Australia’s 1st handicap match by way of a 2 vs 1 battle between Brisbane’s Noyes/Humanist and NZ/Melbourne’s DEVAST8R. DEVAST8R for the win easy.

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New music from Auckland producers Miso-Shiru & B.Haru called Lemon Shark.

New beat by Jae Charlez, check his SoundCloud page for more.

This is pretty cool, I was expecting to see the bro Tyson Tyler with his predictions lol, oh well, have a watch.

David Dallas begins The Rose Tint turning over a new leaf, stating there’ll be “no more sitting round, wishing things were different round here.”

And so the tone is set for the South Auckland rapper’s sophomore album (nominated for NZ Music Award Album Of The Year, Best Urban/Hip Hop Album and Best Male Solo Artist), with his self-motivational dialogue as the running theme.

“I write songs to inspire myself and hopefully it has that effect on others,” says Dallas. The premise of The Rose Tint is not so much about seeing things as better than they actually are, but rather, as Dallas explains, “concentrating on things that are going good, or working to make things better, rather than just whining about how things suck.” Read more here.

Here’s your chance to meet David Dallas, purchase merchandise, enjoy live music including support acts etc, so get out there and enjoy come 11th Sat Feb 2012, oh yeah, free entry too.

More music via SoundCloud, also check out his Facebook page.

Following their recent chart success, DNK World Music are pleased to announce they are releasing their debut label compilation: DNK World Music Presents: The Academy on March 26th. The announcement comes at an exciting time for the independent Auckland label, which has also just signed an exclusive distribution and marketing deal with Frequency Media Group.

Founded by Nick “Karnel” Williams and producer Daniel “D.Love” Love in 2010, the prolific pair have been independently releasing albums and singles for the last four years, developing a large following with Auckland’s youth, and producing Top 10 singles for other artists including J-Geek and remixes for J Williams & Erakah.

DNK World Music will be showcasing four main artists on the album including R&B Singer Donell Lewis, hip hop artist Rickey Okay, producer D.Love and label founder Karnel. D-Love is an accomplished producer who recently produced the smash hit “My Baby” by Pieter T, which is currently a Top 30 NZ single and has over 300,000 youtube views. He also released the single “Skinny Jeans” in 2011, featuring rapper Rickey Okay, that generated substantial viral buzz amongst the Auckland Dance community. At just 19-years-old Donell Lewis rounds off the line-up as an exciting up-coming talent in the New Zealand R&B scene.

DNK World Music Presents: The Academy will be available from all good record stores from March 26.

Links: Website | Facebook

Seen over at the MTC blog.

Facebook: Derty Sesh | MTC

Formed in 1994 by Anton Carter (Rhombus) and Hamish Clark (Breaks Co-op) as a radio show on RDU. The Richie Broke joined in 1995 and they started performing as rappers/dj’s. After a couple of years Hamish and Richie left to live in Wellington and Anton expanded the crew to include MC Peace. The Charmed one and Traveller and of course MC Scribe. Lay down your love and Worldwide were the earlier BNP’s recordings and Credentials were second generation BNP recordings.

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Uptown Swuite featuring Kahlee (The Seed) with the track “Cukui (Forever)” from the “Beneath the Lights” album hitting front page of djbooth.net on 2nd Feb 2012. Free download of this track via djbooth.net
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