funkoars – Carl Sagan.
As a part of the ‘Funkoars Fam Appreciation Day‘, Carl Sagan has been released as a free download, minus any drop overs. Written by Hons, Trials & Sesta with cuts from DJ Reflux, and production from Trials, this is the version for your collection. You can grab the free track below through the Soundcloud player, you can also grab The Golden Era Mixtape 2012 here.
Adelaide’s K21 introduces Never, the second film to be released from his debut LP Single Minded Civilian. The track Never also features the chilled sounds of Joy Sparkes. The film clip was shot by helloREVOLUTIONco.
Single Minded Civilian features a host of Australia’s finest emcees including Trials, Vents, Sesta, Brad Strut with production from Sesta, Trials, Vampts and K21 himself. Cuts are from DJ’s Snair, adfu and PT.
Never is produced by K21, scratches by DJ PT, video by helloREVOLUTIONco. Shot by Matthew Thorne and James Millard. Directed & edited by Matthew Thorne.Single Minded Civilian‘ out now.
Straight out of Melbourne city comes one of the Nation’s most talked about MC’s, Maundz, ready to unleash his highly anticipated sophomore LP titledZero upon the masses. Flying the flag high for the scenes undeniably most hyped up emerging independent force that is Crate Cartel, Maundz is joined by fellow Cartelian and beat smith extraordinaire WIK for the entirety of what is sure to be heralded as one of the country’s slickest hip hop releases to date.
Wik, having proved his skills behind the sp1200 in recent local releases, has collected an eclectic slew of head nodders for and neck snappers for Australia’s most promising up and coming MC to get funky on.
Known for spitting with effortless conviction and a love for all things vernacular orientated, Maundz has yet again delved deep into the A4 to bring his unique and charismatic presence over dirty bass lines, big breaks and dusty samples provided from Wik, all while maintaining the humour and honesty that has earned him nationwide respect.
Tracks such as March The 10th and Slang Rap form vivid storyline’s over Wik’sincomparably smooth production, while Maundzilla paints a much different picture asMaundz gets crafty on some double-time, providing a dark tale of a 100 foot high menace stomping through the city over two Godzilla inspired bangers. Not ones to shy away from topic, Wik and Maundz have shown diversity with a number of different concept tracks throughout album, and have had no qualms about going in on the battle joints which Maundz is prolifically known for.
Zero is littered with a who’s who of hip hop from Australia and abroad, featuring collaborative efforts from New Yorks number one man of the moment Action Bronson, ARIA award winning Drapht, Golden Era’s Vents and Sesta, Melbourne kings Brad Strutand Bias B, and of course Crate Cartel. The underlay for these MC’s is a bevvy of live instrumentation complemented with slick samples, the way hip hop should be done. Welcome to the world of Zero, kick off your shoes and relax your socks, Wik andMaundz are out for gusto.
“The album has had a lot of live instrumentation go into it to thicken it up to give it more character, and we treated the original samples as the foundation on which to build on.I feel I have some of the best mc’s/dj’s around on this album, plus with Geko behind the boards mixing everything, it’s a no brainer that we’ve put an abundance of thought and care into it…” Maundz
Tracklisting 01. Induction 02. Zero 03. Gusto 04. All Quotes ft. Brad Strut & Action Bronson 05. Maundzilla 06. Take it Back ft. Bias B 07. Traveling Lady 08. Toys (skit) 09. C U Next Tuesday ft. Drapht 10. Agent 86 11. Zero’s Theme 12. Homicide ft. Vents & Sesta 13. How ‘Bout a Drink (skit) 14. The Flipside ft. Alyson Murray 15. Slang Rap 16. March the 10th 17. Letters and Numbers ft. Crate Cartel 18. Wik’s Theme 19. Then Till Now 20. 3 and 3 Noughts
Straight out of Melbourne city comes one of the Nation’s most talked about MC’s, Maundz, ready to unleash his highly anticipated sophomore LP titled Zero upon the masses. Flying the flag high for the scenes undeniably most hyped up emerging independent force that is Crate Cartel, Maundz is joined by fellow Cartelian and beat smith extraordinaire WIK for the entirety of what is sure to be heralded as one of the country’s slickest hip hop releases to date.
Wik, having proved his skills behind the sp1200 in recent local releases, has collected an eclectic slew of head nodders for and neck snappers for Australia’s most promising up and coming MC to get funky on.
Known for spitting with effortless conviction and a love for all things vernacular orientated, Maundz has yet again delved deep into the A4 to bring his unique and charismatic presence over dirty bass lines, big breaks and dusty samples provided from Wik, all while maintaining the humour and honesty that has earned him nationwide respect.
Tracks such as March The 10th and Slang Rap form vivid storyline’s over Wik’s incomparably smooth production, while Maundzilla paints a much different picture as Maundz gets crafty on some double-time, providing a dark tale of a 100 foot high menace stomping through the city over two Godzilla inspired bangers. Not ones to shy away from topic, Wik and Maundz have shown diversity with a number of different concept tracks throughout album, and have had no qualms about going in on the battle joints which Maundz is prolifically known for.
Zero is littered with a who’s who of hip hop from Australia and abroad, featuring collaborative efforts from New Yorks number one man of the moment Action Bronson, ARIA award winning Drapht, Golden Era’s Vents and Sesta, Melbourne kings Brad Strut and Bias B, and of course Crate Cartel. The underlay for these MC’s is a bevvy of live instrumentation complemented with slick samples, the way hip hop should be done. Welcome to the world of Zero, kick off your shoes and relax your socks, Wik and Maundz are out for gusto.
“The album has had a lot of live instrumentation go into it to thicken it up to give it more character, and we treated the original samples as the foundation on which to build on.I feel I have some of the best mc’s/dj’s around on this album, plus with Geko behind the boards mixing everything, it’s a no brainer that we’ve put an abundance of thought and care into it…” Maundz
Tracklisting 01. Induction 02. Zero 03. Gusto 04. All Quotes ft. Brad Strut & Action Bronson 05. Maundzilla 06. Take it Back ft. Bias B 07. Traveling Lady 08. Toys (skit) 09. C U Next Tuesday ft. Drapht 10. Agent 86 11. Zero’s Theme 12. Homicide ft. Vents & Sesta 13. How ‘Bout a Drink (skit) 14. The Flipside ft. Alyson Murray 15. Slang Rap 16. March the 10th 17. Letters and Numbers ft. Crate Cartel 18. Wik’s Theme 19. Then Till Now 20. 3 and 3 Noughts
First 100 pre-orders will receive an album, mix-tape, and A3 poster -all signed by Maundz and Wik. Get in fast! Maundz – Zero is available May 25, 2012.
Adelaide’s K21 introduces his highly anticipated debut LP Single Minded Civilian. The title track Won’t Stop produced by Mdusuhas been well receivedamongst the hoards and is still available as a free download from K21′s website. The release of the single also coincided with the release of the official film clip by Capital Waste.
Single Minded Civilian features a host of Australia’s finest emcees including Trials, Vents, Sesta, Brad Strut and more, also production from Sesta, Trials, Vampts and K21, plus you will also be treated to a host of murderous cuts from DJ’s Snair, adfu and PT.
On Saturday May 19, K21 will launch his album Single Minded Civilian at the Rocket Bar feat. Claz and a heap of guest DJ’s. Pre sale tickets can be picked up at Clinic 116 and Da Klinic for $15. K21′s debut album Single Minded Civilian is available now you can get your copy here.
Track List:
01 – Single Minded Civilian – Produced by K21 & Cuts by DJ Snair 02 – Limitless – Cuts by PT, Produced by Trials 03 – Regardless feat. Vents – Produced by K21 04 – Won’t Stop 05 – Poison feat Realizm – Produced by Sesta 06 – Danger Music – Produced by & Cuts by Trials 07 – Fade To Dust feat. Brad Strut – Produced by Vampts, cuts by PT.08 – Wheels Still Turning – Produced by K21 09 – Dirty – Produced by K21 10 – More of the Moosty feat. Funkoars – Produced by K21, cuts by adfu 11 – Never feat. Joy Sparkes – Produced by K21, cut by PT 12 – Soylent Green feat. Trials – Produced by Trials
The Funkoars have dropped a 3rd film clip from their critically acclaimed album The Quickening. Vamoose was produced by Full Clip Productions and features the acting stylings of Benjie McNair of Neighbours fame.
The clip is a biting social commentary on the state of the economy done in true Oars fashion. The video is best summed up by YouTube user KrazyBot: “Absolutely moving and inspirational clip. The camera roll towards the protagonist creates a sense of desperation within the responder as we watch him try in vain to make enough sandwiches as he is struck by projectiles. Audience members are subject to a cruel disappointment when the protagonist survives only to be shot again. There is a sense of great loss when the antagonists (Funkoars) descend upon his lifeless corpse and take the sandwiches for their own. Brilliance. I am at a loss for words.”
Drawing inspiration from a classic Notorious B.I.G. rhyme and produced by Golden Era Records resident recluse Trials (Hilltop Hoods, Drapht, Vents), Vamoose is a one-liner barrage being drunk driven home by Sesta and Hons, smashed into some black market organs, huge guitar stabs and a soul sample fondled to bits by stuntman/DJ Reflux.
Ladies and Gentlemen, VAMOOSE.
Taken from the Funkoars Album The Quickening. You can catch the Funkoars on their Being Vincent D’onofrio Tour, full dates and ticketing information can be found here.
Quick to reclaim the room from the force fed and the fake, The Funkoars are back with another pessimistic party anthem and third single Vamoose from their latest and most deadly album, The Quickening. “So get loose or get gone, Vamoose son of a bitch!”
Drawing inspiration from a classic Notorious B.I.G. rhyme and produced by Golden Era Records resident recluse Trials (Hilltop Hoods, Drapht, Vents), Vamoose is a one-liner barrage being drunk driven home by Sesta and Hons, smashed into some black market organs, huge guitar stabs and a soul sample fondled to bits by stuntman/DJ Reflux.
Catch The Funkoars live on the Being Vincent D’onofrio Tour: Sun 11th March – TAS – Breath Of Life Festival, Launceston Fri 30th March – ACT – The Tradies Club, Canberra Sat 31st March – NSW – Entrance Leagues Club, Bateau Bay Tue 24th April – VIC – Esplanade Hotel, Melbourne Fri 27th April – WA – Bar120 Hillarys, Sorrento Sat 28th April – WA – Rosemount Hotel, Perth Fri 4th May – SA – The Gov, Adelaide Sat 5th May – NSW – Annandale Hotel, Sydney Thu 10th May – VIC – Wheelers Hill Hotel, Wheelers Hill Fri 11th May – VIC – Pier Live, Frankston Fri 1st June – NSW – Great Northern, Byron Bay Sat 2nd June – QLD – The Zoo, Brisbane
To celebraate the release of The Funkoars single “It’s All Good (Is Very Good)” the guys have created a Tumblr account. The guys want you to submit your most “Classic” photos to funkoarstumblr@gmail.com. The most classic of the classic will win prizes!
A certified party anthem It’s All Good (Is Very Good) has consistently been the stand out track performed on The Funkoars national album launch tour and gathered one of the biggest responses during their headline performance at Brisbane’s Sprung Festival. The Funkoars new single is available now on iTunes. The single package includes two exclusive remixes by Trials and Debate with a guest verse from Mortar. Produced by Funkoars group member Trials (Hilltop Hoods, Drapht, Ash Grunwald), It’s All Good (Is Very Good) is poised to be a summer anthem!
While you’re at it check allaussie hip hop out on Tumblr by following the link below.
Fresh off the back of their #11 Aria Album Chart debut for their brand new album The Quickening, The Funkoars are proud to deliver their breakthrough single It’s All Good (Is Very Good).
A certified party anthem It’s All Good (Is Very Good) has consistently been the stand out track performed on The Funkoars national album launch tour and gathered one of the biggest responses during their headline performance at Brisbane’s Sprung Festival. The Funkoars new single is available now on iTunes. The single package includes two exclusive remixes by Trials and Debate with a guest verse from Mortar.
Produced by Funkoars group member Trials (Hilltop Hoods, Drapht, Ash Grunwald), It’s All Good (Is Very Good) is poised to be a summer anthem! We have 2x double passes to give-away to the Adelaide show. Sat 26 Nov – Thebarton Theatre. To enter, send your name, contact details to allaussiecomps@gmail.com with the answer to the following question: What is the most moosty thing you own?
The Funkoars are back n’ badder than ever and are coming to a town near you with The Quickening Album Launch Tour, which will see them touring extensively throughout the country from September through November. We catch up with Trials as he recovers from a crazy Melbourne show late last week.
aahh: The Quickening is the 4th LP from The Funkoars, would you describe this as the most ‘Classic’ album to date from The Funkoars, in terms of sound and overall finished product? Trials: As far as OUR take on ‘classic’, yeah, I’d say this embodies everything that makes us work and fail as people and performers. Every single album we’ve inadvertently stepped up our production and recording game just writing, working on other records and incorporating the tricks we learn along the way, also inheriting the Hoods old gear, my studio would be halved if it wasn’t for those guys.
aahh: As a crew, the Funkoars have been together for quite sometime now. How do you keep the creative vibe flowing and coming up with tracks that aren’t at all moosty? Trials: I don’t know how any body can do what we do without being mates first and foremost. I’m not sure how you’re suppose to tell somebody ‘sorry, you can’t sleep in that bed, there’s blood in there now’ and eat breakfast with them the next morning.
aahh: The amount of production you have done over the past year and a half is staggering. We know there are quite a few budding producers out there who are keen on hearing what tools you’ve been fucking with over that period of time? Trials: I’ve pretty much always gotten by on barebones and sticky tape so to spout all the shit I’m playing with these days is a bit misleading but until maybe the last few years I only ever used Logic Audio. There’s a universal sound of evil sad sad soul that permeates across genres that appeals to me no matter what and working with Ash (Grunwald) was absolutely a game changer. When his drummer Benny was banging a hammer on a car door for a snare drum I wanted to make that sound, organic but processed, shit loads of soul but red lined enough to stress Flashy out. Since then Fuad and I have been collecting all sorts of dumb (un)necessary fuzz/distortion/verb/octav pedals and I have developed a very unhealthy relationship with my telecaster. If im on the run, Lappy, Native Instruments Maschine, UA solo/110, RNC, Apogee Duet and its awwwn.
aahh: A lot of the beats on The Quickening are absolutely disgustingly large, Sesta, Large Professor and Simplex contribute, just to name a few. Was working with Large Professor on a track high on the bucket list? Trials: All day. He is one of my biggest influences and any one who knows my catalog, or at least ‘hard to kill’ knows that, fuck off bass line, deadly horn echo and disgusting drums, my favourite. Simmo sent the ‘I Got’ beat for us to rock on for his production album when we were in the final stages of the LP but there was no way we could give it back, it was tarnished and Moose (K21) had already kicked the guts out of it so he let us keep it. We bugged Dazza for a beat since ‘Step daddy’ and I’m stoked he did ‘D’Onofrio’, proper classic Daz beat. Also any body only just realising Sesta is the better producer out of the pair of us is a dick head.
aahh: Tell us a bit about the feel of The Quickening, did you have an overall theme or idea you wanted to centre the album around? Trials: The Quickening was the full release handy j at the end of a really fucking long and shit massage. When we were writing/touring ‘The hangover’ we were doing ungodly shit to our bodies, mentally and physically as a unit we were fucked. I did an old man number on my back which took us off the road for an entire year which is a life time to a local crew but it allowed us time to recoup, start laughing again and most of all dedicate 100% of our day/night to putting it all into an album. Usually towards the end of the record we cull all of the nonsensical shit, this time we added extra.
aahh: You have already released one massive video clip for the track ‘Where Am I’ directed by Selina Miles, who does an amazing job always. What was the concept behind this clip? Trials: Sel understands our brand of really average humour and I can’t think of a better team to work with when it comes to the gang http://unitysoundandvisual.com !! The original concept was hotel from hell and us smashing things, then we dropped the hotel angle and just smashed things.
aahh: We’ve all heard the Funkoars obession with Vincent De’nofro but we heard Elliot Stabler (Det. from Law & Order SVU) would fuck him up in a knife fight? What are your thoughts? Trials: Have you seen Oz? Stabler would fuck him all sorts of ways.
aahh: As a proud Australian with Indigenous heritage yourself, it now seems more than ever that some amazing crews and artists across Australia are now getting the recognition and attention they deserve. The recent Deadly Awards is a perfect example of this. Do you think its been a long time coming? Trials: I’m unbelievably proud that we have crews like Last Kinection and people like Briggs and Jimblah setting the example and breaking the stereotype of not only what it means to be an Aboriginal hip hop artist, but to be an Aboriginal.
aahh: Currently you are touring the Quickening around the country, with dates all over the nation. Who do you have joining you on this tour and why? Trials: When you tour you are often spending more time with the touring party than your own family so you have to surround yourself with like-minded people, we have been genuinely blessed by Tom Cruise that our friends also happen to be fucking nuts at what they do. Ciecmate was one of the first people I ever met when we branched out interstate in the early days and puts one of if not THE best solo one man on the mic performance I’ve ever seen and his DJ, Nath is a fucking nutcase on the cut and very tall. Vents & ADFU are my brothers in arms, genuine best friends and having them with us makes it all so much more mentally doable, Mase & Mattic put in more effort at a sound check than most motherfuckers who have the headline spot so missing them early before they pack rooms by themselves is a big mistake! If my frequent flyer points hold up, we’re bringing K21 to as many spots as possible to prepare them for what he’s about to drop, its deadly.
aahh: How has the album been received at the show you’ve already played, we heard you tore the roof off Melbourne the other night? Trials: I was actually super sick and in bed up until 5 minutes to show time so I’m looking forward to returning quiiiiiickkly to give the germ back but yeah, it was fucking mental, in the year we took off it seems like crowds have become much louder and more shirtless.
aahh: How do the Funkoars deal with the ‘Goblin’ on tour? We’re sure he raises his ugly head a few times? Trials: Depends who you are really. We’re ranging from the ultimate considerate person Ciecmate to the ultimate king IP Vents, it could go unnoticed, it could be all over the bathroom.
aahh: Is it appropriate to use the term ‘Woooooos’ on a daily basis, especially when dealing with a boss or partner? Trials: Yes.
aahh: The new Call Of Duty Or Battlefield 3? Trials: The Battlefield BETA got me itching to fly a jet into some bodies face but I know I’ll cave and be right back in to COD.
aahh: Final comments and shit we’ve missed? Trials: Thanks to everyone that’s checked the record out so far, we’re shooting a brand new stinker video with Selina Miles next week so there will be no shortage of ugly on your TV. Much much much much much love and big shout out to the originator of our style and king of WA SBX crew Hunter, we fucking love you mate. (Editors note: This interview was completed on October 19th, the day before the tragic news broke that hip hop legend MC Hunter had passed away from Cancer. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and crew. RIP to a true Australian King.)
If you need help decoding some of the questions and answers given in this interview we recommend you check out the Quickipedia Terms and Definitions page right here.
