Gough effortlessly juggles J-Dilla inspired beats with flows that are as smooth in delivery as they are sticky with funk proving that he is not only an accomplished Hip-Hop artist, but also a ridiculously skilled jazz musician.
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ABOUT
THE ARTIST
- Alex Gough is a 20 year old Drummer/Producer/Rapper hailing from Waterford, Ireland. Drumming since the age of 6, he quickly became a well-respected master of his craft and soon turned his hand to producing. 2018 saw his first proper outing as a solo artist with the experimental ‘The Infomercial Tape’ EP and hugely popular ‘Afraidofmoney.
- Single ‘Breakfast’, released in February 2019, gained immediate support in high profile playlists such as Spotify’s influential New Music Friday, Free Form and Alternative Hip-Hop along with additions to YouTube Music’s ‘UK Hip-Hop’ and Deezer’s ‘Trending Ireland’
- 2019 has seen him take the project to the live circuit with a brand new 4-piece band, with Gough front and centre on Drumming and vocal duties
- ‘Breakfast’ now on over 300k overall streams
- Top 5 territories are UK, US, Ireland, Australia, Germany
- Breakfast entered the Spotify Irish Viral Chart
- Nialler9 Irish Rappers / Producers you should know in 2019
- Nialler9 best songs (February 2019)
- Record Of The Day – New Artist of the week (April 2019)
- Play Irish Playlisted (Breakfast)
- Amazing Radio B list (Breakfast)
Breakfast’ has been among the strongest Irish hip-hop tracks of 2019 thus far, an exciting addition to the scene. That the track has garnered nearly 80,000 streams on Spotify (in a few weeks) shows we’re not alone in feeling that way.
Nialler9
Keep an eye out for Gough. He’s one to watch.
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