NZ is home to some amazing beat makers and producers and this week I wanted to point you over to a couple of new mixes which have just been put together by the boys over at The Jewel School on Radioactive in Wellington. The mixes were out together for NZ Music month and feature some amazing tracks by artists including Ladi 6, Fat Freddys Drop, Julien Dyne, Electric Wire Hustle, Opensouls and Adi Dick.

The boys don’t just focus on the bigger NZ artists so there’s also a whole bunch of unreleased tracks including a couple by yours truly (The Shades remix and my new moniker BVX). I’m actually really proud to by included in such great company and am excited to see just how cutting edge and deep NZ production is at the moment. You can check out the mixes online and I’ve asked if we can make them available for download, i’ll let ya know here and on my Bluevibe studio twitter page when you can grab em as a download.

BVX – Steppin back

So here’s the first track from a new project moniker I’ve been working on called BVX. I originally posted about the BVX track a year ago and actually shelved the project to work on a few other thing’s. Since then I’ve been working on a few more tracks which fit under the BVX moniker and thought I really should finish the mix and get this one out there.

I originally wanted to get a new vocalist on the track but decided that the Dwight Trible vocal I used from his “Love is the answer” album works really well and actually inspired the tune so I’d keep it. If you haven’t checked out any of Dwight’s music then you really should head over to his website and get some knowledge. I’m hoping he likes the track because it was really inspired by his voice and his music plus I’m giving it away as a bootleg so I hope he don’t mind.

BVX – steppin back (first draft)

So here’s the first tracks from my new outfit BVX, it’s a ruff draft and really needs a vocalist to take it to the next level. I’ve got an acapella from Dwight Trible on the track at the moment which works really well and gives you an idea of where I’m going with it, if only I could get Dwight to do the vocals for me! If you’d like to drop some vocals on it then just leave me a comment and I’ll send you the track through to have a jam with.

BVX is a new project I’ve been working on for a few months and I’m looking to get an EP out as soon as the “Bluevibe studio presents” EP is done. The BVX stuff is more electronic and upbeat than most of my other stuff although “steppin back” is still on the mellow side of things. The rest of the tracks are much heavier although still sitting around the 100bpm mark. I’d really like to get out live again so all the BVX tracks will be either written on or transfered to the Yamaha RS7000 sequencer for some live improvised action. I’m looking at getting a vocalist and synth player to join me on stage but I’ll get that sorted once the tunes are more or less finished.

Let me know what you think of the new vibe by leaving me a comment and just hit me up if you’d like to collaborate.