Author: jackg70
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MOKOTRON releases the long awaited remix album THE UNITED TRIBES OF BASS. It is a landmark remix project, exclusively featuring Māori and Cook Island Māori electronic practitioners from throughout the motu. THE UNITED TRIBES OF BASS feature remixes and reworkings by Caru, Big Fat Raro, Akcept, Netana, Hasji, DJ Oboe, GALOLEAFI and Big Wā. They have taken MOKOTRON’S brooding electro and reconstituted it into optimistic electronica, seismic dub, stoic ambient and club ready Drum n Bass…
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Ōtautahi is the home of Fijian born CH!EF, real name Ratu Cokanasiga. This guy is a true R & B performer, delivering a rich, Polynesian timbre baritone, smooth like a flat white from Cuba Mall, velvety like something velvet. Bringing a clear, South Pacific influenced touch of reggae to the underlying R & B style,…
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I’m an instant fan of Geoff Ong! When It Gets Easy is just on general release and I love it! Or, as I’d be saying if I still lived in Olde Wales, I loves it I does, see. Based out of Tāmaki Makaurau, Geoff is adept at the most uplifting form of indie pop I…
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Amiria Grenell will soon be hitting the road for a national tour! For more details and tickets, head to utr.co.nz 25/04 – Lake Hawea – House Concert 26/04 – Queenstown – Sherwood 27/04 – Dunedin – Maggies 03/05 – Wellington – Poquito 04/05 – Wellington – Poquito 05/05 – Auckland – Freida Margolis 10/05 – Christchurch…
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Amiria Grenell has just launched her latest album, The Winter Light. She’s nailed this folk-pop sound of hers, as we find with lead single The Ghost In You. Coming in with a light, soft ballady vibe a la Mary Hopkins (Welsh legend, yay!), Amiria swiftly moves up in energy levels with some great, thick bottom…
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About a thousand years ago I worked in the glorious capital for the predecessor of Fonterra, the late, (possibly) great New Zealand Dairy Board. At one point I was seconded for a six week stint with our buddies at the massive Kiwi Dairies principal site at Hawera. This was where I got my love of…
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What can one say about Devilskin that ain’t been writ before? Well, while pondering whether Jennie Skulander has come back from Cloud Nine following appearing with Disturbed the other day, I had a listen to their cover of Heart‘s Barracuda and gave myself a few moments to muse on my review. Ann Wilson‘s otherworldly vocal…
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