Good Buddha

The nature of the Australian music scene, focused as it is on live performance whether it's in cramped pubs or in packed arenas, has had an interesting effect on several of the country's home-grown hip-hop groups. Rather than relying on samples found by digging through crates of funk records from the '70s, some of them chose to use real live funk musicians as their backing wherever possible, creating a hybrid sound that's closer to latter-day Lyrics Born (who has a large following in the country, even recording his live album there) than it is to traditional boom-bap. Good Bud...