nz music taking over

cracks me up how people are always going on about how kog and the local dnb stuff is "breaking" overseas.
if you look a little below the surface there is a slew of wicked nz "dance" music (on the downbeat/hiphop/reggae tip) music already (and for some time) making waves overseas. all the stuff off stinky jims round trip mars label has been released worldwide,international observer have just released a new ep not even avaliable in nz and now fat freddys drop are getting international release on the highly respected sonar kollectiv label out of germany (witch means midnight marauders is gonna end up in some pretty fuckin awesome djs crates).
maxium respect to all involved.

Ooh yeah, its always good to see or hear about any Nz stuff doing well overseas, especially the quality tunage of Sideways/Int Observer/Fat Freddys..

Ooh yeah, its always good to see or hear about any Nz stuff doing well overseas, especially the quality tunage of Sideways/Int Observer/Fat Freddys..

oops :/

Shapeshifter and Salmonella Dub do well in OZ, their concert soldout the other week and I missed out!

As far a NZhiphop goes, not many of my australian counterparts are into it. They say the mcs try to be too american and don't use their own accents.

I'm not going to write off the whole industry, but
the shit i've heard hiphop-wise coming outa Oz
has been just that- Absolute shit. Appalling one
might say. I really wish australian rappers would
adopt american accents, coz that twang really
gets annoying if you're not an ozzie.

Yes I know their accents sound whack, I find it great that they do try to keep their natural accents whilst rhyming. Quite a difficult task.

I'm not going to name some hiphop artists from NZ who try to act all american and jigga boo with their rhyming but fuck we ain't from the states thats for sure so why try being something you're not? BRING BACK BREAKS COOP AND URBAN DISTURBANCE!!!

Amen Acornm. Zane keeps it real.

not all nz hip hop is trying to be american.

Dubious bros/ pchyco acoustix/ 4 corners and scribe don't sound like yanks.

Yeah its good to hear good new NZ hip hop tunes lately... Very refreshing...

tru bout the aussie accents ... its crazy! Went to an MC battle, and laughed my ass off!

aoteroa has it all over the ozzie kids. lovin the NZ beats.

But Renn OZI BATTLA'S good =) I have THE HERDS album, he's one of the few MCs from OZ I like!

I like Unique a lot...

That Nesian Mystik track has got potential to break world wide...CheFu recorded one of his tracks for top of the pops as they reckon he's going to be big in the UK

both of the above artists wont make it big overseas as mc's, but as male vocalists singing r'n'b. If u ask me scribe and p-money need to drop another albumn cause they work real well together and
p-money's production is rediculously tight

hold up hold up. U say that Scribe don't sound american? Don't get me wrong. I hung in the streets where he's from and he is a dope lyricist but don't tell me that the dude doesn't sound American cos he does. and 4 corners have the tendancy to (sometimes) sound american like on The Xpedition and Synchronise Thoughts.

it may sound a lil bit american in the acents, but its got a very real and distinctive new zealand flavour. We were baught up listening to american hip hop, of course its influenced the way we spit, produce and scratch.

true dat

Scribe is actually losing a lot of his american isms, shoulda heard him a few years back.

Funny how we all dis on the accent thing but the other option is Dark Tower which gives me the cringes.

Besides it's like any other music where if you imitate the authenticity you have to fake the accent otherwise it just doesn't work.

Country and western, Ragga, Death metal, Hiphop etc...

dark tower
buahahahahaha

oh, and some nz dnb is making it big over seas shotta.
Concord dawn and bullet proof are releasing shit in the u.k and people and even thinking of it as nz shit, just down and dirty drum and bass

played a set here in melbourne on sunday night with heaps of nz biz in it, had a dj from detroit bugging me to buy my copy of phase 5's "space bar ep" cos he thought slyland was one of the best riddims he'd ever heard!

by the way i wasn't dissin the local dnb overseas, it just gets more media attention, wen in all actuality theres a lot of other stuff thats probably getting more respect from a wider audience.
i think if theres really gonna be a break international by nz dnb it will be shapeshifter.

by the way i wasn't dissin the local dnb overseas, it just gets more media attention, wen in all actuality theres a lot of other stuff thats probably getting more respect from a wider audience.
i think if theres really gonna be a break international by nz dnb it will be shapeshifter.

ooopsss. didnt mean to post twice

um shotta what im saying is nz dnb HAS broken overseas (outside aus) and it is NOT shapeshifter
its CONCORD DAWN and BULLET PROOF. got it?

yeah yeah they've had some vinyl relaeased in the uk, that i know, but i wouldn't call it "breaking",
anyways.....

I think I would...

Bulletproof are real established in the international dnb scene and a well respected, and Concord Dawn have entered with a BANG! Morning Light has been raved and raved about more than any tune for a long time by any artist. I think that can class as breaking through.

AlthoughI think Shapeshifter are nicer music in my personal opinion.

We had three kiwi tunes in DnB Arena's top 10 last month with Morning Light No. 1 by Concord Dawn

but we wouldnt call that breaking out like p-money big things would we now :p