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.
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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 his main vocal influences as Fred Schneider & William Shatner. His name was taken from two characters picked at random from the book 'Perdido Street Station' by China Mieville. Prior to this name change Motley released music on home made cassettes between 2003-05 under the name A4, with local rappers Optikal Tricks often featuring heavily, and music almost entirely created on playstation with a broken video camera in place of microphone. Some is available at http://a4wasaprickandhecouldntrhymeforbeans.bandcamp.com - but by 2005, he was grudgingly using an actual computer. The sell-out. All music, from embarrassing past to tentative present, is available for free downloads from bandcamp.com - on three different pages, unfortunately. Motley quit music in 2011 after the final swampglow album 'HELPING YOU BACK TO WORK' was released. He was last seen planning a career in journalism, as is usual for all failures.
