Congratulations are in order once again for New Zealand graffiti crew TMD (The Most Dedicated), who triumphed at the World’s Largest Graffiti competition at Splash Festival in Germany on the weekend. Artists Askew, Disruptiv Music’s own Pest5, Deus, Addict, Gary Grouch and Sirum (AUS) were defending their title as world champs which they won in 2006.
Crews are judged on their concept wall (60%) and a crew representative is sent to compete in each sketch (15%), throw-up (15%) and tagging (10%) battle. Twelve crews were whittled down to seven for the final. This year’s phrase for the concept wall was “Make It Funky” and crews painted using the same colour palette over an eight hour stretch. A new and improved judging system allowed 70% of the scoring to be based on crews judging each other, removing any favouritism calls from defeated teams.
TMD placed first in the concept wall and well-respected Grey Lynn artist Deus is now officially the best tagger in the world - his family are very proud. Copenhagen Connection (Denmark) placed second overall, with Gipsy Kings from Romania placing third overall.
they are being sent out this week, other cities TBC… we will also be putting it up online for free download soon. Mixed by DJ Penfold, it’s all straight heat.. here’s the tracklisting:
We invite you to support your homie PEST5 on his world trip, by ordering a t-shirt to help raise travel funds for his world champion graffiti crew TMD who will be defending their title at the Write4Gold battle this July in Germany. Pick your preferred size and colour and email jonny@disruptiv.com Help us represent Aotearoa hip-hop worldwide… its a matter of national pride!
New Zealand’s #1 Hip-hop TV show is going to be NZ’s first online Hip-hop show: streaming live on the net free every Monday at 11pm NZ time (Monday 11am GMT), at Alt TV
The show is one of independent music TV station Alt TV’s leading programmes, and until now has been only viewable on Sky Channel 65.
More about Disruptiv TV here
We are back. It’s the Disrup’ Music Re-up! Feels like a new day.
New music we have, no art gallery or b-boys any more though, but we’re all still friends. We are focused on music releases, gigs and Disruptiv TV show… and still creating beautiful graffiti artwork on request! So have a look around our new site, it’s all good.
Next up is The Disruptiv Mixtape Volume 5!! Stay tuned for the release, will be nationwide by May. Also, we are joining forces with local rap extraordinaires “PotHeads” to put out their debut album, starting with the first single “Clean It Up”. Shooting the video for it in a couple of weeks…
Keep coming back now y’hear, cos now this site is active again it will be getting updated weekly. Churp!
