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| by David Knight / Published October 20‚ 2006 at 12:53pm |
 Though he is an Adelaide boy through and through Delta needs to leave the city of churches and its distractions in order for him to record.Print this article |
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| Delta turned Aussie hip hop up a notch with the year’s best straight up Oz hip hop record The Lostralian released at the start of the year. Now Australia’s most lauded MC has headed overseas to take that record to the rest of the world. Just before his overseas venture David Knight caught up with Delta for a cup of coffee in his home town of Adelaide to discuss his impending journey, which will see him take in Europe and the US to record, tour and promote. “Just going overseas to perform some gigs and promote the album because it’s just been released in Europe through K’Boro Records, which is Mark B’s (Mark B and Blade) label and Carhartt the clothing label, as well going over there to do some gigs in the UK and got a gig confirmed in Paris and some other gigs across Europe.” One of these gigs is for the European leg of the New York battle event End Of The Weak, which will see Delta sharing a bill with Mark B and Promoe from Looptroop. “I feel very honoured to be part of that, it’s good to go to Paris, rap and get paid.” Apart from promoting The Lostralian, which was released in Europe last month and received a four star rating from the UK mag Hip Hop Connection, Delta will also be working on a follow-up to The Lostralian. Despite being well received critically The Lostralian hasn’t achieved Hilltop-like sales here but Delta says he wasn’t aiming for a mainstream audience and he has been more than happy with local sales anyway. But Delta remains a favourite of the heads and his name is slowly being recognised by mainstream audiences with The Greater Good from The Lostralian being added to Nova playlists. For now Delta is focused on the US and Europe and it must be said that he is arguably the most respected Australian MC on an international scale with an overseas hip hop contact list that is probably only rivaled by Katalyst in this country. His overseas respect was confirmed when his UK producer on The Lostralian, Mark B called him one of the world’s premier MCs. Mark B doesn’t seem like the sort of guy who would just say this for promotional purposes and he was basically in semi-retirement before he produced The Lostralian. In Europe The Lostralian is being marketed as ‘Mark B Presents…’ and Delta says this is a deliberate move. “He and I had discussed that just because he’s got 45,000 units sold in the UK. I’ve got none, five, something like that. I got more than that now of course but it’s going real well, I’m really happy I’m expecting good things, you know?” Though he is an Adelaide boy through and through Delta needs to leave the city of churches and its distractions in order for him to record. The Lostralian was done in the UK and Delta was recently in Melbourne for a few months where besides doing shows he said he was locked up in a studio recording. The same goes for his upcoming overseas venture; apart from playing gigs and meeting and greeting he will be writing and recording in the UK, New York and LA with respected names such as Z-Trip and MURS. “MURS and Z-Trip put their hand up and Mojo and when I’m in the UK, I don’t really know, Mark of course is keen to be involved further, it’s a matter of whether it happens … Most of the beats are produced by myself. I’ve got an idea for the one with Z-Trip but I think I’ll keep that under my hat but we discussed a couple of things. He was just really keen when he heard I was going to be over there with MURS he said the three of us should do a track.” Delta says he wants to branch out with his new record and have fun with it while working with some mightily talented peeps. But whatever the outcome one thing is for certain: he will never make a beer and BBQ record. “Beer and BBQ is something you eat and drink it ain’t something you sing,” states Delta. “ I don’t know, whatever, each to their own it just ain’t me, I’m just too serious. Maybe sometimes I take hip hop too serious, this time on the album I think I need to show more of myself a bit more. Just get funky with it, just rap and have fun, enjoy myself. This first album was just a big thing about proving it to myself and my circle of friends and they’re all such strict hip hop purists, so that’s what the album was made by. And as you can tell from Mark B his ideology for making hip hop music is definitely very pure, rigid, classical, grass roots hip hop.” The Lostralian is out on Nuff Said through Shogun. For more information visit myspace.com/deltarock or lostralian.com Related information - http://www.myspace.com/deltarock |
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