Planet Asia does Splendour, sideshows, free download!

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from “Jewelry Box Sessions”
by Planet Asia
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Cali Agent and chief-jewellery-rocker Planet Asia is hitting Australia for the first time, with five shows scheduled in four days! With a conveniently timed new album on deck (which, if I’m not mistaken, comes less than a year after his last full length, the Evidence-produced The Medicine), Asia brings his rock solid flow and stage presence to Adelaide, Melbourne (free show!), Sydney, Byron’s sold out Splendour in the Grass festival and Brisbane this week. See above to download a track from the new album Jewelry Box Sessions.

Those dates in full:
1st August @ Electric Light Hotel, Adelaide: $20 (or $12 before 9pm). Featuring DJ Sum 1 on the cut and BVA from Mnemonic Ascent.
2nd August @ The Espy, Melbourne: Free! Support from DJ Flagrant, Illy, M-Phazes and One-Sixth. And it’s free!
3rd August @ Bar Broadway, Sydney: $21 on the door/$15 before. Asia joins the 2nd birthday celebrations for ever-busy local label Nurcha. Last Credit launch their album Breakfast of Champions and Def Wish Cast perform.
4th August @ Splendour in the Grass, Byron Bay: The only international hip hop act at this year’s Splendour (though megastars the Hoods and The Herd rep for the homeland), Planet performs what must be an afternoon set at the sold out winter festival before hot-footing it north for:
4th August @ Step Inn, Brisbane: $22.50 presold. Asia rocks the venue formerly known as the Shamrock. Support from DJ Staen 1, Clinic, Stricknine, Proclaim, Nikk C and Kingskonekted.

Jehst to bring Parky, not Asaviour, for SYD, MEL, ADL dates

In what is possibly the most overdue hip-hop tour to Australia ever, the twice-delayed Jehst dates now seem locked in for mid-October. Rumours of a Brisbane date were quickly nixed, but heads in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide will be able to catch the High Plains Drifter aka J-Star aka Billy Brimstone along with DJ Konny Kon and, if the grapevine is correct, Micall Parknsun instead of the previously announced Asaviour.

Holding it down for down under at all shows are Delta the Lostralian and DJ Staen1. Assuming the promoters get the ‘h’ in the right place, all should go smoothly!

Those dates in full:
11th October @ The Manning Bar, Sydney: $35 plus bf. Additional support from The Tongue, Wisdom2th, Dj Ology and Dj Chromek.
12th October @ The Espy, St Kilda: $35 plus bf. Additional support from Low Budget, Dj Kamo, Jolz and Dj Chromek.
19th October @ Fowlers Live, Adelaide: $35 plus bf. Additional support from Roach Scholars, P Body and Dj Chromek.

Check out Micall Parknsun (with a cameo from J-Star) in ‘Dunya’, the single from Jehst’s Underworld Epics production album, which dropped mid-2006 on Low Life.

Jehst on MySpace
Micall Parknsun on MySpace

Where are they now?

The debut album from Adelaide battle rapper Damo, D-Classified Files, hits stores this weekend. Two notable things about this release: it’s entirely produced by Simplex of Terra Firma (who have just
returned from full-band format shows in Melbourne and the Victorian snowfields) and Damo drops virtually every name in Australia (hip-hop related and otherwise) in his rhymes.

The list includes, but is by no means limited to: Ian Thorpe, FiggKidd, TZU, Hunter, Dazastah, Muskrat, the Hoods, Ken Oath, Sereck, Brad Strut, Bob Balans, Matty B, Maya Jupiter, MC Trey, Fubex, Bert Newton’s son, Glen McGrath’s wife, Sally from Home and Away, Big Kev, the Resin Dogs, Kylie Minogue, Ivan Milat, Martin Bryant, Weapon X, Sleek the Elite, John Howard, Scribe, Phrase, The Herd, Shane Warne, Adam Hills and that cab driver that Mark Latham punched. You can probably guess from some of these names that Damo’s references are not always tasteful. One of his less off-colour lines is:

I’m dope as fuck when I’m spewing sick shit
I’m like the Jason Akermanis of the music business
So when I’m on the cover for doing lyrics
Your picture’ll be in the where are they now section next to Quromystix.

He’s got a point there. Where is Quromystix?

Aha! There he is.

The former Fugleman, Reference Pointer and solo artist (This Last Week I’ve.. and Looking for Andrew Bradley) has been off the map for a minute. Last time I was aware of him doing anything, he was on stage in Sydney with Upshot, Sleeping Monk and Sleek the Elite. As it happens, he’s got a track about to hit radio with homeboy Mostyn (aka Mostyn Space Unit, also of Reference Point). Their single “Goodnight Mr Howard” is a optimistic lead up to this year’s federal election. You can check it on their joint MySpace page. It will appear on Mostyn’s upcoming solo album, Heavy Lifting.