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Elefant Traks
Elefant Traks was a record label based in Sydney, founded by Kenny Sabir (p.k.a.Traksewt) in 1998. The label predominantly released Australian hip hop music, and founded its own hip-hop collective, The Herd, as well as managing acts like Horrorshow and Hermitude. The label was distributed in Australia by Inertia Distribution.
Elefant Traks started in 1998 by Kenny Sabir (Traksewt). Under Sabir's management, the label released their first compilation album, Cursive Writing, which was created for "a close friend moving overseas". Sabir explained the process in 2011: "For the first compilation, some of the people on there I had never actually even met at the time of release. It was sliding a CD under the door type of stuff. I think that was Richie (Tamplenizza), I didn't meet him."
Sabir enlisted the help of Tim Levinson (Urthboy) to run the administration arm of the label, as the nature of the work was not compatible with his aspirations.
Sabir, Tamplenizza and Levinson became founding members of the Australian hip-hop group The Herd, which is also signed to Elefant Traks. Over the first decade of the label's existence, The Herd released four studio albums on the label. Jane Tyrrell, a singer joined the band during the recording of The Sun Never Sets, the band's third album. Also during this period, Levinson released three solo albums under his Urthboy moniker with the label.
In November 2008, Elefant Traks celebrated its 10th anniversary with an event held at The Forum venue in Moore Park, Sydney.
Joelistics (TZU) joined the label's roster as a solo artist in early 2011, prior to the release of his first solo album, Voyager. After the announcement, Ozi Batla stated:
"We’ve been mates for ages—we’ve shared a lot of creative, outrageous and funny times—it feels like Joelistics is already part of the fam[ily], he’s a natural fit for Elefant Traks and the album is sick".
As of 2012 the label had signed six musical acts and released over 50 albums since its inception. In September 2012, the label announced a new signing.[non-primary source needed] Jimblah, an Aboriginal Australian producer, MC and singer, was revealed as the new Elefant Traks artist. Levinson explained being introduced to Jimblah's music in an October 2013 blog post:
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Elefant Traks
Elefant Traks was a record label based in Sydney, founded by Kenny Sabir (p.k.a.Traksewt) in 1998. The label predominantly released Australian hip hop music, and founded its own hip-hop collective, The Herd, as well as managing acts like Horrorshow and Hermitude. The label was distributed in Australia by Inertia Distribution.
Elefant Traks started in 1998 by Kenny Sabir (Traksewt). Under Sabir's management, the label released their first compilation album, Cursive Writing, which was created for "a close friend moving overseas". Sabir explained the process in 2011: "For the first compilation, some of the people on there I had never actually even met at the time of release. It was sliding a CD under the door type of stuff. I think that was Richie (Tamplenizza), I didn't meet him."
Sabir enlisted the help of Tim Levinson (Urthboy) to run the administration arm of the label, as the nature of the work was not compatible with his aspirations.
Sabir, Tamplenizza and Levinson became founding members of the Australian hip-hop group The Herd, which is also signed to Elefant Traks. Over the first decade of the label's existence, The Herd released four studio albums on the label. Jane Tyrrell, a singer joined the band during the recording of The Sun Never Sets, the band's third album. Also during this period, Levinson released three solo albums under his Urthboy moniker with the label.
In November 2008, Elefant Traks celebrated its 10th anniversary with an event held at The Forum venue in Moore Park, Sydney.
Joelistics (TZU) joined the label's roster as a solo artist in early 2011, prior to the release of his first solo album, Voyager. After the announcement, Ozi Batla stated:
"We’ve been mates for ages—we’ve shared a lot of creative, outrageous and funny times—it feels like Joelistics is already part of the fam[ily], he’s a natural fit for Elefant Traks and the album is sick".
As of 2012 the label had signed six musical acts and released over 50 albums since its inception. In September 2012, the label announced a new signing.[non-primary source needed] Jimblah, an Aboriginal Australian producer, MC and singer, was revealed as the new Elefant Traks artist. Levinson explained being introduced to Jimblah's music in an October 2013 blog post: