Hailing from Hawkes Bay and of Maori descent - Jayrasik first discovered his interest in becoming a DJ, when he was introduced to the New Zealand DJ Battle competitions by a family friend at 8 years old. Before long, he was entering these competitions and found himself placing within the top 3 DJ’s in the country. His passion for hip hop grew even more from watching early 90’s/2000s DMC Battles and from the 80s hiphop movie ‘Beat Street’. He also drew inspiration from the likes of DJ Sirvere, DJ Reminise, DJ Manchoo, Tha Abbott

 DJ Jayrasik now has over 20 years experience in the music industry, since entering the scene professionally for events at just 14 years old.

He has worked alongside multitudes of local and international artists including L.A.B, Kora, Summerthieves, Katchafire, Sean Kingston, Ja Rule, T-Pain, Ashanti - just to name a few.

 DJ Jayrasik is also a regular entertainer at New Zealand’s largest music festivals, and frequently travels for events such as Splore, Bay Dreams, Homegrown, Goodvibes Festival and even getting amongst our very own sporting teams, The One Warriors & The Mighty All Blacks teams. He has also spent a certain amount of time on air with stations such as Mai FM and Flava FM. He has established a respectable professional reputation within the music industry, whilst developing many connections and friendships, which have ensured his repeated attendance for many more shows and festivals (new and old) yet to come.