Blake Neka's Playlist
The Deflow ambassador playlist serie is on ! This time we sat with our Australian favorite surfer Blake Neka to ask about his music taste and to make an exclusive playlist for us. Play it now below!
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- Hey there Blake ! How are you doing?
All is good over my ways dude! Hope same goes for you.
- We wanted to know the different music taste from our family members. How would you describe yours?
Haha I feel like not everyone can back my music taste but most days I listening to Drill, Aussie drill/rap, Grime, R&B and some classic Micheal Jackson. I got influenced by this type of music from the area & boys I grew up with/in and I ain’t complaining !
- What do you listen to before surfing?
Most days I like amping myself up w/ some aussie/UK drill lol, I can imagine people reading this and thinking “tosser” haha. It all kinda depends what type of surf I’m wanting to have really, if I were wanting to cruise down some lines instead of trying to hack myself at an end section the music selection pre surf would definitely be a bit illchay.
- Do you play an instrument?
I definitely go in & out of phases where I wanna learn a instrument but then come to realise I can’t be bothered learning. At first it was a saxophone in school lol, then guitar that’s been sitting in my room collecting dust for about 4/5 years. Massive fan of the piano tho.
- Name your favorite artist no one knows about.
Huskii.
- What song do you have on repeat?
I’m always choppin’ and changing through songs but it would definitely have to be something from Skepta or Huskii.
- If you had to choose to listen one album forever, which one would it be?
Thriller by Micheal Jackson or Skepta Konnichiwa.
- About the playlist you have prepared, how would you describe it?
Mix of emotions throughout the playlist. Could be listening to some pretty violent stuff then switch into to some MJ or chill R&B haha. Not really a surfers playlist but hey I don’t care haha…
BRAIDEN’S FAVORITES
Braiden Maither's Playist & New Video
Here’s some news from our favorite Hawaiian surfer and Deflow family member, Braiden Maither. After a bad injury, our mate is back ! He dropped a few weeks ago a solid part after spending winter in Hawaii and two weeks in Indonesia. Deep barrels, powerful turns and high aerials, here’s what Brandon is skilled at and this edit is so good to watch.
We also took the opportunity to ask Braiden about his favorites tunes. Get his vibes with his Spotify playlist & take some time to watch his amazing edit. You’ll definitively get some strong motivation to go surfing!
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- Hey there Braiden ! How are you doing?
Good! Just waking up getting ready for the day!
- We wanted to know the different music taste from our family members. How would you describe yours?
I love hip hop music. Massive fan study everything about the genre. So that’s the majority of music I listen to. There’s a huge underground movement of great artists in the last 5 years and I am highly invested in it. But don’t get me wrong I love some good house music, reggae, and punk on its day too.
- What do you listen to before surfing?
I’m going either hip hop or reggae if I’m on a roots mellow surf!
- Do you play an instrument?
I mess round with making beats and flipping samples. Pretty mediocre at it but I have a lot of fun.
- Name your favorite artist no one knows about.
Mach-mommy or Mike probably, although Idk if no one knows about them haha…
- What song do you have on repeat?
Wiley From Atlanta (Pink Skies Demo)
- If you had to choose to listen one album forever, which one would it be?
Either Isaiah Rashad-Cilvia Demo or Damian Marley-Mr. Marley.
- About the playlist you have prepared, how would you describe it?
Mostly upbeat fun music to listen to or some low key jams. A lot of pockets to go about your day with.
BRAIDEN’S FAVORITES
Deflow Music - Tarik Rahim
If you haven't met him yet, lets introduce you to Tarik Rahim. We know him for some years now, and we always have been interested by his artistic way of doing things. From helping his father at the family business crafting surfboards in Asturias, to compose his own music with his band Carisma.
Ah, and we can't forget his unique style of surfing different boards and having fun with any kind of waves.
We asked him a few questions and proposed him to create a little playlist to inaugurate our Spotify channel.
Deflow: How is it going?
Tarik: Hey, what’s up, all good around here
D: First of all, introduce yourself, tell us where you come from…
T: Conceptually Tarik Rahim is 20 years old, was born on a cold day of January in Asturias (Spain) but his parents are from the tropical and sunny Brazil and his grandfather was originally from Lebanon, so he is a quiet big combination of cultures that melts into surf (because his dad has been a shaper since the 70’s), music, drawing, photography and in general terms, using creativity in the ways he consider cool since he was little tiny punk.
D: Music, surfing, photography… where does this creativity come from?
T: That’s a little mystery still, but as far as I know, it came in a really natural way; I remember I used to look up for super sketchy websites where I could download music illegally when I was like 9 or something, and I also remember coming back from class when it was flat and just spending hours drawing God knows what in these small notebooks that I still keep and try to understand nowadays.
D: We have heard you have a music band too? How is that going?
T: Aaaaah man, for one side it’s been reeeeal good, getting to know a lot of different people, playing in a bunch of places, and specially having a lot of fun with the rest of the band, shout out to my boys Ivan(Pendejo), Ruben and Santi. But in the other hand it has been a bit busy for me managing it, manufacturing the cassettes, doing posters, looking up for gigs, etc, also tried to get the band on a label a month a go, sent like 50 emails but no one answers back even for saying no, so I guess it’s all about timing.
D: Which type of music you normally play? Planning to be on the MTV Ema’s someday? hahaha
T: For the band I mostly do like 60’s kinda garage rock, which I’m a super fan, but besides that back at home, I love playing some bossanova, funky, jazz chords, even a bit of flamenco I don’t know, I love to play other styles of music so I invite everyone to listen to my Soundcloud and if they want just give some feedback haha and about the EMA’s, yeah, why not, CARISMA would be stocked to do some twerking with Miley Cyrus hahaha
D: Ok, so now introduce us the little music recompilation you’ve done for us :)
T: Alright, maybe is a bit confusing for whoever listens to it because there are many different styles of music in that playlist, but there's one only thing they have in common, and that’s the energy and vibe every single song gives, not each of it has the same energy but they still transmit something, so I hope everyone finds it and enjoys it.
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