''Day of the Dog'' is the second album by Australian
hip hop group
Bliss n Eso
Bliss n Eso (formerly known as Bliss n' Esoterikizm) are an Australian hip hop trio based in Sydney. They are currently signed to Melbourne record label Illusive Sounds, and are managed and booked by label co-founders Adam Jankie and Matt Gudin ...
. It was released via Illusive Sounds in March 2006 in both vinyl and CD formats. The title is a metaphor for
Australian hip hop
Australian hip hop traces its origins to the early 1980s and is largely inspired by hip hop and other urban musical genres from the United States. As the form matured, Australian hip hop has become a commercially viable style of music which i ...
being the 'underdog' of the Australian music industry, and affirming that it is now time for it to rise up.
[Christine Matzke, Susanne Muehleisen ''Postcolonial Postmortems: Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective'' 2006 "Archie Weller has written less formal stories including his novel ''The Day of the Dog'' (1981), 12 which shows how young people of native stock become pressured into social exclusion and towards crime."] It reached the top 50 on the
ARIA Albums Chart
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the offici ...
.
Reception
''Day of the Dog'' peaked at No. 45 on the
ARIA Albums Chart
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the offici ...
in March 2006.
Track listing
Personnel
*
MC Bliss
* BNAproductions
* DJ Hoppa
* M-Phazes – production
* Motley
* N.U.G.
* Rocc
* SeFu
*
Suffa
Matthew David Lambert (born 6 May 1977), better known by his stage name Suffa, is an Australian rapper and producer best known as one of the members of the hip hop group Hilltop Hoods. He has produced tracks for other artists, such as Funkoars ...
* Trax
* Trillion
* Weapon X
* Wika
Charts
References
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2006 albums
Bliss n Eso albums