June 26, 2024 • 36 mins
This week’s guest is Samoan-Māori DJ Aysha Nanai-Leifi, a.k.a. Fallback.
Like LL Cool J said, she’s on the ones and twos to have you dippin’ it and doin’ it well. She’s bumped shoulders with him. Oh, and Tyler The Creator. An ardent representative of Nesian artistic flair, she has taken to the world stage in America and Asia. We love brown women being bosses like her.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Flavor podcast network.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Island Roots Auckland Ways. This one's for the Brown brothers
and sisters who want to be one with themselves, their culture,
their identity, their roots.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is Island Roots Auckland Ways. What was up? It's
Mas and Alyssa.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hey everyone, welcome on into Thursday Island Roots Auckland Ways Day.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yes, I love Thursdays.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I really look forward to Thursdays.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's like how they say the day before a day
off feels good. It's like the day before Friday feels good.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I think just because I know that Ira is coming out.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
That's why I.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Like, that's what drives you for the entire week. What's
your least favorite day?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Least favorite day? That is such a good question. Wednesdays,
I feel like because it's like for me, I work
Tuesday to Saturday, so Wednesday's like, oh, we're still at
the start of the week. Oh gee, But Thursday's like
my hump day. So I think that it's also why
I like Thursdays. We're almost there a Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
That would make sense because yeah, hunt day's a good day.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Hence why Thursday is also like beach day.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Anyway, this week, we have our Missus Fullback.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
She was a vibe.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Oh my gosh, so much fun.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I'm so sad that I didn't make it to Layas
to see her do her set live as you went?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Was it the best thing ever?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It truly was. Layers is always like upa oh. I
saw Fallback before she started her set. Actually she was nervous.
She had nothing to be worried about, though, And she was.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Even nervous before she started changing with us.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
And I was like, girl, come on now, look at
you face, body brain. You'll be fine. I promise you.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
She was fine. Have a listen now, and welcome back
to Alan roots Auckland Ways. The congress Or Star Editor
presents a DJ messus four bad. What's that guys?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I'm good, I'm good, Hi guys, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Context Just before we record, we're talking about raisins yes,
and I was like, oh, yeah, I don't really need better,
like I don't mind, Yeah, I just have it because
you know that's so funny in it and do you
(02:33):
eat it wrong? And I could.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Just start to read episode we share what we Love
about Home and a segment aptly called what we Love
about Home? It could be where you currently live, where
you were born, where you feel grounded, it ever feels
like home to you. To give you an example, will
start off and this week what I love about home?
Obviously grown up in money do we the nightety two
sixty seven And I love Kitchen, which is this beautiful
(03:01):
Vietnamese restaurant. The prices are incredible, the food is incredible,
and it's just so so so so good.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Money. Oh yeah, it's delicious.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It's so so so good. Everyone who posts it on
Instagram like makes it look so nice because it is
so nice and delicious and cheese.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, I love Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
We do love cheap, We really do.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Maybe we should go there one time. We should and
next time your.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
On a tour of all the best spots. I think
I went to Monaco Food Junction. Okay, so young, I
was like one of one from everything year, got.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Some good tool guides, growls.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, I had some good Indian there. It was.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
We love our food core because they're cheap.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
They're cheap and they're guaranteed to be good, especially if
it's like a little kid taking your order.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He's obviously just gonna.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I love about home. This is a very tongue in thing.
When I was growing up with my tongue and family,
there was this brand of T shirt called Look Sharp,
and like everyone had a look Sharp tongue a T
shirt okay, And so they had various prints. It was
giving like printed teas before printed teas were a thing,
and so like there was a small print on the
chest and then a massive print on the back. And
(04:31):
I just have fond memories of every tongue and I
know jamming Look Sharp t shirts and you would take
them to tongue and everyone was wearing them like that
were the cool thing to wear. And also they were cheap.
People didn't care for like dressing up back in when
we were kids, I feel like we dressed like kids,
you know what I mean. It's nowadays they very sophisticated,
(04:55):
while I'm just in a hoodie if anything, I'm the kids.
That's what I love about home. How about you feel back?
What do you love about home?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Home for me would be Melbourne because I yeah, I
grew up there. So I've obviously moved away from home now,
so I miss a lot of my family, so probably
just my family. It's nice to like, I feel like
now that I'm away from all of it. I miss
like the craziness and like the loudness and having like
twenty people in the house. So yeah, that's probably that's
(05:25):
what feels like home for me.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Do you come from a big family? I do. I do.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Most of my mum's family is in Melbourne, so my
one family, there's a lot of us. There's a lot
a lot of us, like grandkids and grandkids and grandkids.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
But yeah, where abouts did you move to from Melbourne?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Where'd I move to? Yeah, I'm in the Goldie now,
I'm in Gold Coast now.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yes, you see a gold guy.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Speaking. Yeah, it is. It's very peaceful there, very very.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I remember when we saw each other in the Gold
Coast for Promised Land last year because I was staying
with the mutual friend of ours, Rebecca, so shout out
to her. And we were staying at this nice house
on the it's so beautiful. There are many balconies and
there was lots of alcohol too, and so in the
midst of in between drink ups, four that came I
(06:17):
was like, they put up the truck.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah. We we dropped back at home and and Becca
was like, I'm staying with Maths. I was like, like
where it was our first time meeting in person. Oh
my god, yeah, it was. That was crazy, what a time.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What's so funny is that four Beck and offering Rebecca
were saying to me, Oh, you can come back to
the house, because we're going back to the house. And
then I saw on four Beck's Instagram story there were.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Some this house.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I was like, damn, I really should have gone.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Very beautiful people.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I don't deny this. You surround yourself with beautiful people.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Guys, those are just the bridge, but they are beautiful.
I can say that go Hard, Go Hard is turning red.
(07:18):
By the way, it's like a.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
De nominator around all our episodes, me in our pursuit of.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Jesus love, do you think it's possible to find love?
And because we had this thing where like in Aukland,
the men.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The mean.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
In the because I haven't been looking, to be honest,
I love just like walking in so if yeah, I
can do some research when I get back back to Yeah,
I haven't been looking at all to be honest.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
To be honest, though, I promised Land.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, if you do want to come, come for promise
that everyone from all over comes to Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, because it's I mean from everywhere.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I'm scared.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Was a bit of a.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I had no idea what talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Let's get back on you. Tell us about your upbringing
in Aldo, New Zealand and because I understand this is
where you are raised.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
No, not at all. Do you research? I swear this.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Article that seen you were raised in Lower Heart or
you spent.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Someone Yeah, and then I moved to OZ when I
was six months old. Oh my god, I never lived
here before since then?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, ever reported on you.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I was thinking, like, she's such a beautiful Australian accent,
Like how do you acquire that? If you haven't, I've
heard some strong accents and I love you.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
It's beautiful. It's not to love it?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Can you say?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And cleo?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Oh damn?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
So you and your fano moved over to OS when
you're six months old?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, when I was a baby baby. So like I'm
very much as crazy blue.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, I'm a true blue Aussie ye kangaroo.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, I still claim New Zealand though, like even like
I come here, I'm like I'm home, but I've never
actually lived here longer than like that first period of
my life.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
But when you do come back here like that sense
of home. Yes, everything's still quite familiar.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Well now it is, like because I've been like intentionally
coming back like every few months. Yeah, and obviously being
surrounded by our community, it just feels like home anyway.
Everyone's like, where are you from? Like here, I'm like
everyone just like, I'm not from here. I'm just a fraud.
(10:32):
But yeah, so I grew up in Melbourne like my
whole life.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
True.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I hope I get this right. You are someone Maudy. Yes, okay,
so who's smilety?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Your dad? Your dad and then my someone family all
moved over to yeah and my dad, but my Maori
family still live like all over like christ Church, Wellington, uh,
the Summon, Perth, but none in Auckland surprisingly yeah, because
we're all all of us were from Wellington originally.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
We've had a couple of sal Maudi in the studio
And I guess my question to you is like, did
you feel close to both sides of your culture growing up?
How was that relationship being a someone Maudy.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I don't know anything about my Maori side, to be honest,
I'm very much someone like raised traditional cultures. I just
haven't because obviously we moved to OZ and my Muori
family stayed here. I just didn't get the like honor
of like growing up with my Maori side and like
getting to learn the traditions and all of it, which
I really wish I did. But something of your control, Yeah,
(11:42):
stay out of my control. But I'm very much someone
included a.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Lot of like Maudi that I know that have moved
or grown up in Australia. That's like a very similar
she had experience. But then I can also see why
when you come back to musical and you're like, I'm yes,
this is your.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Is one thing.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I have a lot of cousins who live in Australia,
all across Australia, and they say that, like there's not
a lot of culture in Australia in terms of like
Pacific or like Simon culture.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Have you had a similar experience or do you feel
quite like strong? I feel like I feel like if
you were to compare it, then there's not a lot
because it's all I really know. I feel like it's strong.
I feel like the presence is strong because like obviously
we have a lot of other cultures as well. But
you know, for me, it's been it's been okay. I
think it also depends on the area you're in because
(12:36):
there's like, like for a Melbourne example, there's like South
and West is where all the islanders are based. So
if you're in there you will feel it strongly, but
if you're anywhere else you feel nothing. Yeah, but yeah,
it's been okay for me.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I think I love that so And it definitely depends
on your family, but it sounds there's a huge.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
And a lot of us. Yeah, a lot of us.
I had no lack of. Yeah, someone presence in my life.
I love, yeah very much in Melbourne, girly whatever spots
in Melbourne. If we're planning a trip and we want
to get in touch with some Melbourne culture, where where
are we to?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I don't want to see the along I.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Need to go there.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And literally.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
We're talking about I want to go South and West?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Where are we going?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You're going to? Probably where I grew up was like
poin Cookbe or like Hoppers crossing wind and Vale. Tanya
doesn't mean much to you guys when I say it,
but because I have family. Yeah, Usually when people say,
like I've got family in Melbourne, I'll just start naming
like the suburbs and they're like, yep, that's the one.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I'm like, I guess that's how Ozzies must feel when
we say, yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Those are all the ones I know, like because I
usually stay in who oh yeah, but this trip, I've
been staying in Henderson, and I'm like, I don't know
any of these suburbs that we're going through, like I
to like Toto like all that stuff. But I've been
learning how did I all come about?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
And what were the vibes that you wanted to put
out into the universe? With Ile?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Oh gosh, with Ile, what was the first question? It
was it how did I come? How did it come about?
So I got some funding and I had to like
put together a concept and stuff to like what I
would use the funding for, which was I feel like
it's such a long story, Like I think I could
go back to like I don't know if you remember
(14:30):
poly Connection, which was like ages ago. So I started
as a collective in like twenty nineteen, which we had
Partia July, Craigie, Susanna who's a DJ now and moj
who's a Mormon. But yeah, so we started as a
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collective in Melbourne in twenty nineteen, We're doing photo shoots
and stuff, nothing too deep. And then we went to
Sydney and I did another photo shoot with like Billy
Marie killing Me We Love killing Me Gyra. Yeah, like
some really just like people that I thought were really
cool and like not getting maybe the flowers that they deserved.
(15:18):
And then twenty twenty was when I got the grant
and then we went into COVID. Yeah, so I started
it online and then and then at the end of
twenty twenty was when I like go did the print magazine.
But it came about basically I was just like when
I was younger, like eighteen nineteen in the industry, I
(15:41):
just didn't feel like seeing people like us was common
in the media, and I just kept complaining about it.
I was like, Eh, you know what, I'm just gonna
start a magazine. What no one else is gonna do,
I'm gonna do it. So yeah, that's that's how it
started to be honest, and like I haven't done it
in a while, which I think is because I feel
(16:02):
like the people I would cover now are getting their
flowers now, so I feel like my job is not
needed or not needed maybe like it's being candled out,
like whereas before like people that I really wanted to
see like covered, Like I feel like our first articles
we did, like Daily Shaka Hoodsieish is a rapper from
(16:26):
from Sydney and Goldie. He's a graphic designer that does
like Luci and HP Boys. But it was just like
really cool people in our chamber that I just felt
like weren't like being celebrated. But now I see like
like Coconut'll cover them and like forsh TV. So I'm like,
my job's done. I like, I feel like it's good now.
(16:48):
I feel like, yeah, I feel like like I'm almost redundant,
like you know what I mean. But yeah, that's how
it came about. I kind of just was just like
I'm sick of I'm sick of this. I'm sick of
not being seen by force what.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, because media representation of Basifica and OS, I don't
know much about that, but I do know a bit
about it here in New Zealand, and that's something that
we're working on. But even when I compare New Zealand
to Australia, I feel like we're leaps and bounds ahead.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yeah, we had that same chat with JP, and he
was saying in America even like they're craving it. They're
consuming the content that we produce here in New Zealand
and Australia, even if it's not actually relevant to their
experience in America, but just because they want to see
people who look like them. Yeah, exactly, It's wild and
that was kind of why we started the podcast as.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Well, even say, your podcast is something that would like
covers people that I as well.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Yeah, and also like wanting to platform more joy and
like creativity rather than we have a lot of history
that is very important to tell and like we've had
collective trauma and everything, but sometimes just platforming the really
nice things is like such an important representation for our people.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, yeah, And even because we started the podcast, i'd
say twenty.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Twenty one, twenty one, I feel.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Twenty twenty one back then, like they weren't that many
poly podcasts and we were just crazy.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, yeah, you guys are one of the first.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, I don't even think the Morning Shift had started.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah, we didn't realize until we were like reflecting, were
like and.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You guys are like charting immediately, Yeah, I think, Yeah,
people like finally finally and tuning and yeah, yeah, crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And then we kind of went on a little.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah life, I get you. I did watch the JP
episode though, how people were like organizing their own screenings. Oh,
like that's how badly they needed it. I was like, wow,
that is so cool. Like the States is definitely different. Yeah,
they have a lot of media, but I don't know
if they have a lot of media focused on us
over there. I'm not sure. Actually, how was it?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
And Oz, did you see much of yourself on the
TV growing up and media?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Not really? I feel like whatever was popular here just
like we watched over there, but in terms of like
mainstream stuff, I don't think so. It wasn't. It was
more like just us tuning in here and watching everything
that happens here.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
And the popular public figures would just be like our
players everyone.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I was thinking NRL players. And then that was like
the extent of it.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, I think. I mean I remember watching Preschool is
a preschool, play school.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Everyone's So that was literally that's oh my god, that's
like completely unlocked my childhood memory.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Know that.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah Jay from play school won what he's up to?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I hope, Well I think he as well would we
catch up with.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, we need to get.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Yeah, we will play the speck to him and thank
you for my childhood because, come to think of it,
I think you are.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Back first Australia.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And he just broke that glassing Australian.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Wow. I'm mean first I was a guest.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I mean apart from a clip we played Jordan Ricky.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Oh yeah, do you know Jordan Ricky the.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Rugby player.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I don't know him personally, but I know who do about.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
He's fine.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Then I'm te hear interview his mom and she was
like just so you know, yeah, mom.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, because our breakfast flavor is friends with Jordan's mom.
Because Jordan's mom still lives here.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Oh wow, he's originally from here.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, christ got you and they organized for her to
ring me up on the show because I got.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
A clip of Jordan Ricky saying hi to mess for
our last episode last.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Season, when you where did you? Where was here?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Just just like he took a video okay, like hey mass,
hey bro, I don't want it on swish.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
When you get.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Everyone thinks I like pulled some crazy connects.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
And be like, yes, someone who knows.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
We wish we knew someone we do.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Know someone who knows someone needn't pull through for us.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Oh my gosh, yes, we do know someone. We'll tell
you off the.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
But after the video, his mom saw it, right, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Then she rang me on my first anniversary here at
Flavor and she was like, I just want to celebrate
with you, and yeah, I've seen everything that you've been
saying about my son and we'd welcome you went to
the paro and like she was kind of like free,
like kind hinting to me that he's straight. And I'm like, oh,
I know, I know, I'm just I've seen this Instagram
(22:07):
following us. It's okay it she actually called for Yeah,
that's crazy. Shout out to Janelle, my mum in law.
(22:29):
Fall back. You are a Converse All Star, yes, and
you've been able to travel around the world and meet
some pretty awesome people. How did you become an All Star?
And off the back of that, what are the highlights
that you've been able to achieve At.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
The back of it, that's a big question. I became
an old star, like they dmd me on Instagram, Like
in twenty eighteen, they asked me to come to an event.
Do you want to come to an event. We're launching
a shoe and we'd love you there. And at the
time I wasn't. I wasn't really in the creative industry
at Also, I kind of felt I was like is
(23:07):
this real? Like I was like showing my sister. I
was like, I was like it was like in my
DM requests and I was like is it? Like can
like people fake these messages? But I ended up like
obviously replying and being like, yeah, like where is it.
I'll come through. And then when I went to the event,
it was basically an initiative they were starting a community
(23:27):
in Melbourne and Sydney where they just like gathered creatives
and just kind of help them like honing in on
their crafts and stuff. But see, I was confused at
that time because I had I had no creative like
pursuit at all at that time, So I don't know
what they saw on me. But I was just like
being a gul and wearing like nice outfits at the time,
(23:50):
taking fit picks and like posting it.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I was like okay, cool. Like they kind of explained
to us that like, oh, like global opportunities could come
about like just like wear our shoes when you're out
like and just like tag us like all this kind
of stuff. And then yeah, I was doing that. I
was just like being a taking photos tagging them. And
then it came that was like the end of twenty eighteen,
(24:16):
and then it came to like May twenty nineteen and
they asked me to go with them to Malaysia and
I was like, I was like what for why? So
we went to Malaysia in May twenty nineteen. We did
like a bunch of workshops and stuff that had people
from like all over the world that like from Chile,
(24:37):
from South Africa, from Vietnam, from Poland, like literally they
had bought like two people from like every city literally
just to like collaborate with each other and like meet
each other and like do a bunch of projects. And
then that same year we went to la for Camp Flognore,
(24:58):
which is Tyler the Creators Festival. We did something really
similar where they brought like again like two people from
every city. But yeah, like what what was the original question?
How did it come about? Yeah? Sorry, that's how it
came about. So I just like started to I just
continued my journey. But that's amazing, incredible yeah, so like
(25:19):
I've been, I do like little projects here and there
with them, Like some highlights would be I interviewed dis Array,
Do you remember that? Yes, I love her too, so
of course it was online, but yeah, man, I was shaking.
I was like shaking that whole that whole time. I
(25:40):
love so much, Like I feel like the platform she's created,
like radio, acting, producing, like everything. Yeah, she's just so cool.
She's so cool. She's like childish Gambino, Like she just
does everything.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
She does it well.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Everything is quality, everything is quality, really really well thought out.
So yeah, to interview her, I was just like, gosh,
get to pick such an amazing mind. Like, but yeah,
that's definitely one of the highlights I've had for commerce.
And the travel has been good. We went to New
York as well, we came here last year, we came
here last year, Sydney. But yeah, no, it's honestly been
(26:18):
like such a fruitful journey for me. I feel like
without them, I wouldn't be, like I wouldn't believe in
myself so much. Like they really like backed me.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Shout outs to Converse, Yeah, if you're a sponsor.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Like that. Yeah, but like even my magazine, they were
the one who who gave me the grant like for
that magazine. So like that's like that's what I'm saying.
Like the people they are for the people, like they
were really really like they're like not they don't put
the of course they put the corporation first, but I
(26:54):
feel like they really do care about like the community
and like represent and stuff too.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Corporate social responsibility.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, I like I really owe it to them to
that that I've like that I'm here right now on
your show, Like just like there's a lot of little
things that I've built up to like like where I
am now.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
But also I think that you've worked really hard to
get to where you are and to learn all these
new skills and to make the most of the opportunities
that you have been given.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
It's one thing to just like be there along for
the ride, but then to take the tools or the
learnings and like apply it to work hard and like
become the miss you know, Like it's so much more
than just being a Converse all star.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
It's like soaking up the whole experience and running and
run here.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yes, girl, should you meet Tyler the creator?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I did?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I have the photo of my mind right, and he's like, yeah, that.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Was twenty twenty two and Sydney. We did like a
like a panel talk where he was interviewed by Lydia
tu Sermon, which is like a Melbourne she's a Melbourne
host prisoner. And then after we just like got out
or got out individual chats with him. He's so cool.
(28:11):
He's like exactly as you would think, like every person,
not every the personality that he shows on his like
interviews and stuff. It's what you get very come through,
very like honest, like if he doesn't fuck with it,
he doesn't fuck with it, and he will tell you
if he likes it, he likes it, he will tell you,
you know. But yeah, that that that whole that whole
experience was such a blow. Like if I didn't have
(28:33):
the photos, I feel like I wouldn't believe that. Like
so I'm so glad it was like photographed and recorded.
Other than that, I would just be like I promise
I met him.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I met him in Sydney, like you don't know I'm
a converse, you don't.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Even know me. But yeah, no, that was yeah, very buzzy,
that moment so cool.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
O gosh, well for Beck you and a at the
moment for some DJ and gigs at the time of recording.
How cool has it been to be back home? And
how did you start DJ? That's the question, how did
you start DJ?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It was so after that Sydney trip where I met Tyler,
I had watched one of the Converse All Star DJ's
Munji from Malaysia play and honestly, it was that whole
hour set that I was like, I want to do this.
I was like, I want to do this. I want
to bring this type of energy and like bring the
crowd like the way she does. So shout out Munji
(29:30):
because like I honestly, that moment like shifted my whole life.
So I got back from Sydney and then my best
friend Blake from back home was also learning how to
DJ through our other mate Taylan. So I was just
going to their house like because they lived like five
minutes for me when I still lived in Melbourne. I
was just going to their house and they were teaching
(29:50):
me like the basics of DJing, like one transition, like
nothing too complex. And our friend Taylor runs events, so
he was like, oh, you want to just like jump on,
jump on, And I was like, yo, I was like okay.
I was like yeah, okay, cool, and then I ended
up opening that event called Marvin's Room. And then because
(30:11):
I had like roots in the industry already, people were
like taking me seriously and they're like offering me gigs
and I was just like I'm just gonna do it.
Like like people were after as soon as I debuted,
like I was getting gigs weekly. Wow, and I was
just like not me in my one transition, just like
like I was using a lot of my gigs to practice,
(30:33):
like because I had just like learned for like a month,
and then I was just like yep, let's run it.
So cool. So like yeah, like consistently since I started,
I was like working weekly and then like I feel
like I fell in love with it through that. Like
it was at the start, it was just kind of like, uh,
like I want to do it because I saw a
(30:53):
Munie do it and like I loved like the energy
she bought. And then yeah, like I started taking it
like really seriously like towards this. So that was the
end of September, so end of twenty twenty two. In September,
and then at the start of twenty twenty three is
when I was like, Okay, I'm gonna take this seriously,
like I actually really love this a lot, a lot,
a lot. So I went full time in Melbourne and
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was just like trying to do like four or five
gigs a weekend. But yeah, that's how I fell into it,
Like it was very random and like I feel like
I just allowed it to happen. I was just like,
I'm just gonna ride the wave, like see where it
takes me.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Well, before we wrap up our chests, we always play
like a rapid fire Kim a little game to in
the episode. And today we've decided that Masm, I need
to plead our case to you. Oh and we're gonna
be sharing our favorite like dance or like club tracks perfecably,
like throwback tracks.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
You know those songs of the night.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Maybe it's like the last song that's playing as you're
leaving the club, and we need you to decide which
one is better. Okay, And I'm a little bit scared
because I'm not knowing for my music taste. I'm not
one for other stuff, but not my music. So I'm
really scared right now.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
But as we'll go first, Okay, I hand a song
in my mind, but I've changed, you changed it.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
I'm going to go. Can we talk? Tivin Campbell? It's
always such a good song.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Wait am I like? Who's better? Yeah, but you've already won.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
What's your trick?
Speaker 4 (32:26):
No, I don't even want to say one song that's
always going to get me on the dance as a song,
you can't even want to say it. Club Can't handle
Me by flow Rider. It's just like a singer.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
But can we talk?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Can we talk? The song?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Yeah, I'm forfeiting.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I don't want to please, I want to lose. It's
the way. Can we talk is a good job. I
feel like that's the last song. A lot of DJs
will play just to get people to sing it out
and then be like, can now go home? No?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
You like for real? The DJs have that look like
the fun after the finished, like you're.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Lucky I played this. That's a that's a good one.
That's also a good song too. They're different vibes, different
middle of the night. That's like the end of the night.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
When we went out for my graduation and we went
to what's the other one? Rivalry because we went to
Rivalry after Rivalry is not like a hip hop and
R and B club. It's like a white club. I
haven't even known of it, just like Central.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I probably wouldn't recommend that area, but.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I will say that night they were playing the white bangers,
No white banks.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
There are some really good white banks, like.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Welcome to my House, like everyone was going and then here,
you know, I know how something about it?
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Even like Paramore, that's a white bangs. Were they popular here?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah? Yeah, untouched right now? So good? There's some good
bollowing bangs that there. I won't lie. I will lie.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Natasha beating Field is another one and written and written
no one.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Else, no one else was kid.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
What's your favorite white bang do you have?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I really like Evanescence wake Up? You know, that's like
my go to if I want to be like really bolowing.
I really want to start somewhere different. I want to
(34:55):
impress the bowing. You don't know. What do you know
about this?
Speaker 4 (35:01):
I went to Paramol when they came to New zeal And.
It was it was just like strictly brown people. So
many brown people in a white concert before brown people
write we have no good music.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Good music?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah, that was such a good concept.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
How was it. I think I was away when they
were in Australia.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Oh my gosh, Hailey Williams is incredible. She still looks
so amazing good Like, that was such a good concept.
If they ever go back to Astrolia, you should, I will.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah, gosh, you.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Ever come back to you have to come back?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yes, I guess that's time to start playing. Can we talk?
Because to say goodbye to missus forbad.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Hi guys, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
That was such a good Yeah, it's so easy.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I was like so nervous for a reason, truly.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Not you know how to hold a conversation. Yeah, yeah,
we love to. Yet next time you come to let's.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Go for a drink and let's go to kitchen and
not real.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
And that brings us to the end of another episode
of Island Roots Aalkland Ways. Find us on the socials
Island Roots Talkland Ways Instagram. TikTok TikTok people, can you
guys calm.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Down on TikTok please?
Speaker 4 (36:24):
I every time I open up TikTok feels like I'm
in the tree and just find.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
For my life and said we'll catch you next Thursday.
On What is the Lista's Favorite day Thursday,
It's the Flavor podcast network.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Island Roots Auckland Ways. This one's for the Brown brothers
and sisters who want to be one with themselves, their culture,
their identity, their roots.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is Island Roots Auckland Ways. What was up? It's
Mas and Alyssa.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hey everyone, welcome on into Thursday Island Roots Auckland Ways Day.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yes, I love Thursdays.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I really look forward to Thursdays.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's like how they say the day before a day
off feels good. It's like the day before Friday feels good.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I think just because I know that Ira is coming out.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
That's why I.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Like, that's what drives you for the entire week. What's
your least favorite day?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Least favorite day? That is such a good question. Wednesdays,
I feel like because it's like for me, I work
Tuesday to Saturday, so Wednesday's like, oh, we're still at
the start of the week. Oh gee, But Thursday's like
my hump day. So I think that it's also why
I like Thursdays. We're almost there a Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
That would make sense because yeah, hunt day's a good day.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Hence why Thursday is also like beach day.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Anyway, this week, we have our Missus Fullback.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
She was a vibe.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Oh my gosh, so much fun.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I'm so sad that I didn't make it to Layas
to see her do her set live as you went?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Was it the best thing ever?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It truly was. Layers is always like upa oh. I
saw Fallback before she started her set. Actually she was nervous.
She had nothing to be worried about, though, And she was.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Even nervous before she started changing with us.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
And I was like, girl, come on now, look at
you face, body brain. You'll be fine. I promise you.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
She was fine. Have a listen now, and welcome back
to Alan roots Auckland Ways. The congress Or Star Editor
presents a DJ messus four bad. What's that guys?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I'm good, I'm good, Hi guys, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Context Just before we record, we're talking about raisins yes,
and I was like, oh, yeah, I don't really need better,
like I don't mind, Yeah, I just have it because
you know that's so funny in it and do you
(02:33):
eat it wrong? And I could.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Just start to read episode we share what we Love
about Home and a segment aptly called what we Love
about Home? It could be where you currently live, where
you were born, where you feel grounded, it ever feels
like home to you. To give you an example, will
start off and this week what I love about home?
Obviously grown up in money do we the nightety two
sixty seven And I love Kitchen, which is this beautiful
(03:01):
Vietnamese restaurant. The prices are incredible, the food is incredible,
and it's just so so so so good.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Money. Oh yeah, it's delicious.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It's so so so good. Everyone who posts it on
Instagram like makes it look so nice because it is
so nice and delicious and cheese.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, I love Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
We do love cheap, We really do.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Maybe we should go there one time. We should and
next time your.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
On a tour of all the best spots. I think
I went to Monaco Food Junction. Okay, so young, I
was like one of one from everything year, got.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Some good tool guides, growls.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, I had some good Indian there. It was.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
We love our food core because they're cheap.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
They're cheap and they're guaranteed to be good, especially if
it's like a little kid taking your order.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He's obviously just gonna.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I love about home. This is a very tongue in thing.
When I was growing up with my tongue and family,
there was this brand of T shirt called Look Sharp,
and like everyone had a look Sharp tongue a T
shirt okay, And so they had various prints. It was
giving like printed teas before printed teas were a thing,
and so like there was a small print on the
chest and then a massive print on the back. And
(04:31):
I just have fond memories of every tongue and I
know jamming Look Sharp t shirts and you would take
them to tongue and everyone was wearing them like that
were the cool thing to wear. And also they were cheap.
People didn't care for like dressing up back in when
we were kids, I feel like we dressed like kids,
you know what I mean. It's nowadays they very sophisticated,
(04:55):
while I'm just in a hoodie if anything, I'm the kids.
That's what I love about home. How about you feel back?
What do you love about home?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Home for me would be Melbourne because I yeah, I
grew up there. So I've obviously moved away from home now,
so I miss a lot of my family, so probably
just my family. It's nice to like, I feel like
now that I'm away from all of it. I miss
like the craziness and like the loudness and having like
twenty people in the house. So yeah, that's probably that's
(05:25):
what feels like home for me.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Do you come from a big family? I do. I do.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Most of my mum's family is in Melbourne, so my
one family, there's a lot of us. There's a lot
a lot of us, like grandkids and grandkids and grandkids.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
But yeah, where abouts did you move to from Melbourne?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Where'd I move to? Yeah, I'm in the Goldie now,
I'm in Gold Coast now.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yes, you see a gold guy.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Speaking. Yeah, it is. It's very peaceful there, very very.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I remember when we saw each other in the Gold
Coast for Promised Land last year because I was staying
with the mutual friend of ours, Rebecca, so shout out
to her. And we were staying at this nice house
on the it's so beautiful. There are many balconies and
there was lots of alcohol too, and so in the
midst of in between drink ups, four that came I
(06:17):
was like, they put up the truck.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah. We we dropped back at home and and Becca
was like, I'm staying with Maths. I was like, like
where it was our first time meeting in person. Oh
my god, yeah, it was. That was crazy, what a time.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What's so funny is that four Beck and offering Rebecca
were saying to me, Oh, you can come back to
the house, because we're going back to the house. And
then I saw on four Beck's Instagram story there were.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Some this house.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I was like, damn, I really should have gone.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Very beautiful people.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I don't deny this. You surround yourself with beautiful people.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Guys, those are just the bridge, but they are beautiful.
I can say that go Hard, Go Hard is turning red.
(07:18):
By the way, it's like a.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
De nominator around all our episodes, me in our pursuit of.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Jesus love, do you think it's possible to find love?
And because we had this thing where like in Aukland,
the men.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The mean.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
In the because I haven't been looking, to be honest,
I love just like walking in so if yeah, I
can do some research when I get back back to Yeah,
I haven't been looking at all to be honest.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
To be honest, though, I promised Land.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, if you do want to come, come for promise
that everyone from all over comes to Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, because it's I mean from everywhere.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I'm scared.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Was a bit of a.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I had no idea what talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Let's get back on you. Tell us about your upbringing
in Aldo, New Zealand and because I understand this is
where you are raised.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
No, not at all. Do you research? I swear this.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Article that seen you were raised in Lower Heart or
you spent.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Someone Yeah, and then I moved to OZ when I
was six months old. Oh my god, I never lived
here before since then?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, ever reported on you.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I was thinking, like, she's such a beautiful Australian accent,
Like how do you acquire that? If you haven't, I've
heard some strong accents and I love you.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
It's beautiful. It's not to love it?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Can you say?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And cleo?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Oh damn?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
So you and your fano moved over to OS when
you're six months old?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, when I was a baby baby. So like I'm
very much as crazy blue.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, I'm a true blue Aussie ye kangaroo.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, I still claim New Zealand though, like even like
I come here, I'm like I'm home, but I've never
actually lived here longer than like that first period of
my life.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
But when you do come back here like that sense
of home. Yes, everything's still quite familiar.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Well now it is, like because I've been like intentionally
coming back like every few months. Yeah, and obviously being
surrounded by our community, it just feels like home anyway.
Everyone's like, where are you from? Like here, I'm like
everyone just like, I'm not from here. I'm just a fraud.
(10:32):
But yeah, so I grew up in Melbourne like my
whole life.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
True.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I hope I get this right. You are someone Maudy. Yes, okay,
so who's smilety?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Your dad? Your dad and then my someone family all
moved over to yeah and my dad, but my Maori
family still live like all over like christ Church, Wellington, uh,
the Summon, Perth, but none in Auckland surprisingly yeah, because
we're all all of us were from Wellington originally.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
We've had a couple of sal Maudi in the studio
And I guess my question to you is like, did
you feel close to both sides of your culture growing up?
How was that relationship being a someone Maudy.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I don't know anything about my Maori side, to be honest,
I'm very much someone like raised traditional cultures. I just
haven't because obviously we moved to OZ and my Muori
family stayed here. I just didn't get the like honor
of like growing up with my Maori side and like
getting to learn the traditions and all of it, which
I really wish I did. But something of your control, Yeah,
(11:42):
stay out of my control. But I'm very much someone
included a.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Lot of like Maudi that I know that have moved
or grown up in Australia. That's like a very similar
she had experience. But then I can also see why
when you come back to musical and you're like, I'm yes,
this is your.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Is one thing.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I have a lot of cousins who live in Australia,
all across Australia, and they say that, like there's not
a lot of culture in Australia in terms of like
Pacific or like Simon culture.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Have you had a similar experience or do you feel
quite like strong? I feel like I feel like if
you were to compare it, then there's not a lot
because it's all I really know. I feel like it's strong.
I feel like the presence is strong because like obviously
we have a lot of other cultures as well. But
you know, for me, it's been it's been okay. I
think it also depends on the area you're in because
(12:36):
there's like, like for a Melbourne example, there's like South
and West is where all the islanders are based. So
if you're in there you will feel it strongly, but
if you're anywhere else you feel nothing. Yeah, but yeah,
it's been okay for me.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I think I love that so And it definitely depends
on your family, but it sounds there's a huge.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
And a lot of us. Yeah, a lot of us.
I had no lack of. Yeah, someone presence in my life.
I love, yeah very much in Melbourne, girly whatever spots
in Melbourne. If we're planning a trip and we want
to get in touch with some Melbourne culture, where where
are we to?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I don't want to see the along I.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Need to go there.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And literally.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
We're talking about I want to go South and West?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Where are we going?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You're going to? Probably where I grew up was like
poin Cookbe or like Hoppers crossing wind and Vale. Tanya
doesn't mean much to you guys when I say it,
but because I have family. Yeah, Usually when people say,
like I've got family in Melbourne, I'll just start naming
like the suburbs and they're like, yep, that's the one.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I'm like, I guess that's how Ozzies must feel when
we say, yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Those are all the ones I know, like because I
usually stay in who oh yeah, but this trip, I've
been staying in Henderson, and I'm like, I don't know
any of these suburbs that we're going through, like I
to like Toto like all that stuff. But I've been
learning how did I all come about?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
And what were the vibes that you wanted to put
out into the universe? With Ile?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Oh gosh, with Ile, what was the first question? It
was it how did I come? How did it come about?
So I got some funding and I had to like
put together a concept and stuff to like what I
would use the funding for, which was I feel like
it's such a long story, Like I think I could
go back to like I don't know if you remember
(14:30):
poly Connection, which was like ages ago. So I started
as a collective in like twenty nineteen, which we had
Partia July, Craigie, Susanna who's a DJ now and moj
who's a Mormon. But yeah, so we started as a
(14:55):
collective in Melbourne in twenty nineteen, We're doing photo shoots
and stuff, nothing too deep. And then we went to
Sydney and I did another photo shoot with like Billy
Marie killing Me We Love killing Me Gyra. Yeah, like
some really just like people that I thought were really
cool and like not getting maybe the flowers that they deserved.
(15:18):
And then twenty twenty was when I got the grant
and then we went into COVID. Yeah, so I started
it online and then and then at the end of
twenty twenty was when I like go did the print magazine.
But it came about basically I was just like when
I was younger, like eighteen nineteen in the industry, I
(15:41):
just didn't feel like seeing people like us was common
in the media, and I just kept complaining about it.
I was like, Eh, you know what, I'm just gonna
start a magazine. What no one else is gonna do,
I'm gonna do it. So yeah, that's that's how it
started to be honest, and like I haven't done it
in a while, which I think is because I feel
(16:02):
like the people I would cover now are getting their
flowers now, so I feel like my job is not
needed or not needed maybe like it's being candled out,
like whereas before like people that I really wanted to
see like covered, Like I feel like our first articles
we did, like Daily Shaka Hoodsieish is a rapper from
(16:26):
from Sydney and Goldie. He's a graphic designer that does
like Luci and HP Boys. But it was just like
really cool people in our chamber that I just felt
like weren't like being celebrated. But now I see like
like Coconut'll cover them and like forsh TV. So I'm like,
my job's done. I like, I feel like it's good now.
(16:48):
I feel like, yeah, I feel like like I'm almost redundant,
like you know what I mean. But yeah, that's how
it came about. I kind of just was just like
I'm sick of I'm sick of this. I'm sick of
not being seen by force what.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, because media representation of Basifica and OS, I don't
know much about that, but I do know a bit
about it here in New Zealand, and that's something that
we're working on. But even when I compare New Zealand
to Australia, I feel like we're leaps and bounds ahead.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yeah, we had that same chat with JP, and he
was saying in America even like they're craving it. They're
consuming the content that we produce here in New Zealand
and Australia, even if it's not actually relevant to their
experience in America, but just because they want to see
people who look like them. Yeah, exactly, It's wild and
that was kind of why we started the podcast as.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Well, even say, your podcast is something that would like
covers people that I as well.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Yeah, and also like wanting to platform more joy and
like creativity rather than we have a lot of history
that is very important to tell and like we've had
collective trauma and everything, but sometimes just platforming the really
nice things is like such an important representation for our people.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, yeah, And even because we started the podcast, i'd
say twenty.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Twenty one, twenty one, I feel.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Twenty twenty one back then, like they weren't that many
poly podcasts and we were just crazy.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, yeah, you guys are one of the first.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, I don't even think the Morning Shift had started.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah, we didn't realize until we were like reflecting, were
like and.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You guys are like charting immediately, Yeah, I think, Yeah,
people like finally finally and tuning and yeah, yeah, crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And then we kind of went on a little.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah life, I get you. I did watch the JP
episode though, how people were like organizing their own screenings. Oh,
like that's how badly they needed it. I was like, wow,
that is so cool. Like the States is definitely different. Yeah,
they have a lot of media, but I don't know
if they have a lot of media focused on us
over there. I'm not sure. Actually, how was it?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
And Oz, did you see much of yourself on the
TV growing up and media?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Not really? I feel like whatever was popular here just
like we watched over there, but in terms of like
mainstream stuff, I don't think so. It wasn't. It was
more like just us tuning in here and watching everything
that happens here.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
And the popular public figures would just be like our
players everyone.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I was thinking NRL players. And then that was like
the extent of it.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, I think. I mean I remember watching Preschool is
a preschool, play school.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Everyone's So that was literally that's oh my god, that's
like completely unlocked my childhood memory.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Know that.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah Jay from play school won what he's up to?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I hope, Well I think he as well would we
catch up with.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, we need to get.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Yeah, we will play the speck to him and thank
you for my childhood because, come to think of it,
I think you are.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Back first Australia.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And he just broke that glassing Australian.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Wow. I'm mean first I was a guest.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I mean apart from a clip we played Jordan Ricky.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Oh yeah, do you know Jordan Ricky the.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Rugby player.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I don't know him personally, but I know who do about.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
He's fine.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Then I'm te hear interview his mom and she was
like just so you know, yeah, mom.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, because our breakfast flavor is friends with Jordan's mom.
Because Jordan's mom still lives here.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Oh wow, he's originally from here.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, christ got you and they organized for her to
ring me up on the show because I got.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
A clip of Jordan Ricky saying hi to mess for
our last episode last.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Season, when you where did you? Where was here?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Just just like he took a video okay, like hey mass,
hey bro, I don't want it on swish.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
When you get.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Everyone thinks I like pulled some crazy connects.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
And be like, yes, someone who knows.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
We wish we knew someone we do.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Know someone who knows someone needn't pull through for us.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Oh my gosh, yes, we do know someone. We'll tell
you off the.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
But after the video, his mom saw it, right, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Then she rang me on my first anniversary here at
Flavor and she was like, I just want to celebrate
with you, and yeah, I've seen everything that you've been
saying about my son and we'd welcome you went to
the paro and like she was kind of like free,
like kind hinting to me that he's straight. And I'm like, oh,
I know, I know, I'm just I've seen this Instagram
(22:07):
following us. It's okay it she actually called for Yeah,
that's crazy. Shout out to Janelle, my mum in law.
(22:29):
Fall back. You are a Converse All Star, yes, and
you've been able to travel around the world and meet
some pretty awesome people. How did you become an All Star?
And off the back of that, what are the highlights
that you've been able to achieve At.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
The back of it, that's a big question. I became
an old star, like they dmd me on Instagram, Like
in twenty eighteen, they asked me to come to an event.
Do you want to come to an event. We're launching
a shoe and we'd love you there. And at the
time I wasn't. I wasn't really in the creative industry
at Also, I kind of felt I was like is
(23:07):
this real? Like I was like showing my sister. I
was like, I was like it was like in my
DM requests and I was like is it? Like can
like people fake these messages? But I ended up like
obviously replying and being like, yeah, like where is it.
I'll come through. And then when I went to the event,
it was basically an initiative they were starting a community
(23:27):
in Melbourne and Sydney where they just like gathered creatives
and just kind of help them like honing in on
their crafts and stuff. But see, I was confused at
that time because I had I had no creative like
pursuit at all at that time, So I don't know
what they saw on me. But I was just like
being a gul and wearing like nice outfits at the time,
(23:50):
taking fit picks and like posting it.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I was like okay, cool. Like they kind of explained
to us that like, oh, like global opportunities could come
about like just like wear our shoes when you're out
like and just like tag us like all this kind
of stuff. And then yeah, I was doing that. I
was just like being a taking photos tagging them. And
then it came that was like the end of twenty eighteen,
(24:16):
and then it came to like May twenty nineteen and
they asked me to go with them to Malaysia and
I was like, I was like what for why? So
we went to Malaysia in May twenty nineteen. We did
like a bunch of workshops and stuff that had people
from like all over the world that like from Chile,
(24:37):
from South Africa, from Vietnam, from Poland, like literally they
had bought like two people from like every city literally
just to like collaborate with each other and like meet
each other and like do a bunch of projects. And
then that same year we went to la for Camp Flognore,
(24:58):
which is Tyler the Creators Festival. We did something really
similar where they brought like again like two people from
every city. But yeah, like what what was the original question?
How did it come about? Yeah? Sorry, that's how it
came about. So I just like started to I just
continued my journey. But that's amazing, incredible yeah, so like
(25:19):
I've been, I do like little projects here and there
with them, Like some highlights would be I interviewed dis Array,
Do you remember that? Yes, I love her too, so
of course it was online, but yeah, man, I was shaking.
I was like shaking that whole that whole time. I
(25:40):
love so much, Like I feel like the platform she's created,
like radio, acting, producing, like everything. Yeah, she's just so cool.
She's so cool. She's like childish Gambino, Like she just
does everything.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
She does it well.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Everything is quality, everything is quality, really really well thought out.
So yeah, to interview her, I was just like, gosh,
get to pick such an amazing mind. Like, but yeah,
that's definitely one of the highlights I've had for commerce.
And the travel has been good. We went to New
York as well, we came here last year, we came
here last year, Sydney. But yeah, no, it's honestly been
(26:18):
like such a fruitful journey for me. I feel like
without them, I wouldn't be, like I wouldn't believe in
myself so much. Like they really like backed me.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Shout outs to Converse, Yeah, if you're a sponsor.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Like that. Yeah, but like even my magazine, they were
the one who who gave me the grant like for
that magazine. So like that's like that's what I'm saying.
Like the people they are for the people, like they
were really really like they're like not they don't put
the of course they put the corporation first, but I
(26:54):
feel like they really do care about like the community
and like represent and stuff too.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Corporate social responsibility.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, I like I really owe it to them to
that that I've like that I'm here right now on
your show, Like just like there's a lot of little
things that I've built up to like like where I
am now.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
But also I think that you've worked really hard to
get to where you are and to learn all these
new skills and to make the most of the opportunities
that you have been given.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
It's one thing to just like be there along for
the ride, but then to take the tools or the
learnings and like apply it to work hard and like
become the miss you know, Like it's so much more
than just being a Converse all star.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
It's like soaking up the whole experience and running and
run here.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yes, girl, should you meet Tyler the creator?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I did?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I have the photo of my mind right, and he's like, yeah, that.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Was twenty twenty two and Sydney. We did like a
like a panel talk where he was interviewed by Lydia
tu Sermon, which is like a Melbourne she's a Melbourne
host prisoner. And then after we just like got out
or got out individual chats with him. He's so cool.
(28:11):
He's like exactly as you would think, like every person,
not every the personality that he shows on his like
interviews and stuff. It's what you get very come through,
very like honest, like if he doesn't fuck with it,
he doesn't fuck with it, and he will tell you
if he likes it, he likes it, he will tell you,
you know. But yeah, that that that whole that whole
experience was such a blow. Like if I didn't have
(28:33):
the photos, I feel like I wouldn't believe that. Like
so I'm so glad it was like photographed and recorded.
Other than that, I would just be like I promise
I met him.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I met him in Sydney, like you don't know I'm
a converse, you don't.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Even know me. But yeah, no, that was yeah, very buzzy,
that moment so cool.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
O gosh, well for Beck you and a at the
moment for some DJ and gigs at the time of recording.
How cool has it been to be back home? And
how did you start DJ? That's the question, how did
you start DJ?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It was so after that Sydney trip where I met Tyler,
I had watched one of the Converse All Star DJ's
Munji from Malaysia play and honestly, it was that whole
hour set that I was like, I want to do this.
I was like, I want to do this. I want
to bring this type of energy and like bring the
crowd like the way she does. So shout out Munji
(29:30):
because like I honestly, that moment like shifted my whole life.
So I got back from Sydney and then my best
friend Blake from back home was also learning how to
DJ through our other mate Taylan. So I was just
going to their house like because they lived like five
minutes for me when I still lived in Melbourne. I
was just going to their house and they were teaching
(29:50):
me like the basics of DJing, like one transition, like
nothing too complex. And our friend Taylor runs events, so
he was like, oh, you want to just like jump on,
jump on, And I was like, yo, I was like okay.
I was like yeah, okay, cool, and then I ended
up opening that event called Marvin's Room. And then because
(30:11):
I had like roots in the industry already, people were
like taking me seriously and they're like offering me gigs
and I was just like I'm just gonna do it.
Like like people were after as soon as I debuted,
like I was getting gigs weekly. Wow, and I was
just like not me in my one transition, just like
like I was using a lot of my gigs to practice,
(30:33):
like because I had just like learned for like a month,
and then I was just like yep, let's run it.
So cool. So like yeah, like consistently since I started,
I was like working weekly and then like I feel
like I fell in love with it through that. Like
it was at the start, it was just kind of like, uh,
like I want to do it because I saw a
(30:53):
Munie do it and like I loved like the energy
she bought. And then yeah, like I started taking it
like really seriously like towards this. So that was the
end of September, so end of twenty twenty two. In September,
and then at the start of twenty twenty three is
when I was like, Okay, I'm gonna take this seriously,
like I actually really love this a lot, a lot,
a lot. So I went full time in Melbourne and
(31:16):
was just like trying to do like four or five
gigs a weekend. But yeah, that's how I fell into it,
Like it was very random and like I feel like
I just allowed it to happen. I was just like,
I'm just gonna ride the wave, like see where it
takes me.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Well, before we wrap up our chests, we always play
like a rapid fire Kim a little game to in
the episode. And today we've decided that Masm, I need
to plead our case to you. Oh and we're gonna
be sharing our favorite like dance or like club tracks perfecably,
like throwback tracks.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
You know those songs of the night.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Maybe it's like the last song that's playing as you're
leaving the club, and we need you to decide which
one is better. Okay, And I'm a little bit scared
because I'm not knowing for my music taste. I'm not
one for other stuff, but not my music. So I'm
really scared right now.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
But as we'll go first, Okay, I hand a song
in my mind, but I've changed, you changed it.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
I'm going to go. Can we talk? Tivin Campbell? It's
always such a good song.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Wait am I like? Who's better? Yeah, but you've already won.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
What's your trick?
Speaker 4 (32:26):
No, I don't even want to say one song that's
always going to get me on the dance as a song,
you can't even want to say it. Club Can't handle
Me by flow Rider. It's just like a singer.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
But can we talk?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Can we talk? The song?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Yeah, I'm forfeiting.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I don't want to please, I want to lose. It's
the way. Can we talk is a good job. I
feel like that's the last song. A lot of DJs
will play just to get people to sing it out
and then be like, can now go home? No?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
You like for real? The DJs have that look like
the fun after the finished, like you're.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Lucky I played this. That's a that's a good one.
That's also a good song too. They're different vibes, different
middle of the night. That's like the end of the night.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
When we went out for my graduation and we went
to what's the other one? Rivalry because we went to
Rivalry after Rivalry is not like a hip hop and
R and B club. It's like a white club. I
haven't even known of it, just like Central.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I probably wouldn't recommend that area, but.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I will say that night they were playing the white bangers,
No white banks.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
There are some really good white banks, like.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Welcome to my House, like everyone was going and then here,
you know, I know how something about it?
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Even like Paramore, that's a white bangs. Were they popular here?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah? Yeah, untouched right now? So good? There's some good
bollowing bangs that there. I won't lie. I will lie.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Natasha beating Field is another one and written and written
no one.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Else, no one else was kid.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
What's your favorite white bang do you have?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I really like Evanescence wake Up? You know, that's like
my go to if I want to be like really bolowing.
I really want to start somewhere different. I want to
(34:55):
impress the bowing. You don't know. What do you know
about this?
Speaker 4 (35:01):
I went to Paramol when they came to New zeal And.
It was it was just like strictly brown people. So
many brown people in a white concert before brown people
write we have no good music.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Good music?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah, that was such a good concept.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
How was it. I think I was away when they
were in Australia.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Oh my gosh, Hailey Williams is incredible. She still looks
so amazing good Like, that was such a good concept.
If they ever go back to Astrolia, you should, I will.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah, gosh, you.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Ever come back to you have to come back?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yes, I guess that's time to start playing. Can we talk?
Because to say goodbye to missus forbad.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Hi guys, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
That was such a good Yeah, it's so easy.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I was like so nervous for a reason, truly.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Not you know how to hold a conversation. Yeah, yeah,
we love to. Yet next time you come to let's.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Go for a drink and let's go to kitchen and
not real.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
And that brings us to the end of another episode
of Island Roots Aalkland Ways. Find us on the socials
Island Roots Talkland Ways Instagram. TikTok TikTok people, can you
guys calm.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Down on TikTok please?
Speaker 4 (36:24):
I every time I open up TikTok feels like I'm
in the tree and just find.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
For my life and said we'll catch you next Thursday.
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