Drapht‘s new album The Life of Riley hit stores last Friday and after week of enjoying it I can quite safely say you really better buy this.  With almost all of the production being covered by Trials (not Trails) of Adelaide crew The Funkoars, it’s hitting home runs track after track.

Drapht - The Life of Riley

The album has been released on Drapht‘s own label, The Ayems which has distribution through Sony Music! That’s a huge step forward after doing his last two albums signed to Obese Records, and no doubt brings a lot more pressure to deliver and a lot of pleasure when you do.

“Never in my life have I put so much time and energy into one single thing. Mentally, the making of this album broke me and drove me to the brink of insanity on so many different occasions, a song wasn’t worthy of the record unless it did so.”

You can grab Drapht's new album The Life of Riley on iTunes now, or go grab it from your local CD store. Also, get out of the house for a while and go catch the man and his abnd on tour all around the country, the details are below.

Update: Word from Drapht is the album hit #1, congrats to EVERYONE envolved in putting that together. HOME RUNS!

triple j, Fidelity Corporation and The Ayems Records present
DRAPHT
The Life of Riley Tour

With special guests Mantra and The Tongue
Tickets on sale Thursday 10th March

• Friday 8th April – Kay Street, Traralgon
  Tickets from www.oztix.com.au, 03 5176 0464
• Saturday 9th April – Bended Elbow, Geelong
  Tickets from www.oztix.com.au, 03 5229 4477
• Sunday 10th April – New Albury Hotel, Albury
  Tickets from www.oztix.com.au, 02 6021 3599
• Thursday 14th April – Kings Beach Tavern, Sunshine Coast
  Tickets from www.oztix.com.au, 07 5491 1366
• Friday 15th April – Hi Fi, Brisbane
  Tickets from www.thenorthern.com.au, 1300 843 434, Kill The Music, Butter Beats, Gooble Warming, Atlantis Music Southport
• Saturday 16th April – Coolangatta Hotel, Coolangatta
  Tickets from www.oztix.com.au, 1300 762 545
• Sunday 17th April – Great Northern, Byron Bay
  Tickets from www.thenorthern.com.au, 02 6685 6454, www.oztix.com.au
• Thursday 21st April – HQ, Adelaide
  Tickets from www.venuetix.com.au, 08 8225 8888
• Friday 22nd April – Billboard, Melbourne
  Tickets from www.ticketek.com.au, www.moshtix.com.au, 03 9639 4000
• Thursday 5th May – Carrington Hotel, Blue Mountains
  Tickets from www.oztix.com.au, 02 4283 3588
• Friday 6th May – Wollongong Uni, Wollongong
  Tickets from Redback Music Wollongong, www.bigtix.com.au, www.oztix.com.au
• Thursday 19th May – Breakers, Geraldton
  Tickets from Geraldton CD, Centre www.heatseeker.com.au
• Friday 20th May – Metro City, Perth
  Tickets from Star Surf Perth & Mandurah, Mills, Planet, www.heatseeker.com.au
• Saturday 21st May – Studio 146, Albany
  Tickets from Southern Sound, Vibes, www.heatseeker.com.au

Perth’s MC Hunter joins forces with DJ Vame from NSW to bring you Monster House. Monster House is Hunter’s third release, trailing behind Going Back To Yokine in 2006 and Hunter & Dazastah-Done DL in 2002. You can check out 2 of the new tracks over on Hunter’s MySpace.  Update: Hunter & DJ Vame-Monster House is now available on iTunes

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On Friday 13th November 2009, we made our way to the Rosemount for a hip hop gig, Able was launching his new 5-Track EP. A great night was had, some great tunes were played and an EP was released.

Able’s new EP Ice Cream Won’t Save You is a must hear release, if you haven’t heard this yet I suggest you get out and have a listen as this is not your normal Australian Hip Hop sound.  There’s a very interesting sound for Hip Hop brewing over here on the west coast of Australia and Able is one of the guys stirring the brew alongside other members of The Community. Read the rest of this entry…