Music News - Hip-hop trailblazer set to kick off 2016 in NZ
18 November 2015 - 0 Comments
Hip-hop
legend DJ Premier will be in New Zealand to bring in the New Year and party like it’s 1999.
Considered one of hip-hop’s most important and influential trailblazers, DJ Premier kicks off
his Kiwi stopover behind the decks on New Year’s Eve at Wellington’s hottest
club, Meow. He’ll
keep the party going and head north for a second gig at Auckland’s top venue, The Powerstation, on
January 3.
The Texas-born DJ
Premier has a lengthy list of accolades and achievements that
begins in the 80s when he got his break as a DJ, before becoming one half of
the famed East Coast duo Gang
Starr alongside Guru in 1989.
Gang Starr released their debut single Manifest and album No More Mr. Nice Guy. Gang
Starr then contributed to the soundtrack for Spike Lee's 1990 film Mo' Better Blues.
Their subsequent work produced a pair of instant East Coast classics - 1991's Step In The Arena and
1992's Daily Operation.
With a unique raw and aggressive style of battling loops and heavy scratching, Premier dominated
throughout much of the 1990s and became known as the go-to producer, thanks to
his work with some of the East Coast’s biggest names, from Mos Def and Notorious B.I.G, to Nas and Jay-Z.
The year 1994 was a huge one for Premier.
As well as dropping the Gang
Starr classic, Hard To Earn, his productions appeared on five-star, all-time
classics by Nas (Illmatic),
the Notorious B.I.G.(Ready To Die),
and Jeru the Damaja (The Sun Rises In The East). As if that wasn’t enough to cement his place in the
halls of hip-hop history, Premier had tracks on three of the first four Jay-Z albums, and made a triumphant comeback in the new millennium, working with Common, D'Angelo, Jadakiss, and Snoop Dogg.
Do not miss the chance to be among the first in the world to bring in 2016
alongside a true legend of the decks. DJ
Premier will be supported in Wellington by the NZ DMC champion
and World DMC runner-up, DJ
Spell, with Dam-Galso on the bill! In Auckland, Premier is joined by Che Fu (DJ set) and Gregg Harper.
Tickets for both gigs are on sale this Thursday November 19 at 9.00am.
Thursday December 31– Wellington,
Meow;
Tickets from nonstoptix.com
Sunday January 3– Auckland,
The Powerstation;
Tickets from aaaticketing.co.nz
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