Rivals - Basic Equipment Crew

About Me

2008 opens up with a bang! See you at The Metro for a NYE party that will start your year off in a damn good way- Catch DJ Q-Bert & Maceo (De La Soul) tearing up the decks, plus tons of local support including Def Wish Cast, DJ Staen1 (3x Oz DMC Champ), Firehouse, Nasty Tek and so much more.Don't stress that Peats Ridge is canceled. This is a great alternative, and a reduced ticket price is being offered to Peats Ridge ticket holders.Happy New Year from all the crew at Joint Adventure and Basic Equipment!!!
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New Stealth Out Now! - Australia's Number 1 Independent HipHop Magazine So Who The fuck am I?
Im a Human BeatBoxer/Vocal Percussionist/Jaded BBoy/Underground HipHop Promoter originally from Perth Western Australia, but now living in Sydney NSW. Ive been involved in almost every aspect of the Hip Hop culture in Australia since the early 80s and still kickin it to this day.Performing I've supported a whole bunch of local and international HipHop acts like Lord Finesse, Def Wish Cast, Q-Bert, Q-Unique and a bunch of other famous fuckers who should all have been well pleased I was involved.I've helped promote and stage manage a number of underground HipHop events in Sydney including the now legendary weekly Back2Basics night, The 2006 NSW DMC championships, The Def Wish Cast Album Launch tour, The up to no good tour (RA The Rugged Man/Louis Logic & Acrobatic), The Down Under Beats album Launch, The Bingethinkers Mixtape Launch and many more.
ahh, fuck a long winded bio...
Basics Equipment Crew
Sydney's Hardcore Hip Hop collective, Representing and Defending all elements of Hip Hop in their truest form.
Def Wish Cast - Celsius - Sereck - Brass - 13th Son - Sleeping Monk - DJ Murda 1 - Marcross Matrix - AzOne - BingeThinkers - Rivals - MC Immune - Down Under Beats
Sydney Crown Rulers!
Booking inquires
Def Wish Cast, 13th Son, The BingeThinkers, MC Immune, Down Under Beats
Me and my man Heywire with a bit of a freestyle beatbox set at the NSW DMC heats, Aug 5th.
DONT TRY THIS AT HOME! - Scott Burns and Gabby take the backyard party to the next level with the dopest home stage gig sydney has seen since the 90's - check out the highlights in this vid:

My Interests

Hip Hop - All Elements
Old School Electro
Tattooing
YoYoing
Comics

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with a brain, people who dont think they are fucking super stars cos they sold a few records. Fuck the fake shit.

Music:

Australian Flavor - support this shit now!

Current Basic Equipment Releases:

13th Son - Our Lives - New killer album Available Through Grindin

Def Wish Cast - The Legacy Continues

13th Son - The Hero and the Trickster
Celsius - Kickin it to Hell and Back - available through Crookneck

More Aussie fire:

Delta (w/ Mark B) - The Lostralian

Tornts - Decimation Recordings (on BrokenTooth)

REMASTERED DOPENESS!

I Just got a DVD off my man Caibs which has EVERY SINGLE Electro/HipHip (streetsounds UK) ripped from straight from vinyl! This include the Crucial mixes , the best of West Coast and Live UK Fresh shit! Its the sickest, I've dreamed of owning every electro since I was a kid ..now that shit is real.
PRAISE BE THE INTERWEB!

Influences, favorite artists:
Doug E Fresh, Ready Rock C, Human DMX, Jock Box, Biz, Just Ice, BDP (Scott la Rock R.I.P), Steady B, X-Clan, KRS, Ultra Mag, Stetsasonic, Tuff Crew, Mantronix, Cold Crush, Melle Mel, Funky four +1 more, Roxanne (shante), Shan, Hijack, Marly Marl, Kool G Rap, Schoolly D, Soul Sonic, MC Chill, Captain Rock, Demon Boyz, Slick Rick, World Class Wrecking Crew, Ice T, T-La Rock and a shit load more I'll keep adding as I recall them.

All Time Favorite Albums
Canibal Ox - The Cold Vain
X-Clan - To The East Blackwards
T-La Rock - Lyrical king from the boogie down bronx
Just Ice - Kool and Deadly
Aceyalone - A Book of Human Language
Schooly D - Am I Black Enough for you
BDP - Criminal Minded
The GZA - Liquid Swords
Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown (god bless the re-master)
Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Groits
Tuff Crew - Back to the Wreckshop
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Ol'Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers
Def Wish Cast - Knights of the underground table
Geto Boys - We cant be stopped
Kool Keith, Automator and Q-Bert - Doctor Octagon (dr ocatagonacoligist)
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
Celsius - Kickin it To Hell and Back
MF Doom and Madlib - Madvillian
Gravediggerz - Niggamortis
Raekwon and Ghostface - Only Built for Cuban Links
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Lyrical Comission - The Stage is Set
Redman - Dare is the Darkside
Scarface - Mr Scarface is Back

Other Shit I listen to Back Sabbath, Morbid Angel, Death, S.O.D, Slayer, Anthrax, Kreator, Exodus, Crumb Sucker, Suicidal Tenancies

Movies:

Wild Style, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Style Wars, Beat Street, A Clockwork Orange, Scarface, Good Fellas, Star Ship Troopers, Night Of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (original), Land Of the Dead, Excalibur, Conan, Robocop 1 & 2, Alien, Aliens, Meet the Feebles, 12 Monkeys, Commando, Lone Wolf and Club (whole series but especially Baby cart at the River Stix and Baby in the Land of Demons), Zatoichi (Originals and Remake), Oldboy, The Killer, Boiling Point, Drunken Master 2, Dragons Forever, Akira, Once Upon a time in China (1,2 &3), Ghost in the Machine, The 5th Element, Fear and Loathing, Bad Taste, Brain Dead, Pretty much any Troma movie (extra mentions to Sargent Kabukiman and Class of Nuke em High), Pizza Girls, Apocalypse Now, The Warriors, Evil Dead I, II and III, Kung Fu Hustle, Brazil (Hell, lets just say any Terry Gilliam film), Heat
more to come

Television:

why the fuck does this come up black and as a link? fucking stylesheet bullshit MAKE FUCKING SENSE CUNT

Books:

(OLD) 2000ad Comics: Judge Dredd, Slaine, Strontium Dog, Nemesis the Warlock, Halo Jones etc. AstoCity, The Goon, The Watchmen, Top Ten, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (not the shit bloody movie!), Sin City, The Punisher.
SciFi: Micheal Moorcock, Harry Harrison, Fritz Leiber, Asimov + More.

My Blog

2006 NSW DMC's - Turntablism lives in NSW

Due to an apparent lake of interest in NSW, there was going to be no state finals for the DMC's in sydney this year (we missed out in 2005). So myself, along with my good friends Ran-Dee and Mere-D (S...
Posted by Rivals on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 05:45:00 PST

Flight2 - Chasm & Lotek (UK), Sleek the Elite, G.Riots (NYC), 206 Collab + More, 29th April

B2B & Purebred present - FLIGHT2 - 29th AprilChasm(Awakenings Crew) & Lotek(Big dada, UK)Sleek the EliteG.Riot (Apostles, NYC)206 CollabSarm 1DJ's Skeamo & D*DPHYOnly $15, The Lair (Transit Lounge) Me...
Posted by Rivals on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:21:00 PST

Get This Up Ya: 13th Son - The Hero , The Trickster

Do it, do it now! ..B.E Runnin this shit.more info:http://www.myspace.com/13th_sonEarshot Music...
Posted by Rivals on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:43:00 PST

BACK2BACK2BASICS! Thurs 20th April - Dos Noun, Macromantics, Bingethinkers + More

Yeah, Thats right! the B2B posse returns in full effect for a one off night of local and international underground dopeness.One of the nicest up coming underground MC's out of the states, phenominal F...
Posted by Rivals on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:24:00 PST

Flight1 - Delta: The Lostralian Album Launch 25th March

Flight presents: MC DELTA and DJ Staen 1 With.. Mojo The Cinamatic (NYC) MC Immune Andy Struksha The Tongue and Diaz DJ's Ology and Skeamo Hosted By Rivals Saturday - 25th March 2005 18+ $15...
Posted by Rivals on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:21:00 PST

Get this Up Ya!: Delta - The Lostralian

Get this shit up ya ..do it now!..
Posted by Rivals on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 04:22:00 PST