TZU After travelling to Melbourne, Ma formed
TZU with Paso Bionic of
Curse Ov Dialect and members of Pan in 2002. During their years of activity, they released four studio albums under
Liberation Music before disbanding in 2013.
Joelistics 2011–2014: Voyager Under his MC name "Joelistics", Ma signed with Sydney-based Australian hip hop label
Elefant Traks for the release of his first solo album
Voyager. Released in 2011, Ma collaborated with Ella Thompson (Oz Soul Collective, Axolotl), Dustin Mclean (Moon Zero studios) and
Natalie Pa'apa'a (
Blue King Brown) for the recording of the album. Ma explained following the release of
Voyager that the album is influenced by his travels to locations such as
Berlin, France and
Bangkok; where he wrote sections of two songs—"All the Rebels" and "Sooner or Later": There is a hotel near Sukhumvit Rd called The Atlanta and it's my favourite hotel in all the world ... and in the marbled foyer they provide letter writing rooms for guests. I set up my laptop in one of these rooms and cooked up "All the Rebels" ... I stumbled across the beat [for "Sooner or Later"] in my last few days before I returned to Australia, and the verses about travelling tumbled out while I was in transit from Thailand back to Oz. They were mostly written at
Suvarnabhumi Airport in a sleep-deprived, half-excited, half-delirious state. Between the two albums, Ma also experienced the end of a long-term relationship with his former partner and the death of a close friend: ... I experienced some loss that I hadn't really touched before. And people who were close to me are no longer there or no longer close to me ... the things that I think are worth fighting for and believe in, I think, are still the same ... Maybe, if anything, I've got more doubts. Ma also performed with fellow Elefant Traks artist
Sietta for the 2014 Darwin Festival, in
Darwin, a special collaboration that was scheduled to feature "stories about growing up in Australia in the 80s and 90s, and particularly growing up mixed race." Ma performed at the "New Years Beats" event on New Year's Eve 2014, alongside fellow Australian hip hop artists, such as
Briggs and
The Funkoars. He performed his song, "Say I'm Good" alongside
You Am I for the
triple j radio station's 40th anniversary event,
Beat The Drum, on 16 January 2015.
2018-2023: Ghost Town, Film School, Analog Gunk. Joelistics produced the title track for
Mo'Ju's 2018 album,
Native Tongue. The following year, Mo'Ju and Joel released an EP together, titled
Ghost Town. In 2021, he released his third studio album,
Ghost Town. In 2023, he released his fourth studio album,
Analog Gunk. ==Touring==