Do I have your attention?
If thunderous dubstep & breaks on NZ’s best sound system sounds like your thing, then get along to BE Club this Thursday night for AP3X vs Joe Revell + nsu vs Macros.
A rare chance to see a DJ Set from nsu and best of all? The gig is FREE :-)
What: AP3X vs Joe Revell + nsu vs Macros
When: Thursday, 15 July, 10:00pm
Where: BE Club, 3 Commerce Street, Auckland Central
(Facebook Event)
If you tune into UPFM this Sunday (July 10th) from 4pm to 6pm Beat Dungeon Radio will be interviewing P-MONEY, a local hip-hop legend, along with playing the latest NZ electronica.
DETAILS
Radio: 107.5 FM
Web: UPFM Player
Source: UPFM News
“The Mutton Birds refer obliquely to the massacre in the song A Thing Well Made on their self-titled debut album. The song is narrated by a man who owns a sporting goods store in Christchurch. As the song closes he describes his work for the day, which involves sending “one of those AK-47s for some collector down the line.” – Aramoana massacre [en.wikipedia.org]
Out Of The Blue: “The movie about the 1990 massacre that rocked New Zealand is a restrained, sad, moral tale of a small South Island beach community where everyone knew one another by their first names – even their killer.” – The spirit of Aramoana [listener.co.nz]
This live video of The Mutton Birds performing ‘A Thing Well Made’ is moving but two things in particular that move me:
Source: YouTube
LINKS
Your GPS run out of battery? First World Problem.
Got to wake up Saturday? First World Problem.
Source: Vimeo.
Official music video for the ‘Panic Bells’ single off the ‘Escape’ EP. Directed & edited by visual effects superstar Aleksandar Janev.
Source: YouTube (click this to watch the clip at 1280×645)
This year, for the first time, I kept track of my listening habits. This was courtesy of my iPod & last.fm.
I was interested to find out whether my self-described music taste of “white man rock music” was true or not. Below is the top 10 artists by number of plays for the last 12 months:
And looking at the top 10 I feel that’s a pretty good definition of white man rock music. Especially for someone who was a teenager in the 90′s.
Perhaps an exception is Michael Jackson which is just a straight output of Michael Jackson dying. I think I ended up listening to his music intensively for a couple of months.
Eddie Vedder is the only other outlier & he is in there solely due to the ‘Into The Wild’ soundtrack. I played the heck out of that soundtrack over the past year, I really rate it.
If you take out Eddie Vedder & Michael Jackson the next two artists just outside the top 10 are also white man music: Simon & Garfunkel and Fleet Foxes. More folk than rock though which is encouraging.
The Prodigy probably wouldn’t be as high as they are if I hadn’t listened to the track ‘Take Me To The Hospital’ 57 times in the last 12 months. That was one-third of all The Prodigy I listened to & my second most popular track over the whole 12 months. It’s a great tune.
What was interesting was Last.fm lets you graph your listening habits against the greater Last.fm population as part of their Best Of 2009 write-up. Below is my The Prodigy listening habits versus the rest of the last.fm population for October 2008 to October 2009. You can see me as the red line picking up on The Prodigy’s newest album ‘Invaders Must Die’ about two months after the rest of the world :-)
Last.fm The Prodigy listens versus my listens – October 2008 to October 2009
Source: last.fm
My most listened to track over the last 12 months? Iron & Wine’s ‘Naked As We Came’.
Some live footage of Bromide Dub from the nsu EP release party at Rising Sun last Saturday…
Source: YouTube
Recent Comments