WHAT FRAKSHA DID NEXT...

So now that the NINE HIGH album has been out a few months its time to move on to the next project. I know Felony has been busy working on new stuff with Loco and should have a cd ready very soon, Scotty is not too far off from finishing his follow up to 'Fuck you Bars' with is his next mix-cd which i believe is gonna be called 'Points of View' and myself, well i've been eating a lot!

Nah for real, i have been eating a lot (thank you fast metabolism), but as well as that i've been writing and working towards my first solo release which i've decided is going to be completely free! I've totally become disillusioned with the music industry and for a little while it just started to not be fun anymore which completely goes against why me and most other people got into this in the first place. So while i'm very happy (keep 'em coming) to get paid for bookings, i'd much rather just be able to give my music away for free and allow more people to enjoy if its thing rather than constantly getting in a stress about this and that. Time to embrace downloading etc rather than bitch and moan, we're all guilty of it at some point anyway!

So...my first solo release is starting to take shape, about ten tracks done that i've been recording with Melbourne dubstep/grime/glitch DJ Afficks. It will be the first release to feature new crew Smashbrothers which is myself, Scotty Hinds, Murky Depths and Diem and will be pretty groundbreaking i suppose for Australia as as far as i'm aware there has not been any releases over here yet featuring MC-led grime and dubstep. In fact i'm not sure there's anyone else in the country other than Smashbrothers doing this thing. Just in case you're not aware of the other members i'll give you a quick run down...

If you know NINE HIGH then you know Scotty Hinds basically. One third of the crew alongside myself and Felony and a resident at Wobble each month with me and AC23.
Diem and Murky Depths, longtime boys from Canberra originally, but been here for time. Murky Depths (previously known as Ming Mers), a former member of Hospice Crew and Diem (Hired Goons / Hospice) are both revered as being amongst the best lyricists in the country and there's been much anticipation about releases from the two of them. Now that we're all joined as Smashbrothers shits gonna be pretty fucking epic, look out for the eventual Smashbrothers release.

Production wise its been hard to find producers in Australia doing the sort of beats i've been after, but luckily i've managed to run into some heavyweights who've blessed me with some bangers! Obviously Afficks (Heavy Innit!!) does his thing (we've shot a video for the first release already), then we got well respected dubstep cat Spherix (Sub-continental dub), my boy from England Loco (Ghetts/Killa P), a massively talented guy from Canberrra called Jermz, UK ex-pat and now Melbourne based Youthful Implants (Future Perfect), and another highly talented guy from Perth called J Nitrous. I've also got a remix coming from Melbourne dancefloor smasher Mat Cant (http://scattermish.blogspot.com/) which i'm real looking forward to hearing 'cos it'll be something very different to what i would normally do i reckon!

I totally forgot to mention above so i'll do it here, but while i was in England last month we (NINE HIGH) recorded a brand new mixtape which is being mixed down as we speak. We're gonna stick that out for free as well as a 5 track E.P featuring production from M-Phazes, Loco and Stat-D.

So a few nice things to look forward too!

LAST ONE FOR THE YEAR!!!

Not long to go now till Heavy Innit!! rounds off the year in style. Definitely hyped for this one and looking fwd to getting back on stage at the Hi Fi, one of my favourite Melbourne venues...also look out for the Summer Innit!! parties at a park near you!

WOBBLE - 2ND BIRTHDAY - MADNESS!!!

I'm just about getting over the stupidness that was Wobble's 2nd Birthday on Saturday. Without a doubt the best one yet, sound was perfect, mics were crisp, places was absolutely fucking rammed!!! Thanks once again to everyone who came down and went mental til 7am, big up all the dj's and mc's, particularly Afficks, A13 and Same-o whose sets we sprayed over and lastly massive shouts to Cubist for all his hard work over the last 2 years!
Photo's courtesy of Lucie, Cam, DVS and myself...

NINE HIGH - COOKOUT

Totally forgot to post out new video! Anyway, this is the vid for 'Cookout (Mphazes rmx). Shouts to Prad and Deep Creative. Now go grab the album if you aint already!

DEVLIN - COMMUNITY OUTCAST

Very very sick new video for this older tune
devlin - c

BAD BOY, NOT GOING GYM AGAIN...

Massive set from OG'z and friends...all about Trim tho!!!

WOBBLE - 2ND BIRTHDAY

You must be out of your tree if you dont come along to Wobble this Saturday night. Two years strong and counting, this Saturday is the 2nd birthday event and its gonna be a mad one for sure. What other nights can boast 2 years down and still absolutely rammed crowds every month. Seriously, if you've never been make sure you get down early to get in, its gonna be stupid!!! Me and Scotty are on 12-2 with A13 and AC23 spinning. Heartical Hi Fi on the sounds, gonna be mucky!!!

DJ's:

CUBIST
AC23
SPINFX
HOOVES
MYST
SAFIRE
A13
AFFICKS
CAMMO
C:1
SAMEO

MC's:

LOWQUI
WASP
FRAKSHA
SCOTTY HINDS
CYPHER
HARZEE
DVS

PRESSURE DROP

Next week is gonna be one of the very last times to skank out at Laundry before it turns into some bullshit boojy venue (from what i've heard its gonna be), so come down to Pressure Drop and get ya skank on! Its Bonnita's birthday too, so it'll be suitably messy!

BLOCK PARTY TIME!!!

Yep its that time of year again, Block Party time. All your favourite Obese crew on one lineup. I'll be playing at the shows in Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart along with Reason. Never been to Tassie yet so really looking forward to Hobart, heard the crowds go mental over there. Adelaide as normal will be shockingly messy!

Hit up the site for ticket details etc http://www.obeserecords.com

LONDON HANDSTYLES

“London handstyles is a full colour 160 page book with over 800 images documenting some of London’s finest tags from the 80’s through to the present day. Also featured in the book are words, quotes and legendary tales from London’s most notorious and prolific writers including Sub, Sham, Diet, Drax, Merok, Dzia, Zomby, Regret, 2 kold, Panik, 10 Foot plus many more.

With the clean up operation now well under way, sadly you can no longer see the work of London’s most infamous writers… …this book allows you never to forget.”
GRAB IT HERE http://www.londonhandstyles.com/

SOME NEW BITS AND PIECES

Chockablock footage featuring P-Money, Blacks, Flirta D, Badness and Tempz. Flirta Kills it as usual, one of them guys that no matter how many years go by and how many new bars he doesnt write, put him in a rave and he'll kill it still...looks like it could be a good few months for OG'z too

New Tempz bars

New Bloodline video with Big H getting on all bait.

WHILE I WAS AWAY

So i've been in England for the past couple weeks which has been interesting. Apart from alsmot killing myself and a friend when i rolled his car i had an amazing time at Carnival. Unfortunately i broke my camera so no flicks sorry.

Other than that i filmed a new video for the Afficks produced track 'Next Sound Level' which should be ready real soon. Starting early morning it soon turned into an absolute piss up which lasted until 11am the next day. Hold tight everyone who came down on the day and had fun with us, heres a few flicks.

DONT BAN THE CAN

Gonna be a hectic Saturday with Dont Ban The Can throwing an all dayer down at Croft. A load of mates are playing too so i should imagine i'll be getting mashed most of the day so come down and join me! Hopefully you've seen the hilarious press this has been getting in the Herald Sun, something along the lines of graffiti is a gateway to drugs and gang culture blah blah blah...hopefully some of these idiots will turn up.

NEW HEAVY INNIT MIX...

...before i forget, SpinFx has put together this months free mix for Heavy Innit which you can grab right here...
http://soundcloud.com/heavy-innit/heavy-innit-september-mix-1

Tracklisting
01 - high rankin - the tale of clarence baskerville
02 - nero - something elese
03 - dj quest & eskmo - speaker corner remix
04 - 0ne million - benga
05 - phatcat & dz - shadows
06 - bar 9 - murda sound v.i.p
07 - stereo type - shock, nero remix
08 - sully - living
09 - omni trio - renegade snares, afghan headspin remix
10 - ray kieth - something out there, dz & sam xl remix
11 - skream - burning up (a jungle tribute)
12 - ltj bukem - atlantis
13 - bassnectar - cozza frenzy, bassnectars mega bass remix
14 - mistabishi - printer jam, barbarix remix
15 - chase n status - mad house, dead money mix
16 - borgore - fuck hoes, 16 bit remix
17 - black sun empire - hyper sun
18 - ruckspin & reso - runaway
19 - ruckspin planas - oxygen
20 - skism - the blank
21 - ed solo - watch your eyes
22 - sukh knight - ganja dub(cheeze loueez)
23 - bassnectar - art of revolution, 6blocc remix
24 - boltan - nine to five, dz remix
25 - terrorize - dub n run
26 - b rich - everyday hustle, ac slater remix
27 - eddie k - whos the hardest
28 - bassbin twins - roller tune
29 - toasty - the knowledge, untold remix
30 - propa tingz - babylon scared
31 - untold - anaconda
32 - rufige kru - 2012
33 - distance - night vision, skream remix
34 - nero - act like you know
35 - submerse - 94

MOVING ON...

and as one door closes another opens. Heavy Innit will be putting on their final party of the year at the massive Hi Fi bar on October 10th with a whole host of internationals for ya. Should be sick and bonus is i'll be there with Afficks and A13 to smash it up.

END OF AN ERA

Yep thats right, Laundry is officially closing its doors!?!?!?! Madness i know, but instead of crying about it, come celebrate the last dubstep event there ever ever ever this coming Saturday. Its gonna be huuuge i reckon. Big up Dan + the rest of the staff for all their work down there, i'm gonna miss this place!

MARCUS NASTY

Real interesting interview with Marcus Nasty over at http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com

Blackdown: So when did you start DJing?

Marcus NASTY: It was about 2000, because I was playing garage, 2step garage.

B: Obviously you’re pretty well known as the head of N.A.S.T.Y. Crew, but in those times what were you playing as a DJ personally?

MN: The 4x4 stuff, Sticky, Jameson and then it kinda evolved into grime because Jammer stepped in with his tunes.

B: So when did you start getting interested in house?

MN: Well basically, when the grime scene died there was nothing for no one to do, everyone started playing old school garage and stuff. People were playing house but it was taking ages for everyone to get into it. I thought, ‘hang on, this ain’t us, this aint our music,’ because we came from grime, jungle, garage. So to go to house it was like ‘whoah, this is a bit too, erm, soft.’

MN: So I started asking all the UK producers, ‘have you started to make house?’ and they said, ‘we have but it don’t sound like house.’ So I said ‘just send it to me, let me see what it sounds like and I’ll see where you’re going wrong.’ So they sent me all their stuff and bit by bit I started playing it all and I ain’t looked back since. I just took everyone’s stuff and started playing it on radio and I’m taking from Donae’o, to Crazy Cousins, Naughty: everyone. Even down to that Apple tune “Mr Bean”: originally that was made as a grime tune.

B: Yeah “Mr Bean” and “Seigeliser” were a bit a head of it’s time y’know?

MN: Yeah yeah, definitely and it’s still one of the top tunes right now. There’s a vocal of it about this year, “Are You Gonna Bang Doe” by Funky D.

B: Are you playing that tune at the moment?

MN: I do but that’s because there’s a little hype for it in Napa but to be quite honest I don’t rate it because it’s like, it’s so simple it’s going to encourage other MCs who ain’t got no talent to talk shit on good tunes. Screaming “Oi you/are you gonna bang?” isn’t really saying anything. And I think it’s quite rude as well. But because there’s a hype around it, I will play it.

B: Yeah, I much prefer the original instrumental. So, when you said ‘the grime scene died’ what year did you mean?

MN: Well I wouldn’t say it died but the MCs involved weren’t getting much help from certain DJs. In a grime rave you’ll find the artists arguing on stage. It’s not the ravers. Nine times out of ten they’ll be up on stage warring each other, that’s what killed the grime scene. Added to that it turned from a dance music into a hip hop sound. That is what killed it. So it turned into more about the MCs than the music. You’ll go to a grime rave and there’ll be 20 minutes of jumping about and telling each other to ‘suck their mums’ and that will be it. And then the rest of the rave will be bashment and r&b.

B: Or it will get locked off haha…

MN: And everyone has a part to play from Wiley to Lethal B – all those little wars just fucked everything up. No one wants to see big arsed men arguing on stage. That is what killed it, nothing else. There’s no one else to blame for it. It’s not the industry: it was all our fault.

B: It’s weird because a lot of those artists think that’s exactly what grime should be. And a lot of grime fans think that’s grime at its best.

MN: Yeah but that’s because that’s what they’ve grown into. But what it was before was we could go down raves, hear a couple of lyrics, couple of bars. But then it just changed.

Catch the rest of the interview here...
http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/2009/09/marcus-nasty-interview.html

NEW ROSSI B + LUCA

You can always rely on these two for the sick mixes, check it out!

'We've been slacking of late on the mix front so thought it was due time to unleash a new podcast mix,our first of 2009.
We decided to lay down a bit of everything this time, so we've got some funky, a couple of old skool garage classics and some real dirty dubstep and dnb, all mixed as only Rossi B & Luca can.'

Tracklist

01: MJ COLE Ft. SEROCEE - AO
02: BLESS BEATS - HEAD GONE
03: EZ - PUMP IT UP STAR
04: DONAEO - WATCHING HER MOVE
05: SHYSTIE - PULL IT (ILL BLU REMIX)
06: LIL SILVA - DIFFERENT
07: BBK - TOO MANY MAN (ACCAPELLA)
08: WOOKIE - FLEX
09: BURAKA SOM SYSTEMA FT. KANO - SKANK AND MOVE
10: JAKES - LOVED UP
11: HADOUKEN - M.A.D (PLASTICIAN REMIX)
12: ZERO G - GO
13: UZUL - RUMBLE IN A SYSTEM (SKREAM REMIX)
14: REDLIGHT Ft. REDSKIN & SCORPIO - TWIST UP
15: DOCTOR P - RASPUTIN'S GOLD
16: TIM HEALEY & TAI - POCKET ROCKET (TES LA ROK REMIX)
17: NUMAN - 7th KEY (501 REMIX)
18: ROSSI B & LUCA - THE WAY IT WAS (JAKES REMIX)
19: FLUX PAVILLION & TROLLEY SNATCHER - FUCKING NOISE
20: BOLTAN - NINE TO FIVE (DZ REMIX)
21: NASTY JACK - SKYJUICE RIDDIM (ACCAPELLA)
22: CRISSY CRISS - TEMPLE OF DOOM
23: THE FAUN - ORIGINAL FEVER
24: JAKES - WAR FACE (D MINDS REMIX)
25: REGGIE STEPPA - DRUM PAN SOUND
26: DJ DOSE - RAT BASTARD
27: JAY DAN - PULL UP VIP
28: TOTAL SCIENCE - NOSHER (MARKY AND SPY REMIX)
30: SPOR - AZTEC
31: SWV - CAN WE (ACCAPELLA)
32: DANNY BYRD FT. IK - RED MIST VIP
33: FRICTION & K TEE - SET IT OFF
34: SUB FOCUS - ROCK IT
35: 501 - GANGSTER

http://www.zshare.net/audio/647957342300627f