Tag: "obese records"

Eloquor
0 Comments. 91 Views. Posted 10 May 2013 @ 11:06am.
Prepare to get your mind blown when Melbourne MC Eloquor [Donny Pelsoczy] unleashes his third effort, From The Oceans Of Karana, this month. A ‘concept record’ in the truest sense of the word, this is one epic baby that is literally akin to an offspring rather than a mere piece of music in more ways than one. “I’ve got a five-year-old son and I also have a one-and-a-half-year-old, so... Read More
Obesecity 2
0 Comments. 773 Views. Posted 15 Aug 2012 @ 9:19am.
The release of a new Australian hip hop album is not a groundbreaking proposition in 2012. Seeing an entire rack of local albums at JB Hi-Fi or finding out that an Aussie hip hop album has hit the top of the ARIAs is not out of the ordinary. In 2002 however the idea of homegrown hip hop culture becoming a profitable industry was still out of reach. That all changed in large part thanks to one... Read More
Q&A: Fern Greig-Moore
0 Comments. 404 Views. Posted 1 Aug 2012 @ 2:45pm.
What brands are you behind and what year did they launch? Check out obeserecords.com, our retail site covers all of the brands we're behind. Kangol and Ironlak are two of the prominent brands we work with in regards to cross promotion with our label.   How'd you get into it? I'd been working in the music industry for a long time, working and writing for street press, booking festivals,... Read More
Illy
0 Comments. 1,127 Views. Posted 18 Oct 2011 @ 9:42am.
Melbourne's Illy is currently halfway through a capital cities tour with Sydney crooners Spit Syndicate and Elefant Trak's newest signing, Sietta. Adelaide, Hobart and Sydney have all hosted the treble of acts thus far with Melbourne doing so later this month. Despite this industriousness, Illy has had to overcome more than his fair share of medical dramas in the weeks preceding the tour. "I... Read More
Funkoars
0 Comments. 1,330 Views. Posted 21 Sep 2011 @ 9:31am.
‘Maturity’ ain’t normally the first word you’d think to associate with Adelaide hip-hop rascals Funkoars, but on new album The Quickening DJ Reflux aka Dan Yates insists the lads have had a lot of growing up to do and that it certainly shows. If first album Who’s Your Step Daddy was the endless party and second album ‘The Hangover’ was pretty self-explanatory, then think of The Quickening as the... Read More
Funkoars Getting Down and Dirty
0 Comments. 1,672 Views. Posted 2 Sep 2011 @ 3:49pm.
Adelaide-born hip-hop collective Funkoars, consisting of Mr. Trials, Uncle Sesta, Sketchy Hons and DJ Reflux, are some funny dudes.  Once asked where the name came from, they replied “Funkoar is the dreg of society. It is the funnel in which all morals and conscious are drained into the river Styx.” Heavy. I wouldn’t go that far, they’ve done some pretty cool things – toured with Public... Read More
Funkoars Detail The Quickening
0 Comments. 5,238 Views. Posted 12 Aug 2011 @ 11:53am.
So if you're like 99% of the population, you've been wondering if the Funkoars had been abducted by aliens over the Adelaide Hills 12 months ago. Well, fear not! We've got some good news. The illustrious Funkoars have been hard at work on their latest Full Length Album The Quickening and Beat have been lucky enough to score an exclusive look at the full tracklist for the album with features from... Read More
Drapht Down To Party, Party, Party
0 Comments. 2,814 Views. Posted 27 Jul 2011 @ 10:34am.
Drapht's latest album The Life Of Riley has unsurprisingly been one of the biggest local releases of the year, and now we get to hear the record in its full capacity a the MC heads out on the Party, Party, Party Tour. Life Of Riley is so far the only album by an Australian artist to debut at number one on the ARIA charts this year, and has undergone heavy radio rotation ever since... Read More
Speech Therapy
0 Comments. 1,156 Views. Posted 19 Jul 2011 @ 2:23pm.
How did you boys form, how long have you been producing and performing together and what was the first track you ever produced? Scott Free: I started out collaborating with another MC, NKS of Madizm, and a few friends of mine hit me up about another MC friend of theirs who recently made the move from New Zealand and had a bit of talent. So we got together, laid down some rhymes over beats that... Read More
Vents : Marked For Death
0 Comments. 2,453 Views. Posted 27 Jun 2011 @ 2:41pm.
As more time passes Vents Uno becomes more agitated with society and all the bullshit that it has to offer. A few years on from his brilliant debut the follow up has a lot of pressure to succeed from a loyal fan base and I’m sure from the artist himself. This release slams from start to end and should see Vents elevate himself to one of the bigger names in Australian music, perhaps not Hoods... Read More
Vents
0 Comments. 2,326 Views. Posted 20 May 2011 @ 10:35am.
Ever since the 2007 debut 'Hard To Kill', Australia’s been wondering whatever happened to Vents aka Joe Larnder. Well, four years on and the Adelaide-based rapper is returning to the spotlight with new album 'Marked For Death', a new record label and a brand new team in tow. Once a solo artist with additional production help from Funkoars’ Trials, in 2011 Vents has included fellow Adelaidean DJ/... Read More
Drapht
0 Comments. 2,421 Views. Posted 14 Apr 2011 @ 9:13am.
On the phone, Drapht seems to be in a bit of a daze. He’s only just arrived in Hobart to kick-start his national tour after shooting a music video in Sydney that day. “I want to say it’s been a whirlwind week but that would be an understatement – a whirlwind few years is more like it,” he laughs. It hasn’t always been strictly music and madness for the Western Australian artist (real name Paul... Read More
Pegz : Drama
0 Comments. 3,284 Views. Posted 7 Apr 2011 @ 11:27am.
Few can lay claim to having paid the kind of dues Pegz has. Whether it is his succession of landmark solo releases or his tireless endeavours at Obese Records, the man from Prahran has been around for more than a minute. 2011 marks a new chapter for the boss, poised to release his fourth solo long player, anticipation is gradually increasing as samples of the new work manifest online. Moments... Read More
Dialectrix
0 Comments. 2,106 Views. Posted 7 Apr 2011 @ 10:58am.
It’s pretty amusing living a superhero-like existence, according to Aussie rap supreme Dialectrix [Ryan Leaf]. By day a tradie and by night one of the biggest players in Australian hip-hop, Leaf claims his workmates still have no idea it’s his tunes they’re dancing to on their daily smoko break. “I recently even wrote a song on the whole topic of living a life like a superhero,” he chuckles. “I... Read More
Obese Records 10 Year Anniversary : Block Party
0 Comments. 2,571 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:20am.
Friday night just past hosted the Jagermeister Independent Music Awards. One group’s performance managed to transcend the awards, and that was the Obese Records crew’s stint on stage as part of local producer M-Phazes’ nomination for his album Good Gracious , that came out in February this year. This triumphant appearance by the Obese Records crew was a... Read More
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