After we had MC Rydakule, one of the finest in Cairns’ hip-hop, on the show two weeks ago, we’ll keep the good stuff coming with more Cairns hip-hop artists.
He’s a DMC Australia finalist and put his hand on a deck for the first time in 1995. Between now and then he has competed in shitloads of comps all over Australia, including ITF where he made the Australian finals in 2005. Over the years he has supported both, Australian hip-hop artistst as well as international acts including Mixmaster Mike, Draupht, Layla, Dexta, Bliss n Eso, Muph and Plutonic, Pegz, Funkoars, Mya Jupiter, Nick Toth, Bias B, The Optimen,Brad Strutt, Vents and Trials, TZU, Mark-N, Regurgitator … to name a few.
Now, here’s the best thing about DJ Morphix: He’s gonna be on Boom Bap FM this week - crackin’ some beers, answering some questions and performing a routine live on the show.
A few sources reported that Panasonic intends to discontinue production of the legendary turntable models 1200 and 1210. Technics turntables have shaped the dj-ing and club culture (especially in Hip-Hop) for decades, so it wasn’t surprising that the news spread quickly through internet forums and blogs. But then the UK arm of the Japanese corporation denied the rumours that their turntable manufacturing will cease.
I’ve never been too keen on Technics because I’ve always felt like they were too expensive for what they were. They say you can through them down the stairs and they’ll still work. But why would I pay for that if only intend to play music with them and not Rugby? Nowadays there are alternatives out there that clearly outshine Technics as far as torque and additional functionality goes.
While my statement might seem disrespectful, it’s not meant to be. The turntables have clearly influenced the development of club music and especially Hip-Hop and Turntablism and music just wouldn’t be the same without them. But here is the question: If you had a product that sells better than ever before, who in their right mind would stop producing it? This smells a lot like one of those iSnack 2.0 marketing stunts, which for me put a negative spin on products and their image.
As announced in the last post, Far North Queensland local MC Diggis joined us on Boom Bap FM last Thursday, representing the real Aussie Hip-Hop. Check out the Youtube clip of Diggis’ performance on the show.
Diggis was the first one of a series of local artists representing local Cairns Hip-Hop on Boom Bap FM. In the newt few weeks we will have MC Rydakule, Definite Article, DJ Morphix and more local Aussie Hip-Hop acts on the show.
Cairns/Kuranda local Hip-Hop MC Diggis will be on Boom Bap FM this Thursday. We’re looking forward to some phat freestyle lyrics and a wicked rhyme flow.
Tune in and check out this true Aussie Hio-Hop artist rippin, it up.
Mc Diggis will be on Boom Bap FM on 21. Janauary 2010, 8-10pm (Australian Easterm Standard Time)
When we decided source some fat Hip-Hop from all over the world for our online Hip-Hop radio show, Boom Bap FM, we weren’t really sure where to start. So I decided to have a look at what is going on in the country I spent the first ten years of my life in, Romania in eastern Europe.
What I found surprised the shit out of me. Enough raw, underground Hip-Hop to fill at least half a show. We picked four tracks to play on the show from Romanian Hip-Hop artists Kazi Ploae, Cheloo and the Hip-Hop crew Parazitii. Mad flows, mad beats, everything we are looking for in Hip-Hop.
If you missed the show you can download it from our website or subscribe to the BOOM BAP FM Hip-Hop podcast. It’s show from 4. December 2009. Check it out!
Just after you’ve recovered from the New Year’s Eve binge drinking marathon, you can chill out into the new year with Dex Mo’s usual mix of golden age style Hip-Hop tracks and funk-flavoured instrumental Hip-Hop. Strickly good rap music most of which you’ve probably never heard before… but should’ve! No RNB, no chart Hip-Hop. Just AWESOMENESS.
Tip: Come early and grab some of the fabulous Mexican food at the Cantina - the Burrito is usually my first choice.
Another one of those WKCR gems. Insight (MC, producer, beatmaker) spittin’ freestyle over the head-nod Hip-Hop beats of Damu the Fundgemunk on the MPC, live on WKCR’s underground Hip-Hop show.
I wish I could say this article is about Boom Bap FM, the Cairns Hip-Hop radio show that my brother from another mother Ricky Shamroxx and myself have brought to life. But it’s not.
In the early 90’s the Hip-Hop radio show “The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show” (featuring DJ Lord Sear) started broadcasting on the New York radio station WKCR. Almost a decade later the show was voted “THE BEST HIP-HOP RADIO OF ALL TIMES” by The Source magazine.
Numerous unsigned artist made their appearance on WKCR who later became some of the most influential artist in modern Hip-Hop music - NAS, Big Pun, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Busta Rhymes and Company Flow to only name a few. The Wu-Tang track “Protect ya Neck” had it’s first airplay on WKCR - at the time a white label release.
Check out the Youtube clip. If you are a REAL Hip-Hop head, this is some REAL Hip-Hop history for ya.
I’ve probably seen this video 20 times now, but I just don’t get tired of it. The finest in Cairns Hip-Hop in one spot - Mc Rydakule, Definite Article & Diggis. Also supporting Brisbane Mc Preech. My favourite flow of the night is actually Diggis. I think his voice sounds a little bit like early West Coast Hip-Hop legend Eazy-E. His rhymes were just spot on the beat that night.
I still can’t get over how much Hip-Hop talent there is in Cairns- REAL Hip-Hop talent, that is!
No Shit, Mc Hammer is in Australia. Most real Hip-Hop heads would probably say Hammer is wack. But he did have his place in the early days of Hip-Hop and whether you like it or not, he has probably contributed to elevate the art form Hip-Hop further towards the mainstream and make it the massive industry that it is today. Not that I think that’s a good thing.
Don’t worry, Hammer didn’t bring any new music. The reason he is here is to Promote an X-Box karaoke game that features his probably most successful track, Can’t Touch This.
As my Brother from another mother Ricky Shamroxx said on BOOM BAP FM, the raw hip-hop radio show:
“Please Hammer, don’t hurt em!… Please don’t!”
You wouldn’t necessarily expect to find any half proper Hip-Hop artist in a remote and touristy City like Cairns - or, at least I didn’t. But Cairns actually has some talent when it comes to bustin’ rhymes over fat Hip-Hop beats. The BOOM BAP FM Launch session at the Green Ant a few weeks ago showcased Cairns’ finest.Definite Article, Diggis from the Kuranda Mob and of course the mighty MC Rydakule dropped some freestyle rhymes, while Kronik & Mr. Mint from the TNP Crew sprayed a Wicked camper van.
A best of movie clip will be available on Youtube shortly. So, stay tuned for the REAL Hip-Hop in FNQ.
Boom Bap FM, the rawest, dopest, undergroundiest Hip-Hop radio show in the southern hemisphere is here. After three shows in the past three weeks and another one next Thursday it is time to introduce the dopeness to the public of Far North Queensland. On the 24th of October Cairns is the place to be for all true Hip-Hop heads, as we’ll officially launch with a massive party at the Green Ant Cantina.
We’ll have live graffiti with Kronik and Mr. Mint from the TNP Crew. When these guys touch a spray can it’s like Clark Kent running into a phone booth. They are gonna spray a Wicked Camper van, live. You’ll be able to chill out in front of the Green Ant, sippin on a drink and watch Kronik and Mr. Mint do their thing.
Musically the voice of Boom Bap FM Ricky Shamroxx and the myself, Dex Mo’ the b-side junkie, are gonna represent with the phattest Hip-Hop tracks ever produced. We’ll also have some local cats freestylin’ in the form of Definte Article and Rydakule from the mighty Solemn Prophets.
We’ll try to stream the show live on the internet, so if you can’t make it to the Green Ant you can tune in live under www.Boom-Bap-FM.com, the raw Hip-Hop radio.
This Friday night, Sep 11, the Green Ant Cantina explodes with colour, beats and style when they unleash the second of their bi-monthly live graffiti and hip-hop nights, Ant Bomb. Well known local graffiti artists, Mr Mint (Kane Maneylaws) & Kronik (Daniel ‘Wally’ Wallwork) will be joined a special guest. Old school Hip-Hop beats from German DJ DEX-MO will be keeping the heads and hands moving while the walls take on a life of their own.
As most of you may know there already is a DJ Dexter in Australia. Highlander-style - there can only be one! So I’ve decided to commit virtual suicide as DJ Dexter and ressurrect myself as DJ Dex Mo - the b-side junkie.
So if you’re in Cairns and into raw, dope, original hip-hop beats, there ain’t no other like DJ Dex Mo.
It’s been a long time comin’ for this Hip-Hop Short Cut, but I finally found time to record it. It goes by the name of “0.1 percent”, based on Jeru tha Damaja’s track “99.9%”. Hip-Hop Short Cut.
As a scratch sample I used the hook from the Jeru tha Damaja track and also a few bits from the latest Far Northern Alliance release.
The beats are Hip-Hop instrumentals of tracks by Walkin’Large, Lord Finesse and a German group called “Freundeskreis”.
The Hip-Hop Short Cuts are also available as an Underground Hip-Hop Podcast from the iTunes store.
Naaaaa, Hip-Hop needs to be raw and ruff! I reckon I wouldn’t like Hip-Hop if it wasn’t for it’s ruff language. And I’m not talking about the wannabe, wack, doo-doo shit that’s going on in commercial Hip-Hop nowadays. I’m talking about the real Hip-Hop - with a message.
It’s not really about the explicit words themselves it’s about the way they are used in. Here’s an example to prove my point, from one of my all time favourite songs:
Third verse from “Cell Therapy” by Goodie Mob:
“Listen up, little nigga, I’m talking to you
About what yo little ass need to be going through
I fall a victim too
and I know
I shouldn’t smoke so much
but I do
with the crew
Everyday
on the average ’bout 4 or 5
I’m lucky to be alive at sunrise
now I realize the cost
after I lost
My best friend Bean
I recognize as a King
Who am I to tell you to stop smokin
Now
you’re open to disease and colds
and aint 16 years old,
This shit has got to stop
let’s take a walk through detox
I want outta this hold
I’m in a cell
Under attack
loc up folks they in the hood,
Got an eye on every move I make
Open your face to info
you aint know
cause it’s kept low
How the new world plan
reeks the planet without the black man”
Only a few explicit words in that, but used very efficiently. Saying “this shit has got to stop” for instance, is more than just saying “shit” to sound cool. By saying “shit” in this context it highlights that all the things it refers to are negative things, things that need to stop so this world can be a better place. It’s a negative language that is meant to provoke a positive reaction. This approach is crucial when you want to address a message like that to an audience of ghetto kids who don’t give a fuck about anything.
By the way, if one of the voices sound familiar to you, that’s probably because you’ve heard it on the radio recently. It’s C-lo Green’s voice who is now part of the duo Gnarls Barkley.
As an old Hieroglyphics fan I’ve always liked Tame One’s style. When I first saw this clip I was quite surprised with the style of the clip. I think this is a really cool boom bap Hip-Hop clip, because I it’s different from your average dancing bitches bling bling Hip-Hop clip.
Beat digging is the art of searching for samples in order to refurbish them and turn them into something new. This documentary shows what beat digging is all about and how over the years it has become an industry in itself. The flick features some of the Hip-Hop producers of all times.
Diamond D, Showbiz, Evil D, Godfather Don.. to name a few.
After I quite enjoyed last time at the Green Ant, I (DJ Dexter) will hit the place again and spin some mad Hip-Hop tunes for Cairns.
This is probably one of the very rare opportunities in Cairns to go out and listen to some REAL Hip-Hop. So, don’t miss it. You can expect some more dope beats & breaks, funky scratches and cuts and heaps and heaps of golden age hip-hop. Real Hip-Hop to the fullest baby.
1st of May, at the Green Ant Cantina in Cairns, from about 9pm.
My tip: As always, come early and grab some of the fabulous Mexican food at the Cantina.
Green Ant Cantina
183 Bunda St
Cairns, QLD 4870
(07) 4041 5061
Cairns/Kuranda local Hip-Hop MC Diggis will be on Boom Bap FM this Thursday. We’re looking forward to some phat freestyle lyrics and a wicked rhyme flow.
When we decided source some fat Hip-Hop from all over the world for our 
Just after you’ve recovered from the New Year’s Eve binge drinking marathon, you can chill out into the new year with Dex Mo’s usual mix of golden age style Hip-Hop tracks and funk-flavoured instrumental Hip-Hop. Strickly good rap music most of which you’ve probably never heard before… but should’ve! No RNB, no chart Hip-Hop. Just AWESOMENESS.
