Roots

Electro-Funk
www.myspace.com/thedeceiversnz
Contact: David Klein (Manager)
Young electro-funksters The Deceivers are the UCSA Battle Of The Bands champion and CHART's Featured Artist for the month of June 2008. The Deceivers are four boys with instruments, a hunger, a stunning live show and more energy than the Niagara Falls in monsoon season. Their sound has evoked descriptions of "dirty and dubby" to "like bathing with a toaster on 10". The boys cite Daft Punk, Foals, LCD Soundsystem and RHCP as the reason they play music...

Urban Jazz Hiphop
www.myspace.com/centralrecords
Contact: Oakley Grenell
Multi musical talent and son of the south Oakley ‘O.G.’ Grenell is CHART's Featured Artist for NZ Music Month 2008. O.G. released his stunning sophmore album Moving On on April 2008, the product of three years work, culminating in a solid 15 track record of some of the finest crafted NZ hip-hop, soul and jazz cuts...

Indigenous Electro Roots
www.arianatikao.com
www.myspace.com/arianatikao
Contact: Ariana Tikao 

This month the ((Chart)) Featured Artist is Lytellton-based singer-songwriter Ariana Tikao who draws upon folk, pop, jazz and reggae styles, with a strong emphasis on Maori chant...