@Peace

@Peace is a collaborative project from two New Zealand lyricists Tom Scott and Lui Tuiasau. Executive produced by Christoph El Truento (Wonderful Noise) and mastered by Benny Tones (Electric Wire Hustle, BBE), the group’s self-titled debut album sees the two writers – respectively from Homebrew (Scott) and Nothing To Nobody (Tuiasau) scratch the underbelly of life in New Zealand with the sharpest rhymes of the year over a musical brew with an unexpected and distinctly mellow flavour. When they hit the road, @peace roll with what Volume magazine called “a body-moving soundscape created by El Truento on beats, B-Haru on keys and drums, and Dick Dastardly on beats and sax, Tom Scott and Lui Tuiasau had the audience eating their words up like a late-night kebab”. These songs about the life of two 'Nobodies' who "stand in the WINZ line" echo the independent rap movement of the nineties but they are surely a local hip-hop highlight of the year.