MOKOTRON return with their new album, WAEREA, delivering nine tracks of pure dark M?ori bass on vinyl.
MOKOTRON is a T?maki Makaurau-based producer from Ng?ti Hine, who spreads seismic waves of low frequency indigenous electronic music.
Exploring ancient futurism through music, MOKOTRON imagines a reality without colonisation, where the ancestors transition from the ancient world into the modern, creating futures of hope juxtaposed with the hard realities of urban disconnection.
The foundation of WAEREA is Te Reo M?ori, traditional forms of song and chant, and the voices of puoro, colliding with breakbeats, bars and basslines to reflect the worldscapes of urban M?ori.
The album’s nine waiata – mastered by Chris Chetland at KOG – have been tested on dancefloors and sound systems throughout T?maki Makaurau, P?neke and ?tautahi.

‘…a vision of a path forward, where electronic music and M?ori identity fuse to create truly future worlds, and bring people into that world through the transcendental power of the dancefloor.’
95bFM

‘Mokotron…is specific about what underpins his mix of breaks and taonga puoro: his perspective as an urban M?ori, and an interest in decolonisation.’
Tony Stamp, RNZ The Sampler

‘Indulge yourself today and keep a close eye on Mokotrons socials…’
George FM
‘MOKOTRON continues to decolonize the dance floor.’
Sniffers
‘Aotearoa indigenous bass revolutionary.’
Undertheradar

Label
Sunreturn
Genre
World LP - SIDE A
KKIRI
KPEKE
KO WAE KOE?
REO TTAHI
WAEREA
LP - SIDE B
HK
TAUTAHI
TAWHITO
HRERETIA R

BORDER