Still Standing Tour Footage – Vents & Ad-Fu

Diggindeeptv’s YouTube channel featured a banger of a clip from Vents and Ad-Fu on the Hilltop Hoods Still Standing Tour. If your in Adelaide this weekend we’d recommend that you head on down to the show grounds and catch the Still Standing tour live and in all it’s glory. This clip got us in the mood and I’m sure it will get you going too. This would quickly remind some why Vents is such a crowd fav. Vents will surely be dropping a new release sometime in 2010, let’s hope it’s sooner rather than later.

VENTS & AD-FU – STILL STANDING TOUR VIDE

Horrorshow – Inside Story JJJ Feature Album

If you haven’t heard, Horrorshow’s Inside Story is Triple J’s feature album of the week. It’s great to see that the lads are getting the props they deserve for this truely awsome album. Horrorshow are constantly noted as one of the most exciting prospects on the aussie hip hop scene, through excellent live shows and much-loved songs.  If you haven’t already, check out allaussie hip hop’s review of Inside Story here to get the full run down.

You can catch Horrorshow as a part of the Spitshine Tour with Urthboy in Fremantle this weekend, November 12. You can get tickets for that here.

If you’re heading over to the Triple J website be sure to watch the Urthboy Vs Hau interview vid.

Producer Profile: Pokerbeats

You may have heard the name Pokerbeats floating around the traps lately and if you have it’s for good reason. Pokerbeats is a 25-year-old hip hop producer from Regensburg, Germany (around one hour from Munich for those geography heads). Pokerbeats has worked with variety of artists in a variety of locations from Austria, Switzerland, Japan, America and more of late Australia.

For someone who lives so far away he has been working with some big names in the Australian scene. Pokerbeats work first hit the aussie shores after he did a beat for the Hilltop Hoods track She’s So Ugly, which featured on their platinum album State Of The Art. Now he is working with several Australian crews and producers such as Briggs, Muph (new album on the way??), Mind Over Matter and many more.

There has also been interest from a few crews on twitter including Choose Mics and Urthboy.

If you’re interested in working with the man himself, hit him up at the following places. Twitter or MySpace.

Children to face jail for carrying a spray can?

An interesting article was posted on the ABC news website a few hours ago here, regarding the new measures  the NSW Government are putting in place in part of a graffiti crackdown. Children could be imprisoned for up to six months if they are caught carrying cans of spray paint without a legitimate reason. Elva Darnell wrote the following story:

Children in New South Wales could be imprisoned for up to six months if they are caught carrying cans of spray paint without a legitimate reason.
The new measures are part of a crackdown on graffiti.
The State Government will make it an offence for juveniles to carry spray paint without an excuse, such as school work or employment.
The act will be punishable by fines of up to $1,100 or six months in jail.
It is the first time the courts will have the power to imprison minors for the act of possessing spray cans alone.
Premier Nathan Rees is also planning to announce an annual graffiti clean-up day, where community members will volunteer their time to help chemically remove paint.
The idea is loosely based on the popular clean-up Australia day.
Graffiti artist James McCallum says the Government is taking an uninformed approach that might have a lot of unintended consequences.
“Especially when you’re talking about getting tough on in this case, kids who are disenfranchised, who are actually in doing graffiti, engaging with their community,” he said.
“That’s kind of the ironic thing as well. The simple response of saying that we’ll throw them in prison or charge them $1,100 is not exactly worthy of the State Government.”

Now we can all remember a similar story to this earlier in year involving an 18-year-old Australian woman, who was sentenced to three months jail for vandalising a Sydney cafe. Her tag – 30 centimetres high, 50 centimetres long and reading “2shie” – was sprawled on the Hyde Park Cafe on Macquarie Street. It was her first offence.

On the same ABC website an article posted by Professor Chris Cuneen on February 10, 2009 about the sentencing of this 18 year woman, was titled Jail Not The Answer To Stopping Graffiti. Professor Chris Cuneen is the New South Wales Global Chair in Criminology in the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales. You can read that article here and we recommend that you do. It was a little long to post but raises some important counter arguments to imprisonment for such a minor offence. We will keep an eye on this issue for all who are interested.

The Tongue Is Dead Mixtape (Out Now)

If you missed it yesterday, Elefant Traks, The Tongue, dropped his brand new mixtape The Tongue Is Dead. Not only is it 15 tracks deep, featuring some fine artists including the likes of Joyride, Jane Tyrell, Dazastah, Ozi Batla, Mind Control, Blades and DJ Skoob, it’s also available for a FREE download. You gotta love that!
You can follow the link here to grab your copy.

2010 has been announced for when The Tongues drops his new album and while we all hang for that, we’re sure this mixtape will keep you in check till then. Below you can check out the full track listing.

1. The Funeral
2. Can It Be? ft Joyride
3. Crazy ft Joyride
4. Let Us Live ft Jane Tyrrell
5. MVP
6. Hate Waiting ft Blades
7. DJ Skoob Interlude
8. Universal Mind Control
9. Terrorist Hotline
10. Run ft Dazastah
11. Ghost
12. Imagine ft Ozi Batla and Joyride
13. Sunday
14. Urthboy’s Eulogy
15. Heaven/Outro

Check out The Tongue’s upcoming shows at his MySpace here.

For all the Twitter heads out there you can follow The Tongue here.

Diafrix comp – Pyramid Rock Festival

Diafrix are giving you the chance to win a double VIP pass to the Pyramid Rock Festival this NYE.
Thats right, you will get to hang with Diafrix all weekend, get access to the VIP camping area and really see what goes on backstage before and after a performance.
Its simple all you have to do is head to myspace.com/diafrix here and sign up. Sounds like a great way to spend New Years.

That’s Them – Stay Up Vid Clip

A new music clip for the title track off That’s Them’ debut album – Stay Up has just been released. You can peep that below. You can also catch That’s Them next Friday November 13, if your in Melbourne. Check out the previous post we did about that here.

 

Heath Ledger directed N’Fa clip released

Aussie Hip Hop Artist N’fa Forster-Jones, best know for his work with 1200 Techniques, and also a boyhood friend of Heath Ledger, has released a music video Heath directed shortly before his death.
N’fa posted the 3 minute, 31 second-clip for his song Cause An Effect on his YouTube and MySpace pages on Thursday, along with a video in which he explains how the project came about.
Ledger, the celebrity-shy star of Batman blockbuster, “The Dark Night,” and the posthumously released “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” shot a handful of videos for low-profile artists he liked. Ledger died aged 28 in New York from an accidental drug overdose in January 2008.
N’Fa, who had been friends with Ledger since they were toddlers in the Australian city of Perth, said the video was shot in one day in the garage of Ledger’s beachside apartment.

“He gave me a call one morning, as he often did at crazy hours, and he’s like, ‘N’fa, I’ve got this idea for a video,’” the rapper says in the online posting.
“He was basically running around directing me each shot,” he said. “It was a really cool day.”
“Every day I count my blessings that I got to have him direct this piece of art,” he said.

The video was first shown at a collection of Ledger’s work at the Rome Film Festival earlier this month.
Check out the clip below.