Hard News by Russell Brown

Yosi Horikawa dropped a cool album on First Word Records last year... more on him here http://www.firstwordrecords.com/artists/yosi-horikawa/

Enjoying the short sets, minor gripe they haven’t split them up into tracks like last year… makes repeat plays of the tracks I want to overplay a tad harder, then again maybe this is a good thing. Looking forward to the night at the KA, was super fun last year

Shunkan whose on the Fancy New Bands billing has her debut EP up for sale or streaming
http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/news/8177/Stream-Shunkans-Debut-EP—Honey-Milk-and-Blood.utr
Is this the sound of modern day Invercargill – I do hope so :)

And for them that like a little acid (non synthetic aural goodness) the Lord Of The Isles fact mix is great, at around 40mins in oh my *smiley face* https://soundcloud.com/factmag/lord-of-the-isles-may-14

choice

And for them that like a little acid (non synthetic aural goodness) the Lord Of The Isles fact mix is great, at around 40mins in oh my *smiley face* https://soundcloud.com/factmag/lord-of-the-isles-may-14

choice

Yep, that's pretty choice.

Kim Hill Preview: 10:05 Playing Favourites with Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow ... co-founders of multimedia studio Cactuslab. In 2011 they created Letterboxd, a social network for sharing users’ taste in film, and have just redesigned the website for the New Zealand International Film Festivals.
http://www.cactuslab.com/
http://letterboxd.com
https://www.facebook.com/letterboxd
http://www.nziff.co.nz

Kim Hill Preview: 10:05 Playing Favourites with Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow …

Oh! A heads-up from the producer would have been good on that one ...

My bad. But don't you get the weekly email preview?
Matt and Karl have got some good (film-related) tunes, for sure. And their new site for the NZIFF currently lists four Festival films, all music titles...

Never heard a T Rex to Doors segue before so hats off to Mr Ahbez for that. And kudos to him for declining to be "achingly melancholic" about it. Must be the influence of his very good band. Non-specific sadness seems to be the resting pose of so much Pitchfork rock these days, so yay for some yays.

My very favourite obscure-ish band in all the world (Wussy) released another stonking record (Attica!) on Tuesday.

Helped along by this from the awesome Merrill Garbus, who I swear is star material. It's been a good week in Melrose I tell you.

So, I guess you are not all rushing out to buy Geoff Sewell's latest dribblings for Mother's Day? He was allowed to get away with quite extraordinary self-promotion on Jim Mora's programme this afternoon,

I like that Wussy... Halloween of Attica! sounds good also. Now listening to the cover of Ceremony on You Tube.

As is sometimes the case, a bunch of tracks landed on Soundcloud in the 12 hours following publication of the Friday post. They seem worth including and they're all free downloads:

Malia & Boris Blank - Tears Run Dry (The Dimitri From Paris Dub)
https://soundcloud.com/dfp/malia-tears-run-dry-the-dimitri-from-paris-dub

Moby - Natural Blues (Deepend Rework)
https://soundcloud.com/deependmusic/moby-natural-blues-deepend-rework

Pharrell - Happy (Cousin Cole's Reggae Mix)
https://soundcloud.com/cousin-cole/pharrell-happy-cousin-coles-reggae-mix

That last one is a stupidly large bushel of sunshine.

This is three years old, but Mr Urlich played this on his bFM show this morning, and I got hooked on the bassline.

https://soundcloud.com/magikj/the-naked-famous-young-blood-magik-johnson-vocal-mix-320mp3

Seemed to follow on nicely from your burst of sunshine. :-)

Looking forward to seeing them next week.