HOMEBREW

Homebrew has been dropping some of the cooolest stuff ive heard in a while, id highly reccomend checkin out this ep him and haz have put together...shits dope.





Now don’t get me wrong, there ain’t nothing like a good old fashioned fatal stabbing or gruesome murder to help distract from the normal boring reality that is life. And we all need a healthy helping of Home and Away’s drama once in a while when the only thing we have to look forward to is an afternoon shit. But who said music had to be like an episode of Law and Order or a Friday night out with Millie Holmes? Sure, I love hearing a few of Ricky D’s great adventures as much as the next guy in an eye patch and I could listen to Raekwon talk about the different things you can do with baking soda till I gotta bite my ipod to get the battery working. But sometimes, just sometimes, when I’ve played ‘Murder Music’ 3 times over on repeat and I’ve heard Necro rhyme crack pipe 17 different ways, all I wana do is chill out and listen to Q-Tip tell me about the day he lost his wallet. Cause I can relate to that. I ain’t ever been to El Segundo, but I’ve filled out an application for a new eftpos card and that shit is frustrating.

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is. Sometimes life is boring. It just is. So when you’re listening to the new E.P from Home Brew, produced by Haz’ and DJ Truent, who both have never sold crack cocaine or served time in San Quentin for crimes against humanity (although Haz’ did get arrested that one time for pissing in public, but he pled diversion in the end and only got community service) don’t be mad if the beats don’t sound like your favourite wrestlers intro music and the lyrics don’t make you want to head butt a bouncer. Just turn it up. Grab a beer or a wine or whatever the fuck it is you prefer to drink, smoke, snort or shelve to take away from the normal boring reality that is your life and relax.

And understand that ‘Last Week’ won’t give you the same adrenalin rush shop lifting will and it isn’t as exciting as that dude you know who named all his kids after xmen characters. It’s just a normal 7 track EP about the normal boring reality that is life. 7 tracks we wrote last week all about.. well.. last week. And really bro.. That’s it.

Chur

Tom. (Home Brew)


Monday

http://www.zshare.net/audio/20046111d25d4bd3/




tuesday

http://www.zshare.net/audio/20106249b168dcbb/

EOW - Round 1 Footage

Sorry but I dont know where to aquire footage of Reliks verse but heres video of the first round from the other four mcs , Seka, Basic, Orakle and I.
Thanks heaps to Tiff for the videos, Era for Sekas verse and obviously big thanks to Pause for putting on the event.


Basic


Seka


Jay


Orakle

Congrats to Jay and Orakle

EOW... Damn what a mean comp.. Congrats to Jay for taking it out and Orakle for coming a very close second. We all real proud of you guys for holding it down for Grymeworks. Goodluck for the Nationals!

End of the Weak NZ

Next Thurday at double happy in chch is the first New Zeland regional comp for the end of the weak competition.EOW is an MC competition with a twist, far more comprehensive than the standard battle format.

1st Round – Written Verse – 60 seconds over music of competitors choice
2nd Round – A Capela Verse – 60 seconds over no music
3rd Round – Freestyle Bag – Competitor uses 5 random objects in freestyle verse
4th Round – Beat Juggling – Competitor must rock with the DJ over 3 random beats
5th Round – Cypha Skills – 2 competitors go back and forth for 4 bars each, 3 times

Make sure you come down and support everyone entering, including grymeworks own Orakle and Jay Roacher.
The city hosting the national finals will be decided on which regional has the most numbers in attendance, so if u want your local mcs to have a home crowd at the final you better come along.

Ethical & Neesh - Rise of the Rare Tour. This weekend!!!

Eth and Neesh are hitting the South Island this week playing: Queenstown, Wanaka, Dunedin and finally the Drop in Christchurch on Saturday.
For only $5 thats great value for money so make sure you come on down!

Unkut Tour @ Level One

A couple of pics from the Unkut Young Sid and Ethical tour last week at Level One. Thanks alot to Alex who took the photos.

Antagonist, Tourettes, Los Muertos, Shitripper, Jay Roacher and Orakle

11th of July at Rising Sun, Auckland. Catch Orakle and I trying to keep up playing next to some actual bands. Real Live music not just beats and us rapping :P I'm excited and nervous all at once.

Unkut Tour - Young Sid and Ethical

This July be ready for your city to be rocked by local hip hop heavy weights Young Sid and Ethical as they travel across the main cities of New Zealand as part of the Unkut Tour 08. Sid and Eth will be joined by Urbanology and Auckland club DJ - Substance with host emcee Cyphanetik and local support from the likes of Red Eye Society, Flowz, and Grymeworks as they play eight massive shows through out the month. Live visual projections and giveaways included, this is an event not to be missed.

Check out Unkuttour.com for more details, giveaways and what not.

Poisonous Youth on Disruptiv Mixtape 5

The new Disruptiv Mixtape is out now and features a track from none other than Poisonous Youth!! There's also a gang of other NZ songs on there including heaps of Christchurch artists which is dope. Better yet its FREE in stores across New Zealand. Check out www.disruptiv.com for more info and a tracklist.

Available from:

Auckland: DMC, Beat Merchants, Harlem23, Loaded, Qubic

North Shore: JB Hi-Fi Albany

South Auckland: JB Hi-Fi Manukau

Wellington: Loaded

Hamilton: Cheapskates

New Plymouth: Raw Records

Christchurch: Embassy

Queenstown: Alta

Ink Grave Tattoo store now open!!

Ink Grave Tattoo is now open for business at 567 Barbadoes Street in Christchurch.

Check out the Inkgrave website for more info and a look at thier work, then head down to the shop to support some extremely talented local artists. Mean

Friday Bloody Friday

If your in Auckland this Friday (or if you happen to live in Auckland and are subsequently there every Friday), come down to Rising Sun and check out the Friday Bloody Friday party run by DMN.
Catch Potheads, Moet, Scratch22, Cyphanetik, DMN and Grymeworks.

Orakle and Myself will be there performing some songs off the new Poisonous Youth mixtape. Ill also be doing a few songs with Tourettes and some new stuff I did with DMN when they visited last.

Should be a dope weekend, except that DMN will never find a cafe to pile more bacon onto a plate than the one we took them to in chch. Wendys it is. Mean

www.grymeworks.co.nz is online now with the Poisonous Youth mixtape up for free download!

Pretty much what the heading says. To celebrate the fact that our new website is online as of today we've put the new Poisonous Youth Mixtape up for free download.
I think this is a really dope mixtape and im only slightly biased, so head over to www.grymeworks.co.nz to get the download link and have a listen for yourself.

We've also got some real life CD copies to give away on the site, so if you want to find out how to get yourself a copy, check it out.

You can also find other free mixtapes, clothing for sale, some nice pictures, plus pretty much everything you could ever want to know about us and probably more.
Well be updateing regularly with new music and whatnot, so why not add us to your favourites and return again and again. and maybe even again.

www.grymeworks.co.nz

Too Rugged To Shave Too Grimey To Shower

Catch Poisonous Youth Live this Saturday night at Level one in Christchurch.
P.Y will be performing songs from thier new mixtape and we will have copies available on the night for $10.00.
Ill also being doing a quick set as well as performances from a whole bunch of other chch acts as seen on the flyer below.

Big ups to Era the Pimp for putting this gig together. There has definitely been a resurgance in live rap gigs in chch lately which can only be a good thing, right?

See you there.

Jay

Poisonous Youth Mixtape - Mixed by DJ Dave Lad

OUT THIS WEEK!!


Keep checking back to our blog for updates and info on how to get a copy of Poisonous Youth's Debut Mixtape








http://www.myspace.com/poisonousyouth


2007 Gameface MC Battle champion Orakle, and former esteemed graffiti writer Prolifik are Poisonous Youth. Both also members of the Menace Records crew, they have been busy building up a solid fan base by performing around Christchurch since 2006. Born into near opposite walks of life within Christchurch city, their music is the voice of today’s youth. Disillusioned by the bright lights and glitter within the garden city they use their raw, in your face, underground style as a vehicle to express their views on: religion, drugs, depression, and the self destructive lifestyle of New Zealand's young people. They are currently writing and recording material for their debut street album, which is due out on Grymeworks in 2008. Stay tuned for their debut Mixtape available very soon.

Jay Roacher - Straight to the Point Video.

Check out this video for Straight to the Point we did late last year.
It was made by our good friend and photographer Hamish Pattison
and the beat is made by Scratch22. Cool.



Remeber you can buy the Jay Roacher album on iTunes by Following the link below:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=267439482

Whered we go?

We were gone, but we're back now... some idiot had deleted our blog :(