Hard News: Friday Music: The Music Story
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I've been enjoying this compilation from a bunch of kiwi dance/electronic producers -comes on cassette for those that don't want to listen but do feel the need to show it off and digital for those that want to exercise their ears and feet (name your price or free in exchange for a email addy)
https://marginslabel.bandcamp.com/releases
its real good
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Russell Brown, in reply to
its real good
Just listening now and it sounds tasty.
Also: lol, the kids and their cassettes.
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In this-looks-better-than-Vinyl news, Baz Luhrmann is helming The Getdown, a story of disco/early hip hop-era Bronx:
Nelson George (who also worked on the show) interviewed Luhrmann at the Tribeca Film Festival.
It debuts in August on Netflix US, so you'd think we'll get it then too.
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Moz, in reply to
Also: lol, the kids and their cassettes.
Remember DCC? Coulda been a goer. I would have preferred DAT, and a housemate actually had a DAT tape deck in the early 90's, but OMG the cost.
In the middle of re-hearing Moana and the Moahunters as I read this, so here's a reminder:
(well, until I got distracted by Bob's suggestion above. Ooops)
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I assume everyone is obsessively watching Soundbreaking on Prime, which in the first episode some weeks back there was a long segment on Rick Rubin working with Johnny Cash.
Of relevance to this post, the other day there was a Rolling Stone interview with James Blake
where he talks about working with Rick Rubin
"He settled into a nice routine with Rubin. "I would do this 45-minute improv, and then I would be able to just sit down." Blake, pretending to reenact his satisfied studio self, emitted a big sigh and slouched back on his couch in triumph. Then he demonstrated Rubin's role in the studio, which was to lie horizontally and scrutinize the recording – while incessantly stroking his beard. The engineer would mark parts that earned Rubin's approval, and many of these snippets were eventually transformed into songs."
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Moz,
DJ Kush Boogie's "eBooks" has this really annoying printer-like noise in the background. I'm certain it's a deliberate inclusion, but it sounds like an unhappy laser printer so I keep looking round at our (old, sad, much-abused) laser printer to see if it's dying. https://marginslabel.bandcamp.com/releases
Also, seeing Grahame Reid in videos is weird. I feel as though I should know him from reading so much of his work, but then I see him and go "he doesn't write like someone who looks like that". My mental image of him is way off base.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Graham Reid - My mental image of him is way off base.
elsewhere even, you might say...
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My buddies The Onedin Line play ...in Dunedin tonight.
Aye Mr Baines...and in Chch we have a couple of goodies lined up. Tonight at Log Recordings there's the second installment of the Civil Union Album Release Tour, Until now I think, all bands on the Melted ICe Cream label have made cassette-only releases - vinyl is a relative novelty in their world! One can get a copy tonight of Civil Union's 'Lovedrunk, and I quote, 'on record, that's right, vinyl, THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE HEARD'.
And tomorrow at the Museum, sees the second installment of RDU's 40th anniversary live band sets, Kill Your Television which features a rare live showing of Scythes, a Bruce Russell and Jason Greig (Into The Void) combo. Apparently Jason has been (re)introduced recently to the acoustic guitar (!) - so who knows what we might get. Can't wait.
Further out, I've heard the full line-up of Into The Void will play at the Wunderbar with Hex Waves on June 10.
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Moz, in reply to
elsewhere even, you might say...
I was half expecting a BaseFM reference, but you went one better.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Remember DCC? Coulda been a goer. I would have preferred DAT, and a housemate actually had a DAT tape deck in the early 90’s, but OMG the cost.
When I worked at the Virgin store on Marble Arch in 1988 there was a handful of actual DAT releases. One was whatever New Order album was out around that time.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
where he talks about working with Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin is some kind of savant I think.
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I'll blog this proper next week, but just got this from Luke Buda ...
I have a new band with Tom Callwood (Phoenix) David Long (Muttonbirds) and Anthony Donaldson (primitive art group, Six Volts etc). We're called Teeth. Here is our first single, a quiet-violence, easy-listening-noise, bi-polar glam fanfare called "Something Has Gone Wrong in my Brain"...
https://teeth3.bandcamp.com/track/something-has-gone-wrong-in-my-brain
That's quite a pedigree. And sounds good!
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I may have mentioned this before - but I was most pleased to see that Barry Linton's brilliant Lucky Aki - in the new stone age has been published by Pikitia Press - last year I think.
I hope they do the whole epic and some of his other works as well.
A fun way to learn some history of the Pacific migration...
...and a fine lesson in all the ways of literally drawing water, er, figuratively! -
For Bowie fans from 1980
The 1980 Floor Show extravaganza -
Katita, in reply to
I'm loving Soundbreaking on Prime
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While I'm sharing (far too much, probably)
I am really enjoying the treasures to be found on this site:
Crying all the way to chip shop
including this cover of XTC from a Brit kid's show Crackerjack
and Dream Sequence from Pauline Murray & the Invisible Girls -
Well I spent my Friday night nostalgically pogoing to Citizen Band at the Tuning Fork.
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And the support act, Telling Tales, were great too. Loved Tracey Collins Piano Accordian, Kim's counterpoint violining, and Stephanie Crawford's sublime vocals. Well done Andrew, you got a great group together.
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But if the reveal of Volume: Making Music in New Zealand comes as news to you, you should regard it as happy news.
Stoked.
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Lontalius dropped a cover of Anika Moa's 'Dreams in My Head'
Like the Silver Scrolls, it's a testament to the quality of the writing when it can be interpreted so well.
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
For Bowie fans from 1980
1973 I think. 1980 just sounded so far in the future to us all back then.
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I was part of an excellent Pechakucha at The Meteor in Hamilton on Thursday night, with a theme aligned to NZ Music Month. Included Matthew Bannister, and Graham Cairns of the Magilicuddies (on the topic of edible kazoos).
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
just sounded so far in the future to us all back then.
That bloody Bowie, always one or two jumps ahead of the field...
... but yes I shoulda twigged from the lineup and clothes.
Doh!
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nostalgically pogoing to Citizen Band
Yeah thats funny 'cause them and punk were uneasy bedfellows.
I just wish they're paid me more, no misty eyed nostalgia for me.
And the dumb arses went to Oz of all places, when they found NZ too small and wanted to spread their musical wings. A holiday would have been a better option.
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This might be a little out of left field but better here than not. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago a performance by John Chrisstoffels (Terminals, Dark Matter) and Anita Clark (Devilish Mary, Motte, Spudgun, etc). Well here it is, well half of it, recorded by someone else who was present that day
BTW John also popped up on Saturday as part of the 'string section' for the Bats' performance at Canterbury Museum, on the 'slimline' electric cello he uses in Dark Matter. Quite droney.
On the same night, and while the Transistors have never been quite my thing, it was their final performance - a lot of fun - and there was...crowd-surfing at the Museum! Earlier in the night, Bruce Russell and Jason Greig combined in a mind-blowing 25 minute piece of noise and distortion - with even a bit of melody thrown in in places.
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