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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.

to follow Pest5’s adventures, click here

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or listen to it right here:

album drops 7th July!!!

Auckland: DMC, Beat Merchants, Harlem23, Loaded, Qubic

North Shore: JB Hi-Fi Albany

South Auckland: JB Hi-Fi Manukau

Wellington: Loaded

Hamilton: Cheapskates

New Plymouth: Raw Records

Christchurch: Embassy

Queenstown: Alta

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:

1. David Dallas – “Get Out The Way”

2. DJCXL – “Break U Off” Scratch break

3. Percieve –“Woah (F**K U)” RMX feat. PNC & Flowz

4. MC 4Higher – “Here’s to the Hardcore”

5. Red Eye Society – “Hush”

6. Tyson Tyler – “Still in the Hood”

7. Albino – “What I Say”

8. Nikki Montana – freestyle

9. Billy Fluid “Beekeeper”

10. Tourettes – “Night Out” (spoken word)

11. Seka – “My Life”

12. Poisonous Youth “We Ain’t Gonna Stop”

13. Topaz – “Sunshine Summertime”

14. Young Mega – “Young”

15. Full Eklipse – “Til The End”

16. Diablo f. Flat 10 “Let’s Go”

17. Ethical f. Neesh – “Bad 2 the Bone”

18. Hepaklypz – “What U Think”

19. PNC – “Ambitionz of a Writer”

20. Be Ill – “Get Wid It”

21. Potheads – “Hailstorm”

22. Kolab – “Inner Beat”

23. Scribe feat. Tyra Hammond – “Say It Again” (P-Money RMX)

24. Fast Crew – “Heart of the City”

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

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!