We were somewhere around Perth on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold…..Fear and Loathing is the new album by Syllabolix heavyweights Hunter and Mortar. Against overwhelming odds the pair shine like beacons of light on a dark desert highway, rising above all expectations. Hell-bent on bringing joy to the masses, wisdom to the unenlightened, hope to the hopeless and on occasion booze to the party... but don’t count on it. Fear and Loathing is a hard-up, full-frontal recount on just how it is.
During the making of the album both artists had undertaken life changing afflictions and were forced to leave behind their reckless ways, plunging into a world of doctor’s appointments, blood tests, scans, pills, more pills and more problems.
In late 2009 whilst Mortar was on sick leave from work he received a dismal phone call from Hunter, who, as it happened had been admitted to hospital only to be diagnosed with terminal Neuro Endocrine Cancer of the Pancreas with Metastasis to liver. So with the ironically sobering reality that life was now marching double-time, the two turned on the mic and spewedforth the Fear and Loathing conspiring within. Thus began the recount of an epic journey.
It’s not all doom and gloom however; the album crediting the likes of the formidable Flash One, ARIA award winning Hilltop Hoods, and fellow SBX stalwarts Dazastah, Optamus, mighty queen Layla and the kid Graphic. Handling all driving duties on the beats is Mortar with DJ Defyre thumbing a lift to help navigate on the deck duties.
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