Up and coming Defenders shows

Mixmaster Mike @ St. Pauls
feat. Defenders

Friday 26th of August at St. Pauls, Adelaide

A total scratch-master and unequalled in terms of beat-mixing, Mike came to prominence for the general public through his touring with the Beastie Boys but true heads know him from his work in the Dream-Team duo with Q-bert and the Invisible sKratch Piklz (ISP was the Dream-Team plus Triple Threat - ShortKut, D-Styles and Apollo). Australian back-to-back DMC champ Staen-1 will also be dropping a wild set. Be there.

LATE NEWS: Also added DJ Battle in place of SA DMCs/DJ Reflux/DJ Dyems

Up and coming Defenders shows

Mnemonic Ascent "The Book's Full" Album Launch
feat. Defenders

Date: Fri 23rd July, 2005
Time: 10:00 pm
Venue: Higher Ground
$: 14 from selected stores, 16 on the door (if available)

Defenders are proud to support BVA, Raph and Ransom for their latest (and some say greatest)release.Check the album review at Ozhiphop.com.
www.crookneck.com for more details.

Up and coming Defenders shows

Defenders and Chris Bass Solo
feat. DJ Mark1

Date: Fri 22nd April, 2005
Time: 10:00 pm
Venue: Rhino Room

Probably the last Defenders show for a little while, so rock on down to a venue where entry is cheap and drink specials are common.

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New Double-Beef Exclusive - Defenders "Land of Oz" FREE MP3 Download

Check it out - http://www.ozhiphop.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=44023

Up and coming Defenders shows

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REASON & PAC DIESEL
Defenders - After Hours
Friday March 18th - Fowlers Live

Fresh on the heels of his Adelaide launch of "One Step Ahead", Reason returns to Adelaide bringing Pac with him.

For the newer heads...Pac Diesel AKA Pac D is a Melbourne emcee from the early years of Oz hip-hop culture, with his roots in graf and strong ties to S.A..
He is also a founding member of the AKA brothers - who to the best of my knowledge had the first Australian hip-hop vinyl release.
S.A. heads would be familiar with Pac's verse's on 'Free Spirits' on Reason's Solid EP and on 'Nation's Finest' on After Hours' Different Rules Apply. He has also worked with Cannibal Tribe, DJ Ransom and was part of Konvoy 31 w. Reason, Def Wish and Die C.

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Expansion Team Soundsystem featuring DJ Babu
and Rakaa of Dilated Peoples
Date: Fri 25th Mar, 2005
Time: 08:00 pm
Venue: St. Pauls
City: Adelaide
Cost: $39
At long last Beat Junkie DJ Babu & MC Rakaa (Dilated Peoples) will hit Australian shores, touring under the Expansion Team Soundsystem banner. This will be the first time the duo have toured the Expansion Team Soundsystem down under and will appear at St Paul’s on Good Friday March 25th. Rakaa Iriscience is widely regarded as the backbone of the Dilated Peoples, and one of the West Coast’s finest MCs. DJ Babu is a turntable legend who has won numerous international turntablist crowns, and has worked with the likes of Kanye West, Talib Kweli, Defari and more. They will be supported by local talent Terra Firma & the Defenders with DJ’s Shep, David L, Snare, Dyems & Mark 1. . Expansion Team Soundsystem are set to rock it in true Dilated Junkie style!!
Hosted by Simplex
DJs:
DJ BABU, Shep, David L & Mark 1(4 decks), Snare & Dyems
Live Acts:
Expansion Team Soundsystem featuring DJ Babu and Rakaa, Terra Firma, The Defenders
Limited presale tickets available from Da Klinic, B Sharp, Clinic 116, Area 101 & Venuetix. This event is ALL AGES

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OK it's been a while since this site has been updated - I've been busy trying to pay bills

Defenders and Terra Firma New Year's Eve

@ TRAFFIC nightclub

w. DJ's Snair and DJ Dyems

$15 - tickets available at the door

This was a fun gig and lots of girls hurt one another during Terra Firma
Here is a link of some crappy video from the Defenders set in Windows Media Format
freetrade.swf (567 kb) - Defenders plus drunken
front row singing the chorus
(you need the shockwave plugin to view it)

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Defenders have been added to the 12th November gig @ Rhino Room, as below(Frome Road, City)

DEFENDERS ON NATIONAL RADIO

After copping S.D. for 1 day Triple J played "What We Like" on the Oz Music Show and "Hisstory" on the JJJ Hip-Hop Show last night.

Maya also played "Manifested Fears" by the legendary After Hours -so props to her and JJJ for repping S.A.hip-hop.

'SELF-DEFENCE' CD RELEASED
NOW AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE
YEEEEEAH!

Buy it online @ Obese
Buy it online @ Checkoutwax.com
Buy it in all Ozhiphop friendly music stores
Just buy it.

'SELF-DEFENCE' IS COMPLETE !

After a bit of to and fro-ing the mastering for our first release 'Self-Defence is completed and the artwork finished.

It will be released through Obese Records and will be available both online and through all good Oz-hip-hop supporting stores.

Release date is currently around 16th-18th October.

X-ECUTIONERS CANCELLED

"Hive Creative and Skratch Worldwide media regrettably announce that the Skratch tour has been cancelled due to a sudden split amongst the group, the Xecutioners. All tickets will be refunded at place of purchase."

Word has it that Rob Swift has left the group due to "creative differences".

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X-ECUTIONERS

Friday October 1 - Adelaide @ Heaven

"The Scratch 2004 live shows across Australia will feature the superhuman virtuosity and dazzling synchronicity of Roc Raida, Rob Swift & Total Eclipse, aka The X-ecutioners, along with a supercharged line up of entertainment expanding the possibilities of what hip hop can be."

Defenders in support along with DJ Shep and Da Klinic breakers.

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People Under The Stairs
(all the way from SanFran, USA)
w. support from Terra Firma and the Defenders

Thes One and Double-K are PUTS and they make crazy organic funky hip-hop. They're here promoting their new album O.T.S.(which is the heat incidentally)
Once again @ Traffic (see details below)
Tickets available at the door.

Thursday 2nd September -Be there early so you don't miss out!

We are dropping a couple of new remixes (if they're finished in time).

Incidentally - the Hospice show was really good -crowd split a little due to Train of Thought on at Rhino but still a good night. Was Kollaps birthday! (Happy birthday sketchy)& Met some real nice ladies from QLD.

Hospice Crew @ Traffic

Friday 26th August $10 entry and drink specials. Supported by the Funkoars.

The attending members are Ciecmate and Newsense - promoting their new 12" which will be available at the gig. Go - I'll be there

Hilltop Hoods go gold !! The Calling has sold enough copies across Australia to become underground Australian hip-hop's first gold album.

As part of the celebrations Chris and Fats went over to the Obese block Party in Melbourne to watch the Hoods and the rest of the label including Pegz, Reason, Select, Torcha rip a great show on the Friday night. Cheers once again for the Vic. hospitality.

Speaking of inter-staters the Hospice Crew is coming to S.A. for a gig at Traffic - Stay tuned - it'll be a good one.

Congrats to the Defender's DJ Snair for finishing as runner-up in the South Australian DMC comp. He was first up on the night - never an easy thing - but ripped a tight set nonetheless.

The competition was pretty impressive with Blackwood boy Sum-1 wlking out the winner (again) with some pretty impressive scratching. DJ Kancel was placed 3rd - also a good set. Props to all the competitors - Stain1 from S.A. will be the defending champion at the Nationals -and going by the demo set he threw up at the comp he is going to be unstoppable.

OK been a while...

The Reason/Train of Thought show came off pretty good with all acts including Muphin ripping killer sets. We rocked entirely off of vinyl like we did at Gangstarr which was fun. If anyone has any pics then get in touch...

On another note fellow Crackhouse Member, Mark1 has released his solo album (CD only at this stage) AudioSyncracies -I got my copy on Saturday and it's a damn good release. Notable guest appearances include DJ Shortkut of the Invisble Skratch Pickles, DJ Flagrant, DJ David L and more.

It is being distributed through Obese Records - so you can order it online or cop it through stores..

A blinder of a weekend - a good friend of ours had a big birthday! We went to see Goose a 15 piece jazz-funk band with some of the cream of Adelaide's musicians in the line-up - including Damien Steele-Scott -possibly the greatest bassist in Australia. Anyone who remembers the New Rhythm Syndicate gigs at Cargo knows who this guy is.

Anyhow they have a webiste www.goose.com.au - check it.

Defenders Next Show:

Friday 2rd July 2004
Traffic Nightclub
58 North Terrace Adelaide
Reason "One Step Ahead" CD Launch
featuring Newsense and DJ Flagrant
&
Train of Thought "Moving Heads" CD Launch

Special Guests include: DJs Aldais, Hacksaw and Muphin (Vic)
Presented by Pulling Strings and hosted by Fatface.

Melbourne's MC Reason is one of the individuals responsible for taking Oz hip-hop to where it's at in the present day (Yeah you can take the blame Jase).

He has 2 solo releases already under his belt(Solid and Re—ography)and is on the Obese Records roster.

He is also a Defenders collaborator/co-conspirator having contributed a verse to the track Global Warming on the forthcoming release Self-Defence.

Chris produced track 6 on One Step Ahead - A Good Sport - and also played keys, bass and guitar on it.

Train of Thought hail from Blackwood in the Adelaide Hills - Defenders home territory. They made their debut at the X-bred Mongrels' World Domination CD launch and have proved themselves to be able to punch out a tight live set. Their debut album features guest appearances from Hilltop Hoods, Funkoars, After Hours, Bdeps and of course Fatface.

Come down s'gonna be a good one. I heard talk of drink specials ! Traffic will have its own website up soon.

First Official Defenders release.

Defenders have a remix of their track "Save the Murray" on the CD compilation Frequency Feedback a free industry-only release from Xtrasperamental Records. Anyone in the music industry interested in grabbing a copy for review contact frequency_feedback@yahoo.com