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I saw the M-Phazes show in Sydney at Annandale Hotel on Thursday night. I had a great time. I thought it was a good concept that M-Phazes got each of the rappers to perform their track off his album Good Gracious. Each of the artists only did one track which was different to them doing a whole set. I was expecting to see them perform more tracks but I think the rotation of rappers worked well.

During acts the Amber Liquid Squids started up a cypher outside, we started in a little circle kicking rhymes amongst ourselves, but the circle became bigger and people rushed in to listen.

JackHamma & Mc Texta kicked some dope freestyle freshness. Mr Speaker kicked a few frees aswell.

The next day I got to film Shantan’s interview with the artists from the tour for the JJJ Hip Hop show. Shantan is filling in for Hau at the moment. I got to meet the artists and & I gave them copies of Kaos in King Street. The artists that turned up were Mase & Mattic, Mantra, Muph, Nine High, Illy, M-Phazes & Dj Flagrant.

I got a crew photo with the artists after the interview.

Lc Beats & M-Phazes Crew

Lc Beats & Muph

I have an article writen on Kaos in King Street on the Design Federation website.

Writen by Klaus Kinski from Design Federation.

Here is the link to the article http://www.designfederation.net/film-animation/kaos-in-king-street-claymation-stop-motion-film-by-lc-beats/

Design Federation is an independent platform for Australia’s creative community.  We are a web-based information exchange hub for the latest in design news, events, projects and emerging identities in the region.

Our aim is to support and promote the up-and-comers, the kids, the battlers and the under-dogs of the Australian creative community. We have created a platform for the design community to gather, network, collaborate, support and learn from each other.

LC Over Industry Set

I went to a block party event which was part of Paris Hip Hop festival and met a hip hop crew called End of the Weak. I got to have a cypher with some of the rappers from the crew.

End of the Weak offers MCs from around the world an opportunity to compete against each other on a global scale. For more info check out the website

Here’s the video…

I was interviewed live last Sunday morning on FBI Radio on the Canvas program with Matt Levinson. Matt interviewed my about my claymation film Kaos in King Street. He asked me questions about the stop motion process and a little bit about the artists involved. I got to beatbox live on air also.

Have a listen http://soundcloud.com/lcbeats/lc-beats-fbi-radio-interview
LC Beats FBI Radio Interview by lcbeats

The whole interview can be downloaded here

On Sunday 18th April I entered the NSW Beatbox Championships. As promotion several beatboxers were asked to meet for a photoshoot. When I got to the location it was only me and another beatboxer called LemonCheese. We had a quick beatbox together.

mX took a photograph of us jumping towards the camera. This was the second time being in mX magazine.

The event was held at Fairfield showground, not an area I know well. The competition was judged by Joel Turner & Hopey.

There were a series of stages in which you had to pass to get through to the next round.

The first stage was a 1 minute solo round.

Backing an MC round, where we had to beatbox for a rapper. I brought along my mate Mc Texta.

I made it though to the quarter finals I had to verse Pneumatic.

In the semi finals I lost to Genesis. I was pretty pissed off. He had the crowd on his side but did to many covers and singing.
He ended up winning the competition.

A showcase of the fifth element of Hip Hop, the Human Beatbox at Platform 3 Sydney’s all element Hip Hop Festival.
Featuring Lc Beats, Morganics, Rivals, K-Fuzz and other beatboxers..

I gained a fair bit of press exposure in the leading weeks to the premiere screening of my claymation film Kaos in King Street.

Kaos in King Street

Kaos in King St, following Mayhem in May Lane (2008), is a claymation stop-motion film depicting the impact of the recently legislated anti-graffiti laws whilst drawing attention to potential consequences.

In production for 12 months the 20 minute stop motion film features caricatures of pioneering Sydney graffiti artists Teazer, Pnash, Phibs and Mistery – with signature works from these artists, individually reproduced on a small scale.

“I’ve never done anything like this before,” Phibs said. “The whole process and the way it is put together is incredible. Seeing the finished result is very satisfying.”

Scenes are set in real-to-life scaled models of the facades and streets of Newtown.

I wanted the small scale sets to mirror the actual streets of Newtown so I invited the artists to create their signature work on a small scale.

Kaos in King Street received sponsorship from 567 King Graffiti Art supply store in Newtown and Australian aerosol paint company Ironlak.

For more information visit the Kaos in King Street BLOG or join the official FACEBOOK group

The film is available on DVD online from HERE or in the following shops 567 King (567 King Street Newtown), Lopez Records (70 Oxford Street Darlinghurst) & Westsyde Connection (441 Canterbury Rd Duwlich Hill)

Here is the trailer

A Few Years Back is a film clip of 2 upcoming Inner West Sydney hip hop MC’s Stress and JackHammer.

This is the latest installment in a series of film clips I have produced for Stress.

There is a post on this BLOG which explains a bit about the clip called AFTRS MAJOR WORK PROGRESS- A FEW YEARS BACK.

Stress
http://www.myspace.com/stresswreckordz

Lc Beats
http://www.myspace.com/lcbeatsmusic
http://www.soundcloud.com/lcbeats