'Music'

Sigh. Once again, my bad on the extremely delayed post…

This is the first volume of a three volume series of mixtapes where I try to do something that I haven’t heard anyone else do; rap over indie rock/electro/dubstep/alternative/folk/indie songs, while leaving the original tune intact and integrating my rhymes with the theme of the tracks. It’s also my first ever solo mixtape release, so I hope y’all dig it.

Download it free from my Bandcamp page. And tell your mates.

The first volume dropped on my 31st birthday, April 10th 2012. The next two volumes will drop on June 10th and August 10th, respectively.

HUGE shouts to everyone who made this happen: Notion (engineering, mixing, mastering), Josh Telfer (design, drawing my logo on a big ass mirror with lipstick), Iskander Ben Amor (photography), and my gorgeous girlfriend Tiffany Alexis (cover model, partner in winning).

This is getting ridiculous eh? We need a blogger lol.

Aight, for March, Uncle Nosh and I came with some heaters.

Nosh laced another cut with TruStylz, this time ‘It’s On’ is the banger in question. Huge. Grab it free from Notion’s Bandcamp page.

And for me, I decided to drop a cut from ‘The Indie Experiment Volume 2′ (peep Volume 1 if you haven’t already), this one featuring Bekah on the hook. Grab it from my Bandcamp, eh.

Wow. This is just silly. Posting this almost a month after it dropped. I fucking suck. If anyone wants to help the Fam out with blogging, holla. Coz I clearly lost all concept of time.

For the fourth year running, Notion and I put together (with the assistance of my lovely girlfriend Tiffany on the song selection tip) a solid collection of lesser known, soulful, smooth as fuck tunes to soundtrack the most romantic day of the year.

Strangely enough, it seemed Volume 3 saw a decent increase in downloads right before the day itself, so hopefully folks will get on this one before Valentine’s Day 2013 (if the world hasn’t ended by then).

Grab it free from The Movement Fam Bandcamp anyway; it’s a really great collection of music, regardless of the theme. There’s two exclusive cuts this year, both from Cee & Bekah. The first is ‘Close To Mine’, over Trey Songz’ ‘Wonder Woman’, and the other joint is actually an unofficial remix of Tony Williams’ single ‘Dreaming Of Your Love’ (remixed by Kiri Kanes), which Tony himself actually asked us to do. Tony is Kanye West’s cousin by the way, so it was a big fuckin’ deal to us back in the day.

Maaaan. I’m slackin’ hard on this blog shit. My bad.

So y’all may have noticed that every month, Notion and I are dropping new cuts.

For the shortest month, Uncle Nosh dropped ‘Level We At’, a fuckin’ banger with the homie from back home TruStylz. I love this one, definitely a personal favourite of all the joints Nosh and Truey did before we dipped. Cop it free from Nosh’s Bandcamp.

Myself, I dropped another cut from ‘The Indie Experiment’. This one is the complete opposite of ‘Yellow Brick Road‘ – it’s under 2 minutes, there’s no message except jump the fuck up and smash shit. It’s with one of my favourite Melbourne bands British India. I hope the boys get to hear it actually. Grab it from my Bandcamp, fuckin’.

This project has been more than 18 months in the making, and this is the first taste of it I’m hitting y’all with. I’ma be dropping a song a month til I release the full mixtapes, so welcome…

I wrote this cut after a huge argument with a close friend, and it seems that some of the best music comes as a result of some sort of drama. When I first heard Angus & Julia Stone’s ‘Down The Way’ album, this tune came on while I was driving. I literally pulled over and couldn’t move for the whole 8 minutes; I had shivers. I knew I had to do something with it.

My project is called ‘The Indie Experiment’. Over the last couple of years, I picked up the guitar again (I’ve been playing on and off since I was 9) and discovered rock/indie/electro/alternative music, and it had a huge affect on me. I decided that I wanted to undertake my first ever solo project by adding my vocals to some of my favourite indie tunes, but instead of chopping the songs up like most rappers tend to do, I left the original song intact and placed my vocals around those of the artist, creating a whole new dichotomy for the song.

It’s going to be a three volume mixtape, with 8 songs on each joint, and I plan to release volume one on my 31st birthday, April 10th, with each volume dropping on May 10th and June 10th, respectively. I’m scared shitless to release such personal material, especially for my first solo joint, but fuck it. I really hope y’all dig it.

You can download or stream the song from my Bandcamp page.

Y’all can check me out on Facebook and Twitter too. Much love.

My dude J-Lah done dropped his debut project, Time Trap EP, and y’all need to hear this shit.

Peep the info from the press release:

A youthful barrage of neu-disco, progressive and electro-sprinkled synths, J-Lah’s Time Trap EP contains sounds for every EDM lover. The lead single, Time Trap, provides an alluring steady climb of introductory synthesizers and, after much foreplay, spontaneously combusts into a drop of rich, characterful melody with an enormous amounts of energy. Conversely, You Don’t Understand conveys more intimacy – a contemplative homage to influences of past, present and future. The Time Trap EP is JLah’s first official record release, and we are extremely proud to welcome him into the Burner family.

Check out the EP on Beatport and cop that, hit dude up on Twitter and vibe to more of his fresh electro sounds on his Soundcloud:

J-Lah on Beatport
J-Lah on Twitter
J-Lah on Soundcloud

The good homies You And Your Music, who we’ve performed with a number of times before we dipped from Oz, have worked for 9 months putting together a fantastic video for the remix version of their single ‘Keep On Spinning’, which details the daily struggles of the bicycle courier. It’s picked up some steam amongst the two-wheeler crowd, and in anticipation for the launch next month, the boys dropped a teaser for the video. Peep game.

Also, you can catch the boys live with The Fam’s own Bekah at the St Kilda Festival in a couple weeks!

Aaaaaaand we’re kicking 2012 off with a foot to the balls, son.

Notion plans to drop a track a month; and I’m gonna put my nuts on the line and say I’ma do it too.

So as promised, Nosh comes with the goods on his ‘So Cold (Freestyle)‘. Absolute banger, and you can download it free. Win.

Peep game, and download ‘So Cold (Freestyle)’ from Notion’s Bandcamp page!