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EXCLAIM reviews AutoPirate ft Masia One
Ill Gates Auto Pirate Album Release Party
It was a double header night…Dec 06. 2008
Ill Gates Auto Pirate Album Release party with Meesha & Masia One
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Armaghetto gets down to the ground.
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photo Juna Stuart
Bboy Armaghetto
While touring in Indonesia last Spring, I got an unsuspecting connection to producer ILL GATES aka PHAT CONDUCTOR asking if I was interested in jumping on a tune. I was feeling particularly dark at that point, and wrote a song called IRMA VEP to reflect the VAMPIRES (re arrange the letters in Irma Vep…or just watch the movie) I see in the industry of music (and beyond). I wanted to tell a story of this vampire woman who was infecting the art of music and moving on to her next victim. I wrote it with an underground emcee fervor (often meaning a LOT of words and metaphors) and didn’t know who would ever hear the song as it was not like the pop music that is more easily accessible. To my great surprise, I returned to Canada to find that Ill Gates was a stand up human being, and the song had found a lot of eager listeners. I’ve been able to perform this tune at Shambhala Festival (BC) and Harvest (Ontario) and it’s been the greatest amount of fun each time! The single debuts on Ill Gate’s CD AUTO PIRATE and we’ll be filming a video for it next week. Wow…you never know what might come of scribbling napkin raps in an indonesian hawker center while downing a bowl of Hokkien Mee.
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ILL GATES Auto Pirate (Click on the picture to purchase)
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| By Sarah Ferguson There is something so distinctly Toronto underground (yet slick as hell) about this CD. Quick story: the Phat Conductor has been inspiring kickin’ dance moves among kids at backwoods events like the Om Festival since the late ’90s. Old sets encompass seamless flows of funky breaks, bounding hand drums, Missy Elliot, Eminem (via Armand Helden), even a looped sample of the secretary in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. A moniker-change to Ill. Gates brings us Autopirate. This Ottawa-born DJ/producer’s debut artist album shines bright lights on new school hip-hop and South London dub-step, plus there’s a superabundance of bassed-out audio that would fit right in at Ninja Tune. “Irma Vep” introduces hip-hop pro Masia One, and the only low point of this LP is that there aren’t more tracks with this Singapore-born, Vancouver-raised radical female MC. Keep your ear to the ground for Ill. Gates. Autopirate is a bassed-out, instinctive tech journey. (Muti) MASIA ONE GUEST APPEARANCE @ ILL GATES CD RELEASE PARTY DECEMBER 6. 2008 @ AUGUSTA HOUSE 152 Augusta DECEMBER 06 RELEASE PARTY: Ill Gates, Meesha & Masia OneDouble header shows tonight, and it was the boogie.  Ill Gates Release Party (phot by www.jammcat.com)  Jam down...Dec 06  Ill Gates, Meesha & Masia One  Boogie Down.  Ill Gates Album Release PartyIll Gates Album Release Party 2Ill Gates Album Release Party 2  Ill Gates Album Release Party 2  Ill Gates Album Release Party 2: Meesha  Ill Gates Album Release Party 2: People Wylin  Ill Gates Album Release Party 2: People Wylin'  Ill Gates Album Release Party 2  Ill Gates Album Release Party 2: Sweatiing out the lyrical workout |
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Hi, whaz up, I am Chyna Apple, read about you on Hiphop.cn. I just want to let you know that I love what you do. I rap mostly in Chinese and hope one day set up a rapping trend in China. I am now in Chicago, and going back to China next year for one month. Hopefully see you in Beijing or something. If you like my style, maybe Feature me in my song or have a show or something. Just want to show my respect for Masia One~
New Songs coming soon~
http://blog.fenbei.com/10427398