Coco Solid

aka Jessica Hansell


Jessica Hansell is an Auckland-born rapper, singer and songwriter who performs and records under the stage name Coco Solid.

Now a solo project, Coco Solid first began as a duo, with Hansell recording and performing alongside fellow rapper and visual artist Benjamin Buchanan, who works under the stage name Erik Ultimate. Hansel and Buchanan recorded regularly with deceased punk producer ALC5 and often performed with DJ Han Baby.

Cokes - a Coco Solid mixtape for Waitangi Day, 2018.
Photo credit: Pati Solomona Tyrell
Coco Solid and Erik Ultimate photographed for the back of Denim & Leisure (2005).
Parallel Dance Ensemble - Weight Watchers (2009)
Architecture
Coco Solid - Pacific Rims EP (2011)
Parallel Dance Ensemble - Shopping Cart music video (2011)
Coco Solid - Heaven's Gate music video/ FAFSWAG doco (2014)
Poster for Coco Solid's 2017 mix Alumni, for Red Bull Radio. 
Coco Solid on Changing the Paradigm: speaking about the need for transforming the music industry by providing leadership opportunities for those traditionally excluded from music production, fostering community and incorporating perspectives of women, indigenous and queer communities (Ableton, 2019)
Aroha Bridge - Season One, Episode One
Coco Solid - Slow Torture (feat. Disasteradio)
Coco Solid - Crop That Back music video/ in collaboration with FAF SWAG x COVEN directed by Sione Monu (2018)
Electrik Love
Coco Solid - Crime Fighters (2006)
Coco Solid - Denim and Leather (2004)
Coco Solid - VPMA Nominee Fighting Discrimination In NZ
Day 1 of Equalise My Vocals, a panel focused on gender equality in the music industry (2017)
Coco Solid - Gentlemen Prefer Bombz (2006)
Parallel Dance Ensemble - Turtle Pizza Cadillacs music video (2009)
Coco Solid - Denim & Leisure (2005)
Coco Solid, 2019 Arts Foundation Laureate receiving the award for mixed media
Coco Solid exhibition Fresh Gallery Otara (2011)
Aroha Bridge - Series One, Episode 3 (2013)
Aroha Bridge - Series Two, Episode One (2016)
Ria Hall, Coco Solid, and Ebonie Smith talk with Victoria Kelly about musical activism and issues surrounding gender in the music industry (2018)
Coco Solid interview on Cheese on Toast TV (2009)
Parallel Dance Ensemble - Juices official music video (2011)
Coco Solid - The Radical Bad Attack (2008)
Coco Solid interview on NZOWN (2008)
Badd Energy - Third Eye music video (2011)
Coco Solid: 'What Would a Feminist Methodology Sound Like?', speaking in Melbourne (2018)
Parallel Dance Ensemble - Run music video (2010)
Labels:

ISM Records


Red Bull Music Academy


Permanent Vacation

Members:

Jessica Hansell

Benjamin Buchanan

Trivia:

Hansell and Erik Ultimate rapped with Flight Of The Conchords at SXSW in 2006.

Hansell's song Denim & Leather was sampled by Princess Superstar in her song Monday Morning.

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