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Saskwatch

JP Emcee

J Waters Emcee

Call & Response Hip Hop

Origin: Ballarat to Melbourne

About Me: Melbourne’s Dr Faust sold his soul to the devil for knowledge and power. He now fills his time before eternal damnation, creating worlds and characters that take reference from his surroundings and distorted childhood memories.

Website: www.tuskmedia.com

Origin: Melbourne

About me: Hailing from Melburn’s west side Siren Doll is a mix of creative energy making an honest living as a Graphic Designer and freelancing in music journalism, photography and art direction. Her design education started as a 4 year old with Lego and kinder art and progressed to random street art prompting her to paint an entire bus for a final high school project. The artwork of Siren Doll is influenced by pop culture, vintage comics, Charles Blackman, Picasso, old skool graff pieces and everyday advertising.

Website: myspace.com/jmkdesigns

Origin: Beechworth VIC

About me: Gadzee is an Aquarian eccentric psycho naught seeking to twist all forms of frequency from sound, image, and all in between. Hailing from OG Ned Kelly country this redneck came to the urban sprawl of square shapes and dog poo bags, to paint, spray, paste, rearrange his organic styling to bars, clubs, alley walls and glow in the dark minigolf courses. Adapting what ever is needed to visual stimulate people’s optic paths, organically or electronically. He has also been a key Organizer for multiple art and music events and festival within Melbourne since 2000, Internationally he has created artwork for tours and CDs for artist such as Testament, his art has also been part of Exhibitions, K Swiss Asian Tour, Documentaries and film clips. From the skills that he has gained from running stencil/graffiti workshops and work for the dole, this multiskilled artisan is now applying his inner pigments, and spirits for all at Sketch city and the universal being Dr j. Gadzee says peace to ya art and soul.

Website: www.myspace.com/gadzee

Origin: Melbourne

About me: Rachee has been brightening streets, alleyways, drains, warehouses, galleries, bars and clubs with her stencils and characters, throughout Melbourne and internationally under numerous aliases, since 2003. Inspired by pop art, street art and all kinds of Japanese kitsch, her art is cute, colourful and just a little provocative. Always a fan of collaborations and group shows, Rachee has been involved in over 25 exhibitions and festivals, and has had the opportunity to travel to many countries, contributing to street collaborations and group exhibitions around the world, including the Melbourne Stencil Festival, Berlin’s Overspray festival and K-Swiss’s ‘K-Spray’ stencil art Asian Tour. This experience now sees her running Melbourne-based art events and workshops including Sketch City Melbourne!

Website: www.myspace.com/aryzeart

About Me: Call & Response – The brainchild of Producer/MC PRK. After spending years in his bedroom studio mastering his craft, producing and perfecting an arsenal of beats, PRK realised it was time to take his music to the people, but not alone. He approached vocalist PETE ALEXANDER after witnessing several of his explosive live sets as frontman for the band A PROCESS OF, to see if he he’d be interested in getting involved. PETE agreed to take the mic, all that was missing now was someone to man the turntables. They called upon the hands of DJ SNESmega ( Swerv n Kolide) to take the helm. Since then, Two years of constant jam sessions spanning from Footscray, Kingsville , to Dandenong have shaped the trio into a sharp energetic live act, continually producing fat beats and ill rhymes, seasoned with the sharpest cuts. Now that their debut album VALIDATED is finally completed, you will be able to find out for yourself why CALL & RESPONSE are the ones to watch!

Website: www.myspace.com/callandresponze

Skills:
Lyricist
Writer
Experienced Performer
Expert Scrambled Egg Maker
Film and Television Production
Promotion/Marketing/PR
Playstation Connoisseur
Emcee…

About Me: So who is the man behind the beard? Is it a Sasquatch? Is it Ned Kelly? Rasputin? Could it be Henry Lawson reincarnated? Or, maybe, it’s Moses…?
Jp. The man behind the beard; Creator of the world’s fluffiest scrambled eggs; Purveyor of cult comedy; Film school drop out and ‘The High Society’s’ emcee.

Since forming the beard and first gripping the mic, Jp has run his own monthly show, ‘One Mic’, from October 2006 – August 2007, performed at The Laundry, Revolver, First Floor, Bar Open, The Western Port Hotel (San Remo), Royal Botanical Gardens (Mel), Prince Bandroom, Beach Road Hotel (Bondi), Veludo, Haida, Miss Libertine and The Evelyn with many musicians he is honoured to have shared the stage with such as, Illzilla, Wylie J (Arrested Development), SS Pecker, 1/6, Jwaters, Elf Transporter, Urban Monk (Polo Club) just to name a few. He has appeared on numerous releases and compilations while honing a long awaited solo release. Jp has performed live on SynFM and PBS and can be heard on JJJ on the single ‘Blue Skies’ from “The Children of Captivity” with Jwaters, 1/6 and Leona Prue of All India Radio. Most recently he can be seen performing with 8 piece hip-hop/funk/reggae outfit all around the country side.

Who is the man behind the beard? Come and find out.

Website: www.myspace.com/jpmelburnmc

About Me: Amazed by music as a child, grown up now it is the only thing that stays free and wild. refreshed from the confines of blandness, i’m floating in sound, be it sadness, or joy, love or madness, I’m free when i’m writing to beats that inspire me like this one, giggle like a school girl when finding a kickdrum or sample that’s timeless in motion, express on the page from my heart with devotion, my potion; my elixir, as i go now in the, soundscape tapestry to flow, rhyme or spit some, then slow from within, hum or sing but never hinder, cause life isn’t anything without art to bring love, so lift up, gather round the cipher as we drift off, and soar like eagles in the style wars of hiphop, I tire, take a pitstop then rise above and spit a verse designed specifically to open hearts and give love! J. Waters n MysTorri have joined Forces(CHI) to bring you some tasty, spiritual and inspiring Hip-Hop with an Amazing Soulful Dynamic and Powerful edge bought to by Vocalist and Aspiring MC MysTorri.

Website: www.myspace.com/jwatersthefirst

Members: Sam Boon (sax), Will Morrissey (sax), Nic Ryan-Glenie (tpt), Liam McGorry (tpt), Olaf Scott (keys), Robby “Fight Club” Muinos (guit), Tom Glenie (turntables), Duncan de Burgh Millar (bass), Cat Canteri (drums)

About me: Saskwatch is a nine-piece collective of young Melbourne musicians playing original Soul, Hip-hop and Funk. With a sound born from busking on the streets of Melbourne, Saskwatch strives to move people with its delicious blend of old school grooves and break-beats, organ, guitar and a kick-arse horn section. The band’s influences comprise a mixture of the Afro-American Funk and Soul music of the late 60s and 70s, such as James Brown and the JBs, Booker T and the MGs, The Meters, King Curtis, Gangstarr, Herbie Hancock and Curtis Mayfield; and more recent acts such as The RH Factor, Bamboos, D’Angelo, The Roots and Ozomatli. So far Saskwatch has performed on various stages around Melbourne, including Federation Square, The Rainbow Hotel, Gertrudes Brown Couch and The East Brunswick Club. In April Saskwatch performed live-to-air on PBS FM’s Soul Time with Vince Peach, which resulted in the independently released debut EP Saskwatch

Website: http://www.myspace.com/saskwatchmusic