Old school kiwi hiphop styles featuring Joni and Sonny Sagala. Johni ended up in Lost Tribe and Sonny performs as Dei Hamo. I remember we did a gig with them supporting us (Hallelujah Picassos) down in Fort St at a club called Forts Xing. They were wicked too.
Youtube notes: "Johni and Sani Sagala doing dey thang with the PD Dance team Ali Cowley and Willie Boaza, with DJ Chris Halavaka on the ones and twos. Its the time when Georgie Pies was king for the clubbers coming home at 3 or 4 in the mornings, where $5 could get you full with $1 pies and shakes and $3 fish and chips.
This was our last gig before we decided to split up as my bro went to start DEI-HAMO and I was to pursue my acting career, But then we were approached by Phill Fuemana to do the Proud tour and compilation album, so we stuck it through for one more year as "Pacifican Descendants." PD-94-RIP"
Hat tip to Simon Grigg for the link.
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Cool link.
Some credit should be going to Andy Vann for the work he put in supporting these guys and organising gigs for heaps of those West and South Auckland crews.
Does anyone at all remember the Voodoo Rhyme Syndicate?
I remember Andy Vann and Voodoo Rhyme Syndicate - my old band Hallelujah Picassos had a song called God Gave Us Boom Boom Washington that namechecked them.
Voodoo Rhyme Syndicate's label was gonna sign us for a single, but we got rejected by their major label distributor - I still have the rejection letter, signed by one Mike Chunn of CBS.
Thanks for the comment!
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