TALKING POINTS: Urban Pacifika ‘Pioneers of a Pacifikan Frontier’ with Feleti Pua (January 2019)
Written by Admin on January 9, 2019
TALKING POINTS on Base FM – hosted by Ian Beatmaster Wright
Thanks to NZ On Air Music
Date: January 2019
Guest reviewer: Feleti Pua (9-5ers)
Featured release: Urban Pacifika – Pioneers of a Pacifikan Frontier
Released: 1999
https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/urban-pacifika-pioneers-of-a-pacifikan-frontier/848596523
Featured track #1: Dei Hamo – International Whirl Rocker
Featured track #2: Lost Tribe – Five B.U.N.G.A
Featured track #3: Moizna – Just Another Day
FELETI`Sabre’ PUA: Rapper and member of Auckland Hip Hop group 9-5ers and former member of Nesian Mystik talks about one of the most influential Kiwi Hip Hop collective.
URBAN PACIFIKA: An independent Polynesian record label in New Zealand, started in the early 90’s by musician and producer, Phillip (Phil) Fuemana, who was also a founding member of the group OMC which made his younger brother Pauly Fuemana famous. Many of today’s Polynesian artists can claim a connection to Urban Pacifika in one way or another.