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kava

up, down, left + right...

About Me

tongan/US/freak mix? an 80s baby early 90s troublemaker,bought up the islands till 5, then in the wild lands of PNC- NZ,A serious music addiction got me djing and collecting records at tender age of 15. lifetime addict methinks... about then i started doing some radio work on radio massey 99.4 (cheers mr. lisete & paul c for the boost) then got out after recieving scholarship to wellington institute of creative deviancy aka design school(late 97'). djing around wellington, mainly drum n bass, first at Junglizim (cheers mr. Ruffstep + DPS), then at the Freeform sessions (big up B-lo and Sean Deans). In early 99 this lovely fellow called D Dog rounded us all up and we started the infamous session known as Bass Frontiers, which is still rollin to this day!!! So many heavy vibes! In 02 i got accepted to the Red Bull Music Academy, in Sao Paulo- Brazil. Pretty much changed my life. holy hell! crazy crazy crazy! Have dj'd all over NZ, a little in Oz, Brazil.. blah blah blah... After that now i just dj any ol thing with an underlying black theme: broken beat, hip hop, bmore, funk, boogaloo, soul, jazz, reggae, dancehall, and more...bass is the place cause really, you can't rollout in missionary all the time... nuff music collective vibe here, and have had the opp to be involed in numerous outstanding/shabby/genius sessions. gots to shout all welli crews, past, present and future for inspiration, guidence, distraction, and deviation.Kava, Phrase def, + Mike t make up the base collective for FRIDAY NIGHT FLAVA, every friday 7-9pm on RADIO ACTIVE 89fm. playlist is anything groove orinentated, vibe heavy; from stevie wonder to MF Doom, fela to tribe, bruk to be-bop, moodyman to dre, bluenote to GAMM, Brooklyn to lyall bay to west london, and all the lovely tasty bits in-between... ya feel it?Makin beats seams to be the direction i'm headed, although its really tricky and will take a while...

My Interests

music, drinking and eating, herbs, spice + alternate flavourings, rekkid diggin, strange and funny situations, music, music, music...giggling fits, pork swindling, whoring, buck wildernessesss, family, bbq, sneakers, mpc beatmaking galore

I'd like to meet:

the beat that got away, and my other half

Music:

heeeere we go, and in no order...(deep breath)the main steez,anything black, too much good music to mention! hori-jazz,davis, mingus, washington jr, parker, king jammy,sizzla,cosmic alien breaks, the roots, erykah badu, jill scott, amy winehouse, mark ronson, terri walker, pomo, WGTN MUSIC FAMILY!!! nicolay & 9th wonder, dj spinna, mark pritchard, pharoh(s) monch and sanders, pete rock, quincy, the mizell bro's, primo, dre, ben westbeech, full cycle family, donald byrd,mos def,luke vibert, L7, the ramones,stevie, marvin, curtis and issac, isley bros, bebel gilberto,ed motta, RZA, XRS, marley marl, beanie man,shaggie ota, dyne and open souls fam, matt ford, de la, the UMMAH, native tounges, biz markie,nas, rjd2, dangermouse, mutant crack-soul & drunk hop, all that freaky sweedish-ish, hearin aid, up hygh (wheres the lp on wax man!!), sir rodney p, mystro, skitz, the low-life vibe, jhest, yungun, dilla - odb & biggie(r.i.p..., imagine the jam they're havin!!!), 4hero and all their alternate guises,heavy bristol-esque dnb a la clipz, die, krust and roni,the wu, gypsy funk, kenny dope, keb darge and louie vega, salaam remi, kid sublime, SA RA, kyoto jazz massiv, the jazzy sport thang! mitsu + gagle & grooveman spot, chops, roddy rod & maspyke, that bugz/co-op sound, seiji, domu, afronaught, spiritual south, baby cham, yam who, unabombers, blackbeard, dj benji b, grand pubah, public enemey, the jets, moodymaan, theo parrish, recloose, riki gooch, tha eggs(oh my lord they've done a re-rub of freddies rayray! baaad)turnaround selectors, tru thoughts fam, kero one, sunshine sound system, los hemarnos latinos, aka koa and the raro-nuts, photek, goldie, optical, shy fx, lemon d, danny breaks, rich medina, timbalaand, beatminerz, axlerod, brian eno, burial mix, murizio, sly & robbie, corleone, vybz cartel, t.o.k, beenie man, dj skully, prince, tony allen, bernard purdie, donny hathaway, shark man, shadow, beat junkies....and more to come... general low-end-pelvic-gyrate-bumpty-bump type thing. if you're in the wellington neighbourhood, check 89fm, friday night flavour 7pm-9pm or www.radioactive.fm for the stream.

Movies:

"out kicking and screaming" a fantastic new series of short films from upcoming cult director ross jones. check it.

Television:

turn it off. turn on 89fm every friday at 7pm, grab a drink, make yaself comfortable.

Books:

this killa cooking dictionary/thesaurus type thing that huffman has. genius. magazines a pleanty; Axis, Wax Poetics, Juxtapose, AKA, SNC... on and on...

Heroes:

arrragh!the old man,wangs mom, dilla, mayfield, jazzy jeff, spinna, bugz, hayes, wonder, submariner, b.i.g, primo, marekveeciantubbsmannydunkseanb-lodimandz, ATCQ, de la, ?uestlove, bryan G, XRS, dj Nuts, dr. Dre, the brown hornet, mephisto, bf crew, snoop, dj mu...

My Blog

its been a while....

man, i nuh written anything for a while, so here's a few things i've been feeling in the last likkle while, and have also been getting rotated about the place.erykah badu -honey (seiji relick): joint ...
Posted by kava on Tue, 13 May 2008 01:24:00 PST

before (of before &after...)

part 1.so i get this email a couple weeks back : "do you wanna play at this party?"fair enough, i'm keen, just waiting for the "but"... (there is usually always one)sssooooo it turns out these cats re...
Posted by kava on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:42:00 PST

hmmm

ok, just got back from night out. went to "premier hip hop club". strange. it was like hangin out in barbies doll house if she was ghetto (not even hori! c'mon, we're in enn-zee..). anywhoo, got think...
Posted by kava on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:50:00 PST

what i’m gettin down with...the first of some?

after shackin up with an mpc and workin full time for the winter, a bit more free time soooooo; wow, first blog. i just noticed that for someone that gets down with music alot there's no real rolling ...
Posted by kava on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:09:00 PST