#new zealand music

[dec0mposing]

Beatnik - The Clean (1982)

#The Clean #Beatnik #1980s #1982 #Anthology #2000s #2002 #Great sounds great good sounds good so-so sounds so-so bad sounds bad rotten sounds rotten #Dunedin #New Zealand #Dunedin Sound #Nz #New Zealand Music #music #Flying Nun #Aotearoa #Otago #Otepoti #Indie #Indie Rock #SoundCloud

[deborahwaikapohe]

Songwriting

Today's website blog is about how I combined vocal technique and sound engineering technique in 'River'll Carry Me (Edit)' 2024.

I have never been happy with my recording of ‘River Will Carry Me’ (2022). So, yesterday, I edited the vocals and sound engineering and… Voilà! River’ll Carry Me (Edit) on YouTube The problem for me with the 2022 version was that the vocals weren’t expressing what I needed this song to say: ‘the River’ (life) will eventually bring the character in the song (the singer) to find a man that treats…

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#capetown #female #film #jazz #New Zealand #New Zealand music #original music #photo #recording technique #sing #songwriting #South Africa #video #vocals #Voice

[nofatclips]

Hey Mom by Reb Fountain, live at The Mercury Theatre

#music #new zealand music #live #live music #reb fountain #earl robertson #dave khan #karin canzek #tom lynch #live video #suren unka #simon gooding #sundae pictures #the mercury theatre #flying nun records #video

[mywifeleftme]

202: The Chills // Kaleidoscope World

Kaleidoscope World The Chills 1986, Creation

You can look at the Dunedin Sound as psychedelic pop with a sour post-punk undercurrent, or post-punk swirled with the sugar of psychedelic pop depending on the band at hand, and sometimes even the song. You get that split in action on “Pink Frost” and “I Love My Leather Jacket,” the two most popular songs from the Chills’ Kaleidoscope World. Kaleidoscope World was originally a slim compilation of their early singles, but over the course of a series of reissues has expanded to encompass nearly all of their pre-1987 work. “Pink Frost” is justifiably regarded as a classic, one of the few moments where that uneasy vibe all the key Flying Nun bands had beneath their childlike keyboard tones became the dominant motif: grief, blood-stained ice, shattered glass, like Joy Division sung by a guy walking in the rain in a sweater his mum knit for him. On the other side, “I Love My Leather Jacket” is as idiotically simple as Suicide on a good day, a song with a motorik beat and a hostile drone hidden beneath a melody and lyric that could be on a kids’ TV show. The Chills explored many of the latitudes between those two poles before ever cutting their first LP, and Kaleidoscope World is a clearinghouse of exquisitely ambiguous pop music.

With a gun to my head, I would choose the Chills as my favourite of the classic Dunedin bands, and it’s largely on the strength of these recordings (and their first two excellent LPs). Everything bends on the pensive “This is the Way” (originally from The Lost EP), a song mid-‘90s R.E.M. could’ve made great work of; “Bee Bah Bee Bah Bee Boe” (ditto) explores maritime folk instrumentation on a lament considerably more melancholic than its title would indicate; single “Rolling Moon” itemizes the symptoms of physical exhaustion over merrily jangling guitars and even a bit of whistling. The Chills are probably pretty close to “properly rated” among aficionados of ‘80s guitar pop (i.e. they’re revered), but there is always more room in the cult if you haven’t yet made the plunge. Do it!

202/365

#the chills #flying nun #creation records #'80s music #indie rock #jangle pop #dunedin sound #new zealand music #music review #vinyl record #pink frost

[thisisgraeme]

Leveraging Music to Unlock God Mode (London Mix) - New Release from THISISGRAEME Music & Fury

Big thanks to my fans! Your support fuels my music journey. Stay tuned for exciting new tracks and projects. Let's keep the beats alive! 🎶 #THISISGRAEME

Leveraging Music to Unlock God Mode (London Mix) I’m thrilled to introduce my latest drum and bass endeavour, “Leveraging Music to Unlock God Mode (London Mix).” This track is a labour of love, infused with energy and passion. I’m buzzing to share it with you and hope it resonates as deeply with you as it did with me during its creation. If my tunes have struck a chord with you and you’re keen…

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#Album Release #Ambient Sounds #Concept Album #creative process #drum and bass #electronic music #hero&039;s journey #independent music #Merchandise #Music Collaboration #music education #music insights #music production #Music Streaming #Musician&039;s Journey #New Zealand music #Newsletter #Spotify #thisisgraeme #YouTube Music

[cowtron2000]

Tim Finn - Ono Marama Takerehāia / Six Months in a Leaky Boat

#tim finn #split enz #six months in a leaky boat #Ono Marama Takerehāia #new zealand music #waiata anthems

[the-last-varangian]

TECHNO-KRATIK

1: THE GEMINI GUARD by DJ Varangian

#music #techno #electronic #tech house #dj #edm #new zealand music #varangian #soundcloud

[beammedownn]

Venus is Home by Erny Belle

Directed by Erny Belle, Matt Hunter and Fred Renata

#erny belle #venus is home #matt hunter #fred renata #new zealand music #new music #Youtube

[blackmarket-playlists]

New Shoegaze/ Ausgaze (2023) from Australia & New Zealand • Emerging and/ or unsigned artists • Current songs only • Cover: TRILLION • Updated regulary. Submissions welcome: www.blackmarketplaylists.de

#spotify #new music #newreleases #spotify playlist #playlist #playlistspotify #my playlist #newrelease #indie music #indie rock #shoegaze music #shoegaze #dream pop #alternative music #emogaze #grungegaze #heavygaze #australian music #new zealand music #shoegaze playlist #sydney music #melbourne music #brisbane music #adelaide music #shoegazing #shoegazer

[malaayna]

sometimes I forget that most of the songs I heard growing up are exclusively Australian/Aotearoa songs and I'll mention them to my American or European friends and they'll have no clue what I'm talking about

like?

what do you mean you didn't grow up listening to a song about a one night stand? do you know how her love shines over the horizon? do you know how to make gravy? how bizarre? am I ever gonna see your face again????

#Australian music #new zealand music #classic music #how to make gravy #throw your arms around me #slice of heaven #how bizarre #yall are really missing out #am i ever gonna see your face again #no way get fucked fuck off

[nugothrhythms]

“Breathless” by Wellington, New Zealand-based darkwave and synthpop solo act Evelyn’s War off of 2020 debut EP Fire of the Mind (Agitates the Atmosphere)

#dark wave #synthwave #synthpop #dark synth #Evelyn's War #Breathless #Fire of the Mind (Agitates the Atmosphere) #music #2020 #Wellington New Zealand #New Zealand goth #New Zealand music #first share #solo act

[jsound]

Yumi Zouma『Cool For A Second Japanese Wallpaper Remix』

#Yumi Zouma #dream pop #indie pop #electronic #new zealand music #en #2020

[deborahwaikapohe]

Vocals for DJ Strange

Thank you for reading my blog! I am passionate about singing with sustainable/healthy vocal technique. It isn't easy in the contemporary music world. However, the Italians showed us the way hundreds of years ago!

Here is a snippet of a recording session with House musician, DJ Strange. The sound track is a snippet of Strange’s composition ‘Matariki’; one of the tracks that I recorded with him and that he is currently editing. Using classical vocals as a basis for contemporary singing Strange’s music is an unique blend of House, Taonga Pūoro and Waiata (Song). Here is his Facebook link: Strange For this…

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#Bel Canto #bel canto technique #Classical Singing #DJ #housemusic #maori #Māori #New Zealand music #recording technique #sing #singer #taonga puoro #Taonga Pūoro #Vocal #Voice

[nofatclips]

When Gods Lie by Reb Fountain (featuring Finn Andrews) from the album Reb Fountain - Directed & Edited: Lola Fountain-Best

#music #new zealand music #reb fountain #ben woolley #logan compain #david khan #simon gooding #chris chetland #finn andrews #video #music video #lola fountain best #bw #flying nun records #earl robertson #gabi maffey #kalvin fountain best #ian powell #nz on air

[mywifeleftme]

86: The Verlaines // Bird-Dog

Bird-Dog The Verlaines 1987, Flying Nun (Bandcamp)

The Verlaines, authors of an all-time (apt and fav) album title in Some Disenchanted Evening, are probably the most ‘acquired taste’ of the original wave of Flying Nun/Dunedin sound New Zealand bands (The Clean, The Chills, The Bats, Tall Dwarfs etc.). Though the jingling single-word chorus of debut single “Death and the Maiden” proved they could be as elfin and twee-sounding as any of their peers, main Verlaine Graeme Downs tended to favour downcast melodies, played with buttoned-down desperation, like running to catch a bus to a job interview in the rain while holding an umbrella and a suitcase. All the good Flying Nun bands played with the tension between their poppy sounds and frequently dour or sarcastic lyrics, but of the lot Verlaines are the clear prescription for wry depressives (or at least people who think Robert Forster was the better of the Go-Betweens).

There’s an argument to made for 1987’s early singles comp Juvenilia as the most accessible introduction to their sound, but Bird-Dog is their most complete album statement. I was thrilled when the album was finally repressed on vinyl after 36 years, primarily because it is an essential “stare at the cover while listening” LP. Forget the rain/bus/umbrella metaphor I tried earlier; this brave brown smudge of a dog heedlessly pursuing (or being lured by?) a bird to the edge of a seaside cliff is bang on. At 12” x 12”, the visible brushstrokes of the hidden cliff in John Collie’s oil painting have a roiling texture, almost as though it is eating away at the soft green turf above. On the reverse, the same location is depicted sans dog, this time in gentle watercolour, the world at peace without all that barking and striving.

It's all there in the title track too. The lyric begins as a withering assessment of a man’s life spent yearning for transcendence who eventually grows old and slow, buys “a boarding house for slaves / and drinks imported German beer.” But if our escapes often become our jail cells, in the end we love our bars despite it, and the coda of “Bird-Dog” turns into an all-timer of a drinking song, basically a post-punk “Master of the House” from Les Miserables. Thrill of chasing bird despite cliff, one more brew to put off morning.

It's subtle at first, but throughout Bird-Dog, the Verlaines augment their basic power trio sound with unusual instrumentation, a flugelhorn here, a xylophone there, till the album closes with a fully orchestrated* flourish. The tricky, XTC-like “Icarus Missed” adds Gregorian chant (!) and bassoon (!!), followed by “C.D. Jimmy Jazz and Me,” a re-recording of their first single’s B-side with its humble accordion ride-out replaced with a sugary string and horn fanfare that wouldn’t be out of place soundtracking a Sonic Generations level. For an album that starts out as morose and minimal as this one, it's quite an about-face—one of those moments maybe when you shake off your malaise and see the richness in the life you’ve earned.

86/365

* Okay, so they don’t go full philharmonic; it’s the usual band plus five-piece string, trumpet, and trombone accompaniment, if you’re a stickler. But it sounds plenty sweeping!

#flying nun #the verlaines #new zealand music #dunedin sound #indie pop #alternative rock #'80s music #music review #vinyl record

[thisisgraeme]

Now You're In Deep (The Belly of the Whale) - New Release from THISISGRAEME Music

Check out my latest instrumental drum and bass track "Now You're In Deep"! It's the fifth track of my Hero's Journey album, and I hope it resonates with you as much as it does with me. Listen now on Spotify or YouTube! #instrumental #drumandbass

Now You’re In Deep Check out my latest creation, “Now You’re In Deep”! This instrumental drum and bass track was made with love and I hope it resonates with you just as much as it does with me. If you’re a fan of my music, I’d love it if you could help me get more exposure by doing any of the following: FOLLOW my artist profile on Spotify, or  SUBSCRIBE on Youtube SHARE the track on your…

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#creative process #drum and bass #Graeme Smith #hero&039;s journey #inclusive teaching #independent music #instrumental music #Lifelong learning #music production #neurodiversity #New Zealand music #personal growth #Spotify #thisisgraeme #transformation #Youtube