ARTIST: ELF TRANZPORTER
TITLE: SOUL STEP
RELEASE DATE: AUG 6
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LABEL: INNER TRIBE RECORDS

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As a co-foundating member of one of Australia’s early legendary underground hip hop acts, MetaBass’n'Breath, Marlon Porter (aka: Elf Tranzporter), has become renowned for his unique vocal styles, on the spot lyricism, on his point ‘heart-core’ cipher-honed beatbox skills, his ‘bold-school Hip hop stage presence and vast local and international recording collaboration history.

Over the course of two decades of performing for audiences both in Australia and around the globe, Elf Tranzporter has managed to share the stage with a variety of world class artist and performing acts including: The legendary beat-poet, Allen Ginsberg, Grand Wizard Theodore (inventor of the scratch), Q-Bert, The Roots, Project Blowed, Zion I, Blackstar (Mos Def & Talib Kweli), Living Legends, Spearhead, Kid Lucky, Black Alicious, Ozomatli, Fat Boy Slim, The Invisible Scratch Pickles, Z-Trip, Jeru the Damaga, Run DMC, DJ Shadow, Lyrics Born, Jurassic 5, Public Enemy, John Butler Trio, Australian High Court Judge, Justice Michael Kirby and M1 (Dead Prez),

Elf Tranzporter’s first solo LP, entitled ‘Ethereal Lotus Fleet,’ (2007) continues to draw rave reviews and steadily beckons calls for follow up currently in the works. Elf’s musical endeavors continue to generate numerous collaboration invites, as well as an ever-growing interest from venues, festival event organizers and promoters within the Hip Hop scene, as well as within the wider music world at large.

ET’s International tours over the last two decades have included 6 week tour in Japan (2009) promoting his debut LP, ‘Ethereal Lotus Fleet,’ a Europe (2011 - 2013) with Combat Wombat commencing with the Fusion Festival (East Germany), and continuing on through the UK, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and France followed up by solo performances in the US including NYC, Chicago and LA.

A regular guest with Melbourne’s Ethiopian Jazz Funk Hip hop band, Black Jesus Experience Elf traveled to Africa and performed at the African Jazz Village Club in Addis Ababa and the Tigray-Melaka region of Ethiopia and appears on two songs with Ethiopian jazz legend, Mulatu Astatke on BJX’s LP To Know Without Knowing. He and fellow MC collaborator Mista Monk performed both as a duo as well as solo sets on a two month tour of South Africa which included shows in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town as well as a show in the East African Island of Zanzibar in Tanzania (2017).

Main vocalist for his Middle Eastern-fused, Hip hop, Electronic band, Bashka, Elf Tranzporter performed a series of 12 shows across Turkey in 2018 and as an off-shore member of the group, Heavyweight Dub Champion (SF), Elf Tranzporter appears on the HDC+’s LP, ‘Rise of the Champion Nation’ along side KRS ONE, Dr. Israel and Wu-Tang Clan’s Killah Priest.

Soul Step is Elf's first solo release since 2007, summoning the beat making prowess of Hiatus Kaiyote's - Clever Austin as well as chorus vocals from Sydney based reggae don Rayjah 45, Soul step is the first step into a new direction for Elf which will later manifest in his sophomore album.