Reminds me of some culture of kings era type shit, not too shabby!

Simplistic drinkin' song with a Gary Glitter style driving riff and a mean Kazoo solo

Master.MP3

Gettin Fucked Up

Keyboard Warriors

(We Are) Symbiotic

New Day Hate

Terrible 2's

Slaughter Em

This song is 'For...' the lives and memories of Sam 'Chap One' McNulty and Slycoh Marowa and all those who have left us way too soon. ‘For...’ combines spacious future jazz aesthetics, serious bass pressure, hauntingly beautiful vocals from Ethiopian singer Enushu Taye and deep trumpet lines by Ian Dixon both from Ethio-jazz purveyors Black Jesus Experience - frequent collaborators with Mulatu Astatke. Lyrically, it’s a wistful, nostalgic musing on the passing of friendships, with Monk transforming the personal into something hauntingly universal.

Half Light

For…

A mixtape of Social Change guest appearances 2005-2016, mixed by Social Change & Delta The Lostralian

1. Incense - F&d feat Social Change 
(Prod. funkwig & deNorthwode) from F&d “Worship the Grit” album 2005

2. Soul Call - Dialect feat Social Change 
(Prod. Inkswel) from Dialect “Rugged Uncut Project” album 2008

3. Dreams - Chris Bass feat Traen One & Social Change 
(Prod. Chris Bass) from Chris Bass “Monster” album 2012

4. Qualify - Joseph Duigan feat Visionz, Kahs, Social Change, Ellie Duigan & Matrix 
(Prod. Ben Duigan) from Joseph Duigan “Truth” EP 2013

5. Middlewest - Matchless Gift feat Social Change 
(Prod. Matchless Gift, Cuts DJ Snair) from Matchless Gift “Inquire Within” EP 2012

6. More Than Just Words - Ben Iota feat Visionz, Motion, Mesha & Social Change 
(Prod. Matchless Gift & Funkwig, Cuts DJ Snair) from Ben Iota “Born Free” EP 2013

7. My Only Vice - Dialect feat Social Change 
(Prod. Despair) from Dialect & Despair “The Vortex” album 2010

8. Reinvented - Kimence feat Social Change, Mnops & Alertz 
(Prod. Simplex, Cuts DJ Dyems) from Kimence “Collective Flow” album 2016

9. Moneytrees - Everyday feat Social Change & Tomorrow 
(Prod. K21) from Everyday/Realizm “Moneytrees/Eyes Never Close” 7” 2015

10. Da Ultimate - Fat Pockets feat Dialect & Social Change 
(Prod. Funkwig, Cuts DJ Snair) from Butterthief “Phat Tape” mixtape 2010

11. Flava - Fat Pockets feat K21 & Social Change 
(Prod. Funkwig, Cuts DJ Snair) from Butterthief “Phat Tape” 2010

12. It’s Only Right - Phillip Drummond feat Social Change 
(Prod. Phillip Drummond, Cuts DJ Snair) from Phillip Drummond “Philthy Australia” album 2010

Change Got Collabs Vol 1

Change Got Collabs Mixtape Vol 1

A potent fusion of multi-lingual bars and bIg Ideas, witty wordplay, beatbox production, dancehall riddims, and futuristic poetry underpinned by a lively Killer Mike speech on Black self-determination. Get inspired! 
Co-produced by Sydney Blaq

Building without a permit

The conclusion to the D-Corp Cypher Session Series. presented by d-corp, LMR Entertainment & LMG Studios. 

D.Corp - Cypher Session 6 Ft, Greeley, Fluence, Ree Jay, MOC, Manaz Ill, Polaroid

The second single from the EP Born ‘Free’ on Butterthief. Produced by Matchless Gift. 

CD EP available now at beniota.com and select music stores Australia-wide.
https://www.facebook.com/beniota

Song Details
Lyrics written and performed by Ben Iota and Janey Housego
Production by Matchless Gift
Recorded at The Boat

Lyrics

(Verse) The winds reveal, done the knowledge digging in the field
Swallowed the bitter pill, zeitgeist, it isn’t real
Freedom infinite, space and time traversed with simple choice
GO! Flow like water, eastern philosophy is in the voice
Done the deal with free-thinkers, lost my religion
And put that tradies’ dream to the back- it wasn’t mine- too busy thinking
Linking colonialism, with what we have before us
Identified with minorities in the alienation I as enduring
Guts pouring, purging indoctrination, 
like not celebrating Jan 26 because you recognised the caper
but it’s clearer than ever, found alternative ways of thinking 
both endearing and clever, and like they say ‘Eff the Haters’
Don’t own any land that’s why I’m free and life is what you make it
Long live Sagan, Noam, Pilger, Zinn and Carlin
Darwin, Marx and even Rogan, who took these pieces and rearranged em
Paving roads so we can take em
I’m feeling so-an-so, kinda spacey, like the basics, nice and blazey
Don’t smoke but I’m annihilating acres
Born Free! In this elaborate matrix, some say crazy
Reserve judgement; stay meditating, 2012 elevating, Born Free

(Bridge sung by Janey Housego) 
Free, free, free
Born Free
Free, free, free
Born Free

(verse) So if knowledge is power then education, liberation
Know from experience, switched positions, made the infiltration
It took a lick of patience, transcend this fight or flight
Had to sit with paper, create and new view from this frustration
To the next stage, sh#t has changed, check the name
I shed my skin, breath of fresh, I let it in, levitated
They said I’d changed, like it’s strange, little man I lived and learnt
To get where I am, where are you? Behind the fame, good luck with that
I ride the flame, run like hell, get my vitamins, jump my girl
Embrace the pain, divorced the drudgery, can be ugly, but love the world
Breathing in the hate and the love, travelling unrestrained- give a WHUT
Destination unknown, gung-ho, keep moving with that pain in the gut
Now I’ve got the taste and the buzz, can’t be stopped, it’s opening up
Life is crazier than any movie, it’s tough, but it’s a labour of love
Anarchy in the DNA, seizing the day, free in the frame
Competing for the claim just to remember what it’s like to be, born free

(Chorus sung by Janey Housego) In my life
I’ve travelled far, I’ve travelled wide and I
I’m in this new state of mind
I tried, to forget my past, leave it behind
I, I am born free, this is the ride





Born 'Free' (featuring Janey Housego)

Ben Iota is Hip Hop music, with Jazz and Soul in the DNA. Made locally, while keeping a wide-view lens. Beats for the lounge, words for noggin. 

Ben Iota is on Soundcloud, Bandcamp, JJJ Unearthed, YouTube and Facebook.

https://beniota.bandcamp.com/album/letting-go-ep
www.facebook.com/beniota
https://www.triplejunearthed.com/artist/ben-iota

Born 'Free' (featuring Janey Housego)

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