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“i really believe in community revolution”
James Mangohig is an ARIA nominated producer, as well as a bassist among many other things, from Darwin, Australia. BIO
we talk about:
- being tired of the happy ending narrative
- nature vs nurture
- in between two – show
- Sietta – band
- the limits of access to gear in Darwin
- skinny fish music
- nooka
- putting energy in ones home town
- why Darwin?
- looking to america and europe
- asian-australian playing rock and hiphop music within indigenous contexts
- philipino’s as islanders rather than asians
- developing relationships through working with community
- music being adopted by mulitple cultures
- the natural musicianship in the bush – “the way people can argue in the bush” JM
- the sound of records
- “lots of people feel ownership of hiphop now” JM
- the first person of colour i saw on stage was Quan from Regurgitator
- having a muslim looking beard
- working at Tivendale school inside Dondale prison
- international quality standards
- living in darwin and having a perspective on quality
- how to hustle with integrity – having true relationships with people
- race and gender in hiphop and writing/rapping about ones individual struggle
- “i think the nurturing and development can happen here in australia” JM
- being represented and feeling safe
- Dr G Yunupingu and his legacy and intricacy of traditional music
- Djalu music film
- AB Original
mentioned:
- Gary Lang
- Flume
- Courtney Barnett
- born in adelaide
- oliebollen – dutch tradition
- lucky dube
- maxi priest
- Marko Taopo
- Kris Keogh
- Tennant Creek
- livid festival
- Dexta – Avalanches
- home and away
- round the twist
- ship to shore
- monkey magic
- matt on Tokyo nightly news
- snoop dog
- Nari Akit
- 1970’s galant
- Caiti Baker
- vagner mic through a 1970 mercury preamp
- Candy Bowers
- Busty Beatz
- Victoria Chui
- Sipat Lawin Ensemble
- Splendour In The Grass/Splendid residency program
- Bliss and Eso
- The Herd
- Dr Dre
- MC Briggs
- MC Trials
- Croc Fest
- Yothu Yindi
- Hermitude remixing Yidarki
- Paul Kelly
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