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Sacred Hill Festival 19th Feb 2011
...perfect package of Aotearoa’s musical repertoire
Empathy Recordings - Skydive [EMPD020]
Raised by wolves in the depths of English woodland, Breakspear soon came to love the natural rhythms of the forest.
Sick Cycle Records goes live!
New Dark Dubstep coming from NZ!
Splore Galore 2010
As we eagerly crossed off the days counting down to Splore we couldn’t help but let our imaginations get a little carried away....
RITJ09 Entrants Selected!
The competitors for the regional heats for the 2009 Jansen Rumble in the Jungle have been announced
Rumble in the Jungle 2009 Entries open!
Enter now for New Zealands national Drum and Bass DJing competition
EveryDayJunglist -- Beatz, Bass, Bewbz....
Presenting EDJorg Global Breakcentric Music Community!!!!
De La Soul 2009
20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
Titirangi Festival Attendance Sponsorship & stall invitation
Info on the event, exposure, and the PRIZE package to date
Question 4 MPC guru's
Old stager needs h e l p ....
Rumble in the Jungle
Hip Hop has the DMCs, soap operas have the day time Emmys and New Zealand Drum and Bass has Rumble in the Jungle.
Psi
Summerset goes wild
Flappers and gents resplendent in Oriental make up, fruity flowers and oriental brollies
KILL! CLUB
Are we smashing it yet?
WOMAD 2008
.. the venue as always was spectacular as was the host city and it’s inhabitants.
Sole
Stencil / Screen-print Artist and Graphic Designer
Splore ' via Obscure
.. . shiny happy people, toilets, awesome Splore crew, Fire Truck transporter, scenery, art installations, light suit madness, vege wraps at Bountiful Earth, Hungarian fried bread, Butterfly Zoo
Freddie Cruger aka Red Astaire
Martyn Pepperell talks to Freddie Cruger....
the .3rd Resistance
A deep immersion team of rave tested operatives /./ we are deep in your future!
Muffler - Sighco Show + Music Vid
Drum and bass dj and producers new album is out now!
King of the Dubs !
Watch out bass lovers Tiki is out on his own working up the place '
CONTROL. Watch this film.
The life and death of Ian Curtis...
The Last Chopper Out Of Saigon
Martyn Pepperell talks to Bryce from Sandwiches about whats been, whats comming and their emminent 4th Birthday Celebrations!
Doc Scott “The End of The Beginning”
The original “King of the Rollers”, it can be argued that Doc Scott is one of the true legends of jungle drum and bass music. From Reinforced to Metalheadz and finally his own label 31 Records.
Tinrib Digital Is Launched
The Biggest Hard Dance Label In New Zealand History Is Launched!
He who speaks in rhythms.
Last time I saw Derrick May play, I fell asleep. (1996, St John Ambulance Building, WGT) Inside my lucid dream state the 60k of pulsing sound fractured like slow moving layers of cosmic architecture.
She's Lost (Various) free compilation
"She's Lost: an underground New Zealand music recovery expedition", a free downloadable virtual compilation, is now available...
Making it Real Perhaps?
whatever you create should move people, make them think and involve them. Our souls yearn for it, we are always searching.
Slo Fo - Jimmy Future
Mike, keep the stories coming. Dribble or no, they are funny in places and do liven up our drab existence(s)
Desperate House DJs to rock the Rumpus Room
S-ence regrets to announce that due to events outside it's control, Stacey Pullen will not be featuring at tonight's Desperate House DJs event.
Beat Up Netcast
Delivered via Psurkit.net - Sound Bites, rough questions & microphone bollacks.
Mono Raver
& the 10 commandment of Techno
Roads Through Cashel Mall
Council is acting in the interests of retailers .. but retailers "don't want roads"
Tom Middleton
The big man tells it how it is during a recent New Zealand Visit!
Black Grass
UK Hip-Hop Soul Master speaks during his recent trip to New Zealand
Charity gig for legendary Auckland DJ with cancer
Sufferahs Choice at Galatos: All proceeds go to help DJ Big Matt in his battle with cancer.
My My Sound System .the 3rd Resistance
Specs for the My My performance @ Massive Autumn Equinox 07
Talk to T-Power
If you had told me in 1997 while I was listening to "Mutant Jazz" that ten years later I would be interviewing him the week before his debut performance in Wellington, I would have told you to shut the fuck up.
Backwards and Sideways
I've been in New Zealand for the last two-plus weeks on vacation...
Pinacolada Records latest!
Pinacolada Records latest act Pig Out kick of their first tour of 2007 this week.
Original Nation
With summer festivals thin on the ground in 2007 the upcoming "I-Nation" has potential as the new Roots party. Obscure catches up with OG (Oakley Grenell) the inspiration behind the concept.
Brazilian Petrol
So I travel, faster, moving past the queasy memories, racing towards better destinations. I snap photographs, one handed out the dirty windows.
Postcards from Fiji
islands in the sky, islands in the sun. Fiji is a state of mind. A concept in mental placement. Turnstyle drifts through some Obscure holiday thoughts.
Pinacolada Records return!
Christchurch based label Pinacolada Records have returned with a bang by releasing Pig Out's debut album 'Club Poems'
Don't stop Dancing
A well established phenomenon in the NZ countryside. These festival fixtures of assembled freaks and the curious. These sound systems, food vendors, marquees, generators and the portaloo.
The perfect Resting place for vinyl lovers
Don't decompose. Be composed
The Big Arts Experience
Community education courses in arts and creativity at CPIT in December
Defender Sydney
Meat Katie Oh Yes
I lost my phone in Singapore but it was totally worth it...
Im'a cmon home
:-(
Long awaited album released to critical acclaim
Reviewers tune in and chill out to electronic fusion
This is a test
Testing Submit Article
Trance Energy 2006
Saturday the 12th of Feb was earmarked as a big night for a few of us Kiwis living in London.
De La Soul
While other Hip Hop acts have come and gone, De La just seems to keep getting better...
Dear Friends, Fanatics, Lovers and Comrades
Today we leave the southern hemisphere to record our sixth album in Vancouver with Garth Richardson.
Setting the Scene
An Exploratory Study of the New Zealand Electronic/ Dance Music Community.
reJuiced
And now seems like a good enough time to do a night where I get to play some seriously demented old house, techno and other bits out at full volume on a weeknight.
Burning Man 2003
Hmm... Describing Burning Man in words. It's difficult.
Something sain for once
'tunstyle makes a mission to insanity and back ..
Some Serious Ass Shaking at the St James
George FM decided it was time to throw a paaarteee and man did they lay down a good one...
Iran
.. a look into the problems facing the American administration in relation to Iran.
The Rock Gig!
...scratching out these words, I'm forced to wonder what the hell did I expect.?!
Light is Local.
Somethings you never notice, some people you never meet. These people notice things and maybe you should meet them, sometime.
Mascot
Whats up with all our hip NZ artist supporting Telecom?
Unravelling The Gathering
Perry Williams goes behind the scenes to discover the magic and mystery that surrounded the event.
Mitch lets off steam
As for the argument that this war will have good humanitarian consequences...
Monkey See Monkey Do
A remarkable Australia Day 2003, thousands of Australians out on the street and parks being proud to be Australians...
Dark Forces
The underground came out to play on Saturday night with demons, goblins, fairies and vampires all getting their groove on for the fifth Dark Forces celebration of Halloween.
New Years, New Years
Everyone knows the best way to celebrate New Years in New Zealand is dancing outdoors. With more choices that ever before, event Veteran Simon Kong takes a look into Alpine Unity, Visionz and Stardust.
Filthy Forum - Always Fresh
Having formed just over two years ago, the group of musicians that make up Filthy Forum are still growing, but these boys already have their legs firmly planted on the ground and aren't afraid to have a bit of fun along the way.
Fascists aren't people
Another day at the office, or is it?
Dream recall time again
I'm trying to read the print, but it's doing that dream thing of constantly rearranging every time I try to concentrate on it.
Lambton Zoo
And so I'm turning the corner from Bowen Street into Lambton Quay and its lunchtime on a Tuesday...
Lee Scratch Perry - Heavy Legacy
Reggae pioneer and self styled madman Lee 'Scratch' Perry recently gave Adam Bennett a piece of his strange but entertaining mind.
Trinity Roots at Subnine
These boys have become so popular, tickets to the Friday night gig were sold out well in advance, compelling them to perform again the following night.
DJ Bailey + MC Tali
"It's my first time in Wellington and I can't believe I've never played here, I'll definitely be back, without a doubt."
Pinacolada releases scheduled!
Christchurch based house label Pinacolada Records have two new releases scheduled to follow on from the success of their debut 12
Shapeshifter Re: Location Tour - Final Leg
Whilst the red and black clad loyalists were looting and pillaging every beer tap on Courtenay Place (and being generous to buskers), mayhem of the sonic kind was to be inflicted by fellow Christchurchers Shapeshifter.
Whose scene is it anyway?
What is the value of a culture, or scene? Who does it belong to? Can it belong to someone? Is there any reason to be concerned?
Make mine a 'hangfree sunday
A crew from Philly get orgainsed on your ass with some sunday 'hangfree time.
Recloose, awaiting an album.
There is really no certain corner in which to place Matt Chicoine and the music he creates. It would be to simplify if one was saying that the 12-inch releases on Planet E automatically should define what he does in a certain genre, because what so far have found its ways from the initial idea to be pressed into black vinyl is a massive variation of beauty in combination.
Mad Professor - Declaration of War
If like myself you were one of the last persons on earth to have heard about the events that shook the world and flatten the World Trade Centre on September 11th 2001, then you must have thought it's all a dream.
Roundup of NZ dance music sites
Roundup of NZ dance music sites
In Light
The 'war' suddenly revealed to millions of shocked white people all round the world is an ideological one that has simmered for hundreds of years.
At Leviathan 3
A look around and a poke behind the scene at Christchurches newest tangent of large scale events Leviathan 3.
Elliot Eastwick returns
The Kiwi-lovin' Paper lads sent another chappie back our way. It was okay
The Mad Professor - Interviewed!
Neil Fraser, a.k.a. UK dub producer the Mad Professor, can't wait for audio technology to catch up with the sounds he can hear inside his head.
The Cybotron Lounge
Damn, what a nite! The first S-ENCE affair last Thursday was the shit. Reflecting on The Cybotron Lounge, I began to fully dig the "new club paradigm" which S-ENCE promoted and delivered -> in fine style.
Cultural Trash
The New Zealand Dance scene is evolving, where has it been and what happened as a result. Where could it be heading, why would it head in that direction.
The House of Downtown Lowdown
It's been all go all summer long for the House of Downtown. We catch up with Christiaan and Emerson and try and keep up.
Filta on tour
It's hot in Austin at this time of year. Very hot. In fact, it was still 28 degrees at 1 am this morning... thankfully all the bars and clubs have very good aircon!
Tool in Auckland
review: holy cow. it was gooood. maynard's voice is amazing. the drummer is a powerhouse. the guitarist wore a cool hat. incredible, mind-twisting videos played on an enormous screen the entire time...
One World One Love Parade
A piece on universal friendship, through the spiritual medium of music and dance, as was witnessed among the mass in Berlin last year. Covering the parade itself and a couple of the bigger parties.
Jakarta's Clubscene
It's quite funny, peoples perceptions of Jakarta are of this 3rd world hole, which just isn't the case. Even given it's economic problems, there are a whole lot of very rich people here who love to party.
Pantera
Ddog & Myself (Assisted by Kava & Rose) thought it best to see exactly what happens in the land of Boganity nowadays.
Jeff Mills
I'd been waiting 6 years for someone to get their act together and bring Mills to our town and on this night my dream came true.
The G
The dust hasn't quite settled (hey it was dust, not mud this time) on The Gathering this year... a couple of dozen hardy types are still onsite cleaning up the mess
Onsite
We have the task of pulling things into place and polishing them into shape before the Gatherers arrive...
I Love Techno!
Our mission, if we chose to accept it, was to do a techno-fuelled weekend, Europe-style - in Rotterdam... see the photo gallery for her pics
What! not even a thousand???
Jeremy reviews Paul Oakenfold at the Queens Wharf Events Centre - Friday 10 November 2000
Why Paul Oakenfold Sucks
Let's get one thing clear - Oakie himself doesn't suck. In fact, he's rather good, and may even deserve the reputation he has. The Paul Oakenfold gig in Wellington sucks. Read on and I'll explain...
Chogyam Trungpa
While meditating one evening, the Tibetan-born monk, Chogyam Trungpa, came across the following discussion on the astral plane. It was not the first time that such an experience had presented itself to the monk.
Sydney under the Olympics
The Olympics start today: For the past two weeks Sydney has been gripped with Olympic Fever, steadily building up to today's level... There's some kind of tense, crazy energy in the city.
Brighton...
I was in Brighton recently. Must say damn fine place, and while we were sitting on the rocky beach (talk about sore ass) contemplating the swim...
Ke 06: Evolution
August 5th saw the Zouk club in Singapore play host to a line up featuring DJ's and Producers from Hong Kong, France and New Zealand alongside some of Singapore's finest.
Subhead Interview
Understanding Terrifying Science Through Humour... A great interview with the nice chaps from Subhead Records. republished here with kind permission from UK based Overload Magazine.
Wassup from Singapore
Went down to Zouk about 11pm, Oh Mi Gosh!!! what can I say, it's the most fantastic club space I have ever seen in my life. Sprawling across 3 warehouse spaces, it is an endless maze of bars, clubs and dancefloors.
Misda Nil
Works and words from the infamous Mr Nil
Essential Festival - Brighton
Just outside of Brighton at Stanmer Park and had LOTS of dj's from allsorts of genres and various other entertainment things...
Headstrong
:: Over and Out
Homelands
I head off for deepest darkest Hampshire for give described with all sorts of hyperbole on the oh so pretty flyer.
Halogen Girl
Emma's outrageous adventures
Kino
All is well in the land of cherry blossoms. (although they've disappeared and it's getting bloody hot)
Carl Craig
Clinton Smiley interviews the legendary Carl Craig.
Overnight
created as an opportunity to celebrate and promote his involvement with the New Zealand dance scene. and as a 'good bye' event with all his friends!