MICKEY MORPHINGAZ

Bio:

09 Old Skool by MAS P v Merenia Gillies


He's a man with more cut, slices and dices than any master chef, hand-crafting custom-made recipes to dazzle the musical palates of any discerning crowd. Morphingaz is well qualified to do so. His pedigree is show material with a DJ career that began at thirteen.

But Australia is merely one corner of a vast globe and the man with golden digits invaded the UK and soon dug his heels in at the original internet radio station GAIALIVE.COM His skills were soon recognized, resulting in his role as resident DJ on the shows The Real Deal Rap Show and Bless the Mic where his inimitable style linked him with guests like Roots Manuva, Blak Twang, Ty, Est’elle, Aphletik, Skeme, Seanie T, Karl Hinds and many other voices that have gone on to carve new shapes in hip hop.

Micke was still working the venues and studios as well as the air-waves; Rocking top European venues and festivals with entertainers like Mocky, Chilly Gonzalez, Talvin Singh and the Moroccan Master Musicians. He also secured a 3 year stint turntabling for Californian rap star Aphletik, supporting some of his favourite artists including Public Enemy, Talib Kweli and James Brown.

Since returning home to Sydney, Micke has built a portfolio with numerous talents from all the continents as a producer, performer, turntablist and teacher. He is currently working on an album with The Asthmatix as well as with his long time collaboration known as MAS P both to be released imminently through his independent label, Futureskool Of Music.



ME...U - THE BUSINESS CARD EP

Everybody knows turntablism is the future of music. Everybody knows that the skillset of the turntablist is unparalleled within the sphere of live performance. As the technology evolves and the turntable becomes a metaphor for manipulation of sound, so the turntablist's skills are adapted to meet the new challenges and embrace the new possibilities.

Yet what attracts us to the turntablist sound? The innocence, the raw energy, the technical control, the seeming impossibility of actually creating and holding a unique beat in real time?

Who knows, but with this brand new release, Mickey Morphingaz, turntablist extraordinaire delivers 6 fresh answers to these deep and meaningful questions. This is the Business Card EP. Get it now if you know what's good for you! All the tracks are available in 320k MP3, encoded with iTunes for the absolute best sound quality, and with exclusive artwork embedded. All for your pleasure!


Hey Mickey :

Nothing brings us closer to the 80s than the sound of Toni Basil and her cheerleaders, ushering in the pop culture that was to sweep away everything that had come before. Bubblegum lyrics, and equally chewy dance routines were no obstacle to the success of the original and in this 2007 reworking Mickey Morphingaz rebrands himself as the archetypal 21st century cheerleader, leading from the decks, and sending out the call we know and love so well... Hey Mickey you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind...


Moi Aussie

A serenade to the wild, a call to the outback, marimba strokes and lush percussive reverb layer together, wash across each other as the persisitent call of the wild turntable echoes across the lazy clubbers collective dreamtime. Strange memories of other countries, other peoples, strange tongues, exotic cuisines, and finally a sense that this is Australia, this is home.

"Mickey Morphingaz is something Australia needs more of"
LIVE REVIEW FEB 2008
from InTheMix.com.au by legal-affairs

Niche Productions had brought their caravan to Ruby Rabbit for the first time tonight, taking over the rather palm-treed and cane-chaired ground floor as well as the exposed-brick and bare-globe first floor. Somatik was doing his usual quality work on the ground floor, but it seemed that upstairs was the place to be, so up the stairs I went to hear the tail end of DJ Vee’s set and to see the first of the night’s live acts Mickey Morphingaz. He was launching his thoughtfully punctuated Me… U (the Business Card EP) with a live show that featured Morphingaz on turntables, laptop and xylophone and a keyboard player who also doubled on melodica. Having seen Morphingaz filling in for DJ Modest when Belleruche toured recently, I knew that his turntable skills were top notch. Would the tunes match up? In a word, yes.

Featuring more stuffed pythons than any other electronic act I’ve seen in the past few years, and opening with the EP’s track Mickey (which involves much scratching of the line “Oh Mickey, you’re so fine” from the Toni Basil ‘classic’), the Mickey Morphingaz live show takes itself not at all too seriously, but that doesn’t stop some seriously good music being produced. If you imagine Hermitude without an MPC (but with one more stuffed python) you can get an idea of the musical seam he mines. And xylophone playing from Mickey Morphingaz is something Australia needs more of (note: for pull quote purposes, it is acceptable to truncate the last sentence to “Mickey Morphingaz is something Australia needs more of”.) On the last track Boomerang he took to the mic, but with lyrics like “It’s a piece of wood shaped like a banana; if it doesn’t come back, it’s a bummer”, it is probably safe to say that as an MC, Morphingaz is an exceptionally good turntablist (acceptable truncation; “exceptionally good turntablist”). EP launched, and well worth keeping an eye out for.

Member Since:

February 14, 2006

Members:

me ... u

Influences:

everything

Sounds Like:

Pacific Squid Gang 2010

Hey Mickey & Emu - Live at the Me...U E.P Launch in Sydney October 2007. PLATTERPUSSY - Live at the Me...U E.P Launch in Sydney October 2007.
7 Dayz of Herb ft Seanie T (Directed by Mark Gerada)

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Keep On - Bone Idols ft Aphletik + Ty (shot & edited by Dan Canyon)

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This is London - ft Skeme + Big P (Directed by Mark Gerada)

Christine Eva @ Becks Bar 2009. ..

Record Label:

FUTURESKOOL OF MUSIC