Joelistics

Rapper, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Joel Ma is recognised as a unique voice in the Australian music scene.  In 2002 he founded seminal alt-rap group TZU, who built a solid reputation around their electric live performances and inventiveness in the studio across four albums, Position Correction (2004), Smiling At Strangers (2005) Computer Love (2008) and Millions of Moments (2012). Along the way they picked up nominations for the Australian Music Prize, J Award and APRA Award.  Under the moniker Joelistics’ his anticipated debut album Voyager arrived in 2011 and was nominated for an Age Music award. The Age wrote, “Joelistics’ love of beat poetry takes his narratives and vistas to a level as vivid as any great Australian poet.”  His second album Blue Volume was one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Top 20 albums of 2014.  Rolling Stone described it as “a celebration and mourning of the current state of the world, voiced by a smart, incisive writer.” In 2017, he focused his attention on production for other artists most notably with Haiku Hands, Moju, Hermitude and even a %2 song writing with Madonna. In 2020 Joelistics was named Producer of the Year by Music Victoria. In 2021 Joelistics is set to release a production record under the title Joelistics Presents Film School. It is a production record, an album of beats and synths, 70’s Asian pop samples, psych-rock journey music and studio improvisations. This is some Arty business.