About Underlapper

Who?
What?
Where and How?
Influences?
When?


Underlapper formed in 2002 when friends Greg Stone, Simon Oh, Marc Chomicki, Matt Furnell, Morgan McKellar and Simon Tyte, who had similar musical interests, decided to act on their mutual interest in creating and performing as a group.

They started writing music straight away.

"Our early music was described as 'ambient earth fart meets dearth metal'," Greg Stone says. "Most of these songs were created through jamming on a certain riff with each member establishing their own part within the piece."

What?

In late 2003 Underlapper began working on new material, which they would later take into the studio to record.

"The new material was more focused but was still diverse due to the ideas of six people coming together," Greg says. "A lot of the material is on more of a leftfield hip hop vibe, with live instrumentation on top of beats which are mostly compiled from collected noises."

Apart from the hip hop based material, some of the songs contain a more down tempo rock/folk feel but as a whole the songs try to fuse electronic rhythms with live instrumentation.

"We tried to focus on this style due to a mutual feeling that it was lacking from the Australian scene, (particularly from the Australian hip hop scene) yet was becoming more and more prominent in Europe and America."

Where and How?

"Once we had the basis for the tracks we went into Moonlight Studios (where we had recorded our previous material) to begin recording the album," Greg says.

"Most of the beats and samples were mixed on the laptop then transferred onto the ADAT, providing the basis to record the individual instruments and vocals for each track."

Underlapper collect and use as many different instruments as possible to create their unique sound.

Instruments used on their forthcoming debut album include: clarinet, sax, synths, melodica, accordion, guitars, live drums, cello, trumpet and various found objects used as percussion.

The band hopes to push its sound both here and overseas and to establish interest amongst likeminded people and artists, in order prove that not all Australian hip hop is conventional.

Influences?

Underlapper's influences include cLOUDDEAD, anything on the Anticon label, Fourtet, Curse ov Dialect, Fog, mum, Mice Parade, Clue to Kalo, the Mush label, Symbiotic and Hood.

When?

For information on upcoming gigs click here.