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I actually hooked up with magOwl through myspace and asked him to remix one of the new tracks. He’s an amazing Swedish producer who has been in the game for a while and makes some real cutting edge tracks ranging from old skool hiphop to some nasty nasty dubstep bizness. [click to continue...]
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This week I wanted to feature my all time essential radio show which has been broadcasting for over 10 years and is available as a podcast from a huge number of websites, Soul searching, The Compost radio show hosted by Michael Ruetten. [click to continue...]
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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:
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.
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This week I’m spreading the word about the Soul Sides music blog, now some would say that everybody should already know about this amazing blog but it’s a wide wide web out there and I still talk to people who haven’t checked out Oliver Wang’s site.
Soul Sides is the first music blog I think I ever read on a regular basis and still enjoy because of it’s depth of knowledge and diverse approach to music blogging. The articles are always fresh and it’s been interesting and to see the blog develop over the years and still manage to keep one step ahead. Oliver has now started to write (amongst other things) more in depth articles based around a “box set“, the first focused on Aretha Franklin and the new one looks at Latin boogaloo, you can check it over at Uber.com.
Most of the musicians/producers/dj’s I know have an amazing level of knowledge around their style of music and don’t really think about how to maximise their opportunities for income generation (except being able to tell me which label my favourite artists released their first bootleg on and where I could buy it). Blogging can be a great way to move towards earning a living from your knowledge and passion and looking at how Oliver has done it could be a good start.
I’ll be posting a few articles in the future on music blogging and focusing on some of the bloggers who have used their blogs to start labels, release compilations and generally make more creative opportunities for themselves.
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Just a quick post this weeks as I’ve been locked in the studio finishing a few tracks before the end of March, finally! This is the first in a series of weekly posts on some of my favourite mp3 blogs and online magazines. MP3 blogs have been around for quite some time now and most people who create music tend to have quite polarised views on them, are they killing the music industry? Do they help to promote the long tail of music for artists? For me they educate and enable me to find new and old artists which I would never have access to through any kind of mainstream media.
If your a lover of jazz and soul then you should take a look at Blaks Lair. He covers a wide range of artists in those genres and also branches out in to hip hop and rnb. There’s always a high number of new posts every week with some in depth knowledge and great bit rates for those with quality issues. I used to read a huge number of music magazines but really only grab a couple every month now because, well, the real knowledge can be found elsewhere now.
If you’ve got any mp3 blogs or online magazines you’d like to share just drop me a comment and spread the knowledge. Now go download that old Freddie Hubbard album then jump out and hunt down the vinyl.
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Just wanted to let you all know that The Shades have recently released their debut EP, it’s a deep slice of funk & soul and well worth picking up.
I did a remix for The Shades a while back and will be twistin “Liquid Situation” from the new EP as soon as I get the stems. They’re having their EP release up at Rising Sun on March 7th and will be heading down to Wellington for 2 shows on the 11th and 12th. Make sure you head along and support them, the EP’s totally self funded and it’s great to see them getting some respect for their efforts.
You can buy the EP from Conch in Auckland or jump online and get it from the Conch website or over at Amplifier.
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