Melbourne Kids Keepsin it Cool Over Summer in Oz

You know what I love more than a hot summers day?
Hiphop
Especially that home grown shiznit.
One posse I’ve been fawning over for the past year is Outward Obtooce from our Southern City of spectacular, Melbourne.
OO is Joshua Hall on the mic and arrangements, Matt Povey on the mic and DJ Bacon doing all the sweet cuts. They stand out from the crowd with their HIGHlarious story telling lyrics with plenty of tongue in cheek social commentary ingeniously layered over some seriously catchy little melodies. The instrumentals are also highly play worthy..make that replay worthy.
Check em out here and bug them for new releases and tour dates.
Another Melbourne crew on the up and up from down under is Funk in Public. These guys are a super cool fusion of some first class talent.
The band was formed by David Wilkinson on drums and percussion (who learnt under legendary drummers David Wiltshire, Danny Fischer, Ian Smith) and Anthony Devine on bass and electric bass (having studied his craft with Wylie J Miller from Arrested Development, Tim Pryde from K Oscillate and Drew Deadman from Superhiest)
These bright sparks got hold of Lady Lash to do vocals (previously backup singer with Aboriginal band Coloured Stones), Travis Percy on guitars and Jeremy Blamey on sax and keyboards.
The band cruises along sounding like a sexy fusion of jazz, soul and ska and Lash takes to the mic to spit some solid ass rhymes broken up by angelically sung chorus’s.
Her lungs are a force to be reckoned with for real. Listen for yourself here.
We hear they will be touring soon.
We are excited.

Till next time bishes!
Jahmandee x