2016LYFE: smokedope2016, ghostfacekush, BARTESIANWATER

Astral People presents 2016LYFE, the internet-bred collective making its way to Australia for the first time.

It was born somewhere between SoundCloud rabbit holes, 240p YouTube uploads, 4am Discord links and the darker corners of the internet. This December it's bringing three of its names down under to The Triffid in Brisbane: smokedope2016, ghostfacekush and BARTESIANWATER.

At the centre of the Australian debut is smokedope2016, playing his first-ever show on Australian soil. His music lives somewhere between blown-out bass, sparkling synths, divine vocal samples and lyrics that swing from drug-fuelled flexes to genuine emotional damage. His latest record, THE COMEDOWN, completes a trilogy that began with 2024's THE COMEUP and continued through 2025's THE PEAK. Across it, he turns the mythology of internet rap inward. The drugs, the money and the flexes are all still there, but so are the consequences. It's cloud rap with the lights switched on.

Joining him is BARTESIANWATER, a key producer and collaborator in the 2016LYFE world and instrumental to the sound of THE COMEDOWN, helping shape its warped, weightless production and hazy atmosphere.

Fellow 2016LYFE artist ghostfacekush completes the lineup, bringing another piece of the collective's strange, internet-born universe to Australia for the first time.

2016LYFE - AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 2026. Tickets on sale now.