Percieve – reclining the grind
Take it all video
Mar 5th
If you haven’t watched it yet, check out the rap-boy-band vid for PNCs Take it all featuring Jordache, David Dallas, Louie Knuxx, and myself. This will be on PNC’s album Under The Influence out later this month, I’ve been bumping the album all week and it’s fresh like new Pani Popo – so get ready to cop that.
Good times.
Shooting the video for Take it All
Feb 23rd
Got back into Welly yesterday, my last minute time off to roll to Aucks for my man PNCs Take It All vid meant I had to head straight from the airport to the office and back into the corporate side of my work + life (un)balance.
Aside from forgetting 5 different items of clothing, a much smaller ‘after’ bank balance, enough humidity to make a Hungry Hippo explode, and the scariest plane ride of my life, it was a mean few days in the 09.
Tuesday:
I came out of SkyCity $5 better off than I went in and more than made up for that on Wednesday nights bar spending.
Wednesday:
Spent the day shooting the video for Take it all, the playback I saw was dope so I’m looking forward to seeing the finished product in the next week or two, Anthony Plant from Fish N Clips is directing it – he’s the man behind the camera here:
Spent the shoot downtime at Dirty/Dawnraid with the big homie David Dallas dropping gems on how to best manage this EP I’m getting ready to put out there. Sometimes even the most obvious shit still needs to be said by someone who knows what they’re talking about for you to make yourself put it into action.
Checked out Flo bar in New Market with the world’s least hip hop looking DJ, D-rail, PNC and Pieter T on wednesday night and man, that was one of the coolest spots I’ve been to in a bit. I was expecting a regular ol’ club a la coyotes on R&B night, but this place was more like a jazz bar for R&B singers. They had 4 open Mics and a 5 piece band ready to jam out whatever you’re keen to sing to.
Vince Harder, Pieter T, and Mz J were there smashing out tracks solo and as a gang, There were also other dudes from the crowd jumping up to sing their favourite R&B joints. Welly heads: think Valve MC open mic nights in 2003, swap the drunk rappers with mean singers, the 5 strong patron base of rappers not quite ready to get up in front of anyone with 60 odd well dressed heads there to watch on the spot musicality, switch the Jack Daniels from Red Label to Black Label, and we’re there. Definitely something I’ll try and check out again next time I’m in Aucks.
Shout outs to D-rail, Klipz, and Tricq for the couch space, D-rail’s pug for the play fights, and Pat’s puppy for the sexually violated sneakers.
Percieve – All I know freestyle
Feb 19th
Joint I finished recording/mixing today - nothing fancy, just some real life raps and an instrumental. Instrumental + raps = easy mixing. On a side note I finally copied EZ Drummer over to the PC today, gonna start banging around on that soon - getting a bit sick of Kontakt's full kit (and no separate mixing for each drum) approach.
Take it all – PNC ft. Jordache, David Dallas, Louie Knuxx, and me
Feb 7th
Check it out – this is off the bro’s album Under The Influence dropping March. Make sure you grab that!
PNC – Take It All ft. Jordache, David Dallas, Louie Knuxx & Percieve (produced by Matt Miller) by PNC
PNC – Take It All art
Feb 3rd
The bro PNC, Jordache, David Dallas, Louie Knuxx and me all took turns at rapping on this joint from PNCs new album Under The Influence out March. Here’s the visual art, musical art to follow.
Get patched up with Hipsta in Otaki
Jan 15th
I just dropped off a couple shirts/hoodys to the good folks at Hipsta in Otaki. If you’re after one but not keen on copping it online you can grab em there. Otherwise holla at Printmighty
2012
Jan 1st
Shiiit, another year down.
I’m posted up on Kapiti Island right now eating my way through the tail end of a Hennesy, Ciroc, Patron, Frangelico and Jim Beam hangover. But that’s what New Years is about right? Still made it up in time for a 9am Paua gathering hunt with the homies so it’s not all bad.
I’m not Skillz so my 2011 wrap up isn’t gonna rhyme, but the concept remains.
I spent 2011 working like a corporate slave so I could eat like a maori king come bonus time. Except that phrase would be better suited to someone who doesn’t have a $38,000 debt to an insurance company that needs to be settled before he can look at joining the first home buyer gang.
I like to think of myself as having a pretty solid work ethic, which as an unsigned artist pretty much accounts for half my visibility. The downside to that is that it’s not specific to the music game, so when I’m putting in work at my 9-5…I’m really putting in work and it often turns into an 8-6, with a 15 minute break for a feed if I’m feeling lazy. The effect of that on my music is obviously having less time in front of the speakers with a pen and (i)Pad.
That being said, I have nearly finished this EP/album I’ve been chipping away at in silence. My promo game was the first thing to get pushed down the list when I started working full time (OK, so it probably got pushed off the list, but the actual making of music still dominates my day when I’m not at work, or at home doing work. The slowing down of my promo grind just means you won’t have heard much about it, but I’m still doing it.
I’m pretty much waiting on a coupe verses from the bros, then it’s mixing time, then I’ll have it out there for you to listen to if you so choose.
In the meantime there’s a video on the way for Outta My Hands and another joint, and maybe even another blog post before then…
Welcome to twenty twelve!
Performing tonight at Rain with PNC, Sam P, Juss Jay, Dartel and TK
Sep 28th
Lol at the awesome ineffective lateness of this post… if you happen to read this in the next 4 hours – come down to Rain Bar or a drink and listen, should be good times!
Ninja, Raw and Shan on the 1s & 2s
Lost souls free
Aug 16th
Percieve – lost souls 2011 by Percieve
Anothe oldie I upped to Soundcloud a few days back – one of those have-to-rap-on-that-beat ones.
Nothin much to say bout it aside from have a listen/download, if you like it let me know, and if you don’t – let’s pretend it never happened.
Just finished reading this
Aug 10th
If you’ve read the rest of the series (or watched Game of Thrones on TV) then you already know what it is, this dudes books are crazy – when it comes to genre of choice I’m pretty much a fantasy novel nerd so it’s a no brainer that I’ve read all of 5 these and part of me will be hanging the fuck out for the next 8 years it’ll probably take him to finish the next one. For humours sake, check out his blog – he looks like an old, post-village people version of Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons.
Now that I’ve smashed that 1022 page bastard I can finally pick this back up (cue: token rap related topic) – if you haven’t read this and you like raps, then you should, I pretty much skip the pages breaking down Jay Hova’s verses, cause there’s not much enjoyment to be had reading rap lyrics you already know word for word, but his descriptions of what it was like coming up for him (which is where I’m up to at the moment) and narratives on hip hop in general are prettttty good. If there’s not enough gangster in his accounts, try this one
