Articles tagged with ‘Media, labels and releases’
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A-Love
In this 2005 interview, Melbourne-based FemC A-Love talks to Local Noise about her studies in anthropology and her ideas of hip-hop as mode of cultural and ethnic identification. The eloquent A-Love tells of the rise of females in Australian hip-hop as artists and as administrators, including her own seminal role in some of the first all-female hip-hop shows and displays in Australia.
Tags: All The Ladies, Melbourne, women in hip-hop, Interviews
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Australian Hip-hop as a Subculture
Originally published in the journal Youth Studies Australia
Tags: authenticity, MCing, independent record labels, four elements, Tony Mitchell, subcultural theory, community radio, graffiti, Sydney, DJing, breakdancing, Conference Papers
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Circus Maximus (Review)
A review of Unkle Ho’s second LP Circus Maximus published in Music Forum.
Tags: authenticity, multilingualism, globalisation, Tony Mitchell, Music Forum reviews, multiculturalism, hip-hop and folk music, world music, sampling, Elefant Traks, instrumental hip-hop, production, Press & Media
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Compass: The Mistery Of Hip-hop
A story run by the ABC’s TV program Compass looking at hip-hop and it’s localisation in Australia. Compass filmed an interview with Tony for the show, which focussed particularly on Brethren MC and graffiti artist Mistery, and the intersection of his Christian faith with hip-hop. A full transcript of the program can be viewed on the Compass website.
Tags: Tony Mitchell, external media, ABC, localising hip-hop, Christianity, Brethren, Mistery, Press & Media
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Crytearia
Crytearia is a producer and sample-based, instrumental hip-hop and electronic music artist who lives in Hobart, Tasmania. He has made two albums, Create (2003), and LandScrape (due to be released in late 2007). LandScrape features rhymes from Tasmanian MCs Tempest, Crixus and Thorts. In this interview, conducted by Tony Mitchell at Crytearia’s house in Hobart, Crytearia talks about getting into hip-hop via breakdancing at high school, the Hobart scene, crate-digging and beatmaking, his time in Italy and Italian hip-hop, and his love of the French language and French hip-hop.
Tags: independent record labels, Hobart, multilingualism, breakdancing, sampling, instrumental hip-hop, Interviews
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Hermitude
Hermitude are a two-piece instrumental hip-hop crew from the Blue Mountains, with Luke Dubs on keys and Elgusto on beats. They have performed with MCs such as Ozi Batla and Urthboy from The Herd, and Joelistics from TZU. Their style of production – passing old sounds through new technology – is richly layered and complex. This interview, conducted by Tony Mitchell, Nick Keys and Astrid Lorange at the Great Escape Festival in 2006, is a general catch-up before Hermitude headed off to play in Japan, Norway, the UK and the US for the first time.
Tags: Elefant Traks, instrumental hip-hop, Sydney, Blue Mountains, sampling, Interviews
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Hyjak n Torcha
Backstage at Luna Park for Park Jam, the first international hip-hop event of it’s kind in Australia, we caught up with Hyjak n Torcha. The conversation included their personal stories of getting into hip-hop, influences and inspirations and the process of making an album. They both also talked about some of the wider aspects surrounding Australian hip-hop, including its marginalisation by the music industry, its rise through a DIY ethic and what and who hip-hop represents.
Tags: multilingualism, Sydney, Obese, Interviews
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Indigensing hip-hop: an Australian migrant youth culture
“…far from representing the loss of Australian national identity in the face of global capitalism, Australian hip-hop artists are engaged in the project of attempting to build a multicultural national identity in place of a racist monocultural model that is now gaining strength in Australian national politics.”
- Kurt Iveson
Published in Melissa Butcher and Mandy Thomas’ (eds) Ingenious: emerging youth cultures in urban Australia, this essay discusses, from a Sydney perspective, the history of hip-hop’s localisation in an Australian context. In particular, the essay looks at ways in which ethnic and migrant youth have used its naturally syncretic form to express a hybrid sense of self and place.
Tags: globalisation, localising hip-hop, Hip-Hopera, Tony Mitchell, MetaBass ‘N’ Breath, multilingualism, multiculturalism, Western Sydney, 2SER, breakdancing, Indigenous hip-hop, Conference Papers
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Josie Styles
Local Noise spoke to DJ and hip-hop promoter Josie Styles in 2005 at UTS, just after her hip-hop show at 2ser and at a time when she had been offered a job with Shogun Distribution (based in Brisbane). The energetic Josie talked about her two-sided life, spread between her love of hip-hop and her work as a terristrial ecologist looking after an endangered Bell Frog population. She spoke about the early days of getting into hip-hop, early Australian hip-hop and its influence, tape culture and growing up loving hip-hop in the rock-centric mainstream. She talked of her beginnings as a DJ, crate digging and her current practice. She spoke about the relationship with Warner Music that yielded the two Australian hip-hop compilations Straight from the Art. This led to a long discussion about the history of major labels and hip-hop in Australia and working in the industry in general. Josie focuses on representing women in hip-hop, and understands the difficulties of being a woman artist, citing the examples of Canadian FemCee Eternia and Perth-based FemCee Layla as positive examples.
Tags: Straight from the Art, Shogun, DJing, Sydney, women in hip-hop, Obese, Interviews
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Koolism
This interview with Canberra-based stalwarts Koolism took place in late 2004, when they were up in Sydney to play at the Homebake festival. Daniel and Hau told stories of 12 years experiences of being Koolism, including the making of the video clip ‘The Season’, Daniel’s comments upon winning the ARIA and Kool Herc DJing at a party at Hau’s family home in Canberra. In a patchworked fashion, the history and character of Koolism emerges through the stories.
Tags: cultural identity, Invader Records, Canberra, ARIA, Interviews
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Koolism’s Part 3 - Random Thoughts (Review)
A review by Tony Mitchell of Koolism’s LP Part 3 - Random Thoughts published in Music Forum.
Tags: Tony Mitchell, Music Forum reviews, MCing, production, sampling, Invader Records, Press & Media
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Layla
This 2005 discussion with Perth-based FemCee Layla took place at a community hip-hop event in Sydenham, where she was as part of a national tour on the back of her recently released album, Heretik. In a very frank and honest way, Layla talks about her life, the role of hip-hop in it, her influences and her struggles, her experiences and putting that down on record. The talk also covers issues of female role models in society, the sexualisation of children and also the wider scope of social injustice, which she saw from the inside during her time as a social worker.
Tags: Obese, social work, women in hip-hop, Perth, Interviews
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Lazy Grey
We caught up with Lazy Grey backstage at the Big Top in Luna Park, as part of the Park Jam hip-hop festival. Lazy was very welcoming and humble in his manner as he talked about his influences and growing up in the early days of the Brisbane scene, and the role of graffiti and breaking in this early gestation of hip-hop in Australia. His also spoke of tape culture and 80s influences from America. Whilst always humble, Lazy is also very much a straight talker, articulating excellently his views on the rise of Australian hip-hop, being a product of one’s environment and the different vernaculars in Australian cities. He touched on (of course) the accent debate, but also discussed the role of swearing in ordinary everyday language, hip-hop and masculinity, and the complexity and contradiction of patriotism and flag-waving in relationship to hip-hop. Having just released his first fully-fledged album, Banned in Queensland with Crookneck records, he talked about the making of the album.
Tags: masculinity, vernacular, Ken Oath, Bias B, Brothers Stoney, patriotism, breakdancing, graffiti, Lazy Grey, Brisbane, Crookneck Records, Interviews
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Liones (Review)
A review of Liones’s self-titled LP (Mother Tongues/Creative Vibes) published in Music Forum
Tags: Media, labels and releases, Music Forum reviews, Tony Mitchell, Brisbane, women in hip-hop, Press & Media
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Make It Happen (Review)
A review of Upshot’s LP Make It Happen published in Music Forum.
Tags: live band hip-hop, Music Forum reviews, Tony Mitchell, independent record labels, Press & Media
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