Author: jackg70
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Well hello again music world. I am back. I am reviewing new Kiwi music once more – and first cab off the rank is the wonderfully organic sound of Taipella Tide, from – where else could it be? New Plymouth, in that magical region that punches absolutely tonnes above its weight in musical talent, TARANAKIIIIIII!!!!…
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Whatever K-pop can do… J-pop did it already!Straight from the streets of Kobe comes KOBE KIDZ! This hunky boy band brings style, looks, attitude and some completely off the charts moves! Enjoy Kenji, Hiro, Riku and Yoshi’s debut EP Kandy. . Our guys are Kenji, a twenty year old lead singer who says he loves…
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From Tallinn, Estonia, comes Lady Garden +. Triplets Jelena (Lena), Tatjana (Janz) and Natalja (Lia) are the writers, performers and musicians of Lady Garden, a percussive-based EDM/Pop crossover act. Now residing in Wellington, New Zealand, they are trained singers and dancers. One of their stated influences is Mariah Carey and the multiple octave range she…
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Hey boys, girls, non-binary or simply non-caring, I am back in the reviewing game as of today. Please start to send me your singles and vid links for review, which will be in the original written format. The video reviews never got the same traction or interest as the written ones so why ignore the…
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My avatar recording character DJ Sven “Ginge” Andersen is the releasing artist name for my new, hopefully interesting album, THE DREAMTIME. This is an instrumental studio recording, done at my studio here in South Wairarapa, Underhill Studios. Consisting of seven slow, ambient tracks each some distance over ten minutes in duration, we have a total…
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As part of my self-prescribed therapy I have been writing and creating music as if it’s going out of fashion. I’ve written, performed, recorded and produced the music for this release by new act FEDDY FEDZ, a youthful act based here in my hometown in South Wairarapa. It’s a five track E.P. called STEP BEHIND,…
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Well now, when I decided to take a mental and physical health-related hiatus from the reviews I hinted at the notion of doing a bit of therapeutic tinkering myself. Have we heard the term “opening the floodgates”? I have been working on some introverted stuff under an avatar/pseudonym DJ Sven “Ginge” Andersen. It’s a 9…
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Episode 2 – Reviews of The Transits, Sam Bartells & the Outsiders, Superturtle, PONZ, and Saurian; plus music industry news on releases and tours, more words from the notorious capitalist sponsors, a game amateur musician providing a live feel to our intermission, another lesson in English vowel pronunciation from another region, and finally a question…
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Reviews of The Flaxxies, BB & the Bullets, Lachie Hayes, Brent West, and Jeiel; plus music industry news on releases and tours, more words from the notorious capitalist sponsors, a decidedly Gallic intermission, another lesson in English vowel pronunciation from another region, and finally a pearl of wisdom from South East Asia’s only Scottish monkey…
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Episode 1 – Reviews of: Mim Jensen “Safe In Body”; Phoebe Rings “Drifting”; Threat.Meet.Protocol “Cancelled”; Kayleb Duckett “Airport”; Miss Crystal Starr “Theatrical In Fact”
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