YGB000 • Home Brew (11th Anniversary Edition) by Home Brew

It’s been over a decade since the release of Home Brew, an uncompromising, anti-establishment snapshot of honesty, self-reflection and disillusionment. With that honesty, Tom Scott, Haz Beats, and Lui Gumaka created the clearest picture of the 2010s zeitgeist yet – somehow blending hip hop with Trade Me, PAK’nSAVE, John Key, and whatever drug “killed the dinosaurs”.

“11 years gone by. it’s weird looking back at it with hindsight. i think some of it has fermented better than other parts. but i can at least step back from it now and see it for what it was. it was some honest shit that we weren’t trying to take too seriously. and that’s what i like about it now. it was never too up itself. it was just the noises that came out of us at the time. a bunch of kids having fun. hard to hate on that.” — Tom Scott

Tracklist

1. Dedicated to (Intro)

2. Benefit

3. Alcoholic

4. Yellow Snot Funk

5. Datura/White Flowers (Featuring Lui Tuiasau)

6. Everybody (Featuring Lui Tuiasau and Lucky Lance)

7. Last Day

8. Time Don’t Wait

9. Basketball Court (Featuring Esther Stephens)

10. Radio

11. Radio Outro

12. Dark Intro

13. State of Mind

14. Plastic Magic (Featuring Esther Stephens)

15. The Truth Is Ugly

16. 55 Stories

17. Listen To Us (Featuring Tourettes, Esther Stephens and Matthew Crawley)

18. Good God (Featuring Tyna Keelan and Hollie Smith)

19. Bourbon & Coke

20. Fungi/Absence (Featuring Lui Tuiasau)

21. Space (Featuring Esther Stephens)

YGB007 • Run It Back by Home Brew

Home Brew are back. Breaking their indefinite hiatus, Tom Scott and Haz Beats unveil arguably the biggest hip hop release in Aotearoa this year. At last, a justified “highly anticipated release”. Run It Back comes on the back of their recently re-issued debut album, which earned the pair yet another Number 1 album.

Fans get their first taste of Run It Back with the title track of the album. The single, “Run It Back”, paints a picture as if life has caught up with the characters from the first album.

Run It Back contains shocking moments as well as points of anguish, regret and pain from struggles with long standing substance abuse and income instability – reflecting a brutal realism of life in Aotearoa. At the same time, it’s as carefree and rebellious as Home Brew have ever been. It’s a recognition of the messiness of life. Celebrating the wins and loving what you have while also reflecting on how things could’ve been better – but not wishing they were.

Their classic debut album Home Brew has become synonymous with hip hop in Aotearoa and was followed by a long list of successful musical endeavours from the members – including the critically acclaimed and award-winning Avantdale Bowling Club and Team Dynamite.

‘There’s a term hoopers use after you lose a basketball game – “run it back”. You could get beat 11-nill, but if you call “run it back” then you start the game again from 0. You keep the same team, same rules, but you get a do-over. And if you’re lucky you might have learned something from the last game. It’s like a shot at redemption. After that call you don’t think about what the score was in the last game. You just keep it moving. So that’s what it is now. I used to think I had to keep making the same mistakes to make another Home Brew album. Thought I had to stay the person I was then forever. But, nah, that was something I made up. I dug my own pigeonhole. Truth is that nobody wanted me to stay the same forever. They wanted me to grow. And I’m not the only one who has grown up – the people who grew up with that album grew up too.’ Tom Scott

Tracklist

1. Run It Back

2. Drinking In The Morning

3. Mum’s Stash

4. Holding On feat. Lui Tuiasau, Rizván & Shiraz

5. Dole Day Interlude

6. Probably

7.  80 Down Scenic

8. Questions

9. Dragons & Rhinoceroses

10. Tears Gone Dry

11. Run It Back Again ** Bonus Track

YGB001 • Avantdale Bowling Club by Avantdale Bowling Club

"This record is about...growing up. I think. It's about dealing with your own stuff for once. Accepting responsibility, maybe. It's a self help book addressed to myself. And just like every other piece of art ever made in history of the hominid, I was going through some shit when I was making it. I'd just left home and everyone I knew, looking to chase a dream. It was an awkward phase, like stage two puberty. I was learning how to be grown. Humility had my pride in a headlock. I was the old man at the art exhibition, the young boy at the art gallery. Everyone was in a K-hole, I was at K-Mart."

Tracklist

1. Years Gone By

2. Pocket Lint

3. F(riends)

4. Water Medley

5. Old Dogs

6. Home

7. Quincy's March

8. Tea Break

9. Afternoon Tea (vinyl only)

10. Train Wreck (vinyl only)

11. Mt Roskill Interlude (vinyl only)

YGB006 • TREES by Avantdale Bowling Club

Four years on from the award-winning (Album of the Year, Best Hip Hop Artist at the Aotearoa Music Awards 2019, Taite Music Prize 2019) debut by Avantdale Bowling Club, Tom Scott has announced TREES, produced by Christoph El Truento.

“Don’t expect the same thing. This one’s simpler. It might be the most political thing I’ve ever written, but it’s not about politics, exactly. And it’s not as personal as the last one. Or maybe it’s the most personal. I don’t know. It’s a new one. I hope this one still surprises you.” — Tom Scott

Tracklist

1. Trees

2. Rent 2 High 

3. Twenty Eight 

4. Flying Pigs 

5. Friday Night @ the Liquor Store 

6. Going Through It. 

7. Still Feel Broke

8. Remember, I Really Am Asleep?

9. Without You 

10. Outro

YGB000CD • Home Brew [11th Anniversary Edition] by Home Brew

It’s been over a decade since the release of Home Brew, an uncompromising, anti-establishment snapshot of honesty, self-reflection and disillusionment. With that honesty, Tom Scott, Haz Beats, and Lui Gumaka created the clearest picture of the 2010s zeitgeist yet – somehow blending hip hop with Trade Me, PAK’nSAVE, John Key, and whatever drug “killed the dinosaurs”.

“11 years gone by. it’s weird looking back at it with hindsight. i think some of it has fermented better than other parts. but i can at least step back from it now and see it for what it was. it was some honest shit that we weren’t trying to take too seriously. and that’s what i like about it now. it was never too up itself. it was just the noises that came out of us at the time. a bunch of kids having fun. hard to hate on that.” — Tom Scott

Tracklist

1. Dedicated to (Intro)

2. Benefit

3. Alcoholic

4. Yellow Snot Funk

5. Datura/White Flowers (Featuring Lui Tuiasau)

6. Everybody (Featuring Lui Tuiasau and Lucky Lance)

7. Last Day

8. Time Don’t Wait

9. Basketball Court (Featuring Esther Stephens)

10. Radio

11. Radio Outro

12. Dark Intro

13. State of Mind

14. Plastic Magic (Featuring Esther Stephens)

15. The Truth Is Ugly

16. 55 Stories

17. Listen To Us (Featuring Tourettes, Esther Stephens and Matthew Crawley)

18. Good God (Featuring Tyna Keelan and Hollie Smith)

19. Bourbon & Coke

20. Fungi/Absence (Featuring Lui Tuiasau)

21. Space (Featuring Esther Stephens)

YGB003 - “LIVE” by Avantdale Bowling Club

Avantdale Bowling Club's August 2019 performance at The Powerstation, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.