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Here's a sample of some of our demos. Please read our disclaimer page here, and note these tracks are not available for commercial release.
Stage one Using rap as the key form of engagement, students are encouraged and aided in writing their own songs addressing key community and health issues, or celebrating their local culture and heritage. The process has been designed to tie in with existing Primary and Secondary school English outcomes, and dresses up what is essentially a Literacy class in the engaging creative process. As well as writing songs, students will participate in a range of team building games and exercises, designed to enhance confidence, performance skills, and vocabulary. Stage two Participants are coached through the procedure and specifics of the song recording process, learning specifics about production, software, voice projection, cadence, microphone technique, and level mixing. By completion of the week, students will have a basic knowledge of how a recorded song is made, from the beginning stages of planning, to the finishing touches of postproduction. The song, which the young people have recorded, will be submitted to the school at the end of the week for appropriate community distribution to key stakeholders and families of the participants.
Stage three Performance is an essential finishing point, as it encourages participants to exhibit the fruits of their week of hard work. This will build self confidence in the young people, who will receive extensive coaching in performance techniques. The end product will be catered to the skill levels exhibited in rehearsals, so as to have a realistic goal which the students can work towards and be proud of. The community will be invited to the final performance, which will be staged at a forum deemed appropriate in the area.
Nick Orchard (aka Litigate) is an accomplished MC and performer, having toured extensively with bands Alexx the Kidd and Fizard, and successfully managed two of Melbourne's biggest hip hop nights. He has also run rapping workshops with a focus on youth literacy nation wide in prisons, schools and remote communities. His passion lies in youth and Indigenous welfare, with programs tackling a focus on such broad topics as gambling awareness, drug alcohol issues, depression and anxiety awareness and homelessness, while still providing aid and guidance in the core elements of urban poetry. Utilising a state of the art studio, Nick structured IHHP's current Music Project model, road testing it on 13 week long community projects in 2009 alone. The results were well over 80 demo songs completed, with astounding performances and literacy outcomes documented each week. Having refined the project with new goals and youth opportunities for 2010, and opening tours in Arnhem Land and the Torres Strait, it's to be an exciting year for the Indigenous Hip Hop Project's music program.
Jacob Farah, AKA DJ Jasper, is a busy man. While juggling a hectic Dj schedule, and producing music for some of Australia's leading hip hop and dance acts, he still finds time to indulge his passion for Indigenous health and well being. Having extensively toured regional outback Australia from the Kimberley to the Torres Strait, he has provided young people nation wide opportunities to produce and record demo songs of an astounding standard. Ensuring the songwriting process is a culturally enriching and literacy-enhancing journey is part and parcel of his community program strategies. And to think, he's only eighteen years old.
Tjimba has always been inspired to rap and represent his people; before he started rapping he played a lot of guitar and keyboard, then he got into composing and producing music also adding most of his incitements to hip-hop making something different. Inspired by his father who is a guitarist as a young man Tjimba joined him on stage along side Carlos Santana and it was then he got more passionate about music. Tjimba and his brother decided to get together and form a rap crew 'The Yung Warriors'. since they started their rap group they have performed all over Victoria at so many amazing places and met so many great people. Tjimba says the best experience is joining Payback records and working with other artist such as Johnny Mac, Meriki Hood, Alter Egos (Cappa Ack & M2thaB), Mr. Morgs, The OUTLAWZ and many more.
Danny has played heaps of gigs for his own Indigenous communities and at the massive Big Day Out concert, the St Kilda Festival, Brunswick Festival Street Party and more including international support spots for 50 Cent. Danny also encourages and develops the musical and technical skills of Indigenous youth as a mentor as a profession. 'It's great to learn and teach as you go and I aim to be a producer as well as a writer performer in music'. Danny has lived on the remote Aboriginal community of Ernabella and in Melbourne's northern suburbs. He shares the late genius painter Kunmanarra Clifford Possum as Grandfather with Tjimba Possum Burns and shares deep family pride in the Old Man's achievements in the arts. Danny continues to write and produce songs and beats for the Yung Warriors and others and looks forward to touring out bush and internationally. New material appears on the Yung Warriors website. Mentored by DJ Wasabi with scratching and beat making, Cecilia has been a performing artist by the name of Pandie or DJ Pandie, and associated with the Melbourne Hip Hop scene since 2005. She has worked in 3 bands and as a solo artist, and is competent in many styles of music production and performance, including hip hop, scratch, turntabalism, grime, techno, metal, happy hardcore, and a wide range of musical styles. Cecilia is skilled at audio editing software Ableton Live, sampling, song writing, Audio and MIDI tracking, and was a runner up in the "Freestyle at Federation Square” beat making competitions. Cecilia has taught beat making classes at Footscray Community Arts Centre and in her local community. She says: 'I can teach people quickly how to learn basic composition skills, and then to become creative and add their own style and character to their music, onto which they can add their own rap, singing or scratching'. She is particularly interested in the Indigenous workshops that take place in Northern Territory communities. As an Indigenous female hip hop artist, she creates a strong connection with communities, and relates to participants in a constructive and personal way. Female producers and DJ's are a minority, and even more of a minority if they are Indigenous. Cecilia says: 'I believe hip hop is an empowering and healing art form for young people, and I want to pass on my knowledge to help others become the artists they want to be, and have the ability to express themselves creatively, politically, and in whatever other ways they want. I think at a grassroots levels that’s what hip hop in the community is really about.'
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Tjimba is a young man from the Yorta Yorta tribe, Barmah forest
and also a 'unugu' Lavitja and Majuta man from the
Northern Territory.
D-BOY Danny Ramzan is a nineteen year old Aboriginal musician,
songwriter and beat producer who also performs live as a member
of the Yung Warriors. Joined on stage by cuz Tjimba Possum Burns
and Narjic Day Burns Danny also wrote songs and beats for their
much played 'Warrior For Life' debut album.
