After rave reviews and gaining Triple R’s album of the week and a successful overseas tour Monkeymarc’s debut Solo album “As the Market Crashed” is finally hitting the road for some Australian shows.
Monkeymarc will be bringing his live show to Melbourne ‘s Northcote Social Club on Thursday February 11th. Get ready for some bass heavy rattlers and blissful instrumentals from depths of his trusty drum machines and synthesizers. There’s no computers here. Monkeymarcs live show will involved two MPC’s and some old school synths.
A night of dub meets left field hip-hop meets dubstep with a visual show to match.
See you there.
NSC Feb 11th Thu
830-130am
$12 door sales
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DJ ALAFU (BIGDADA/NINJA TUNES)
DJ ZAIBATSU
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Support act now confirmed for Monkeymarc solo launch. The
infamous DJ ALAFU aka the official BIG DADA/NINJA TUNES DJ. Amoung many
talents, he has DJ;ed for Roots Manuva and guest on radio shows such as
Ninja Tunes’s Solid Steel...

http://www.chezvava.com/artists_alafu.php





PRESS RELEASE

MonkeyMarc’s (Combat Wombat) Debut Solo Album Release

The long awaited debut solo album “As the market crashed” by underground Australian
producer MonkeyMarc will be released on December 1st through Omelette Records.
“As the Market Crashed” is the result of years spent listening, absorbing and producing forward-thinking music. Recorded entirely on solar power in his converted shipping container studio in Melbourne, mixed in Paris at Sumroom Studios and mastered in London at Transition, this album takes influence from a worldly palette exposing the listener to a diverse and eclectic musical journey unlike any Australian artist yet.
With influences reaching into the crates of hip hop, dub and dubstep this release is as much an ode to the past as it is an optimistic exploration into the future. With sounds reminiscent of early Dj Shadow, Dj Spooky, J Dilla and Flying Lotus, it is also equally influenced from further afield with more dub aesthetic acts like African Head Charge, Tackhead, Burial and Kode 9.
Underpinning the album is a strong message for social and environmental change, drawing upon samples that cover the global financial crises, the inequality of political systems and the world’s addiction to fossil fuels. These vocal insights add a dynamic layer to the massive futuristic basslines which go head to head with brooding instrumental beats and crusty old samples in a truly organic and original style.
The first half of the album draws heavily from a hip hop aesthetic. There are elements of blues, jazz and world music scattered across instrumental beats that take the listener on journeys to far and distant lands. The second half of the album ventures into deeper dub orientated territories relying on massive bass lines and shimmering stepped out rhythms. Samples of records from yesteryear come drifting in and out creating diverse and thought provoking music. This album is a truly unique contribution to the Australian electronic music scene.
The first single off the album “What can I do?” is a clever mix of old blues, grimy beats and funked up keys sure to get even the most relucent listener busting a move. What can I do? will be available for electronic download from October 26th in original and a remixed version by DJ Delay (Berlin).
MonkeyMarc’s full album “As the Market Crashed” is out through Omelette Records and available online through www.monkeymarc.com from December 1st 2009.


Ok all you peeps. Monkeymarcs new single "WHAT CAN I DO?" is getting played on Triple J. So if you can kindly make the time and place a request to play the song...
Goto the triple j music site and request WHAT CAN I DO? by MONKEYMARC and we will be your best firend http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/requests/make_a_request.htm

Why not check out a sneak preview of the new Monkey Marc solo release here.
www.monkeymarc.com


Beverley uranium mine protesters 'herded like cattle'
Article from: The Advertiser

SEAN FEWSTER, KEN MCGREGOR

October 08, 2009 02:30pm

POLICE herded protesters into metal crates "like cattle" during a uranium mine protest, a court has heard.

Ten people, including a television cameraman, today asked the Supreme Court to award them $630,000 compensation over the violent clash near the Beverley uranium mine site at Andamooka in May 2000.

Brian Walters, for the plaintiffs, said his clients deserved "a significantly high award of damages" from the "remorseless, unapologetic" Rann Government.

"This case is a nasty example of police violence that was premeditated, consistent and paid no heed to legal requirements," he said.

"Police used capsicum spray like it was fly spray and used their vehicles like weapons.

"They placed protesters, as if they were cattle, into shipping containers in the middle of the desert and conducted welding while they were inside."

The plaintiffs, most of whom live interstate, are claiming damages for pain, injury and loss.

In September, Deputy Premier Kevin Foley refused to negotiate an out-of-court settlement.

"The Government will not negotiate a wholsesale settlement with a bunch of feral protesters who put the safety of our police officers in peril," he said at the time.

"The Government sends a clear message to any anarchist group of protesters that we will not be a soft touch."

Yesterday, Mr Walters said those comments had further inflamed the case.

"They show a complete absence of remorse by the State, and there has never been an apology," he said.

"It's not just a lack of remorse - it's further injury to my clients by further insult to them."

The trial, before Justice Tim Anderson, is expected to last eight weeks.

Outside court, a group of allied anti-nuclear protesters gathered in a show of solidarity.

"Mr Foley's decision not to negotiate was pig-headed, given the way police behaved," spokeswoman Nectaria Calan said.

"We are concerned about the level of police oppression, it was ridiculous... they had a right to protest."

Combat Wombat will play at this years high n dry fetsival.......
just because we want to....

A phone call from the frontline of post election riots in Kenya opens the story of Tim Mwaura a ghetto poet and rapper who gives an eyewitness account of his experience of the aftermath of the recent tribal tension. ...

TINA FESTIVAL PREMIER THIS OCT 3 NEWCASTLE

PASTE THE LINK BELOW TO SEE THE TRAILER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLle-NGXLDA

Fresh out of the mastering studio's in London and Fresh from a Europe wide tour Monkeymarc has finally finshed his debut solo album. Stay tuned for a release date and some free downloads...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMasgfo1BdA

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