Astrone­sian native, DJ Deez­Naks aka Nah­Bo, tries on the sound­cloud fuck­boy aes­thet­ic, is sad about coloni­sa­tion, then writes beats about it. Nah­Bo is a char­ac­ter designed and embod­ied by Pōneke-based artist and activist Tarana­ki Ah Young-Grace, who mix­es the son­ic aes­thet­ics of neo-soul, indie rap, jazz and trap into an explo­sive and lyri­cal­ly sub­ver­sive expe­ri­ence.

JessB mas­ters new sounds with hype-induc­ing con­fi­dence pro­pelling her ris­ing sta­tus even high­er. When she wasn’t spend­ing her days and nights writ­ing and record­ing at Red Bull Music Stu­dios, JessB has been flex­ing her cre­ative chops as part of the new gen­er­a­tion of local artists, fea­tur­ing on “Fly­ing” as part of NZ rap col­lec­tive BLKCITY. She also ran a week-long work­shop at Round­head Stu­dio with some of her favourite artists and pro­duc­ers, and co-curates the pop­u­lar Filth club night with reg­u­lar col­lab­o­ra­tor Halfqueen.

Com­ing out of Auck­land, NZ, Halfqueen is a DJ whose sets are just as unapolo­getic and empow­ered as her pres­ence in every space. Root­ed in the expe­ri­ence of her Fijian and Paake­haa blood­lines, her back­ground has influ­enced a con­flu­ence of sound that is ever-evolv­ing, musi­cal­ly speak­ing into a local and glob­al sense of dias­po­ra. Spe­cial­iz­ing in the genre-bend­ing sounds of glob­al club, Halfqueen is dri­ven to con­nect via ass shak­ing.