NZ Music Awards Finalists Announced

Congratulations to all the musicians & artists who were nominated for the New Zealand Music Awards this week. Representing Dirty among the swathe of local legends is none other than our own P-Money[Everything] & Bulletproof[Soundtrack to Forever], who are competing for the same award, best Electronica album. The guys are up against a solid effort from live drum & bass act Shapeshifter, so this award promises to be a tight one.

Also representing Dirty in the nominations is local hip-hop heavyweight David Dallas, a strong contender for the Best Urban/Hip-Hop album with his exceptional 'Something Awesome'. Our boy is moving to New York in a matter of weeks, so if he takes this one out, it would be a great send off. This man is on fire!

To check out the full list of nominations check em out here

Maen As III feat. US rapper Buff1 performing his first NZ show

MEAN AS III
Featuring BUFF1 direct from Ann Arbor, Michigan
DJs P-Money, CheKamikaze, and Fire & Ice
Hosted by DAVID DALLAS
Friday 27 August, 2010 @ KHUJA

Talented US rapper Buff1 (Ann Arbor, Michigan) will perform his first show on New Zealand soil at the third installment of popular Auckland hip hop night “Mean As”. Rapper David Dallas will host and perform alongside Buff1 at Mean As III. Sounds will be provided by P-Money, CheKamikaze, and production duo Fire & Ice (David Dallas, Scribe, PNC). Mean As III will take place at Khuja (536 Queen Street) on the evening of Friday 27 August, 2010.

Buff1 first entered New Zealand hip hop fans consciousness when he collaborated with local rap hero David Dallas on 2009’s “Front To Back Remix”(the b-side to Dallas’s popular single “I Get The Feelin”). Buff1 and David Dallas later performed the remix together at the prestigious SXSW 2010 Music Festival in Austin, Texas. A blazing performance that was documented by influential hip hop blog and tastemaker The Smoking Section.

Buff1’s roots lie with the Ann Arbor rap crew known as the Athletic Mic League (AML), with whom he released two studio albums Sweats and Kicks, and Jungle Gym Jungle (DJ Haircut from AML is the musical genius now known as Mayer Hawthorne). He broke out into his solo career in 2007 and has since recorded two full-length albums, the acclaimed Pure and There’s Only One. His projects featured notable Detroit hip hop artists including Mayer Hawthorne, Black Milk, Guilty Simpson, and Elzhi (Slum Village); and production from Black Milk, Wajeed and Mr. Porter. He also released a mixtape in 2009 entitled It’s A 1derful Life which features David Dallas’s “Front To Back Remix”. Buff1 is currently in the studio with DJ Rhettmatic (World Famous Beat Junkies) finishing up their collaborative project, Crown Royale.

An accomplished live performer, Buff1 has shared the stage with some of the biggest acts in hip-hop (Eminem, Mos Def, De La Soul, Slum Village, Jurassic 5, Dead Prez, Talib Kweli, Little Brother and Ghostface Killah), and has toured extensively throughout Europe, and the US.

Mean As is a club night dedicated to quality hip hop, R&B, funk and soul music. Contrary to popular belief, some people enjoy Slum Village and Snoop Dogg or listen to Erykah Badu as well as The Dream. Disillusioned with the various club nights focusing on either end of the commercial/conscious spectrum the Mean As Mob set out to fill the void. With a foot overground and underground, Mean As is about playing good music - period. Whether old, new, obscure, or mainstream.

Strictly the mean shit!

Mean As III @ Khuja (536 Queen Street) on Friday 27 August, 2010
Door sales $15 per person
Doors at 10pm

Concord Dawn News

Concord Dawn returns with his long awaited 5th studio album, ‘The Enemy
Within’ on September 20th. Featuring the classic Concord Dawn sound with a
plethora of vocal talent, including Rikki Morris, Paul McLaney, Nina
McSweeney, Thomas Oliver, J Dubs along with guests Bulletproof, Cern and
Rido.
To celebrate the release of the new album ‘The Enemy Within’ Matt will return
from Vienna for a nation wide tour through September and October.

UPRISING, GROOVE GUIDE, GEORGE FM AND JUICE TV ARE
PROUD TO PRESENT:
CONCORD DAWN – THE ENEMY WITHIN TOUR 2010

September
17th Dunedin - Bath St
18th Queenstown - Subculture
24th Greymouth - Railway Hotel
25th Hamilton – Flow
October
1st Invercargill - Barluca
2nd Auckland - North Harbour Stadium LG
8th Tauranga - Colosseum
9th CHCH - Ministry
15th Auckland - Zen
16th Wellington - Sandwiches
22nd Gisbourne - Soho
23rd Nelson - Phat club
TICKETS FOR ALL SHOWS GO ON SALE MONDAY 6TH AUGUST

You can check clips of the new material on Concord Dawn's Soundcloud

Mean As #2

Something fresh from the Dirty camp this week, the Mean As Crew returns for a back to the essence celebration of urban music that isn’t wack.

New songs from the NEW David Dallas project, Che Kamikaze and Fire & Ice on the wheels of steel(AKLiens) and a special DJ set from PNC. If you’ve been round his house when the drinks are flowing you’d know – the bro knows how to choose a song or two.

It’s gonna be epic, it’s gonna be true, it’s gonna be real.

GoodTymes #2

Coming up from the P-Money camp, the second installment of the new club night "GoodTymes" featuring none other than Bevan Keys. Get ya dancing shoes on!

Some words from the man himself, P-Money:

"The second edition of our new monthly party “GoodTymes” is taking place on Saturday the 31st of July at Hitch, 2 Fort Lane, Auckland City.
This month we’re happy to be representing the new school with Fire & Ice and one of my old school favourites, the legendary Bevan Keys, playing a selection of Hip-Hop, Funk, Soul, Boogie and generally great tunes. It’s a dope bar with good music, great people and GoodTymes for all. Make sure we see you there!"

Directed by Greg Page
D.O.P. Andrew Stroud
Edited by Andrew Timms
Produced by Fish N Clips
© Dirty Management 2010

Touching down this week @ Dirty we are featuring the brand spanking new video from P-Money's new single "Falling Down" featuring Milan Borich from Kiwi band Pluto. The track is the the latest single from P-Money's new album "Everything" out now at all good record stores, which recently has featured on C4 as album of the week.

If you want to check out P-Money live, here are his upcoming dates for July:

Fri July 16 - UCSA Ballroom - Christchurch
Sat July 17 - Union Hall - Dunedin
Fri July 30 - Unitec, Mt Albert - Auckland

David Dallas Interview @ The Couch Sessions

Here is a recent interview David Dallas has done with The Couch Sessions which talks about how his sound came to be, how the internet advanced his career and what’s up next for him. Big Things!