Able8

Able8
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17th May 2013, 10:10 am

Bio

ABLE8
A.K.A Able/Emcee Able etc

Over the years Able has gone from strength to strength with his music career, whether fronting live bands as an MC, or pushing electronic gadgets as a producer, or even behind the scenes as an event organizer / booking agent / blogger / label operator…

His unique brand of Alternative Hip-Hop and Electronic Bass Music pushes boundaries and grows as does his forever expanding roster of word-wide collaborators.

Able8 is surely one of the hardest working creators and innovators in the Australian scene and his live shows are testament to the fact.

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Releases:
2008 – Emcee Able – Brains.Pizza.Booze (Album)
2009 – Able – Ice Cream Won’t Save You (EP)
2009 – The Typhoons – Pleasure Is A Freedom Song (Album)

Tracks also appear on:
Treehouse Collective Mixtape #1 – (Broken Latches) – 2011
Free The Beats Vol.4+5 (1000HungryMonsters + We Have No Time) – 2011
CHCH Quake Relief Album – (When The Wind Blows) – 2011
Auditory Scientists EP – (DataCrunch) – 2011
Mathas – 10 Pound Hairless Sasquatch (P.L.R.T) – 2010
Tomas Ford – Bash Myself EP (Get Used To It) – 2010
DOS4GW – Fetching Shoulders (Trash) – 2008
DOS4GW – Moderate Rock (The Dome) – 2008

Awards:
2007+2008+2009 PDMA Band of the year award (The Typhoons)
2008 Behind The Curtain WAMi Urban Track Of The Year
2008 MTV Kickstart Band Competition winner (Perth)
2010 WAMi Award Winners (The Typhoons)

News

Doshy 23.2 (Melb)

Monday February 18th, 2013

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Benny Diction X Able8

Tuesday November 6th, 2012

New Music Video/Single available at the following Link:
Benny Diction X Able8 – ‘Over Here’

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September.

Saturday September 22nd, 2012

Just a quick post to confirm that I am still alive and kicking in Melbourne.


You can also follow me on:

www.able8.tumblr.com  or  on Twitter @able8 @uncomfybeats

Cheers.

Upcoming Able8 shows

29/9  - Uncomfortable Beats @ Horse Bazaar (Melbourne)

12/10 – Slugabed/Rudimental @ BrownAlley (Melbourne)

19-21/12 – Deliverance Festival (NSW)

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(Melb) Uncomfortable Beats 29/9 @ HorseBazaar

Saturday September 22nd, 2012

RACHEL HAIRCUT
TAAY NINH (Electric Wire Hustle)
ABLE8
HYPERCOLOUR

On Saturday September the 29th, Uncomfortable Beats launches its latest installment of fine tunes at Melbourne’s well-loved Horse Bazaar.

Know to always bring the goods, they will be showcasing an star line-up of some serious DJ’s and Producers such as Rachel Haircut, Able8, Taay Ninh (Electric Wire Hustle, NZ) and Hypercolour. 

Expect to hear a diverse selection of music ranging from Soul Hip-Hop to Garage to Juke and everything in between. 

So come down and freshen your ears with some new music. Entry is free and music goes from 9PM till 1AM.

WWW.UNCOMFORTABLEBEATS.COM

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Able8, Beit Nun(UK) & Jabba Tha Kut (UK): Forever

Saturday March 31st, 2012

A new video clip from Beit Nun, featuring me on production.

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Able & Uncomfortable Beats Happenings

Friday February 17th, 2012

Hey again,

Just thought I’d drop with some new updates…

Recently I launched an Australian beats compilation album on Uncomfortable Beats, and ran a killer launch party for it with my two trusty side-kicks Rob Healey (Ghostsoul) and Pauly Fawcett (ShiKung) – Photos Below. You can hear or purchase the album through Bandcamp, or stream it on the Soundcloud. The plan is to push more compilation releases through and eventually use the platform to release our own inpidual albums (and other artists as we see fit)

Anyway the launch was a very successful and fun night! Just a few more nights later we also ran the regular Bar Open residency which also proved to be a good night of tunes, including artists such as YesNoMaybe, Remi, Ruffles, Ghostsoul, ShiKung and DJ Sizzle.

As far as my own music I’ve been working mostly with UK rappers Benny Diction, and Beit Nun recently, and MC Points (When he rarely gets back to me.) I have some great gigs coming up next week including supporting Ras G, Araab Musik and heaps of others…Supporting Ras G and Dizz1, and performing at Utopia Festival. Going to be such a good week, looking forward to it.

Anyhow, for those interested, I’ve created a Tumblr page, where I post up photos and video I take in Melbourne or whilst travelling, who knows I might even update it regularly…We’ll see.

Till next time

Able

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2012!

Monday January 2nd, 2012

2011 was a great year and I’m looking forward to what this year entails…

Some highlights for me this year were..

Travelling/Hanging out and Touring Europe/KL

Supporting DJ Krush to a packed crowd, plus a bunch of other great gigs

Revamping my live set, and finally converting to the Macbook world

Changed my name for most projects to Able8

Writing new tunes with overseas artists like Black Cracker, Benny Diction, Beit Nun and MC Points

Expanding Uncomfortable Beats from a one-man operation, into a small team of awesome people

I also managed to finish a remix for Wermonster (Berlin) by Christmas and that should be released soon, and a track I did with Black Cracker (NYC) is hopefully being released for free with VICE Magazine (US) as an exlusive.. So I’m fairly excited for that!


2012 and my plans for world domination…

What I plan to achieve

RELEASES: Able & Manix Album // Able8 xGhostsoul EP // Axolotl EP // Able8 & Benny Diction EP

Syreneyiscreamy & Able8 EP // Abe – Future Of Rap Album // Uncomfortable Beats #2 // Able8 EP

Uncomfortable Beats – Bigger and better events, and starting online music Distribution + Promotion.

And a New Tour .for June/July..Europe again I’m thinking

:)

Wish me luck coz I’ll need it!

x

ABLE8

WWW.UNCOMFORTABLEBEATS.COM

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