WAEREA (Vinyl LP)

FLYING OUT'S #12 ALBUM OF 2024:
MOKOTRON, the Tāmaki-based Māori producer from Ngāti Hine, enters a new territory with WAEREA. An electrifying debut album that fuses Indigenous electronic music with deep, dark bass. Grounded in Te Reo Māori, chants, and the voices of puoro, interwoven with breakbeats and basslines WAEREA captures the essence of Māori, past, present and future. A powerful call to clear away colonial mindsets and embrace music that is unmistakably Aotearoa.

MOKOTRON is a Tāmaki-based Māori producer from Ngāti Hine, who spreads seismic waves of low frequency Indigenous electronic music. Exploring ancient futurism through music, MOKOTRON imagines a reality without colonisation, where the ancestors transition from the ancient world into the modern, creating futures of hope juxtaposed with the hard realities of urban disconnection.

Following a string of sold out short run vinyl releases (Mind Control Krew, Tatau O Te Pō and Embrace The Bass) and award winning digital albums (2022’s TAWHITO and 2024’s THE UNITED TRIBES OF BASS) MOKOTRON returns with his new record WAEREA, delivering nine tracks of pure Dark Māori Bass.

The foundation of WAEREA is Te Reo Māori, traditional forms of song and chant, and the voices of puoro, colliding with breakbeats, bars and basslines to reflect the worldscapes of urban Māori.

Tracklist