Music News - The Taite Music Prize 2016 Announces This Years 'Independent Music NZ Classic Record' Award
08 April 2016 - 0 Comments
IMNZ is proud to announce the second award to be presented at this years Taite Music Prize 2016 event. The ceremony is to include the 'Independent Music NZ Classic Record', which aims to acknowledge Aotearoa's rich history of making fine records that continue to inspire us and define who we are.
The panel to determine the recipient of this new award was made up of a broad section of music media/industry specialists, who have given the nod this year to the Upper Hutt Posse - E Tu (1988 Jayrem) as one of Aotearoa's classic records. The award is scheduled to be accepted by members of the band.
When informed of the news this week, Te Kupu said: "It's great for a conscious song of resistance to be respected in this way, and although it already has a firm place in the hip-hop musical history of Aotearoa, this award is somewhat unexpected and therefore a little extra pleasing. UHP appreciates the regard shown to us, and to all musicians, composers and artists who're compelled to create songs of conscience, ka whawhai tonu tatou!"
Peter McLennan, author, musician and judging panellist said: "E Tu is a hugely important record, both culturally and politically. It showed local rap fans and budding rappers that we could make this exciting new genre our own, with rhyming in Te Reo and English, and by name-checking local history. Upper Hutt Posse are our hip-hop pioneers, and they opened the gates for the likes of Dam Native, Three The Hard Way, and Che Fu."
UHP formed as a four-piece reggae band in 1985. Since their inception, Dean Hapeta (also known as D Word or Te Kupu) and the Posse have been fighting racial injustice through their music. In 1988 they released New Zealand's first rap record and their first 12-inch hip hop record, "E Tu", through Jayrem Records. The song combined African American revolutionary rhetoric with an explicitly Maori frame of reference, to create a cry of self-affirmation by a new generation. It pays homage to the rebel Maori warrior chiefs of Aotearoa's colonial history, Hone Heke, Te Kooti, and Te Rauparaha.
The Taite Music Prize 2016 event is held on Wednesday 20th April in Auckland and is an invite-only ceremony. IMNZ member The Leonard Charles Casiotone Orchestra is scheduled to perform curated live sets for the gathered guests.
THE TAITE MUSIC PRIZE:
Presented by: Independent Music
New Zealand (IMNZ)
Founding Partner: Recorded Music NZ
Official Partners: NZ On Air (NZOA) /
The Taite Family
Supporting Partners: NZ Music
Commission / APRA AMCOS / Native Tongue Music Publishing / Merlin / Media Arts
Lawyers / Red Bull Studios Auckland / MOA Beers / Spy Valley Wines / McCarthy
Design
Media Partners: 95bFM / iHeartRadio
/ Juice TV
Charity Partner: NZ Music
Foundation
PREVIOUS TAITE MUSIC PRIZE WINNERS ARE:
2010: Lawrence ArabiaChant Darling (Honorary Bedouin Records)
2011: Ladi6 The
Liberation Of (What? Music)
2012: Unknown Mortal
Orchestra Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Seeing Records)
2013: SJD Elastic
Wasteland (Round Trip Mars)
2014: Lorde Pure
Heroine (Universal Music NZ)
2015: Jakob Sines(Shoot The Freak)
PREVIOUS INDEPENDENT MUSIC NZ CLASSIC RECORD WINNERS ARE:
2013: Gordons Gordons(Flying Nun Records)
2014: AK-79 Various
Artists (Ripper Records)
2015: Herbs What's Be
Happen? (Warrior Records)
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