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Brethren are one of the longest-serving hip hop crews in Australia, celebrating 20 years in 2009. The group comprises Matthew Peet aka “Mistery” and Claude Rodriguez aka Wizdm.〔Australian Hip Hop's multi-cultural literacies, A subculture emerges into the light, Tony Mitchell〕 Brethren featured on the first full length Australian hip hop album, starred in the first Australian hip hop documentary, and produced the first ever Australian hip hop concept album. They were also one of the first commercially signed hip hop crews in Australia. Brethren appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine, the SBS Compass documentary ''The Mistery of Hip Hop'', and on TV shows – Recovery, Channel V’s Soup Kitchen, Room 208, and SBS's Alchemy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate=2011-03-03 ) Music Australia, National Library of Australia & National Film & Sound Archive (Australia)〕 Brethren have supported acts such as Ice-T, Run DMC, Blackalicious, DJ Kool Herc, Playdough, Vex Da Vortex〔http://www.blackstump.org.au/artist.aspx?id=-626605785 〕 and performed at festivals including The Big Day Out, Livid and Blackstump Music Festival.〔〔(- 23k )〕 Apart from their own releases, they have contributed tracks to numerous collaborative albums such as ''MY MY'', ''Home Brews 2'', ''Basic Equipment'', ''Hip-hop A Place Of Peace'', ''4 Elements'' and ''Culture of Kings 2''.〔(Culture of Kings II - Australian Hip Hop Tour 2002 - YouTube )〕 == Background == Mistery and Wizdm first met in 1989 at the Heavenly Taste Pizza shop in Sydney, where Mistery was working at the time. They realised they had mutual interests in Hip-Hop, B-Boying and spirituality and decided to form Brethren.〔(Local Noise » Brethren )〕〔Rolling Stone magazine September 1996〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Compass: The Mistery Of Hip Hop (TV program transcript) )〕 Brethren got their first big break in the hip hop scene courtesy of Sereck from the Australian hip hop group Def Wish Cast. Sereck secured a spot for Brethren at a Kinselas Jams gig, organized by Scott Wolf and Code Blue from (then) Sound Unlimited From then on they started performing at underground gigs on a regular basis and also started running workshops at youth centres and community events throughout Sydney.〔〔Eye of the needle, Spring 1996〕 In 1992, they appeared on the debut album ''Knights of the Underground Table'' by Def Wish Cast. This album was the first full length Australian hip hop album. Brethren recorded their first four song demo on cassette in 1992. The recording was very popular and circulated quickly throughout the grassroots industry. The demo came to the attention of TV show Simon Townsend's Wonder World who offered to make a video clip for their song "Crusin". The clip went on to be played on TV shows - rage,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Brethren – Bastion )〕 Channel 3 and Channel 31 (Australia). It was also a crucial part of a locally produced production ''Spooky Tricks'' that sold internationally.〔http://asia.cnet.com/music/0,39058993,39262575p-2r,00.htm 〕 The demo also came to the attention of a subsidiary of Mushroom Records called MDS who backed Brethren so that they could release their first CD; the ''Big Brother'' EP in 1996. This resulted in Brethren becoming one of the first commercially signed hip hop groups in Australia. In August 1996, Brethren performed tracks from their ''Big Brother'' album at Bomb Australia's B-Boy Kingdom 2 - a hip hop jam in Brisbane, alongside Warcry (Gold Coast). In 1996, while Mistery was touring overseas, Wizdm recorded and produced his first solo album ''Words of Wizdm.'' In 1997 Brethren released the single "Slingshot" which received airplay on Triple J and featured on the compilation ''Homebrews 2''. In 1998 they appeared in the first Australian hip hop documentary ''Basic Equipment'' which was broadcast on ABC TV during the government supported youth culture themed ''Loud Festival''.〔 The film was made by Paul Fenech (creator of SBS' Pizza series)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=15 MOMENTS IN SYDNEY HIP HOP by Mark Pollard )〕 and narrated by Sereck from Def Wish Cast. The film featured a range of prominent artists in the Sydney hip hop scene. In 2000 Brethren joined the label Mustard Records and launched a compilation project ''In Da Midst'', which featured 18 tracks from emerging artists from Australia and New Zealand. The project coincided with a national tour that saw Brethren team up with acclaimed U.S. hip-hop artist, Vex Da Vortex, from the group BoogieMonsters. In 2004 Brethren released their first full-length album ''Beyond Underground''. The album was produced by Wizdm, and included guest appearances by some Australian hip-hop artists; Morganics, Sereck, Sleeping Monk, Hoodsta, Mass Mc and DJs Nic Toth, Diggz, Flagrant and Nino Brown.〔 The album was the first ever Australian hip-hop concept album and took 3 years to complete. Each track on the album depicted a part of an original sci-fi story written by Brethren, with inspiration drawn from films such as ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'', ''War of the Worlds'', and ''Mad Max''. The album was released with a limited edition full size comic book, with illustrations by Mistery, which depicted the story line from each track.〔〔Brag 29/3/04 – B-Side〕〔Stealth Magazine vol 2, Issue 9 “Brethren – Beyond Underground”〕 Since the group’s formation, Mistery and Wizdm have been heavily involved in promoting MCing, Graff and Breaking to teenagers and up and coming artists in the hip hop scene. Maya Jupiter, another Australian hip hop artist and ex-radio broadcaster has publicly acknowledged the support of Mistery in her early career.〔(Compass: Compass: The Mistery Of Hip Hop - ABC TV )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brethren (Australian group)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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