A recording studio in Hokianga has successfully attracted enough funding on the website, Boosted, to get the process of setting up a new sound desk and studio well on the way. Eru Wano, Jo Barrett and Taane Thomas are the creative forces behind the Hokianga Recording Studio, which has taken over an old polytechnic studio in Rawene, a little town near Opononi in Northland. The ambition is to create an educational facility for all rangatahi in the area and provide work for creative professionals.