Mathas

Mathas

Bio

Rapper/Producer/Designer

The alias ‘Mathas’ is taken from his name, Tom Mathieson. All ‘emcees’ need a pseudonym and this was the best he could come up with. Or so he’ll tell you. However, behind his bedraggled appearance and self-deprecating humour lies Australian hip-hop’s preeminent lyricist.

Mathas is a social commentator whose lyrics create alternative landscapes on the back of a sharp wit. His characters mirror our flaws and his stories ring truer than our daily headlines. Touching on elements of life from a safe Australian birth to the climatic environment we now exist in, Mathas picks apart his planet with thickly cryptic sarcasm that is overall begrudgingly optimistic.

*”Skyhawks” from the album 10 Pound Hairless Sasquatch won the Urban category of the WAM Song of the Year Competition 2010.
*Best Urban/Hiphop Act nomination at the Western Australian Music Awards (WAMI) 2010

News

MCA Tribute @ Mojos

Tuesday May 8th, 2012

Sunday, May 13 at Mojos Bar sees a tribute to Beastie Boys MCA who moved on to the next world on Friday, May 4.

The Community, Cool Perth Nights & Mojos Bar are invite you to get up onstage for a minute & tell _your_ story on what the Beastie Boys mean to _you! Can be funny, sweet or sad, the stage will be all yours.

All ppl interested in doing this are to register at underandabovepresents@hotmail.com – we will be able to accommodate the first dozen ppl who register! Please use subject: Beastie Story.

As suggested by Lyndon Blue (man i just tried to all you to see if Solar Barge can play) there will be tins on hand for dantions to the cancer council.

Artists playing MCA Tribute:

Diger Rokwell
Felicity Groom
Mathas
Leafy Suburbs
DJ Joe Byrne (the Moltens)
& DJ Charlie Bucket


extra affordable drinks & $5 entry

all door take will go to the cancer council & mojos will make a donation from money taken over the bar.

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White Sugar gets airplay on RAGE

Monday April 23rd, 2012

Dear Friends.
Today is a good day.

I can now officially tick a lifetime goal off the list.
I have an outstanding collection of fond memories staying up late, smoking underage cigarettes (or in some cases banana peel and tea leaves), drinking stolen liquor cabinet booze and watching RAGE til 6am on the ABC. In fact RAGE reminds me a lot of a few old friends, namely Thea Bennett, Simon Frame, Jovita Boyd and Arran Hearn.. i know you dont know who they are, but they were important people in my upbringing… we watched rage every weekend, i had my first drinking and smoking experiences with them, we were primary school misfits, we loved Nirvana and the Smashing Pumpkins.. you know.. kid shit. I only really see one of them these days but my love is eternal.

Aaanyways.. i finally got a song on RAGE, my first filmclip White Sugar

It aired last Friday, i’m overjoyed.
Watch it:
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Love Mathas.


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Live Mathas footage at Fat Shan’s!

Thursday March 29th, 2012

Mathas recently did a little boutique show at Fat Shan Records in Perth City for one of their “Friday im in love” nights.
Here are three little videos from his performance shot by a fella called John Aliaga (aka ImpartialCameraman)

Very cool little snippets… warts n all.

Doctorshopping
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Nicotine Junkie
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Interplanetary Relations
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The Mixtape is now available for free download!

Monday December 19th, 2011

The Mixtape features Empty’s vocal work along with several other Perth emcees, set to rearranged and edited new wave hip hop beats. Download it now for free from here!

The list of Artists is as follows; Asap, Mathas, Stats, Pronto (from The Stoops), Slackjaw, Marksman, Lewis Galaga (from The Typhoons), Aeon, Kev Brown, OneLove and Beat-Maker-Beat.

Stay tuned for the live album coming to you in March 2012.

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White Sugar – Filmclip Released!

Saturday October 29th, 2011
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THE DEBUT FILMCLIP FROM MATHAS!

Please SHARE & LIKE!!

White Sugar is a little study of personal flaws, habitual behavior and the extreme consumption of heavily refined and processed foods in the western world.

The White Sugar filmclip is a swirling journey through a vicious candyland, were ripe raspberries and chico babies go for the throat and the product advertising of yesteryear repeats in a droning, endless loop. The only way forward is towards total zombification and a posse of buzzword angels on your shoulder lulling you to a lolly-encrusted catatonia.

CREDITS:
Producer: John Macliver
Director/Graphics: Tom Mathieson
1st AD: Nicole Norelli
D.O.P: Jordan Shields
Visual Effects/Green Screen: Dominic Pearce

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Ghostpoet Ticket Winner!

Thursday October 20th, 2011

Congratulations to Callum Whitely for winning the double-pass to see Ghostpoet on Sunday Oct 23!

This was his entry:

“Hey

I totally deserve to win the double pass for Ghostpoet on Sunday for many reasons but mainly because i broke my foot doing spin kicks in my garage..little did i know that there were various dumb bells to avoid. The reason for my flailing kicks was that i was pretending to be a Shaolin monk crossed with a metalcore scene kid.

If i win these tickets i will start up a backyard arena for wannabe kung fu try hards/hardcore kids and it will be a youtube sensation.

The main reason i deserve these tickets is that i had the gumption to send through this humiliating tale in the first place.

That is all.

Kind Regards,
Callum Whitely”

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Injured Ninja – Skylazer Remixed

Saturday October 1st, 2011

Introducing a new exclusive release on Perth’s most groundbreaking record label, Heartless Robot: Injured Ninja’s new single ‘Redeemer’ and 11 bonus tracks of remixes and re-imaginings of tracks from their debut album ‘Injured Ninja vs. Skylazer’.

Featuring remixes from some of the finest talent from Perth, Australia and the world including: Kit Pop, Lewis Galaga, Magical Mistakes, Snow Bros., Ylem, Boobs, Yarhkob, Tomas Ford, French Rockets, Mathas and Usurper of Modern Medicine

Limited edition release HRP014 features exclusive CD with fold out poster featuring artwork by Peter Long and design by Ninja Steven Aaron Hughes.

Check out the awesome REDEEMER video clip here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBZYscY0Ob0&hd=1

Pre-order ‘Redeemer / Skylazer’ Remixed here and have an exclusive listen to Mathas’ Rap Redux of ‘Puppies in Fish Tanks’ here:
http://heartlessrobot.bandcamp.com/album/redeemer-skylazer-remixed

In early 2011 Injured Ninja released their debut album ‘Injured Ninja vs. Skylazer’ in March, following with an extensive tour of the US with a showcase appearance at the 2011 SXSW festival, an east coast tour, support slots for Gang of Four, Health, My Disco plus an appearance at the 2011 Laneway Festival. The band released exclusive 7″ split single ‘Chrysopeia’ in April and in May the band was awarded by WAMi (West Australian Music Association) in their 2011 festival as ‘Best Punk / Hardcore Act’.

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