Like cyclone ravaged banana prices returning to ‘normal’, the subtropical delivery of Brisbane’s finest electronic musicians should be greeted with open arms by Melbournians this week.
Orinoko Flow = Suckafish P Jones (MC + beats producer), Anal Cookie (noise terror hiphop duo) , Potato Masta (Osaka)(beats and the fastest Japanese rapping you’ve heard) and Aoi ( beats weigh a megatonne ). Seems they figured was best to combine forces for a tour of ‘bass-bin ruin’, and so the south gets em from May 17-20 ( details below ). Suckafish ( who also runs the radio show Forcefed Fistfulls on 4zzzFM ), jumped on the promo wagon:
If this is a ‘super-group’ – what super-powers does each member have?
Anal Cookie (Two Pants Rotation and Babymachine) – Stupendous gag reflex, ninja turtle flykicks and scare tactics
Aoi – Lazer eyes, fingers of steel!
Suckafish P Jones – summonin up the juju in yr underpants
Potato Master – Can open portals to parallel dimensions when funny dancin’
Having notched a fair bit of East Coast touring perspective, what distinguishes Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne hiphop?
In Brisbane it seems like everyone’s a bit more fluidly involved in other scenes – so you get rock kids, electro wierdos and staunch hip hoppers comin to shows, whereas in sydney and melbourne peeps seem a bit more niche in their tastes. Music wise, again, its hard, but i’d say in brisbane we retain that tropical upfuckery that makes everything a lil more sweaty and wild…
Is it getting easier or harder to translate production into live performance?
Easier! I remember when we used to have to bust this out with cheap cd-rs and a couple of discmans… now its all laptops, trigger fingers, final scratch… i think there are more and more options for live sample playback, loops etc. meaning that hip hop and electronic performance is becoming waaay more dynamic
Recent inspirations musically / lyrically?
Growing obsessed with Grime and Dubstep – it’s a pretty regional sound (UK), but I feel like that energy in Grime really works in Australia… when it gets hot here, we get crazy, and the whole hyped up, souped up tempo thing is just on fire! It’s just got an energy and immediacy that is missing from Hip Hop at the moment, it’s got that really new, raw and exciting quality that’s unavoidably infectious. That, and an unhealthy obsession with early 60’s electronic music and international machine obscura keeps me awake late into the early morn with the headphones on.
So how does the tour work – you all playing together?
We’re comin to melbourne as more of a sound system, broken into individual acts, but even when we don’t play together in a single set our sets will collide with one another… Potato Master brings his patented trans-global gameboy ragga humour to the plate while Aoi stirs the pot with stuttering boom bap and clunky drums, suckafish increases the pressure with bass, lyrical absurdities and a lil bit of voodooand Anal Cookie tear the whole place apart and bleed neon from their scabs
What’s your own current live set-up, and what would you like to improve about it?
Generally ableton live, triggered from an MPC=like controller, the Trigger Finger, with vocals from guest MCs or myself if the occasion calls for it… I’m always wanting to integrate more live instrumentation, particularly percussive elements to make the show more and more visceral
Gigalicious
Thursday May 17 – Potato Master at Uber Lingua w/ Suckafish on DJ duties as the Fishmonger General
Friday May 18 – Suckafish and Aoi play Rogue State at th North Bazaar in Northcote (while Anal Cookie play down the road w casionova at the afterdark!)
Saturday May 19 – Anal Cookie, Potato Masta, Suckafish P and Aoi play with Curse ov Dialekt, Makkenz (Japan), MC Purple Duck and more at the Corner Hotel for the ‘Ockerchino Variety Show’
Sunday May 20 – AOi and Suckafish play w heapsa cats at ‘Rap Sabbath’ at Bar Open, ( launch party for El-P’s ‘I’ll Sleep When You;re Dead’).
Videoclip featuring Potato Masta & Alan from Anal Cookie here.
