Island Base

some of our lyricists in action writing for our up & coming track! They were spitballing ideas and coming up with verses for the song, but one mutual theme remained.

The beauty of the islands 🏝️ the oceans 🌊 the sky 🌌 and coral reefs 🪸 super catchy if you ask me😛

tune coming 🔜

Some of our rangatahi going through chords + writing lyrics for our song! The islands were a big inspo for this track as over 90% of our Mahurangi rangatahi are from Kiribati 🏝️ which is huge for us as most of our rangatahi that we see weekly are Maori, Samoan and Tongan 🎉

having such a pronounced Kiribas group has been so cool, learning some of the lingo and watching our rangatahi incorporate their language into past tracks (like summer vacay by vibez) has been absolutely beautiful☝🏽☝🏽

We’re so excited to share this track with everyone ⭐️

🙌🏾Check out Lehali, one of our mentees and her interview with Coconet TV! We had the privilege of having her perform at our last TAKE IT TO THE STREETS and we couldn’t be prouder to see how much she’s grown as an artist 🎧 🎤 🌴

See Lehali in Take it to The Streets 👉🏽⭐️ https://youtu.be/bCPTsLiRbJc?si=LMdeAUFYvGJclBB-

Rising Ni Van Artist Lehali gives us a glimpse into her world from Advocating, Music and over coming her deepest fears.

Get to know the multi-talented singer here:
https://www.thecoconet.tv/coco-tv/inspiring-islanders/from-vanuatu-to-the-world-meet-lehali-young/

Some behind the scenes of our rangatahi creating beautiful melodies for our upcoming track! We had so many talented instrumentalist we thought it would be such a huge waste to not record some of their playing and ultimately produce the whole track ourselves.

Almost all of the Mahurangi rangatahi knew at-least one instrument, from ukulele, guitar, piano, drums or they just had beautiful voices 🎉🙌🏾

For many of our youth we know how scary and challenging it can be to put yourself out there, especially with music and singing in front of peers, but we were so impressed with these guys constantly putting their hands up to record ❤️

Track coming 🔜 🌴

We were super fortunate to have Simon Abela Simon Abela as our second mentor for our Mahurangi Holiday programme 🌴 Simon is an amazing producer and guitarist and worked alongside our previous mentor Noah Slee as his producer!

For our new track with our Mahurangi rangatahi Simon and his group worked on producing the beat as well! mainly focusing on guitar and vocals. This is our first ever Island Base original song where everything you hear is made from scratch, from lyrics, the entire beat, vocals and then mixing and mastering done by our mentors ❤️

We couldn’t be prouder of this bunch ☝🏽
To listen to our original songs + your favourite island jams go to islandbasefm.com

For our first day back with our rangatahi at Mahurangi College we had such a treat to have our longtime mentor Jason Eli as one of our facilitators for the holiday programme!

He worked with a group to create the drum line/ some bits of ukulele for our upcoming track in collaboration with our Mahurangi rangatahi.🌴 'We were super inspired by some island reggae and decided to go in a similar direction with our own track, slower bpm, heavy bass/ drums & more groove.' 💃

We’re so excited to see how it all comes together🎉
👂Listen to some of your fav island tracks at islandbasefm.com ⭐️

A huge step in the right direction for Samoa 🇼🇸 very important for our rangatahi

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Our Mahu Easter Programme wrapped up with plenty of proud moments. 🏝️

The boys were all smiles celebrating as Island Base alumni, repping their certificates and stickers with pride. ☝🏽🙌🏾

Seeing their growth and confidence is what it’s all about. We couldn’t be prouder of this crew.

We can’t wait to do it all again very soon… 🤫