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Seth Sentry Announces National Tour Supports

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Taking on a 45-date-strong national tour was always going to be something of a mammoth task for acclaimed Aussie rapper Seth Sentry, so it's probably fortunate that the hip hop luminary has managed to gather up some friends to fill his forthcoming Strange New Past tour support slots and lighten the load somewhat.

Joining Sentry on his epic run around the country will be ascendant contemporaries Dylan Joel and Ivan Ooze. Joel, if you're unfamiliar, is a Melbourne-based muso who has enjoyed something of a meteoric leap to prominence, selling out his own debut full-length album showcase, with a second announced quickly after, as well as already counting among his credentials a national support spot for US rapper Watsky on his recent Aussie sojourn. Recent single Swing, featuring Mantra, has been doing great business for the Melburnian, the track and its accompanying video overflowing with high-profile contemporaries — he secured Bliss N Eso beat-maker DJ Ism to help out on record, and brought in lauded visual artist and director Grey Ghost for the clip.

 

Fellow Melburnian rhyme-smith Ivan Ooze, known to the tax man as Ben Townsend, has had a similarly upwardly mobile past 12 months, with debut EP Ringwood Rich dropping in August 2014 following a lead-up that saw the artist drop a freestyle video every Friday prior to its release. The stunt - if we could be so crude as to call it that - worked gangbusters, though, and assured that Ooze now finds himself stepping out in front of rapturous crowds on the tregular. He joins Sentry's tour fresh from his own Social Alien tour, and fills the support duties with prior experience for Cypress Hill, Ice Cube and Allday to recommend him.

The Strange New Past tour kicks off at Sydney's Come Together Festival on Saturday, 6 June. See theGuide or The Music App for more information.

Seth Sentry's second album, from which the Strange New Past tour takes its name, will be released the day before the Come Together performance, on Friday, 5 June, via High Score Records/Inertia.