NEXT SOUND LEVEL

Totally forgot to up my own goddamn video which i released a few weeks ago!?! Here it is, and look out for the remixes which i will stick up as a package real soon!

ITS A HOBART TING

GOING going, BACK back TO HOBART

Myself and Affiks played in Hobart in December and had a ball (hold tight the Curried Scallop Pie mandem), so much so that we've been asked to go back again in March. This time for an all day festival of all things bass! Its a benefit gig on the long weekend for Labour Day and it sounds like its gonna be proper fun. No flyer yet but press release thingy below


An epic line up of international, interstate, and hobarts finest in reggae, dub, dubstep, glitch, grime and all the wobbly bits ensures it's a sunday session not to be missed.

A lazy tenner on the door gets you in on the action, and funds raised go to Still Wild, Still Threatened.

And the other thing, Monday is a holiday, Sunday's gunna be HUGE.

Renegades of Dub
Sunday March 7th (Labor Day Eve)
The Brisbane Hotel - Hobart

Doors - 4pm 'till late,

LineUp:

The Nomad (NZ)
http://www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecomth3nomad

Johnny Hooves (NZ/Shapeshifter)
http://www.myspace.com/johnnyhooves

MC Fraksha (NineHigh/UK)
http://www.myspace.com/fraksha

Affiks (Heavy Innit/Melb)
http://www.myspace.com/affiks

Acumen (Tas)
http://www.youtube.com/user/EvilSlothyman#p/a/u/2/ncScwkEoKdE

DJ Grotesque (Tas)
http://soundcloud.com/dj-grotesque/dj-grotesque-dubblewubble-vol-4-the-bashment-edition

VJ Sloth (Acumen) mixing visuals in the big room all night

w/

Kashishi

Akouo

& Beat Poet Max Bladel

+ hobarts finest in reggae, dub, dubstep, glitch, grime and all the wobbly bits

benefit for those who love dope parties, and the still wild still threatened crew http://www.stillwildstillthreatened.org/

A BUSY WEEKEND

After a busy weekend just gone in Sydney this one coming up looks even busier!

Its third Saturday of the month so that means the first Wobble of 2010 this weekend! We got Flagrant with his debut Wobble set where he's also going to incorporate video's into his set which should be interesting


Before that earlier in the day i'll be mc'ing for Flagrants set at Hot BBQ down in Portsea which should be a big one


and then the next day (hangover should be interesting) we got the 2nd of the Heavy Innit park parties. If you were the last one you know wha gwan! Just be there

NEW STUFF

See that little fan box thing top right over there >>>>>
Well if you go there i just stuck some new tunes up including a quick mixtape preview...or you could just click this link http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=feed&story_fbid=383535575164&id=626756927#/pages/FRAKSHA/65732049632?ref=mf

TOO MUCH DOES IT AGAIN

Really looking forward to this one, something a little different

TASSIE ON THE WEEKEND...

was laaarge! To be honest i wasnt expecting much but Hobart surpassed absolutely smashed it. Me, Afficks + A13 played from 1-3 and the place was going off the whole time, in fact it was fully packed and rowdy till around 5am or so. 'Next Hype' as expected standardly killed it as did 'Hard' from Breakage and Newham Gens. Big up Grotesque and Dameza too.

Here's a little interview i did for a Hobart newspaper over there. Somehow they called me a DJ instead of an MC, but trust me i've had worse!

(click on the image to read it)

Dont forgot Wobble this Saturday at the Nightowl with one of Mexi's last shows before he moves to the states!

MY FIRST TRIP TO TASSIE

Really looking fwd to this one!

NINE HIGH ON RADIO

video of me, Scotty and Felz on the Top Billin' show a couple of months back

UPCOMING

Not got any flyers to hand, i dont even know all the venue's, but here's some shows coming up i'm playing at. If they're in your town try and reach:

Adelaide, Thebarton theatre, Saturday 24th October

Melbourne, The Palace, Friday 6th November

Hobart, Brisbane Hotel, Friday 13th November (yeah really looking fwd to flying on Friday the 13th!)

Melbourne, Too Much @ The Night Owl with Cotti (UK) + Tes La Rock (FL), Saturday 14th November

Adelaide, Friday 4th December

There's talk of me and Afficks playing Hobart at a grime/dubstep night in December as well, just waiting on confirmation

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!

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

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.

MY BIRTHDAY...

So although my birthday is not until Aug 24th, i decided to celebrate it last weekend 'cos i'll be in England then so this way i have two birthdays, greedy i know...its taken me this long to recover from the weekend, but thank you everyone that came out to Workshop, it was an absolutely wicked night!!!

HOME SOON...

I'll be shooting back to England on Wednesday for a quick couple of weeks and while i'm there i'll be doing this gig below. Its Reading Festival weekend so you know its gonna be massive! get there early 'cos this will be a guaranteed roadblock!!!

CLOSER TO DEATH

So, its my birthday in a couple of weeks, but i'm as you ozzies say 'flat stick' (or as my confused colleague says, 'flap strap') so pretty much every weekend so have not been able to really organise something. Instead, i'm gonna be doing the Game support on Friday night @ Festival Hall and then urging everyone i like and anyone else that wants to come along and throw a shot down my throat to come along to workshop this Friday from around 10pmish. Afficks is gonna be on decks along with Seven and Dust so good tunes will be running, so come along and throw peanuts at Custards behind the bar and watch me fall over:)

http://theworkshop.com.au/

GOT ME COVERED!

The lovely ladies over @ Mayoress have been so kind as to let my ugly mug feature on their site for a quick interview you can check out here http://mayorettes.com/blog/2009/06/28/got-it-covered-fraksha/

They also asked me to choose a tune for their regular Monday music section, so i took it back a few years with grime's biggest tune, 'Pow'. Not a soothing Monday morning tune i know, but it should wake you up slightly! http://mayorettes.com/blog/2009/06/29/monday-music-49/

Big shout to Hayley and the gyaldem!

10 WEEKS...

And i'm back in the manor for a couple weeks!!!

Now i love living in Australia, wouldnt move back for the world! but theres definitely some things i miss...

JD Sports

DUN KNOW!!! Buying shoes is hard work over here i swear. JD is the crep palace!


English summer

It doesnt last long, but boy do we make the most of it. Its hard to top London in the summer!


People like this

I know you definitely got your fair share of them over here, but theres just something about English pond life


and of course, Notting Hill Carnival

The main reason i'm going back this time of year!


I'm landing on August 27th and have a gig that night @ Mango's in Reading. Will stick up a flyer when i get it!

THIS SATURDAY

Bad news, unfortunately Goth-Trad cant play (immigration issues). Good news is i'm still playin' :) and our album drops same day so expect a fun night (i'll be posting details of a listening party Saturday afternoon in the City real soon)...anyway, here's Baddums spiel on the night...

Due to unfortunate circumstances we must announce that the Goth-Trad(Japan) tour of Australia has been cancelled.

The good news is that HEAVY INNIT!! will still go off this Saturday at Miss Libertine.

With an all-star line-up of local DJs including Fooishbar(Too Much), Buick(Too Terrorble Tablists – Canberra), L-J(Sub FM), Camo-Tree(Bass High) ft. Fraksha(Nine-High), A13 and Riz-One(Low Def), we still promise you seven hours of heavy dubstep and glitch-hop damage at one of Melbourne’s most popluar city clubs.

As cancellations like this are costly, you may appreciate that we need your support to ensure that our monthly event continues. We’ve reduced the door tax to $10 but as a special offer to our loyal regulars we’d like to invite you to email us at heavyinnit@gmail.com to join our $8 VIP list.

Here’s a peek at the playing times:
9-10 Fooishbar
10-11 Buick(Canberra)
11-12 L-J(Sub FM)
12-1 Camo ft. Fraksha
1-2:30 A13
2:30-4 Riz-One

So the party goes on. We hope to see you there!

And then next month we will have this below featuring our boy Loco from back in the UK who will be here for a month to do shows with us in support of the album.

RADIO FINGS

So with the album coming out next Saturday June 6th we're on the radio promo all week. Starting on Monday night catch us on PBS on the hip hop show between 7-10pm. Listen at www.pbsfm.org.au or 106.7fm.

Next up Friday night on the Top Billin' show on Triple R from 10-12 at www.rrr.org.au or 102.7fm. They're giving us free reign of the studio for an hour takeover so tune in a hear some joints from the album as well as whatever we're feeling to play.

Then on Saturday 6th i'll be on Kiss fm with Cammo dropping all manner of grime, dubstep and whatever else. Tune in at www.kissfm.com.au or 87.6fm