In the Lab with Plutonic

Holding it down for the Australian hip-hop scene since the-mid 90s has been Leigh Ryan AKA Plutonic Lab, whose productions have been influential in shaping the sound of our homegrown rap talent for nearly 3 decades.

Producing for the who’s who of Aussie MCs, dropping three groundbreaking albums in the duo Muph & Plutonic, Pluto is still grinding just as hard as ever, as heard on his new EP of soulful, experimental underground sounds, The New Ruins.

RTRFM’s Music Director Will Backler caught up with Pluto for a chat about the new EP, his early days in production, samples versus live instrumentation and more, and started off by asking when he first discovered hip-hop…