Tickets available on the door:

$30 before 9.30pm // $40 after

MUTATIONS teams up with Cool Room, Local Knowledge, and Trackwork to present a left-field rap show for the ages - with MC Yallah and Debmaster (Hakuna Kulala, Nyege Nyege Tapes) and a showcase of Trackwork rappers from Western Sydney with VV Pete, T Breezy, and Walkerboy alongside producer and label-boss Utility. Local legends C.FRIM and Anuraag on support, all hosted by Tawana!

Uganda-based Kenyan rapper MC Yallah makes her Australian debut in her narrm-exclusive show at Misc, backed by demonic French producer Debmaster. With a series of killer collaborations falling across legendary labels like Matador and Morphine Records leading up to her landmark debut album ‘Kubali’ on what might be the most exciting label in the world right now, the Uganda-based Hakuna Kulala. Kubali is a masterclass of experimental rap music, with Yallah spitting in four languages (Kiswahili, Luganda, English, and Luo) across Debmaster’s brilliant twisted trap and bass beats. Her flow is impossibly precise, mutating across tempos, cadences, and rhythms with consistently perfect accuracy. Her voice is reminiscent of a lioness - fiercely controlled, perpetually poised, and awe-inspiring.

For us, Trackwork is the most exciting rap crew in the country. The label launched in 2019 with an instant classic release ‘2360’ from T Breezy, a 17-year-old Aboriginal rapper from Inverell. Breezy rapped about his experience and built a vision of a whole world through across 6 tracks. The tracks are moody and hard, tinged with hope and given texture and colour through Breezy’s experiences, slang from his community, and real stories from his life. It’s an sincere and gripping record told through the lens of Breezy’s unique flow atop producer Utility’s sparse, trap-adjacent beats.

Since the label has moved from strength-to-strength, including killer ‘notfromhere’ mixtape from Sevy and Bayang, the debut release from Snoee Badman (the first rapper from so-called Australia to release an album from a maximum security prison), and recent joints from VV Pete and Walkerboy. Walkerboy as Breezy’s cousin guests on 2360 and released his debut track in 2022, ‘On A Roll’. His flow feels like the fire to Breezy’s water - full of swagger, tenacity, and urgency. They both share a realness that makes their lyrics and tracks utterly compelling and telling their stories as they are, raw and unfiltered.

VV Pete is shaping up to be the next breakout rapper from Western Sydney. She learned to rap alongside her first words, writing her first songs at age 9. It’s no wonder that even at 19 she sounds like a fully developed emcee - her tracks Frauds (co-produced by Cassius Select) and Bussit having an instant anthemic quality. Recent winner of the coveted FBi Radio SMAC Award for ‘Next Big Thing’, and recent Triple J Unearthed Feature Artist, VV has all the makings of a star. Catch her in her narrm debut to watch her rise to power.

All the Trackwork productions are handled by label boss and artist manager Utility AKA Austin Benjamin. Austin has had a storied career across experimental contemporary music with releases on labels like Room40 and compositions for institutions like Melbourne Recital Centre. It’s his work as Trackwork though that is the most inspiring to us - distilling decades of compositional wisdom into doing some of the most urgent work in music - platforming artists with incredible talent but without a microphone, and giving them the ability to shine with their own unfiltered light.

FULL LINEUP:

MC Yallah x Debmaster (live)

VV Pete (live)

T Breezy (live)

Walkerboy (live)

DJ support from C. Frim, Anuraag & Utility

Hosted by Tawana

Co-presented by Cool Room, Local Knowledge & Trackwork

Design by Henry Scott

Friday March 31st || 8pm - 1am

Miscellania is not wheelchair accessible. Full accessibility information can be found here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fHR60VwEErBidoSdSbRgbWh8LDVlDjW5RQB8JE916B8

Miscellania operates on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their elders past and present, and acknowledge that the struggle against colonial violence continues. Sovereignty has never been ceded. We offer free entry for all First Nations Peoples - please send us an email at raag@miscellania.club to organise.