In between finishing up work on my new project, I’m doing a couple of special shows outside of Auckland. I never got to hit up the whole country after Something Awesome dropped so it’s good to be ticking some spots off the list. Expect to hear all that Something Awesome-ness, and some sneak peeks of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 16, 2010
Once again it’s on The stakes have officially been raised for this edition of Mean As. Straight out of Ann Arbor, Michigan we bring you outlandishly good MC: Buff 1 Picked as one of URB magazine’s next 100, Buff has worked with everyone from Black Milk and Elzhi(Slum Village) to Mr Porter. Hailing from the same crew [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Mean As 2 coming thru! The crew returns for a back to the essence celebration of urban music that isn’t wack. New songs from the NEW David Dallas project, Che Kamikaze and Fire & Ice on the wheels of steel(AKLiens) and a special DJ set from PNC. If you’ve been round his house when the drinks are [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Life is a funny beast. Sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down. The worst day ever can be salvaged by a tidbit of good news, alternatively everything can be going swell then come crashing down in an instant. Regardless, we all look to tomorrow with some hope that it might be better than the day before it. Jordache [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Mean As For many in Auckland, being a fan of “urban” music ain’t easy. Sometimes you don’t want to go to a club and hear guys who sound like robots harping on about Patron and shawtys ALL night. Alternatively, it can be hard to actually have a good time and stay awake through a whole night [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Quick update from me, as I’m just snatchin a couple minutes on Che’s laptop. If you weren’t aware, I’ve been in the U.S for the last week. Spent the last 5 days at SXSW havin the mean time, performed on Friday night and spent the rest of the time checkin out shows from pretty much [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 12, 2010
I like clothes to be functional, clean and simple – so I tried to make something that I’d actually wear and that you could easily fit into an outfit, as opposed to some big gimmicky print. The lettering was taken from the blackboard montage in the Something Awesome artwork, and was drawn by my niece [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 11, 2009
The following is a discussion I had via MSN with Jordan a.k.a Jordache, one half of West Auckland production super-duo Fire & Ice. F&I produced 6 of the 12 songs on Something Awesome, aided in the completion of 2 other songs, and Jordan guested alongside Young Sid and Niko on the song “First Time”. Needless [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 24, 2009
Something Awesome drops in exactly 7 days. If you needed some further proof you should pick this album up, Real Groove has come to the rescue with a nice write up and free download of the track “Slow Down”. It’ll only be up for the next week so get in there fast. Some of you may remember [...]
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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