COCO SOLID

downloads:
electrik luv video myspace lyrics
myspace interview myspace
radio nz interview.mp3 5MB
coco juicetv interview youtube
gpbz album review.mp3 4MB
d & l Flight of the Conchords youtube

Limited addition 12" Grafitti Girls For Life (released in coco pastel pink) recently sold out within a week.

Double disk album, The Radical Bad Attack was released in June 2008. There’s a bigger, badder and radder line of special guests - The Graffiti Girls, Kidz With Guns, Flowsion, Agent Ali, DJ Exile and Melissa West plus producers Jizmatron, Extravagangsta, Sam Moore and Alan Holt - all mixed by ALC5. The album sees Coco flexing her musical muscle with the first disc dedicated to dancefloor (Sex) and second to experimental (Science) tracks - set to keep C.S. fans guessing, grinding and thinking.

The single Fake Kids (from Rap’n’Roll) was a surprise cult single in the NZ alternative charts (despite the album being recorded and produced off a cassette tape in Coco's lounge).

Coco Solid's breakthrough album Denim & Leather was produced with legendary rock’n’roller ALC5, taking their stripped beats and recruiting the electro-vision of Erik Ultimate, the click worked alongside Emma Jean (DJ Halogen Girl, Germany) Michael Logie (The Mint Chicks) and local tearaway Ro-Thug this album is a cult find. The title single has since been honored and reworked by Princess Superstar on her 2008 single 'Monday Morning'.

crime fighters.mp3 4MB lyrics
crime fighters full video youtube
abc full video.mpeg 6MB
abc.mp3 2MB lyrics
demo video 2005.mpeg 2MB
d & l DJ Nasty remix.mp3 4MB lyrics

“Smart as Stephen Hawking, sexy as Brigitte Bardot, full of monster techno riffs and truly seismic bass [Denim & Leather]’s the most exciting local album I’ve heard all year, and the funniest.”
Grant Smithies,
Sunday Star Times (NZ)

Late 2005 saw the release of Denim & Leisure featuring radical remixes of Denim & Leather by an amazingly talented crew of producers: DJ MI$O, Simon Flower, Lovely Midget, Organikismness, DJ Jizmatron, DJ Han Baby, White Saucer, Vodaphone Warriorz, and City Newton Bombers.

In 2006 the C & E saga continued with release of the new album Gentlemen Prefer Bombz. Coco Solid came, saw, and conquered new musical realms in a veritable electro-rap tour-de-force. The first single Crime Fighters became an instant hit on NZ radio networks and the internet, winning “Best Hip Hop” song at the 2007 Bnet Awards

check these out:
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www.cheeseontoast.co.nz
www.fumes.tv
www.foxymoron.co.nz
www.milanaphotography.com
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Solid first recorded the underground mix cassette tape Rap n Roll, recruiting MC’s and friends, among them her favourite electro DJ come deep-voiced cameo ERIK ULTIMATE. Other guests included members of her original punk/rap girl group The Pussies and other local underground rappers.

updated: 24 March 2009

Coco Solid is an underground electrorapper seducing and shaking live crowds while churning out bangers from Auckland City, New Zealand. Combining Miami and Detroit booty-bass with her own trademark minimal electro, she's rhyming about everything; sex, science and the daily grind...

Press:
Sunday Star Times TRBA review Aug 2008
Groove Guide interview Aug 2008
Listener TRBA review July 2008
Capital Times cover June 2008
Rip it Up GPBz review Feb 2007
White Fungus Magazine article Feb 2007
Listener article Jan 2007
NZ Herald GPBz review Jan 2007
Cheeseontoast GPBz review Dec 2006
Oyster Magazine article Oct 2006
Remix Magazine interview Aug 2006
Sunday Magazine May 2006 cover article
Real Groove Magazine article May 2006
NZ Musician Magazine review Feb 2006
Pavement Magazine review Autumn 2006
TNT UK Magazine article Sep 2005
Sunday Star Times article Sep 2005
Pavement Magazine review Winter 2005

Alongside the original Malaysian gangster DJ Han Baby the Coco Solid live act is now legendary. At home she has supported Girl Talk, Avenue D, The 5,6,7,8’s and King Brothers. Abroad she has rapped alongside Sway, TTC, O’mmas Keith from SA-RA, Spankrock and The Roger Sisters.

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"like any truly original record, Denim & Leather rewards with multiple listens and gradually gets under your skin. This is hip-hop with a difference and its kicking."
TNT Magazine (UK)

myspace myspace.com/cocosolid
youtube youtube.com/cocosolid
buy cds from record stores like smokecds
or online from amplifier or itunes
distributed through border music

Coco and crew now have five underground releases to their name - the lo-fi Rap n Roll (2003), Denim & Leather (2004), remix album Denim & Leisure (2005), Gentlemen Prefer Bombz (2006), and double album The Radical Bad Attack (2008)

"if you’re not a Coco Solid fan, I despair for you.”
Pavement Magazine

"How the hell did Coco Solid come out of New Zealand?"
White Fungus

"has a cheeky exuberance that most hip-hop of any flavour lacks. This shit is cool.” Austin Chronicle (TX)

“some of the smartest, most entertaining rhyming you’ll find anywhere.”
Nick Bollinger, NZ Listener

“radically good... the creativity is rampant”
Jim Pinckney, NZ Listener

“a fucking amazing record” Andrew Tidball, Cheese on Toast

2008 saw the release of an epic twenty one track double-album The Radical Bad Attack. Again Coco and guests push the boundaries with excursions into punk, grime, rock, nature sounds, and even surf guitar, all combined with rock-solid base of original-style “Coco Solid trademark” electro-rap bangers.

After a stint at the Red Bull Music Academy in 2008 Coco met the Danish producer Robin Hannibal (of Owusu & Hannibal fame) and the pair went on to create the joint project Parallel Dance Ensemble. The two produced the electric single 'Turtle Pizza Cadillacs' which has the equally epic music-video by Aleks Sakowski out now.

“all brain and muscle, without an ounce of musical fat... 5 stars” Grant Smithies, Sunday Star Times

for the fans:
click on the moa and unicorn posters to get printable versions.
also: Leipzig flyer, world tour poster