Troy Kingi and MOKOMOKAI are bringing their acclaimed new collaboration Marine

Blue Social Club for an EP release show with us! and you!

The project marks the first EP between two of Aotearoa’s musical forces, multi-award-winning, multi-genre Māori artist Troy Kingi (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) and Māori hip-hop trio MOKOMOKAI (MANU, DUSTY & GHOS) who claimed the Best Hip Hop Artist Award at the 2026 Aotearoa Music Awards.

Marine Blue Social Club takes its name from two distinct but connected musical reference points. “Marine Blue” nods to a Biggie Smalls freestyle and “Social Club” pays homage to Cuba’s Buena Vista Social Club and the spirit of communal creativity.

As long-term friends, the collaboration has been building for more than five years. DUSTY explains,
“This was something that we wanted to do since the first MOKOMOKAI project,” “We always wanted to work with Troy. We got him to just play a guitar solo on ‘TUMEKE’. From there, I kind of always knew that eventually we would do a project.”

Now the time has come, with the six tracks bringing together their signature hip-hop, soul, blues and psychedelic sounds, drawing on the musical worlds that have shaped both artists across Aotearoa and beyond.

Supporting the show is world-class DJ and producer DJ Spell, known globally for his boundary pushing turntablism, hip-hop and beat making. DJ Spell has represented Aotearoa on the world stage, winning the 2017 DMC World Championships, 2011 Red Bull Thre3Style NZ title and 2013 IDA Australasian Championships. With a career spanning over two decades, he has taken to some of Aotearoa’s biggest festival stages and shared them with some of Hip-Hop’s most influential names such as MF DOOM, Mos Def, KRS-One and Prophets Of Rage.

STRICTLY R18 | DOORS 730pm

Tickets on sale Friday 25 September, 12pm via ticketmaster.co.nz