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Don’t miss the Bad Apples Music House Party with the squad in Melbourne on Friday May 3rd as part of Yirramboi Festival. Free show register for entry here. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/bad-apples-music-house-party-tickets-58773931411
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We got them Tim-Tams & Briggs-Tangs. Buy here.
http://badapplesmusic.aracastores.com/index.php/briggs/briggs-briggstang-tank.html
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ICYMI. I caught up with Team Coco at The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence. Watch full interview here.
https://teamcoco.com/australia/conan-visits-the-national-centre-of-indigenous-excellence/related/conan-s-full-interview-with-briggs
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Retirement never looked this good! ‘Life Is Incredible’ video April 30! 📷 Cole Bennetts Photography
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“Despite its firmly tongue-in-cheek tone, the song was inspired by Briggs’ anger and frustration around Pauline Hanson’s ‘It’s Ok to be white’ motion that rose through the senate last year”
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Alexa play ‘Life is Incredible’, by Briggs Amazon Music https://amzn.to/2Up3lc9
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Limited copies of LUNAR BREAKS available at @waxmuseumrecords @northside_records snd on ze @bandcamp page. Lunar Breaks is DJ/Production tool compromised of 10 original drum breaks and original synth sound effects for the DJs to cut up and producers to sample. It’s the first Australian made breaks record on the 7”/45rpm format and limited edition of 100.
Available exclusively from Wax Museum Records on RSD as well as limited online sales. #rsd #recordstoreday #djtools #45rpm #plutoniclab #lunarbreaks#waxmuseumrecords #worldrecordstoreday #2019 #australia#melbourne #breaks #hiphop #drums #samples #pluto #breaksrecord#sp404 #mpc2000 #akaimpc #sp1200 #beatheads #producers#drumbreaks #sharkrepellent
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Retirement is Lit! 🔥 Michael O’Loughlin teaching me the finer points of lawn bowls. #LifeIsIncredible April 30 #BriggsForPM 📷 Cole Bennetts Photography
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Blackfullas have a much shorter life expectancy than the rest of Australians, so I’m heading into retirement early. Catch you at the retirement home. #LifeIsIncredible video on April 30.
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After a two-year sabbatical following the birth of his daughter, Brisbane Producer/MC Calski has returned with the release of ‘All Coming Back’. Featuring fellow veteran Brisbanites, Jake Biz and Lazy Grey, ‘All Coming Back’ is a heavy soul-infused boom bap reflection on times past, appreciation of the present delivered with staunch ambition.
‘All Coming Back’ will be released on 12” vinyl, complete with clean edit, a Capella and instrumental, through OG Australian Hip Hop label Hydrofunk Records. The single is out on Saturday April 13 to co-incide with Australian Record Store Day and includes the banging B-side track ‘Larry Sengstock’. Calski doubles down with Jake Biz and Lazy Grey on features. Both tracks will be available on the forthcoming album set for release later this year – stay tuned for details.
“Both tracks were written during late 2017 early 2018 after the birth of my first child. With Jake and Lazy already being Fathers there was plenty of heavy conversation, advice and stories being shared and the gravity of the situation led to the theme of All Coming Back, where these guys could share some insight into themselves and their lives beyond being Hip Hop artists. B side Larry Sengstock is some straight up Brisbane represent shit! Lazy and Jake just brought in a book of back and forth bars they’d written together over the demo beat I sent. No chorus, no hooks, just a banging beat with some iron heavy bars. It’s a good way to compliment the A side which is a more serious track with the standard 16 bar verse, chorus, 16 bar verse, chorus, 16 bar verse, chorus format”. – Calski
Calski has been a consistent presence in the Hip Hop community in Australia since the early 2000’s. Known for his unmistakable production and thoughtful lyricism, Calski is also a mix engineer, DJ and multi-instrumentalist, playing bass, keys and guitar.
The lyric video combines both tracks. The first two verses of All Coming Back with the first part of Larry Sengstock.
Having supported the likes of Ghostface Killah (USA), Public Enemy (USA), Total Eclipse (USA), The Herd, Urthboy, Mantra, Spit Syndicate and Joelistics, Calski has long been considered a peer amongst Australian Hip Hop greats and attributes his style to the influences of Pete Rock, 9th Wonder, DJ Premier, Black Milk, Apollo Brown and more.
Calski Feat Lazy Grey & Jake Biz 12” vinyl single ‘All Coming Back’ / ‘Larry Sengstock’ available now in limited numbers here
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