Just wanted to put together a list of some of my favourite beat makers and producers from New Zealand. This list is purely based on my tastes and focuses more on new artists who are making both live and electronic beats which stand up against anything else internationally and have a really soulful and futuristic edge. I’ve thrown in a few heavy weights of the NZ scene too for those visitors from outside of NZ who may not know who they are. The local scene for beat makers is healthier than it’s ever been since I moved here from the UK in 2000 but still doesn’t get enough attention locally despite many of these producers exporting their tracks out to the world on a regular basis. [click to continue...]
From the category archives:
Influences
I think it’s no secret that I like remix’s, or should I say I like producing remix’s. There are quite a few reasons for this:
- they’re always a great source of inspiration and fresh musical ideas
- I always learn a lot from doing a remix, about production techniques and programming as well as about who I am as an artist and my musical direction and focus.
- they can be a great source of network and collaboration contacts, I’ve met some amazing artists through doing remix’s and continue to keep in touch and work with most of the artists I’ve done remix swaps with. [click to continue...]
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Raw DMX - Do it to the funk
taken from “Credit to the edit - compiled by Greg Wilson”
Looking back through my record collection has got me thinking about where these records come from and how I got in to all this in the first place. I’ll be doin a few posts about some of my influences, posting a few rare classics and generally diggin in to a bit of my musical up-bringing in the UK. I thought I’d start with the first electronic music I ever got into when I was 13 way back in 1983, some people called it “electro funk”.
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