London-born but brought up in suburban Western Australia, N’fa Jones was first known to Australia as a nationally-ranked champion hurdler. However, music has always been on his mind. So from the year 2000 to 2006, N’fa spent most of his time selling albums, writing, recording, and touring all major Australian\/NZ festivals with his ground breaking outfit, 1200 Techniques.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After dropping his critically acclaimed solo album ‘Cause An Effect’ – which featured the Black Eyed Peas, DBridge, Roots Manuva and Dobie – N’fa left this sunny island called Oz to tour the world. Travelling and writing across the US, UK, & Scandinavia, Canada, Korea he created a huge backlog of material and formed his idea for No Fixed Abode \u2013 a new musical movement with a range of sounds, melodies, heavy bass-lines and a UK based outfit.<\/p>\n

Now he’s back and he brought us a gift from abroad. Signed to Draphts’ new label, The Ayems, he’s turning his backlog material into something tangible for the public to hear. Currently working on an untitled album soon to be released, N’fa is jumping back into the music scene. Not missing a beat, he’s touring across the country to give us taste of what soon is to come.<\/p>\n

I like your name, does it mean anything?<\/strong>
\nN’fa is my born name.. It means \u201cMy Father\u201d.. My father named me this because when he first saw me, he says he saw his fathers spirit in my eyes. I never met my Grandpa as he passed away a little while before I was born.<\/p>\n

\ufffcYou were a nationally ranked Australian 110m hurdler. Now you\u2019re a world known and respected MC\/singer\/songwriter\/producer; was it a gradual transition from one to the other?<\/strong>
\nNah.. Music and Sports had always worked hand in hand.. The two kept my busy as a kid, and out of trouble. I stopped running due to a pretty big ankle injury in a game of pick up ball on the council flats in Fitzroy.. So, I missed the whole season, and spent the whole time touring and pushing the first 1200 Techniques album, with my foot in a cast. We won the first ARIA by an Oz Hip Hop group in Australia that year.. I guess things went as they needed to.<\/p>\n

Do you still run hurdles now?<\/strong>
\nHaha, Nooooooo! Tho, I do miss it at times.<\/p>\n

\ufffcAmong other things, you\u2019ve toured the hell out of this world; US, Canada, Scandinavia, \ufffcKorea, is there any place, creatively (or pleasurably) that stood out?<\/strong>
\nEvery place was amazing because I never could have hoped for such amazing outcomes from my travels.. Its amazing the people you meet through writing music.. I’ve seen some incredible studios (professional and make-shift), had incredible times and got to connect with cities on a far deeper level than just travelling though.. I think my Scandinavian trips might stand out the most tho.. My times in Stockholm and Copenhagen creatively, personally, and spiritually, were all kinds of awesome.<\/p>\n

\ufffcWith those travels you wrote a massive backlog of music, did you find that certain places changed the tone of your music?<\/strong>
\nDefinitely. Every place changed the tone of the music. Its kind of inevitable.
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\nWhere? And how?
\n\ufffcI’d be writing with different beat makers\/producers.. I’d be feeling their vibe, the vibe \ufffcof the city.. I would always remain me, but another part of me I hadn’t really met yet, might become more prominent depending on the city and the music we were writing.. Plus I was on a personal journey trying to get to where I am now.<\/p>\n

\ufffc\ufffcYou were gone for a hot minute and in a time of homesickness you wrote London Still \ufffc(written with Smiddy & The Dutch; Prod RUNFORYOURLIFE). Was it something specific that brought it on?<\/strong>
\n\ufffcWell, I heard London Still by The Waifs in a cafe in London.. That song had never really connected with me that much, not until I heard it in London and realised the \ufffcfeeling so much.. Smiddy (Sensible J Smith) & Dutch had just sent the beat over from Oz, and it all just came together really quickly and naturally.. Its a definite fav.<\/p>\n