Bluevibe Studio » laidback http://www.bluevibestudio.com 45's and robots Sat, 18 Jun 2011 07:43:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Koru Licks – they “Got That” vibe http://www.bluevibestudio.com/koru-licks-they-got-that-vibe/ http://www.bluevibestudio.com/koru-licks-they-got-that-vibe/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:04:02 +0000 J Bluevibe http://www.bluevibestudio.com/?p=356



Getting this blog back on again and starting to focus on some new NZ freshness, gonna start with a little Koru Licks.

“Fresh new band from the jazzy underground of the Auckland music scene. This bunch of musical time travellers fall back to the swinging, sample-based era of golden hip hop, funk, latin and jazz – but all live and direct. Koru Licks is an ensemble that regenerate the feeling of dope, organic soul music with a team of talent ridden players.”

Had their tracks on high rotate over the weekend and been really enjoying the little taster of the “new direction” for the next EP with tracks like “Got That” and “Fever”. Make sure you grab their first EP from their BandCamp page, all the tracks are super fresh and they’ve even got the unstoppable LP on “Riosynth”.

Oh yeh didn’t wanna miss the “Jayams” out either, especially “Chicked love”, butter!

<a href="http://thelicks.bandcamp.com/track/chicken-love">Chicken Love by Koru Licks</a>

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Here’s the next in a series of blog posts I’ve been doing over at Laidback radio this time with local jazz/beat wizard Lewis McCallum.

Since moving to NZ in 2000 I’ve discovered a certain detachment from the direct and sometimes overpowering influences of “scenes” which can really give NZ artists the ability and freedom to create new styles and sounds, to make bold decisions on song arrangement and production styles, to push the boundaries of expression, you only have to listen to EWH, Lisa Preston or Lewis McCallum to see that there is little commercial conformity to “a sound” and I think this leads to a fresh approach to the creative process and the production music.

read the rest of the interview

]]> http://www.bluevibestudio.com/lewis-mccallum-interview-over-at-laidback-radio/feed/ 0 Dub Asylum interview over at Laid Back http://www.bluevibestudio.com/dub-asylum-interview-over-at-laid-back/ http://www.bluevibestudio.com/dub-asylum-interview-over-at-laid-back/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:55:00 +0000 J Bluevibe http://www.bluevibestudio.com/?p=320



“Dub Asylum is one of those undercover New Zealand artists who keeps dropping great music and doesn’t seem to shout too loud about it, it bubbles away and gets the respect it deserves from the beat community. After the release of his Ba Ba Boom! Digi-EP in August 2008 Peter McLennan got the nudge from some of his DJ friends to put out some vinyl which I’m glad to say he’s just done with a tasty little 7″ of the title track with a special dustep/afrobeat remix on the flip from Oogun.”

Read the rest of the interview over at the Laid Back Blog.

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