Listen to 'FOOTMAHI 2025' by The Big Fresh Collective
This may be the most legendary NZ Music Month / Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa of all time, as local music lovers raise a vessel to the reemergence of The Big Fresh Collective — officially back following a pause in activity while label boss Liam K. Swiggs relocated from his beloved Ōtautahi to bustling Tāmaki Makaurau. All locked at 160 BPM for maximum hi-tempo mixability, the new FOOTMAHI 2025 compilation is not only crammed full of powerful bangers (forty four all up), it is also a time capsule of Aotearoa's forward-thinking contemporary electronic dance underground, preserved in digital amber for future historians to pore over with studious reverence.
Local champions including Caru, DONK DOBBO, Young Gho$t, Paploco, DJ GRAN TURISMO, DJAWESOMECHILLGUY, Jerry Watts and Synthetic Children rub shoulders alongside our next generation of production upstarts, all united by their love for FOOTMAHI — that inclusive, hi-octane umbrella coined by the BFC's Mushmane on a now-infamous winters afternoon...
"The story goes that the BFC were huddled up drinking a communal slab of 8% Cody’s on a bitterly cold Ōtautahi winters afternoon watching a young in-form Shaun Johnson absolutely tear the Sydney Roosters defence to shreds with his electric “footwork” - when Mushmane screamed out “LOOK AT THE FOOTMAHI” changing the course of BFC history forever all in the birthplace of The Big Fresh Collective; The Parage on 40A Richill Street, Belfast, Ōtautahi.
The Journey of Footmahi has taken us all over AOTEAROA working with & entertaining people from all walks of life that we are proud to call our Whānau.
THIS MUSIC HAS BEEN CRAFTED BY PRODUCERS THAT WERE BORN OR CURRENTLY RESIDE INSIDE OF AOTEAROA; FROM THE DIRTY SOUTH ALL THE WAY UP TO MOUNT SMART IN AUCKLAND!"
From Outside presents Blowin Os ft. Young Gho$t, Gram 6835
Friday 23rd May - Moon, Wellington
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Hyan with Caru, Juni, Reasxn, Bushsky, Ridler
Friday 23rd May - Il Brutto, Auckland
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