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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Ladi6

Ladi6 (Karoline Tamati) is New Zealand’s premier female vocalist MC. She is renowned for her energetic live performances, sublime soulful vocals and conscious lyrics.

Ladi6 started her musical career as part of New Zealand’s first all-girl hip-hop group Sheelahroc.

Ladi6’s distinctive voice has featured on some of the top underground albums to come out of New Zealand in the last decade. Her vocals feature on standout tracks by some of Aotearoa’s finest talent, including Shapeshifter, Scribe, Fat Freddy’s Drop and 50 Hz and internationals such as top German Hip Hop artist Sepalot.

Ladi6’s highly anticipated and long awaited debut solo album Time Is Not Much is produced by Mu from Fat Freddy’s Drop and Parks has just been released.

http://www.myspace.com/ladi6

http://www.ladi6.com/

Directed by Mark Williams. A LOGG JAM Production in association with Ladi 6 and Parks, and Funktion Music.

Dark Brown

 

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State of Mind

Founded in 2004, State of Mind is the Drum and Bass duo from New Zealand of Patrick Hawkins and Stu Maxwell

Initially signed to Total Science’s CIA label in 2005, the State of Mind discography has rapidly expanded to include labels such as, Teebee’s Subtitles Records, Friction’s Shogun with the massive Back to the Jungle EP, Futurebounds Viper label, Doc Scotts 31 Records, Bad Company, Obsessions & BSE Recordings, plus more.

 

In 2007 the lads decided to launch their own record label, SOM MUSIC. Representative of their own unique sound, the label has grown into a force within DnB. Recording artists include Black Sun Empire, Chris.Su, Axiom, Spinline, SOM, Sigma, Mindscape, & Dose.

State of Minds debut full length album TAKE CONTROL was released in 2006, available with in NZ and Australia through Uprising Records. For those of you overseas, it can be ordered from http://www.smokecds.com. It is also available from ITUNES NZ. The 2nd album “FASTER THAN LIGHT” is due for release in March 2009.

 

This video, Sunking is Directed by Aleks Sakowski. Director of photography – Craig Smith

myspace.com/aleks_sakowski

myspace.com/stateofmindnz

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The Klap

 www.myspace.com/theklapmyspace  

Not Getting Younger

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Dictaphone Blues

Dictaphone Blues are an Auckland based indie band, Edward Thomas Castelow has spent the last two years playing in both the Ruby Suns on drums and the Brunettes on bass and penning his own works in the meantime.  He also currently play drums in the another fantastic band called the Conjurors. This video was shot on Kodak 16mm 200T,  Dir/Editor: Daniel Fowler Cinematographer/Producer: Nan Sirisamphan

www.myspace.com/dictaphoneblues

Lantern

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An Emerald City

Since their inception in late 2005, Auckland band An Emerald City have strived for musical experimentation and liberation. Organic instrumentation and sounds of the east meet psychedelia with guitars and violin are at the centre of this original and unique 6 piece.

www.myspace.com/anemeraldcity
www.monkeyrecords.co.nz

Qing Song

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The Unscene

The Unscene is an Auckland hip hop group with a difference. Three Auckland hip hop heavyweights with ten years each in the game, Scratch 22, Billy Fluid and Legal Money Mike are finally making the music they want to make. Combining forces after working parallel to each other for years, the group have perfected their chemistry and bring a mixture of unique production, freestyle lyrics and epic composition.

www.myspace.com/unscenesound

Demonfuzz

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Scratch 22 and Tourettes

Auckland-based MC Tourettes is a boundary pushing underground pioneer, renowned for his energetic live show, strong freestyling skills and satirical lyricism.

Tourettes burst on to the NZ hip-hop scene in 1999 when he formed the Wellington group 5th Floor. In 2000 Tourettes made the move north to Auckland and 5th Floor became a live band with members of The Krates and Open Souls contributing.

Tourettes has opened for / supported Atmosphere, Sage Francis, Dizzee Rascal and Busta Rhymes.

http://www.muzic.net.nz/artists/1639.html

Happy Place

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Subtract

Formed during the mid 1990′s, Subtract have gone on to become one of the premier acts in New Zealand metal and true forefathers of the local heavy scene. Combining elements of metal old and new, with a penchant for punishing grooves and pummelling rhythms with charismatically aggressive vocals and passionate, meaningful lyricism, Subtract are an act that have gone from strength to strength throughout their years; never relinquishing an iota of the intensity and sheer heaviness that have become their sonic trademarks.

Their new release, ‘Winning Hearts and Minds’ will represent the bands strongest and most aspirational material to date.

www.myspace.com/subtractband

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