Taken by the amazing Robin Hearfield, these are shots of Blue Mountains hip hop crew Thundamentals. Rather pleasant chaps. We talked about all manner of things and then they performed a song. You should listen to it below…
Podcast: Thundamentals Interview and Performance, plus our Outkast Tribute
Listen: Thundamentals – Dimension 3 | Buy Me
Video: Thundamentals perform Thundacats In Studio
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Download: Memphis Bleek ft Jay-Z – Dear Summer
Download: Weldon Irvine – Morning Sunrise
Related: Changing Lanes Festival Gallery by Elize Strydom
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In it’s first year, Musica is a smaller scale festival at Darling Harbour’s Tumbalong Park with a really cool line up. Maybe a little to cool to draw a massive festival crowd, it was a refreshingly, easy going, dickhead free day of good music. Rather than fighting crowds of sweaty muscle bound boofheads, dividing your time between 7 stages of the same old acts, Musica was just one stage of smaller amazing new artists. Perfect sunny weather for enjoying the likes of SBTRKT, Lunice, Ghostpoet, Baths, Electic Wire Hustle, Mitzi, Bon Chat Bon Rat, Tiger & Woods and Simon Caldwell. Brilliant day. Let’s hope it becomes a regular fixture in the festival calendar.
Listen: SBTRKT – Nervous ft Jessie Ware from Nervous EP
Listen: SBTRKT – Something Goes Right ft Sampha from SBTRKT
Listen: Lunice – The Name Dunnit ft Troy Dunnit from Stacker Upper EP
Download: Aaliyah – We Need A Resolution (Lunice Remix)
Download: Ghostpoet – Cash and Carry Me Home ft Kano (Remix)
Download: Bon Chat, Bon Rat – Blackbirds
Podcast: SBTRKT Interview and Other Goodies on Stolen Records
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Photos by Russell Privett
I keep hearing about random hook ups that happened at the Player Haters Ball. I think that is the mark of a good party. A very attractive, mixed crowd flocked to Good God Small Club for a night of Joyride and The Accidents playing R&B covers with a couple of originals, while Levins and I spin jams. Technically it was a sell out, but we kept letting people in. A hot, sweaty, drunken night of partying. Here are some photos from around 3:30am.
Download: R Kelly – Bump N Grind
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Murs is one of my favourite rappers, and also a really swell guy. I had him on the show years ago when I was doing late nights, and he was still Def Juxing it. I ended up freestyling with him on air, and he dissed every gangsta rapper in the industry by name. Talking about who he would like to fight one on one. If only Scott Burns didn’t steal, then lose that recording. These are pics from his more recent visit, and some new music from him. Make sure you cop Murs & Ski Beatz: Love & Rockets Vol. 1 (The Transformation)
Listen: Murs – 316 Ways | Buy His Stuff
Listen: Murs – 67 Cutless | Buy His Stuff
Listen: Murs – International | Buy His Stuff
And an oldie that I really love..
Listen: Murs – Done Deal ft 3mg | Buy His Stuff
Podcast: Murs Covers Ice Cube & more
In the part of town you come for shitty tourist pubs and Korean karaoke, hidden away in the Spanish Quarter of Sydney is Good God Small Club. A venue I frequent regularly, and find myself getting into various types of trouble a little too often. Once La Campana an old Spanish Salsatech/Restaurant, it was taken over by Jimmy Sing and Hana Shimada one year ago. To celebrate they threw three big parties over the long weekend. These are photos from their Bashment Jam with a massive line up including the UK’s biggest dancehall artist Gappy Ranks alongside Hoops, Guerre, Toni Toni Lee, Kween G & Bad Ezzy, Levins, Kato, Huggz, Max Gosford, Firehouse and more. Gappy Ranks totally merked it, despite the fact his DJ didn’t know how to use CDJs or Serato. Fortunately, Mike was there to save the day.
MP3: Gappy Ranks Long Time ft Beenie Man (Refix)
MP3: Gappy Ranks – Stinkin Rich (Bullet Era Riddim)
MP3: Birdman ft Drake & Lil Wayne – Money To Blow (Bullet Era Riddim) (Warrior Remix)
MP3: Kray Twinz – What We Do ft Twista, Lethal B and Gappy Ranks
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Photos by Julia Cumines
Can you tell that Julia is also an architect? Her photos have a wonderful way of highlighting the patterns in man made structures. Earlier this year, when she was traveling Asia, she took a bunch of pictures, which she will be exhibiting at Darlie Laundromatic. It launches Wednesday, September 28 at 6pm with nibbles. If you are part of our Sydney audience, I recommend heading along, not only for the photos, but for Darlie Laundromatic’s mini hotdogs, cheap drinks and the rock ‘n’ roll laundromat thing it has going.
Download: Suicide – Dream Baby Dream | Buy Me
Here is the flyer…
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I meant to put these up a while ago. These are drunken photos by Emma mostly of Sonny, Anya and I striking a few poses at FBi’s Winter Prom in July. It was a cracking good party, taking it’s inspiration from all those American TV proms rather than your own daggy formals. Though I was actually king at my formal, it was a chance to do it all again and correct everything that was awkward and horrible at your high school formal. It was amazingly decorated, everybody looked so good and indie cover band – Fan Fixion – weren’t terrible either. In my dreams, this is everything I imagined the Stolen Records Gala Ball to be.
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Download: Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers – Why Do Fools Fall In Love | Buy Me
Download: Ronettes – Be My Baby | Buy Me
Download: Wanda Jackson – Let’s Have A Party | Buy Me
Download: Etta James – That’s All | Buy Me
BTW: Emma and Anya are dressed by Dear Pluto, Shantan is mostly wearing stuff from Harajuku Thrift shops, while Sonny is dressed strictly via Five Finger Discount.
Maybe it will all change next year, when Steve Aoki is confirmed to play the festival. But as it stands, Changing Lanes has one of the lowest Southern Cross tattoo counts of all the festivals on the Sydney music calendar. While there was a noticeable absence of shirtless bogans and 18 year old girls group dressing as sexy nurses, it did register a 9.3 on the Hipster Scale. It was definitely a much more ironic facial hair, vintage clothing affair.
In it’s second year, at a new location in Surry Hills, the festival is an easier, inexpensive, low key experience. The acts may not be as uber famous, but the crowds are a little less intense. It is more a day for enjoying drinks and sunshine with friends while casually taking in some live music.
Though I didn’t get to see heaps of the festival, because I was playing most of the day, my highlight was Joyride spinning in the hip hop room with impromptu appearances from rappers 360 and The Tongue. Joyride provided instrumentals by Mariah Carey and Ginuine, while they traded semi-battley freestyles.
Listen: Ellesquire – Ferociousness ft Tenth Dan | iTunes
Download: Oscar + Martin – Do The Right Thing
Get Thingy-Ma-Jiggy Wiv It – as one of the UK’s finest DJs, former Scratch Pervert and Extended Players member, Mr Thing plays a set of raw hip hop goodness.
Download Mix: Mr Thing Mix Live on Stolen Records | Get Playlist
Listen: Jehst – Thinking Crazy (prod. Mr Thing) | Buy Me
Listen: Inja – Hat Low ft. Skinnyman, Fallacy and Mr Thing (Grime Remix) | Buy Me
Download: Yungun & Mr Thing – UK Shit
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