East Coast rap from the bottom of the planet! This debut album from Big Fat Raro (see also Tokerau) features eclectic beats and vocals – from soothing triphop to scathing breaks. ‘Otepoti Unnaground’ features a diverse collective of Dunedin hiphop artists. In a city famous for the Dunedin Sound this is a different flava of ‘the sound’ (yet still uniquely Dunedin).
First up, the illustrious Toki Wilson, all wired-up and armed with colourful plastic sound toy machinery, rarotongan militant psychedelic hip-hop southern side and the harsh realities of Stafford street art-skool old-skool. Subtle, to the point of evil, Toki’s Otepoti Underground project, now in it’s solo form, set the standard of the evening – an electronic rat-a-tat-tat. His rhyme slick, his stage presence diminuitive yet simmering, cool incarnate.