GRAB OUR ALBUM FOR FREE!!!

So we had some distro problems which saw us not getting any $$ from the copies sold in the shops so we thought fuck it and cut out the middle man and give it away for free!

Grab it here at soundcloud...
Latest tracks by fraksha

or here from sendspace
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5oan7e

while i was at it i also uploaded our 'Take Two' mixtape from 2005
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7ig6wr

Tell a friend!

COOKOUT - VIDEO OF THE YEAR

And in a nice end to the year we got number one spot in Triple R's end of year best video round up. Check the link below. Massive shouts to Rosco and crew for their continued support throughout the year and here's to a bigger and better 2010!


01. The Cookout (M-Phazes RMX) - Nine High

After years of traveling back and forward between the UK and Oz, 2009 finally saw the official debut from one of the deadliest MC trios on any continent. Although Phazes produced several album tracks, this one wasn't reworked until after the record was on shelves. Our man's Fraksha, Scotty Hinds & Felony are all set to drop some heavy solo mixtapes early in the new year, but until then enjoy the lads as they run a supermarket sweep that Ian Turpie would be proud of!

Plus, how many rap groups you know kicking knowledge on aromatic duck? Nuff said!

MY SHOWS OF 2009

Yep, its end of the year list time once again. I'll drop my favourite tunes of the year in a bit but for now these are my favourite shows of 2009 (and luckily for me i was involved in most of them)

NINE HIGH ALBUM LAUNCH @ MISS LIBERTINE

May as well start with our own bloody show huh? The culmination of lots of hard work and round the world trips finally saw our album released earlier in the year. Byron and Loco flew over to join me and Scotty for a couple months to promo it which ended with our show at Miss Libs which was FUCKING AMAZING!!! Couldnt have asked for a better response really, had a ball!

WOBBLE 2ND BIRTHDAY @ NIGHT OWL

Not many nights last two years, especially when they pack them in month in month out like Wobble do. Every month me and Scotty alongside AC23 have a wicked time, but the birthday event really took the cake. Never seen it going off like it did that night! Big up to Cubist, Derrick and AC23!

STARKEY @ HEAVY INNIT!!, LAUNDRY

Unfortunately The Laundry has now shut its doors but this show in particular stood out for me as one of the best shows of 2009 and a highlight of a succesful year for Heavy Innit!! Selection was big, no chinstroking, lots of hype and a mad crowd. Hold tight Badddums and Affiks for continually killing it with the shows!

SKEPTA AND BLESS BEATS @ LAUNDRY

Well the Wiley show didnt happen, not that we didnt try our hardest, but situations just got out of our control. Nevertheless, we managed at the very last minute (around 6pm on the night of the show) to secure a new venue, got Skeppy and Bless down for it and had a killer. To be honest it was probably better than if the show had gone ahead in its original form as we just took it old school, riddims, bars and reloads.

M.O.P @ THE ESPY

Not much i'm gonna say on this one other than this was possibly the best and most fun i've had at a hip hop show! People who know me know i get real bored with most hip hop shows so for me to say that it had to be big!

COTTI + TES LA ROCK @ TOO MUCH, NIGHTOWL

The Too Much boys have put in a lot of work this year with some murky shows, but this one stood out for as their number one for the year. Alongside Heartical Hi Fi Cotti and Tes La Rock ripped the nightowl apart! Cottis selection was so on point, cant wait to see him here again. Big up to Fooishbar and Same-o for a wicked one!

There ya have it!

THIS FRIDAY NIGHT IN ADELAIDE

Been a lack of updates recently 'cos where i work has barred me from pretty much everything!?!?

Anyone tho, this Friday night me and Scotty are taking the Nine High thing across to Adelaide for the Crossbred Mongrels album launch party at HQ so come down if you're Adelaide based.

Flying back the next day and will be getting some well needed rest in time for this below on Sunday. It was supposed to kick off last weekend but the weather put paid to that. I'm gonna be on barbeque duties so come down and munch some meat, tofu, whatever it is you munch on and drink some alcohol!

BYRON - JACK OF NONE PROMO MIX & VIDEO

Now that we got our Nine High album out the way, its time for all of us to concentrate on solo shit. First out the stable's is Byron's mix-cd 'Jack of None' which he's been busy putting together with Loco behind the boards featuring Ghetts, Emeli Sande and of course myself and Scotty. Its sounding massive so go check out the promo mix and pick up a copy when it officially drops in February!
Byron - Jack of None (Promotional Mix) by loftb

NINE HIGH ON RADIO

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

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!

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!

SUPPORTING THE GAME

oh yeah, forgot this one, footage of us and The Game at his Festival Hall show a couple weeks back

NINE HIGH CHANGED THEIR LIVES

Bit slow on the posting the past werk and a bit 'cos i've returned to England for a couple weeks so been busy catching up with people etc etc...anyways, here's another little video chucked up by Loco, remember to keep checking http://www.youtube.com/LOFTBTV

Mx feature...

For anyone not in the metropolitan area, here's a scan of the Mx feature from a couple weeks ago. This would be the equivalent of the Metro publication you get on the underground in London.
Many thanks to Mx for a) getting the date of the show wrong, and b) getting the album title wrong!? Nice one! Photo looks alright tho : )

NEW VIDS...

Here's a couple new video's Loco has put together of stuff while they were over here...first one is of the 'i rarely drink' Scotty Hinds absolutely battered after a show and the next one is a more civilised little chat with our main man M-Phazes

BUY THE ALBUM

THATS RIGHT, GRAB IT HERE IF YOU WANT A PHYSICAL VERSION
http://chaos.com/product/nine_high_4232514_1847040.html
OR HERE IF YOU'RE MORE AN ITUNES KINDA PERSON
http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/browserRedirect?url=itms%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewAlbum%3Fid%3D318594612%26s%3D143460%26uo%3D4%26partnerId%3D1002%26affToken%3D54465

TOMORROW NIGHT!!!

HEEEEEEELP!!!

We've just put out our new single, 'Cookout (M-Phazes rmx)', which has gone to radio earlier in the week. We've had our first Triple J spin a couple nights ago, but now gotta push it to get on regular rotation.

If you are able to, we would appreciate it a hell of a lot if you would be able to take a minute to request the song in one of the ways below...it takes no time at all and you can do it on-line costing you nothing! Of course, if you wanna do it every day for the next week or so i would be even more thankful : )

Online requests: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/requests
SMS requests: 1975 7 555
Phone requests: 1300 0555 36

Nine High Australia Tour 2009 - Part IV: Guerilla Promotion & Studio Time

MORE FLICKS...

Courtesy of Hayley over @ http://mayorettes.com/blog/

http://mayorettes.com/blog/2009/07/20/hayley-is-a-loser-nine-high-launch/

ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY

Wow, what a sick night! We've been building up to Friday's festivities for a few weeks now and we couldnt have reeally asked for a better night in the end, we had a mad time!
there was a such a good vibe at Miss Libs on Friday night, it seemed like everyone was on our side out to support us, so massive massive thanks to everyone who came down and made it what it was, the response was overwhelming! Talking about it with the others, its definitely our favourite show we've ever done. No attitudes, good vibes, lots of girls, last track stage invasion (hope you liked that new M-Phazes banger, had to draw for the reload!), donuts and lots of Agwa. Thanks to everyone who bought a t-shirt or album and huge thanks to all involved with the show: Baddums, Afficks, A13, Murky Depths, Diem, Mexi, Nathan, Wansicks...check some photo's below courtesy of Rosco, Crystal + Carley

THIS WEEKEND - MELBOURNE STAND UP!!!

Yes yes people, gonna be a maaaaassive weekend!

First up we got our album launch on Friday at Miss Libertine. This is gonna be a very very fun night! As well as ourselves (we got some specials planned!) we got some very talented people in 1/6, Loco, Mexi, No Name Nathan, Afficks, A13 and Smashbrothers all hosted by our good friend Murky Depths. Its gonna be liiiive-ooooo trust!

And then on Saturday night (hopefully we'll be in a proper state after the pevious night) we got the monthly juggernaught that is Wobble. This month features our boy Loco dropping grime and dubstep bangers with ourselves hosting. This will be Felonys first time at Wobble and we're planning on getting murky as all fuck!

NINE HIGH ON KISS FM LAST WEEK