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The vocal was recorded in the stairwell of Chippendale House, a bit of trivia that you can never unhear, and never not think about how absolutely haunting it must have sounded to anyone passing by. After a freak accident on tour claimed the life of his friend and Doublehappys bandmate Wayne Elsey, Carter wrote and recorded two songs with Dunedin’s most funereal musician Peter Jefferies, which in retrospect served as a bridge between his earlier, punkier bands and the dramatic squall of the band he formed the following year, Straitjacket Fits. The story behind ‘Randolph’s Going Home’ is recounted in harrowing detail in Shayne Carter’s memoir Dead People I Have Known.

‘Randolph’s Going Home’ – Shayne Carter and Peter Jefferies That it has never been repeated for Jawsh only makes it more special. The song’s popularity led to all that be cleaned up for an official release, one which led to a worldwide smash of the lockdown era – peaking at #1 in over 20 countries. A couple of months later, Jason Derulo, a gold-plated pop star, cheekily used it uncredited and uncleared for the bed of a social media single named Savage Love.

It became a YouTube, then TikTok hit, before Jawsh 685 became one of the first NZ-based usernames to ink a big US deal. Siren beat came more than a decade on, and through a very different path – where Moonshine was the product of NZ hip hop mafia connections, Laxed (Siren Beat) was a product of pure user-generated virality. Now he was singing and making a video with Savage?

During that golden era for NZ rap, it felt like one of the most pure and head-spinning moments – Akon was a massive global star, with multiple smash singles. Savage’s Moonshine was not the first time an NZ hip hop artist had connected to a US star – bandmate Mareko’s debut featured Inspectah Deck and the Beatnuts – but it was the first which had true crossover potential. Two sons of South Auckland, connected to the islands, whose talent somehow cut through imposing barriers to connect with R&B singers at the absolute apex of their powers. Two collaborations, more than a decade apart, each of which still seems impossible even now. Thankfully I am ‘Getting Stronger’ and can now just enjoy this heavenly tuneage with my trap firmly shut!!! / Alex Casey ‘Moonshine’ – Savage + Akon / ‘Savage Love’ – Jawsh 685 + Jason Derulo Is there any other combination of voices in New Zealand music history that can make you feel quite as bad about your own voice than Adeaze and Aaradhna? Horribly strong memories of trying to record myself singing on a tape deck to this song when it featured on Now That’s What I Call Music 16. Charlotte Muru-Lanning ‘Getting Stronger’ – Adeaze featuring Aaradhna It’s all pure chaos and totally delightful. Swanndri-clad Nathan Rarere and Oscar Kightley join them to cook eels next to a waterfall. One minute King Kapisi is in a sheep yard, the next, Che Fu reclines in a pile of wool. The accompanying music video needs to be mentioned too – a browned-up vision of rural farm life in Aotearoa.

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Released in 2003, off the back of two pivotal album releases (King Kapisi’s Savage Thoughts in 2000 and Che Fu’s Navigator in 2001), this collab maintains the pair’s knack for using music as an art form and political tool, and also as a vessel for being extremely crack up. It is a bold decision to name a song ‘U Can’t Resist Us’, and it only really works if the “Us” in question is made up of two of the country’s most enduringly beloved and era-defining hip hop acts: King Kapisi and Che Fu. ‘U Can’t Resist Us’ – King Kapisi featuring Che Fu Given that the theme for NZ Music Month has been all about community and collaboration, what better time to look back at some of the greatest and most memorable collaborations in New Zealand music history? Spoilt for choice, we’ve trawled through our Gotyes and our Kimbras, our Scribes and our P Moneys, our Chris Warners and our Mutton Birds, to remember some of our favourite local collaborations of all time. As New Zealand Music months comes to an end, we look back at some of the most memorable collaborations between (or involving) local artists.Īotearoa has a long and proud tradition of mucking in, lending a hand and sharing the bloody load.

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