Haszari's origins begin with thrash metal, guitar solos, and the half-speed choruses & flannel shirts of grunge. Progressing through 90s low-fi tracker big beat & downbeat music (under the alias SUBstandard), to hip hop DJing, scratching, Haszari arrived at the usual vinyl obsession thanks to the inevitable lure of dancefloor breaks and house. Since dropping absurd DJ names such as Tyred and Spudgun, Haszari's DJing has gone from strength to strength, including support slots for Dick Johnson, Tim Phin, Pig Out and others, and DJ sets from Auckland to Sydney, Gisborne to Wanaka, and of course Dunedin.

Alas, DJing for 6 hours every 3rd Saturday can only go so far, and Haszari recently found his obsession directed more and more toward soft-synths, samples and sequencers, and began remixing any eastern european trance vocal he could get his sticky mitts on. A love of bass and space pervades Haszari's production, revering at once both the sound of a room filled to the ceiling with a single sub note and the critical empty space between a kick, hi hat, and a snare. Style-wise he covers the gamut between deep minimal breaks, tech house, electro, and fidget house.

Haszari's tracks & remixes have been been played on George FM, UP FM, b-net stations including RDU and Dunedin's own Radio 1, and have been spun by DJs as far afield as Germany and Ireland.

Haszari's special places:

personal opinion and tracklist blog
facebook group - join now!
myspace
last.fm

Remix and booking enquiries:

haszari@cartoonbeats.com