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Māori Producer MOKOTRON Gets Personal on ‘WAEREA’

The artist explores their Indigenous identity via electronic music in their immense new album

MOKOTRON

Ngaru Garland

MOKOTRON is a Māori producer who makes electronic music that explores their Indigenous identity, and WAEREA might be their most personal project yet.

“These are not songs… they are lifelines for people like me, trapped in a colonised existence, to keep their wairua alive,” MOKOTRON says, and you can feel the force of these words emanating throughout their immense album.

Stream: MOKOTRON, WAEREA


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