ETHEREAL LOTUS FLEET is the title of my first solo album out now & featuring the mad production, instrumental, vocal & cut wizardry of some of Melbourne's finest including: DJ Wasabi, Mista Savona. Custom, Count Bounce & Joelistics (TZU), Vida-Sunshyne, Supina from Miso, Sydney's plus, national radio's own gifted soul, Maya Jupiter as well as the PhatLogic band rockin' it live!
Large Up to all my LotusEtheric headz out there. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Peace, Bless & 1Love Soul-Jah-Nearing,
Sojourneering.
Heavyweight Dub Champion Tour '06 (HDC+ Photos by Takimagecreation)
Aurukun '06
.Music is Liberation.!!!(photo by Silk)
ELF TRANZPORTER
(MC, ARTIST, PERFORMER, CULTURAL BUILDER)
An original member of one of Australia's early legendary underground hip hop acts, MetaBass'n'Breath, Elf Tranzporter, continues to bring his unique blend of 'heart-core' lyricism mixed with home-made instrumentation combined with his cypher-honed beatbox skills to audiences throughout Australia, Japan and the USA.
Whether flowing over electronic rhythms created by some of Melbourne's finest producers or over his own live-looped beatbox percussion beds, Elf's performances and lyrical delivery is hailed one of the most versatile, conscious and progressive that Australia's ever-growing hip hop community has to offer.
Weaving the political with the personal within his rhymes, Elf Tranzporter's inter-dimensional approach to the art form, consistently manages to burn the line that often divides music designed to enliven the dance floor with that of music made to mobilize unity-consciousness and community empowerment.
Creative instigator from hip hop's early Australian incarnation, Elf's current live set can span a wide spectrum of various formats including the following crew-constellations:
MC for Australian's legendary politically-charged hip hop crew Combat Wombat; driving-force member of LO2'sFleet, featuring DJ TakaCo (aka: HeadChefSonik), visual artist, TWO ONE dancer, Cat Sweeney along with four time bboy champion, Lamaroc; off-shore member of the San Francisco-based crew, Heavyweight Dub Champion; as well as commonly featured guest MC with crews, Black Jesus and Culture Connect.
From the mid '80's to current, Elf Tranzporter has managed to share the stage with a variety of world class acts including:
The legendary beat-poet, Allen Ginsberg, Grand Wizard Theodore, The Roots, Project Blowed, Zion I, Mos Def & Talib Kweli (Blackstar), Living Legends, Spearhead, Kid Lucky, Black Alicious, Ozomatli, Fat Boy Slim, The Invisible Scratch Pickles, Z-Trip, Jeru the Damaga, Run DMC, DJ Shadow, M1 (Dead Prez) Lyrics Born, Jurassic 5, Public Enemy, John Butler Trio, as well as Australian High Court Judge, Justice Michael Kirby.
Regularly conducting workshops in the Outback, Elf T. shares his skills and passion for music, tutoring disadvantaged & high-risk youth in primary schools, juvenile justice centres and organizing community events with Indigenous as well as refugee communities throughout Australia.
Check out the Tranzporter's first solo LP, entitled 'Ethereal Lotus Fleet', featuring the vocal uplift skills of Maya Jupiter, Supina (MISO), Vida-Sunshyne and Pakistani singer, Rustam Baig along with production from DJ Wasabi, Custom, Count Bounce, Joelistics, Monkey Marc dub and dance hall vibe-master, Mista Savona.
Since the album's release back in Oct. '07, the work has been met with rave reviews and is beckoning a call for stage as well as studio-follow-up moves both here in Australia as well as abroad.
LINKS: www.myspace.com/elftranzporter, www.myspace.com/combatwombatforpresident, www.championnation.net, digdeep.theartscentre.net.au
elftranzporter@gmail.com
elftranzporter@gmail.com
elftranzporter@gmail.com
