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Josef Motley
6+ albums
raphiphopportsmouthHip-HopUK hip-hop
about
Josef Motley was a fictional character in the videogame swampglow, a point & click game created by the notorious dinosaur-masked ventriloquist Grief Bitmap Designer, with music by Staring Flak MC, who based the character of Josef Motley somewhat heavily upon himself. His day job is in the theatrical dadaist collective Tortoiseshell Male. He released two collaborative albums, dCABB & Josef Motley's 'the laughing cough' in 2009 and Josef Motley and the lost & found sound's 2008 mixtape LP. He has also worked with Wilberforce Malaise, the renowned Yasson, Abe Normal of Myriad, TENCHOO, jamesphoney & jamesreindeer, AOSR, faux poser, kamikaze picnic, Zombie Ninja Schmoe, vf wing, Xaigon, Odynophagia, false light & Rusty Sheriff of Aeroplane Attack. He was also part of the short-lived "supergroup" more people, comprising of various members of swampglow & the Strange Death of Liberal England, and he can occasionally be found DJing badly in his bedroom under the name ObscureActivists. When questioned, Motley (a fictional character) had this to say: "I hate 99% of hiphop but carry on choosing to make it for some reason. As my 'music' becomes increasingly niche market, my chances of ever making any money from it dwindle exponentially, yet I continue to indulge my follies in notorious electro quintet swampglow and the completely unheard of Tortoiseshell Male in which I play a fictional character called Staring Flak MC, a rapper somewhat deluded by his own self-grandeur." He claimed hi
top songs
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i am micro chipped [w.Pye Wackett & Andreas Hobo]
332Threepwood's lament
113dead now. . . dead to me
94an apology.
85trebuchet melange
86Stobbart Threepwood & Threadbare [w.Wairmi Asahbajj & Odynophagia]
87parents evening with chumpbubble & paul
78(self titled)
69APB (a wry pleasure to be) [w.dCABB]
610your head on a stick.
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