Coco Solid dropping knowledge

This is essential viewing. Coco Solid on changing the paridigm.

Coco Solid via FB: "Kia ora y'all. I gave a talk at the Ableton event LOOP in Los Angeles last November. I talk about how if the music industry truly wants all that radical artistic innovation and groundbreaking invention, it needs to authentically (not superficially/tokenisticly) involve the people it has traditionally excluded (but also ironically stolen from) within every step and skill of the music making process.

It's been getting some pr-etty intense reactions lol which has been an interesting/cool/creepy experience for me. I can't stand this video cos I'm so visibly nervous but *shrug* I'll take the L in the hope it inspires someone lol."

Form Albleton's site: "At the most recent Loop summit, we introduced a new solo presentation format where we invited people to give short talks on one aspect of music-making that is important to them personally. This time around, we’re happy to share a video from Coco Solid. 

The Auckland, New Zealand-based artist came up through underground punk and rap scenes, before building a discography of wild disco-rap with Parallel Dance Ensemble, swamp-punk grunge-electro with Badd Energy and radical rap with the nine-member collective Fanau Spa.

Alongside her musical output, she also heads Kuini Qontrol, an “accidental label, club night, podcast umbrella” which she uses to amplify women, LGBTI, queer and decolonising voices in the Pacific. At Loop, Coco Solid gave voice to her conviction that those who have been traditionally excluded from the music industry are the key figures to restoring music’s potential as something more than a mere commodity."

Oh, and don't read the comments on the youtube clip.