Morgan Lewis, known as Morganics, is a Cairns based hip hop performer. Morganics started performing in Sydney in 1984 and was a member of

Metabass'n'Breath Metabass'n'Breath are a hip hop band from Sydney. The group was formed by Elf Tranzporter, Morganics and Baba Israel after they met while busking. They recorded two albums and toured America twice. The group self-released their debut album, ''Se ...

who toured in Australia and America. Morganics works around Australia on community educational hip-hop projects such as 1999's Desert Rap with

Brothablack Shannon Narrun Williams, known as Brothablack, is a Sydney-based Indigenous hip hop performer. Brothablack was a founding member of Deadly Award-winning group South West Syndicate. He has since gone solo and has worked as an MC for The National ...

and Monkey Mark from

South West Syndicate South West Syndicate are an Australian hip-hop collective from Sydney. They started performing in 1992. They are made up of Aboriginal, Lebanese-Australian, Pacific Islander, Croatian, German and Anglo hip hop artists. Core members include Munki ...

, organised with Tony Collins from

Triple J Triple J (stylised in all lowercase) is a government-funded, national Australian Radio in Australia, radio station intended to appeal to listeners of alternative music, which began broadcasting in January 1975. The station also places a greate ...

. ABC TV made a documentary on Desert Rap. Another hip-hop program Morganics participated in was in Wilcania in 2002 where he recorded a group of local boys called

The Wilcannia Mob The Wilcannia Mob or Barkandji Boys were a hip-hop musical group of five Indigenous Australians from Wilcannia, New South Wales. The group formed in 2001, aged from nine to fourteen, with Buddy Blair, Keith Dutton, Wally Ebsworth, Colin "Colro ...

. The resulting track, "Down The River" got high rotation on

and won a Deadly award. The song was included on a CD of young Aboriginal hip hop artists recorded at workshops around Australia called ''All You Mob'', which New York Times named in their top ten alternative albums of the year. He conducts these workshop as he feels it is important to give young people direct access to Australian hip hop. Morganics has released five solo albums, his latest is "Music For My Friends And My Enemies". He also directed and acted in Australia's first ever hip hop feature film "Survival Tactics". (one of which contained second disc which was a followup to ''All You Mob'') and worked with Miles Merrill on another. He has performed a live set for

. He performs hip hop theatre shows such as ''Crouching Bboy Hidden Dreadlocks''. "Stereotype" with Wire MC and "Survival Tactics" with a six person cast.

Discography

*Morganics - ''Invisible Forces...'' (2002) Independent/Creative Vibes *Morganics - ''Evolve/All You Mob 2'' (2003) Independent/Creative Vibescyclic defros
Morganics ? Evolve (Independent/Creative Vibes) review
*Morganics - ''Hip Hop is my Passport'' (2007) Independent/Creative Vibes *Miles Merrill with Morganics - ''Dirty Curly'' (2008) Invisible Forces *Shopfront Theatre for Young People & Morganics present - ''All You Mob!'' (2002) ABC

References

External links

Official site
*Local Nois
Morganics - interview
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