Agung Mango

Apr
12
posted by tommy

Meet a Melbourne rapper who you’ll find as a co-author of every track on Melbourne crew 3K’s recent OPENFORBUSINESS EP. The EP is a joint release of a kind with both names listed across the Spotify metadata and it was the first opportunity I had to come across the Agung’s energy. ‘WOKEUPINJAPAN’ is the mans most recent single and a song I’ve not been able to move past for nearly a week. I’ve dropped five stars on his Unearthed profile and I’d drop a further five if I could because frankly this is one of the best Australian hip-hop releases I’ve heard in a long, long time. He bleeds animated confidence and the way he delivers his verses shows a capacity to move through voices and flows like few others can. On this one he’s roped in 3k’s Beluga who delivers with the vitality and scale from which he draws his name.

And the production, please don’t even start me on the production… if I didn’t know better I’d suggest this was produced by thatboykwame due to the treatment of those jagged bass sounds but I DO know better. Melbourne studio collective PRPL got to this one and thus I found myself burrowing into their SoundCloud this week, coming across more gems like ‘French Love’. You’ll hear Agung’s bars but you’ll also discover that Agung kiiiiiinda has a bit of a singing voice on him too? Anyway, I’m not gonna go on too long here because those close to me have already told me that I need to dial it back about 20% when it comes to this act but big future, I reckon.

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