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Photos: Dutty Dancing IV at Goodgod


Photos by Averie Harvey

I only got there at midnight really unsure what I would find when I opened the doors to that dark burrow buried at the back of Goodgod Small Club. To my surprise I found a packed room and a dancefloor in full swing.

Thumping Caribbean rhythms and so much booty shaking. When the night was done we were picking up discarded bum cheeks dislodged during violent ass moving.

Thanks to the Dance Central crew for an awesome performance, and everybody that jumped in the circle.

Look out for the next party, last Saturday of January 2013.


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Download: Louchie Lou & Michie One – Rich Girl

Download: Kerwin Du Bois – Bacchanalist

Listen: Lexie Lex – Bye Bye Bye (Citizen K Remix)

Photos: The Liknuts (Beatnuts + The Liks) w/ Onyx at The Metro

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Photos by Averie Harvey

Old man rap. The Beatnuts and The Liks join forced together to create one super old group. They also checked Onyx out of their nursing home to join them on tour of Australia. Here is some pictures from their Sydney show.

Listen: The Liknuts – Bang

Listen: Dead Prez & Onyx – Last Dayz Reloaded | Buy Me

Photos: Home Brew Crew and Young Gift and Broke at Civic Underground in Sydney

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Photos by Averie Harvey

The first hip hop artists to top the charts in New Zealand since Scribe did it with the Crusader in 2003, Home Brew are murdering it across the Tasman. With their extended crew, Young, Gifted and Broke, they showed us why they are number in Aoteroa at the moment.

Listen: Home Brew – Datura / White Flowers ft Lui Tuiasau | Buy Me

Listen: Home Brew – 55 Stories | Buy Me

Photos: Hip Hop Halloween at Goodgod


Photos by Robin Hearfield

For one night only we resurrected three hip hop greats. Using the bodies of Sydney DJ’s Bad Ezzy, Shantan Wantan Ichiban and Levins as hosts, we opened up a portal to the spirit world and brought back – Left Eye, Eazy E and MCA (mad scientist version from the Intergalactic video – too soon) for EXCLUSIVE DJ sets.

Too many shots. Not enough food in stomach. Dark sunglasses in a dark club. All factors which contributed to one of the most ram shackled mixes I have ever done. Fortunately I think everyone else was too drunk to notice at our very loose Hip Hop Halloween Party.

If your memory is as hazy as mine, maybe these pictures will help you piece together this very spooky, very trashy night.

Download: Eazy-E – Real Muthafuckin Gz

Photos: Dutty Dancing III at Goodgod Small Club


It was a little controversial and not well received by all. I heard quite a few complaints from women saying – “How can a man win a Dancehall Queen contest?”. However, the majority of the mob decided and Jose took home the much sort after Rum filled Watermelon and was crowned Dancehall Man Queen in our Dutty Dancing Contest.

All together this was an amazing night. The dancefloor stayed packed with bodies grinding the night away to the best of new and classic dancehall reggae hits. Shantan Wantan Ichiban, Basslines and Nick Toth throwing everything they had at the crowd.

Make sure you are back in late November for more tropical riddims and gringos talking patois. Booyakashaaaa!

If you missed out here is a little taste of the musical vibes…

Listen: Busta Rhymes ft Vybz Kartel – Wine & Go Down

Download: Dirtsman & Missy Elliot – Get Impeccable (Heatwave Refix)

Photos: J Boog and Million Stylez at Metro, Sydney


Photos by Andy ‘Moses’ Vermeulen of Hobo

From Stockholm to Compton, this was a night showcasing some very unique styles of reggae music from two different parts of the globe. Hailing from Compton Los Angeles, of Hawaiian and Samoan heritage, J Boog brings the island vibes with a very laid back Polynesian soul influenced style of roots reggae. In support of J Boog was Million Stylez. Million was born and raised in Stolkholm, Sweden, and is half Japanese and French. Growing up among mostly migrants he learned to respect different cultures and started experimenting with hip hop at a young age. A little later he discovered reggae music and is now one of the number one dancehall artists in Europe. Together they put on an amazing show, highlighting different sides of reggae music.

Listen: Million Stylez & Joey Fever – Young Guns (Come Down Riddim)

Listen: Million Stylez – So Di Ting Set (Costra Nostra Riddim)

Listen: J Boog – Let’s Do It Again

Listen: J Boog – I’m Falling (Summer Scheme Riddim)

Listen: J Boog – Hawaiian Pakalolo ft Jah Maoli & Spawnbreezie

Podcast: Stolen Records Dancehall Moombahton Mix of Awesomeness ft Nick Toth

Photos: Summer In New York by Elize Strydom


I said to her I would just take a few, but found it hard to leave any out. You may know her as a triple j newsreader, she also takes some pretty sweet photos. These are shots from her time in New York earlier this year. See the rest of the gallery and more awesomeness on her site.

Download: Memphis Bleek ft Jay-Z – Dear Summer

Download: Weldon Irvine – Morning Sunrise

Related: Changing Lanes Festival Gallery by Elize Strydom

Photos: Musica / Tumbalong, Sydney 2011


Photos by: Andy ‘Moses’ Vermeulen of Hobo

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