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This weekend, Gilligan’s Backpacker Hotel & Resort‘s G-Spot is playing host to Sofles (of Ironlak Crew) as he does up a live wall piece for the Cairns kids. Lucky bastards!

Hopefully you can be one of them as this, plus the weather, is sure as shit cause for an awesome day!

Who: Sofles, Dj A.N.G.
What: Red Bull Revitalise. Live Graffiti Show
Where: Gilligan’s Backpacker Hotel & Resort, 57-89 Grafton Street, Cairns, QLD
When: Friday 14th October, 2011, 9pm – til 12am

 
In something completely refreshed and promising, direct from the National Gallery of Australia, commissioned by and held at the RMIT University Gallery (Melbourne CBD), comes the travelling street art show ‘Space Invaders’.

This weekend Footscray hosts the massive event Ladie Killerz #4, and what an event it looks set to be. We caught up on all the details and got a few words from one of the organisers, Joske, and have put together a small run down on the event.

“Ladie Killerz is a weekend long, travelling festival,” Joske remarked. “We’ll be celebrating ladies and their killer skills in all things art, music and film and we’ll be showcasing woman in hiphop, and in particular graffiti. Confirmed aerosol artists currently number at around twenty five, with ladies travelling from; Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide – and many more female artists are submitting work into the art exhibition.”

“We started this jam so we could just hang, paint and party with our interstate crew – shit just got outta control”

Since starting four years ago, out of Brisbane, this unique and diversified event has been taken to Adelaide and now Melbourne, evolving into a three day long jam packed awesome festival. Showing off the massive talent of Australian female artists within a range of disciplines but with quite a focus on some outstanding graffiti art.
This will be brought in the form of the Graffiti Paint Jam – A Graffiti Production Wall Mural collaboration, from some of Australia’s most epic female graffers – which will be worked on throughout the festival.

Friday is opening night, kicking off with an art exhibition and sale at the One Five Faction.  There are over 65+ pieces on display, by artists as diverse as: Skies, ZBD, Spice, ISIS, Kate Geck, Aida Sabic, Carla Yamine, Casey Jenkins, POISE, Rachee Renee, SEARious Jones, Jacqueline Gwynne, Claire Lawang, Bonita Gillard, IGASM, ISHK, Laura Chong, Lady Bananas, Nicole Tattersall, TIKVA, Toots Mcgee, Naomi Waller, Doodle, 23rd Key, Heather Peters, Megan Dell, Kara Gower, Caroline Ierodiaconou, and Kaitlin Beckett!!

Saturday the festival holds the workshop programs from Ladie Poise (WA) and Ishk (SA), market stalls, block party, and the start of
the graffiti production mural featuring: Dolce, Fleur, Hiden, Igasm, Inkl, Ishk, Joske, Lady Bananas, Meows, Nicole Tattersall, Philthy, Pixie, Poise, Ratsko, Sear, Skies, Sup, Tikva and more!

Sunday is the last day of the festival and will be purely for BBQ, Beers and the finishing of the Graffiti Jam Production Wall!

With a huge range of activities spread out over the entire three days, there is an indulgence for any passion or persuasion of art, music, film, culture and graffiti.

These ladies are as hardcore as they are talented, we should never fear the Graff will always be there.  Even if the world ran out of paint forever ”we would start fires, crush charcoal and use spit!” Joske responded.

Who: The Ladie Killerz – Dolce, Fleur, Hiden, Igasm, Inkl, Ishk, Joske, Lady Bananas, Meows, Nicole Tattersall, Philthy, Pixie, Poise, Ratsko, Sear, Skies, Sup, Tikva, Tonitones, Skies, ZBD, Spice, ISIS, Kate Geck, Aida Sabic, Carla Yamine, Casey Jenkins, POISE, Rachee Renee, SEARious Jones, Jacqueline Gwynne, Claire Lawang, Bonita Gillard, IGASM, ISHK, Laura Chong, Lady Bananas, Nicole Tattersall, Toots Mcgee, Naomi Waller, Doodle, 23rd Key, Heather Peters, Megan Dell, Kara Gower, Caroline Ierodiaconou, and Kaitlin Beckett
What: Ladie Killerz #4 Melbourne 2011
Where: 1-5 Whightman St Footscray, Victoria
When: Friday April 29 til Sunday May 1st

Check out the Ladie Killerz blog and the Facebook event for the festival and also the One Five Faction gallery and studio website for more info on this and many other events!

On Wednesday June 9th, Revolver Upstairs presents the sounds of popular DJ and street scene aficionado Hans DC playing an improvised set to the mad painting skills of Drewfunk.

There need to be more of these types of events happening – lets hope that this kind of thing springboards more events like it. Really, theres nothing like a beer, good tunes, and great art to keep smiling through the winter months – should be a fun evening!

Who: Drewfunk & Hans DC
What: Live Painter/DJ Improv
Where: Revolver Upstairs, 229 Chapel St, Prahran
When: Wednesday, June 9th, 8pm

Check out Drewfunks website here for some awesome art, as well as Hans DCs blog for more info on his gigs, and plenty of other cool shit.

The word veteran brings connotations of age, and yet with such a status, Oakley “O.G” Grenell is anything but a wisened patriarch – instead, this youthful “veteran” is so full of vim and vigor that in his thirty years short he has already cut a wide swath, intent as he is in putting as much of his creativity in the hands of his listeners as often as he is able – whether by performing, DJing or releasing records on his label Central Records.

“This is my sixth release in New Zealand, so it’s kind of what I’m here to do, release music and put it out there as much as I can,” he responds sincerely. “I’m hoping to do an album a year. When i first started out I knew my stuff wasn’t really going to be commercially viable to get signed so I decided to throw it down on my own label. I’ve had six releases in seven years, I think.”

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Despite the heat, Chromeo absolutely killed it on the main stage. This duo proved that good things really do come in pairs. Covering a range of old and new tracks, with D-Thugg pumping out his vocoded lyrics via a talkbox, the pair had the crowd eating out of their hands. From Fancy Footwork, to You’re so Gangster and all their best in between, funked it up good and proper. As the set wound down, and the lads walked off stage, chants of “Chromeo! woah woah!” erupted, and they came back to with 100% for their finale, leaving a large number of people deeply satisfied. (more…)

Last weekend saw a veritable feast of electronic music. With such a large range of events to choose from in recent days, a sampling of what is currently on offer here in Perth was definitely in order.

Friday night saw a large swath of punters descend on The Nine for the inaugural Boogaloo tracksuit part held in the Bar Open area downstairs. Forgoing the usual route to the upstairs Dnb arena, our group entranced Bar Open, plonked ourselves down, orders drinks, and took stock of our surrounds.

The dulcet sounds of Midnight Star pumped, the dance-battles ensued, and the night was on. Upstairs the DnB continued to pound away, but it was curious to note that many of the Nine regulars were, instead, sitting down below in Bar Open enjoying the smoother sounds of old school electro, boogie and funk whilst we watched the parade of track suit festooned individuals getting down and dirty. (more…)

The last several yeas have marked a distinctive change in the face of Australian hip hop. With acts such as the Hilltop Hoods and our own Downsyde making their mark and busting out into the mainstream, and with radio stations playing more local produce, things seem to have shifted. Where once it was very difficult to ever get an australian accented tracks onto the airwaves, things have now shifted rapidly into a window of opportunity. (more…)

After having won three DMC World Championships, one would think that a DJ would retire gracefully and rest on his laurels – happy with such a huge accomplishment. Yet six years after his record breaking winning streak, DJ Craze still batters away at the turntables, and has even come to encompass more than simple hip hop beats found in his earlier sets. Turning to DNB as a weapon within his arsenal, Craze turned heads when he decided to branch out into a faster and less well known genre in the US at that time, and set himself up as a dominant force within the DNB scene in North America – yet still retaining his hip-hop and Miami Bass roots. (more…)

Stepping away from dnb for the evening, Greg Packer pulled out his hiphop and stepped up to the decks. Watching Packer playing old school hiphop is always a treat, and the fact that he was able to run for an extra half an hour, dishing out classic after classic was a pleasant surprise. (more…)

With instantly recognisable gravel throated vocals, production techniques and several million album and single sales under their belts, Lil John and his East Side Boyz crew are a near household name throughout the world.

In the early days, Lil John had little idea that such huge success would was looming on the horizon. “You know, I’ve come a looong way man,” ‘John remarks. “When I was just djing I was just living in my mommas basement getting drunk every day. I didn’t have no idea what I was going to be in the future – then Germaine hired me to his label and I was an A&R guy for So So Def – and started doing that. While I was DJing I had a radio show and I used to take hophop a capela’s and put them over Jamaican beats and Jamaican acapella’s and put them over hip hop beats – and that kind of started me off producing.” (more…)