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Welcome to the Bluevibe studio website and Blog. Take a look around, you’ll find information about the studio and the artists and projects we create here. You can listen to the tracks and read about how they were created and who was involved. I’ll be posting about the studio projects, remix’s, collaborations, basically the day to day operations of the studio and all the extra promotional/ web2 activities we all need to be doing to get our music out to people who actually want to here it. I’ll also be releasing some of the Bluevibe studio tracks exclusively on this site so subscribe to the newsletter to get the latest tracks and information.

You can also check out the mp3 blog in the “Highpass Filter” on the left hand sidebar for some of the music and podcasts which have been a source of inspiration here at the Bluevibe studio.

Put together for New Zealand Music Month, Wellington’s Jewel School DJs dig deep to bring you the best of NZ’s homegrown underground music scene. Hosted on the fabulous straightup.com.au - part 1 of the podcast features the first track from the upcoming Bluevibe studio EP.

High Times - Bluevibe Studios Feat. LP and Lewis McCallum

Click here to jump over to straightup.com.au and checkout the goodness.

Just wanted to  give a huge shout to all the amazing local artists featured on both podcasts including:

• Electric Wire Hustle
• Opensouls
• Ota
• Julien Dyne
• Eru Dangerspiel
• Adi Dick
• Lisa Preston

Really want to give a special thanks to Adi Dick, LP and Kerry Adams for all their help and advice plus a shout to the Jewel School for playin the track and supporting an amazing local scene. Nice.

Finding your fans is something that we all should be doing on a regular basis and one of the simplest ways is through the many social music sites. So here’s a quick outline of my plan for building up my network of fans before I release the EP. This only focuses on the social music sites that I’m currently involved with and doesn’t cover all the aspects of my digital strategy which will also include posting on forums, commenting on blogs etc. If you have any other suggestions for building up my music networks then let me know by adding a comment, any help is always appreciated and I’ll be posting about my experiences with these different strategies as we go along. [Read more →]

So it’s actually been a year since I started the tracks for the Bluevibe studio presents EP and they’re finally ready to go off to get mastered. This EP has been a bit of a labour of love for me and while I actually have another 2 EP’s more or less completed I’m really excited to be finally getting these tracks out. It didn’t actually seem like a year until Lisa Preston pointed it out, I guess that’s because I’ve had a baby and started a new job since this project kicked off and the months have just flown by, that’s babies for ya! [Read more →]

Just wanted to share my experience working with Netvibes to create a resource website for the musicians I work with. For those who haven’t seen Netvibes it’s basically an application which allows you to create your own homepage and customise it with a whole range of widgets which help you to:

• Check your email
• Search the web
• Search for podcasts and videos – and play with them
• Read feeds from your favorite blogs and news sites
• Stay connected with your friends on MySpace
• Get organized

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Since moving to New Zealand in 2000 I’ve had the pleasure to have worked with one of the most helpful and talented producers in the country, namely Kerry Adams. Kerry goes by many names including Tech, Bromide Dub, Compressor Kid and.. well the list goes on. His latest project has just been launched online and is the pilot from a series of “production tutorials” called “The Technical sessions“. Head over to The Proof website and check it out, this first episode focuses on the procedure for setting up a tone arm on your turntable. As Kerry points out it’s a question he gets asked regularly and he takes us through a great 5min rundown of the different types of cartridges and the basic concept behind setup.

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