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Via newclear music.

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:

1. Radiohead – 408 plays
2. Coldplay – 397 plays
3. U2 – 326 plays
4. The Prodigy – 176 plays
5. Michael Jackson – 155 plays
6. The Mars Volta – 127 plays
7. Eddie Vedder – 123 plays
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers – 98 plays
9. Nine Inch Nails – 92 plays
10. Rage Against the Machine – 89 plays

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

Source: YouTube

UPDATED (2010-01-17)
Alek filmed the ESCAPE party & a 10-minute highlight reel is now online on YouTube:

You know lately it feels like whenever I write about nsu it’s about another milestone. This time it’s the release of nsu’s latest EP ‘Escape’. To celebrate the release a H-U-G-E night is planned at Rising Sun on K’rd.

Date: Saturday, December 12th 2009
Time: Doors open from 8pm, entry free before 10pm
Cost: Donation!
Location: Rising Sun, 373 K’rd, Auckland

You can expect one of the best live electronica gigs you will see in Auckland this year. Breakbeat to downbeat, tech house and drum and bass to dubstep.

Performances from:
nsu (live)
Bromide Dub (live)
Soul Science (Romantech B2B Control)
Stray Theories (live) [Timaru]
Squeezer (live)
emu (live) [Melbourne]
D.I.S.H.A

with special appearances by:
Shane Hollands (beat poetry)
Micah D Wolfe (saxophone)

To get a taste of what nsu’s set will sound like, check out:
nsu – Live @ ShortCircuit 6, Red Rock, Wanaka (part 1)
nsu – Live @ ShortCircuit 6, Red Rock, Wanaka (part 2)

If you do Facebook then add this event to your calendar:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=178188915915

Should be a mad night! See you there.

I’ve been posting about & collaborating with nsu for years now so I’m stoked to be able to post that his first official single is now available from all good online music retailers.

The Juice of Life / West Coast Dub release is “…a double A-side single comprising of Juice Of Life, an uplifting old school breakbeat funk-rush, backed by West Coast Dub, an organic dub cut, a vocal piece featuring didgeridoo and a lapsteel solo by Jus8ken.”

So go grab it from iTunes now, for only USD$3.99 you get a couple of corking NZ tunes to start your southern summer off with! I have a feeling this summer is going to be a good one already.

Source: Newclear Music

Setlist:
Moonrise Remix (original by Sharkweek)
Panic Bells
Pure Juice Remix (original by Squeezer Project)
Sensitivity [Nerve Dub]
Neutron Star
Discordia
Insufficient Funds Remix (original by The Great Hoax)
Incapacitate
Juice of Life

Source: Soundcloud

Via Dooce.

Source: NZ On Screen

LINKS
SJD – Beautiful Haze [YouTube.com]

Well you should. Because this Sunday on UPFM nsu & Disha are interviewing Mike from Pitch Black – NZT 3pm – 6pm.

Tune in via:
http://www.upfm.dj (online worldwide stream – send us a message on air for free!)
107.5 FM Akl
88.1 FM Wgtn

Details from nsu:

“Joining nsu & Disha in the studio will be Mike, one half of the legendary duo making up Pitch Black – considered by many to be the Godfathers of live electronic music in New Zealand. We will be featuring some new numbers off the recently released remix LP “Rhythm, Sound & Movement” and throwing in the usual questions. The second half of the feature will have Mike spinning and talking about some of the more influential tracks.

As a giveaway, we have a copy of Pitch Black’s new Rude Mechanicals Remixes CD up for grabs.

Sunday 4pm NZST = 2pm AEST = 6am CET (D.S.) = 5am GMT (D.S.) = 12am EDT = Saturday 9pm PDT”