Epic night, my many thanks to all those that came along, everyone performed really well and yeah I am bias because I manage them but Evil Mule killed it and it was really dope seeing them rock freestyles to some instrumentals I provided for the crew after thier set had ended,we could have gone for hours.
Los Jineteros did a great early set that got the punters in the groove.
Upper Hutt Posse did a dope set and I have never heard "E Tu" like that before, the 3 piece played really well.
MHB were cool and were just having a great jam with the Evil Mule boys joining them and Art Official scratching over the top (he also did this for Evil Mule and it was dope).
Pete and JD from AVS blew me way with the awesome lighting and visuals, Mike did a great job at the mixing desk.
I had lots of great Friends there and people thanking me for the gig and buying me drinks and seeing the smiles and enjoyment on people's faces is what it was all about.
Thanks so much again Bar Bodega, it was an honour to host this gig there, here is to bigger and better ones next year :)
Big ups to Marv at Manky Chops Gallery for some of these awesome pics...
We had sound check today and everything is sounding and looking really dope, I';m mad excited, if you are in Wellington tonight, please come on down.
Also the band Los Jineteros will be performing and not just not Jinetero MC
Once again my many thanks to Murray, Dan, Mike and the crew at Bar Bodega and all of the artists and DJ's and Pete Stobbart at AVS http://www.avservices.co.nz
and Jon Jameson at Stunn. www.stunn.co.nz
Wellington, please come down to the Wellington institution that is Bar Bodega on December 10th, 2010 and check out hype performances from the legendary...
Upper Hutt Posse:
Upper Hutt Posse are the progenitors of Hip Hop music in the South Pacific. Originally formed as a four piece reggae group in 1985, the Posse emerged at the forefront of the local response to emerging rap culture. Their unique fusion of rap and reggae (in both English and Maori languages) has been an inspirational injection into the national music scene, and a powerful vehicle for UHP's revolutionary socio-political perspectives and contemporary Maori aspirations.
In 1988 they released this country’s first rap song 'E Tu' (Stand Up) following a year later with the first rap album 'Against The Flow', touring with impassioned performances that brought notoriety and respect. With 5 albums (the fourth of which was awarded ‘Best Mana Maori Album’ at the NZ Music Awards 2003) and 18 music video clips, UHP are currently working on their sixth album and released the first single ‘Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou’ (We continue to struggle) in December 2008 celebrating 20 years since their debut.
The song writing vision of Te Kupu (The Word) and MC Wiya is the solid backbone of this ever fresh, fluxing collective of vocalists and musicians. Currently performing as a nine piece live group which includes a horn section.
UHP embrace a kaupapa (objective/purpose) of consciousness-raising and are unrelenting in their momentum, addressing global imperial capitalist culture from an indigenous perspective and enlivening peoples determinations to realizing an altruistic vision of human culture. The perceptive scope of UHP's bi-lingual lyricism and originality secure them a distinguished position in the local music industry.
Thanks to Kerry Buchanan
This was Upper Hutt Posse's classic and first single and a landmark in Aotearoa Hip Hop.
MC and Producer Raw Deal and MC and Producer A.T.S. are quite simply the real deal, 2 mad talented kids with immense lyrical and beat-making skills that take the listener back to the golden age of real Hip Hop, way before the wack bubble-gum Hip Pop took over (one of my fave tracks off the album is a track titled "Hip Pop" which addresses the issue.)
Thier debut album P-Hood Prophecies is an album full of dope beats, clever samples (check the drums on "Hybrid Star Children", the mystic vibes on "Planetary Destinations" or the crazy organ on the hardcore "Digital Warfare" and the dope as hell horn sample on "Hip Pop") and intelligent and raw lyrics, strongly influenced (but not by any means a carbon copy) by The RZA, DJ Muggs and Dr Dre and others, P-Hood Prophecies speaks it's own language, dress code (greeen) and slang, "P-Hood" is slang for Pakakariki (a small town on the Kapiti coast district) where A.T.S. resides and RawDeal stayed for a few years and can often be heard chanted out by Mules (followers, friends and fans of Evil Mule) loudly at their hype, energy filled gigs, also a new addition to the Evil Mule line up is T.Roy.
Presently RawD and A.T.S. are working on new material and are developing a very good following and will be doing more and more gigs in the future, look out for them.
Ty, Jack C and Marv 3 top blokesfrom the awesome Manky Chops Gallery (who create our great flyers and posters) lay down fat and inviting grooves that the Cuban born Jinetero MC and Evil Mule get busy on, Evil Mule will be doing a couple of new cuts at this gig with MHB, while Jinetero MC will jump up and deliver his reggaeton and dancehall styled lyrics, these guys are really hype live and I am lucky to work with them all again.
Check Jinetero MC's ode to Wellington in this clip, shot and edited by Te Kupu.
Plus: Fat Ragga-Hip Hop, Dancehall and Classic 80's and 90's Hip Hop supplied by
Special guest:DJ Art Official
DJ Art Official aka O-Fish has been a popular and well sought after DJ for many years and is a top notch selector of Reggae, Dancehall and Ragga as well as great Hip Hop.
Art has played all over Wellington, Auckland and other places in New Zealand and Australia and recently came back from London and played some gigs over there also, Art was also a part of Radio Active and New Zealand's longest running Hip Hop show, The Wednesday Nite Jam and is a talented beat-maker and currently working on projects to be released in the future.
Art will be bringing the very best of Dancehall and Ragga-Hip Hop to The Code Of The Streets gig.
and DJ Jaz (ex Weds Nite Jam, Cold Rock Da Spot)
DJ Jaz (currently playing out regularly and loving it)will be supplying the very best in classic 80's and 90's Hip Hop and promises to have the crowds rhyming lyrics and dancing like crazy, the recipe is thick basslines, fat drums and dope rhymes and nothing but the real Hip Hop.
All for only $10
This will be an Epic night of Hip Hop-Dancehall-Ragga madness and it would be dope to see you there :)
Many thanks to Bar Bodega, Manky Chops and Radio Active 89 FM and Kelly H (our door girl)
