After not being able to come with his partner in crime Blu last time Dj Exile is definitely coming to New Zealand for one show only. All the way from LA this bad boy will smash thing up on Sunday September 14th at Ponsonby Social Club. From 7pm for FREE!! With support from Julien Dyne & Dylan C.

Melbourne producer Andras Fox crosses the ditch this week for the first time. He plays two live shows; one in Wellington and the other in Auckland, at Cassette Nine, for which we’ve teamed up with our good pals Sex Trade to host on Saturday 6th September

Sick Disco & Sex Trade pres. ANDRAS FOX (Melb) 

As their first excursion out of the shadows, the trio behind the veiled warehouse scene that is Sex Trade have teamed up with everyone’s favourite club night Sick Disco to bring you one of Australia’s most revered musical auteurs ANDRAS FOX. 

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Live and direct from Japan, MUM CLUB x Sick Disco present

Rondenion (Ragrange Records/Underground Gallery - Japan)

Friday 29th August, Cassette Nine, Vulcan Lane, AK City

For a rare collaborative occasion, Cassette Nine’s long-standing sibling club nights have teamed up to bring you renowned producer and live performer, Rondenion all the way from Nagoya, Japan.

Joined on the night by Recloose, Frank Booker, Magic Sam & Gran Derby DJs A DJ and producer born in Japan. He began working as a recording artist in the late 90s under the name Hirofumi Goto, and released his global debut, "Ameria EP". It drew attention for its dark beats, unusual for a Japanese artist, and was played by top DJs like Derrik May. He changed his name to RONDENION to show respect to Chicago and Detroit, and began working on an overseas release. Ultimately, his "Love Bound EP" was released by major labels such as "Rush Hour" and became a big hit. It reached the top on the RushHour Store sales chart, and became popular in Europe. In 2012 he formed "Ragrange Symphony" with his old friends NO MILK and KEZ YM, and he is currently working on a number of projects for his own record label, "Ragrange Records". 

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Released last year to great acclaim, their third album AUTOMATIC was recorded between Detroit’s legendary Studio and Revolver Studios in Waiuku. It was hailed by the NZ Herald in a breathless five-star review as a ‘sonic stunner’, and even professional curmudgeon Simon Sweetman declared it “the record of her career”..”slinky and groovy and - sonically - it’s a joy”. It debuted at number three on the national charts and featured on many end-of-year ‘best of’ lists.

This year has seen the band make their dubut tour of Brazil, and they are about to embark on a comprehensive tour of Europe and, for the first time, the US. Their mid-winter tour of NZ is something of a victory lap for Ladi, Parks, Brandon Haru and Julien Dyne - a band who have always let the music speak for itself.

In support are hotly-tipped Auckland hip-hop collective Team Dynamite. Their laid-back, jazz influenced style has invited comparisons to A Tribe Called Quest, Outkast and De La Soul, albeit with a distinctively NZ Flavour. Their latest release, the album Shepherd’s Delight features guest appearances from members of Hombrew, @peace and Che Fu and was highly praised by reviewers for its “great mix of sharp flow, clever lines and warm production, evoking the DIY East Coast sound of ’90s. [Team Dynamite] navigate easily between social commentary, quirky metaphors and retrospect.” (NZ Musician).

Guilty Simpson was born in Detroit, the son and grandson of the family’s performing musicians in his father and grandfather. At age four, Simpson and his mother began traveling with an aunt in the military, living in California and Birmingham, Alabama, before settling back in the Motor City at 15. Big Daddy Kane, N.W.A, and Scarface were all major influences, but it was Queens-bred street bard Kool G Rap who made the biggest impression. “That’s my crème de la crème rapper right there,” says Simpson, his own presence among the latest in a rich lineage of heavy-handed MCs. For years Guilty Simpson has been a rock on the Detroit hip-hop circuit alongside those such as J Dilla, Slum Village, Eminem (whom Guilty still calls “Marshall”) & D12, Obie Trice, Proof, Phat Kat and Black Milk. A member of the Almighty Dreadnaughtz crew, Guilty emerged as a sound to be reckoned with after linking with producer Dilla in 2001. In the midst of recording an album’s worth of material on the MC – including the recently released duet “Take Notice” off of Dilla’s heralded Ruff Draft album – Dilla gave Simpson his first appearance on disc with “Strapped” (from 2003’s Jaylib album). 2006 marked his allegiance with Stones Throw Records – at Dilla’s behest – and appearances on both Chrome Children installments and subsequent tour. It’s taken years, but finally Simpson’s full-length solo debut, Ode to the Ghetto, brings him worldwide, chronicling a life led in the rough-hewn city that birthed him. Featuring an all-star cast of producers normally reserved for those signed to six-figure deals (J Dilla, Madlib, Denaun Porter of D-12), Ode to the Ghetto marks an evolution, incorporating a more topical and thought-provoking persona in addition to the extra-savage braggadocio Simpson is known for. “I want to make the consumer care about the music again,” the 31-year-old explains. Guilty’s testosterone-charged, inner city themes possess of a sense of humor at times so side-splitting, it only proves how serious he really is. This rapper was raised on the field of battle and he has more to say than just how fresh he is and how fresh “they” are not. As a matter of fact, he’s found that he’s here to remind the hip-hop world – currently captivated with that manufactured freshness – that life in the ghetto is real. The evidence shows excessive use of double entendres, too much flavor on public grounds, microphone assault, and verbal harassment of an officer of the law. On the counts of freshness AND realness: The Court of Hip-Hop finds Mr. Simpson to be Guilty.