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!