
A sultry voice with razor sharp wit and a stage show to match, Ladi6 is fast becoming one of New Zealand's leading hip-hop soul artist and her international aura is also growing at a dizzying pace. After the weeping success of her 2008 debut album Not Is Not Much , released her highly awaited sophomore album at the beginning of 2011. As a statement of intent, The Liberation Of… clearly grounds Ladi6 as willing to dive headfirst without fear into the sea of creativity with her collaborators (fellow Kiwi producer Parks [...]

Ladi6 com Parks e Julian Dyne, Bezegol e Chip-Fu vão estar ao vivo no próximo dia 17 de Junho, na nova sala TMN Ao Vivo. Apresentado pela Sounds Good, é o Up In The Club: " Ladi6 estreou-se em Portugal no ano passado com actuações em Março no Vila Louize (Lisboa) e Pitch Club (Porto) aos quais se seguiu um concerto memorável no TMN Sudoeste 2010 em início de Agosto (...) Bezegol é uma das figuras de frente do movimento reggae / dancehall nacional com uma carreira que teve início em [...]
New music from Auckland, New Zealand-based MC Ladi6's forthcoming album The Liberation Of...
NF Rating:Ladi6 once again…….ha fooled ya. You thought I was going to ride the chops of Ladi6's intensive musical soul soup, but rest assured I can't say nothing bad with this installment of our latest Ladi6 music video review.If you can recall, I was stuck in-between a rock and a hard place with her last video 'Dark Brown' in which I love the music, but didn't like the video.I mean the music was

In keeping with my recent commitment to serve up mix tapes on a more regular basis , I've got a dweet mix courtesy of the one and only Dublin don, Mikki Dee, who has just released the tenth installment of his Sweet Sounz series. If you're not familiar with Mikki, he's been holding it down in his homeland of New Zealand, and his adopted home of Dublin, for as long as I can remember. But while Mikki comes from an unmistakable hip hop background (he can rock a mic as easily as he [...]

Ladi6 is no newcomer! It's already been a decade since her quiet beginnings with Christchurch all-girl crew Sheelahroc and in ten years she has managed to make a name for herself. This New Zealand singer/MC has managed to build a sound of her own and to take her Pacific style to foreign shores, with performances in Australia, Europe and the UK. Her ability to blend jazz, reggae and soul vocal styles with razor-sharp socially conscious lyrics has cultivated her an enviable reputation as New Zealand's leading live performers. In 2008, [...]
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As I continue in my quest to bring you the best in music Aotearoa has to offer, I introduce to you to one of my favourite soulsters: Ladi6. Ladi6 (real name Karoline Tamati) has spent ten years or more touring with and backing up NZ artists like Fat Freddy's Drop , Shapeshifter, Scribe, and Opensouls, but finally, and thankfully, she came out with a debut album of her own, Time Is Not Much. The album, three years in the making, doesn't read as a who's-who of NZ music collaboration list, which is something that [...]

It's that time of the week again. Here's some of the best stuff we were sent this week that haven't been posted here yet. This week's wrap up consists of 9 tracks for your perusal. 1: Ren Riz - Primavera 2009 Very Synthy, builds nicely. -download- 2: The Subs - From Dusk Till Dawn ( Zodiac Cartel Remix) (promo) Takes the original and twists it until it has lots of bass [...]

Following on from my first Geyster / Maneken post, i want to give you four of my favourite slower dancefloor tracks. What they lack in speed, they make up for in phatness. Geyster - Still In Love 'Still In love' is typically Geyster, but you cant knock his instrumentation and vocal harmonies, they're lush and spot on. Delicious Vinyl AllStars - Never Stop (Feat. the Brand New Heavies) (Pink Enemy Remix) The Pink Enemy remix was released on the same [...]
You know at one time, I thought that Ladi 6 (one Karoline Tamati) was the sexiest RnB singer that New Zealand has ever produced, but that was short lived when we obtain this photo of Ladi 6 clutching a cancer stick in her mouth while doing some bad girl pose of sorts And if you think thats the worst of it.....check the image below...... Wow..........that's some nose you got there Ladi 6