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Vinyl - New and Restocks



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BIG DADDY KANE - SUN 23 OCT - PRINCE BANDROOM, ST. KILDA





KING ASIATIC NOBODY'S EQUAL




The dopest rhyme spitter and ghost writer from the 'Golden Era' of Hip Hop, Big Daddy Kane is simply a living legend!




Growing up in the notorious Bed-Stuyvesant neighbourhood of Brooklyn, Kane was educated first hand in the rapidly expanding culture of Hip Hop. He found strong influence in the lyrical proficiency of Grandmaster Caz from the Cold Crush Brothers and as a late teenager he joined a local group called the Juice Crew headed by legendary Marley Marl. During this time he was also a writer for many peers in the game, Biz Markie and Roxanne Shante who were also Juice Crew members. His first single in 1987 called ‘Raw’ was a nonstop barrage of abuse upon the mic without a pause for breath, Kane had proven he had what it took and stole centre spotlight from the Juice Crew only to pursue a solo identity. During the early 1990s, Jay-Z is known to have been Big Daddy Kane’s hype man, and Kane helped him early on in his career.




It's amazing to think that in a career spanning over 25 years Australia has never witnessed the magic of a Big Daddy Kane live show...that wait ends in October with a show promising to deliver all the classics that influenced countless MCs and defined to many a generation and lifestyle.




LONG LIVE THE KANE!




+ VERY SPECIAL GUESTS: Koolism w/ Plutonic Lab, Dialect & Despair and DJ Mike Who?




Tickets are priced at $40+b/f and now available from Obese Records




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Oddisee-Rock Creek Park



One of my most admired artists for the past few years, the consistently hard working, super dope producer and MC that hails from Washington D.C.  Oddisee has just released his new instrumental album, Rock Creek Park that he recorded mostly in his new relocated home of New York.

Check the smooth and soulful first single from the album here...


The album was inspired by the place in Washington D.C. and the Black Byrd's classic track and B-Boy anthem "Rock Creek Park" 





Hear and buy the album...


and stay up to date with all of Oddisee's productions, events, albums and dope photos etc here..

oddiseemusic.blogspot.com








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Royal Deviates - 25th Anniversary Party and Exhibition

Friday 2nd September - Revolver Upstairs








Nearing their 25th anniversary, ROCK DA CITY crew have been striving since 1987 and lifting their graffiti game to new heights. Prowla, co-designing and developing graffiti based architecture - The Hive. Jors, running Melbourne based hip hop outlet This Is It. Grits, recently winning the Australian Ironlak piece competition and Jase Beathedz, continuing his music production and mixing for the likes of Pegz, Patto, Eloquor, NFA, Dizz1, music for TV shows like Summer Heights High and graff workshops for the next generation of young writers. Both Shem and Jors are currently featured in the worldwide Thames and Hudson graffiti alphabets book titled Streetfonts.




The sky really is the limit, with numerous projects on the go including Shem and Jors latest venture Royal Deviates. Stay tuned for a limited edition book from Jors, Royal Deviates clothing and the mammoth work in progress, the 25th Anniversary hard cover release of Royal Deviates featuring Jors and Shem’s life work to date. Including active crew members, guest affiliates and an accompanying soundtrack.




As crews and generation’s of peers retire or fade away into history, don’t call these writers oldschool. With their technical letter styles, entrenched in New York and Melbourne graffiti tradition these forward thinkers are only getting started.




Brought to you by Revolver Upstairs in conjunction with GraffixCreative and DangerFork.






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The Herd - Future Shade

Limited signed copies of the new album with bonus sticker on sale Fri 26th August.








It is the most complete realisation of the band’s vision, and their most carefully produced record to date. From a love of ‘90s hip hop (Red Queen Theory) to Eastern European soul (Grandma’s Song); from a Sufjan influence (My Sister’s Palace) to the incomparable (Signs of Life), Future Shade is underpinned by hip hop, but is not contained by any genre.




At their essence, The Herd have always explored the personal and the political: but the fury of a song like 77% has given way to the subtlety of a song like Shihaba, detailing a family member’s encounter with racist customs officials in Europe. The rage hasn’t dimmed though – it bubbles away, masked by melody, cheer and self-deprecating honesty. The same reason they’re loved by lawyers and labourers alike is on show here. The party band is back and sticking the knife in.
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R.I.P. Case/Kase2 aka The King Of Styyyllleeeee...



 





Hip Hop has sadly lost another legendary graffiti writer and pioneer, the infamous Jeffrey Brown aka Case/Kase 2 lost his battle with cancer recently.

South Bronx native Kase 2 will be a name very familiar to anyone that has ever viewed the seminal and hugely infulential Hip Hop classic doco Style Wars from 1982 and will fondly remember this scene...the massively charismatic Kase 2 sketching an outline piece in his black book and telling the world he was the king of what?...the king of stttyyyllleee...and like the great Man said he could do more with one arm that most with two could ever



I am a bit late on a tribute post but better late than never...so please check these links for some of the many dope tributes and info... 

hiphopbattlefield.blogspot.com/2011/08/king-of-style.
http://whatyouwrite.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/kase-2
http://www.stylewars.com/blog
http://morrisparkcrew.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/bates-tnb-cod-on-kase2-tfphttp://24flinching.com/word/headline/rip-case-2-the-death-of-computer-rock
deztroy.tumblr.com/post/8947427041/kase-2-r-i-p
www.frank151.com/blog/2011/08/14/rip_kase_2
blog.ironlak.com/2011/08/rip-case-2.html
lifestylesdefined.com/r-i-p-graffiti-artist-legend-kase-2
besthiphopblog.com/2011/08/16/rip-graffiti-legend-kase-2
coolinoutworldwide.com/CO/2011/08/r-i-p-kase2
onefortyninth.blogspot.com/2011/08/rip-kase-2.html
http://senseslost.com/2011/08/15/rip-kase2-tribute-by-persue
ishineyoushine.net/2011/08/15/rip-kase-2-the-king-of-style
www.fatbeats.com/blogs/the-dj-jab-blog/3814162-r-i-p-kase-2
http://www.thewordisbond.com/archives/34119
besthiphopblog.com/2011/08/16/rip-graffiti-legend-kase-2
coolinoutworldwide.com/CO/2011/08/r-i-p-kase2
onefortyninth.blogspot.com/2011/08/rip-kase-2.html
http://senseslost.com/2011/08/15/rip-kase2-tribute-by-persue
www.olasunbekons.com/2011/08/rip-kase2.html
djplaturn.com/?p=1456
longknuckle.co.uk/blogs/2011/08/16/rip-kase-2
http://rapfix.mtv.com/2011/08/14/king-of-style-kase-2-remembered
throwupthehorns.com/tag/kase-2
goldenwesttattoo.com/tag/kase-2
chrisstain.com/.../as-you-may-already-know-kase-2-passed-a-few-da
hurtyoubad.com/?p=11431
www.dope.cl/?p=179
panic39.com/blog/?p=209
www.bboyinsiders.com/.../r-i-p-kase-2-thank-you-for-the-inspiratio
cope2.net/blogzilla/?p=2051
www.thedistortedperception.com/uncategorized/rip-kase-2
http://www.12ozprophet.com
http://keepthefaithmagazine.com/blog/look-at-the-eye-worrrrrd
http://claybarton717.insanejournal.com/268.html
http://2017blackart.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/r-i-p-to-kase-2-case-king-of-what-king-of-style-style-master

some of his legendary pieces here...

www.fotolog.com/078terlijk/10354289
http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/kase2/Interesting

Super duty tough work




Also R.I.P. to High who was a pioneering Old School graf artist from Amsterdam.

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This Friday Night!-Evil Mule, Illuminartistry, DJ Art Official and DJ Jaz-R.O.A.L.S/ fundraiser gig/party



Ay yo please come on down and support Da Mules to finish off and release their 2nd album, Remnants of a Lost Science by joining us for an off the hook party at Bar Medusa on Friday, August 19th...strictly raw, classic and underground Hip Hop joints from DJ's Art Official and DJ Jaz plus ruckus, rowdy and mad live performances from Evil Mule, Illuminartistry and MHB...it's only $5...it's on a Friday night and it's going to be wild...we hope to see you there, bundle up warm though.

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New Arrival: Royce Da 5'9" - "Success Is Certain" and RZA publications

And two classic publications from RZA, back in stock...









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WU-TANG LIMITED - tees in stock

The good people at ROCKSMITH team up with WU-TANG for another quality range. Here's a selection of what has come in stock.

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Ironlak - Apparel 2011, first drop.

Ironlak hit us with a new range of hoods and tees for winter. Includes a fresh print from DOES. Stock is limited so don't sleep.

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Beat Summit feat. DAZASTAH - HYKUS - ZEKE

Two incredible producers and the nation's freshest scratch talent will provide detailed product knowledge to targeted audiences as they instruct how to produce a record.



Hosted as an open workshop, come and witness as we produce/mix/master a whole album, finalizing the production, re-recording and mix down in a studio along with the featuring artists on the record.Dazastah, Hykus & Zeke will take you through what will be an intensive day of production knowledge and skills building.



The Masterclass practitioners will focus on how they produce, mix and perform using NI and Steinberg products. They will detail all of their tips, tricks and deepest secrets.



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R.I.P. Eugene McDaniels





The music World has suffered yet another great loss with the passing of 76 year old conscious and intelligent composer, singer and song-writer, producer and (sometime) actor Gene McDaniels who producers and Hip Hop heads will know has been sampled on some great Hip Hop records, Gene also had 40 top 40 hits including his first hits "A Hundred Pounds of Clay"  and "Tower of Strength".





and Roberta Flack's "Feel Like Makin Love" single, which he produced and also scooped up a Grammy award for it. and a BMI award after gaining over six million plays on radio.



Born Eugene Booker McDaniels in Kansas City, Missouri, USA on Feb 12th 1935, Eugene first started singing in a local Church choir in Omaha and eventually started out as a pop-soul singer in the 60s'.
His critically acclaimed 1971 album, Headless Heroes of The Apocalypse is the album that has been mined for and sampled the most, I remember back in 1990 when A Tribe Called Quest released their classic and highly influential debut album, The Paths of Rhythm...and wondered what that dope loping guitar sample and drums used as interludes on the album were and I later discovered that the samples were from "Jagger The Dagger" others that sampled from that great track were...



Non Phixion-The Full Monty (1999)





Organized Konfusion-Black Sunday (1994)






Gravediggaz-Nowhere To Run (1994)







Krispy 3-Pop Like Bubblegum (1993)




The Beatnuts-Third of The Trio (1993)




Down South-Tractors, Rakes and Hoes (1994)




Masta Ace-Jeep Ass Nigguh (1993) 




De La Soul-Just Havin' A Ball (2006)


 


While Pete Rock's solo joint on The Mecca and The Soul Brother LP, "Soul Brother #1", The Beastie Boys-"Get It Together" and Eric B & Rakim's "Pass The Hand Grenade" lifted parts from "Headless Heroes" and Pete Rock also sampled the track "Freedom Death Dance" as did UGK for "Pocket Full of Stones" (1993)






 








Madlib sampled the amusing (god dam)"Supermarket Blues" for his Quasimoto alter ego on "Return of The Loop Digga" (2000)



as did People Under The Stairs for "Stay Home" (2000)

 

and The Jungle Brothers used it in 1993 for "I'm In Love With Indica" 




 









DITC legend Diamond D cleverly made "clams" sound like "plans" when he sampled "Cherrystones" for the late, great Scientifik's "I Got Planz" track in 1994.



 Others that sampled Eugene's music were Lifers Group, Caesar Comanche and Jamalski.
and John Legend covered his classic "Compared To What" with The Roots in 2010.














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Books - new and restocks

Initially recognized for her unique graffiti and street artwork, Faith 47 is a self-taught artist who draws inspiration from her own intuitive political and existential questions. Her art takes on the form of metaphor. Both abstract and definitive in meaning, plucking at our heartstrings in harmonious and sometimes dark tones as she paints.Faith's images thrive on broken-down cars and old factories, dusty side roads of lost towns and inner-city alleyways. Her deep affinity with lost spaces allows her to gracefully bring attention to the most honest and humble of environments. Her interactions resonate with our fragility and our elusive relationship with dreams, memory, human interaction and urban decay.




Europe’s most notorious train crew, Monsters Of Art, celebrates 20 years of train havoc. It is with great pleasure that we honor their anniversary with a monster edition of ON THE RUN. Join us for a rare and privileged glimpse into the unruly world of MOAS. With over 200 pages that detail MOAS’s history and unique crew concept, along with classic tales from the train yard, including great escapes, writer beef, legendary busts, extreme graffiti feats, trains, trains and more trains. This is a must-have for all diehard fans of train graffiti.




Ghost is one of the last purveyors of the New York City train writing era. He has developed his own funky letter styles that defy convention. A mad bomber at heart, he thrashes out a few hundred throw-ups without a second thought. His styles possess that same casual blast, with a combination of loose letters and psychedelic cartoons that drip off the wall with his boogaloo charm.





Sabe is a true master of styles. Adept on many levels, he is able to switch between advanced mechanical compositions, bubble styles, throw-ups, characters and photo-realism with ease. With a ‘paint now, think later’ attitude he mixes up these styles to suit the occasion, leaving a legacy of playful hybrids that sit left of mainstream.



A modern classic back in stock
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