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Martyn Pepperell

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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When Byron remixed Joe. joekaptein.bandcamp.com/album/interg...
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Intergalactic Love Song (Byron the Aquarius Remixes), by Joe Kaptein
2 track album
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today.
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's all fun & games until you have to wait for 15 seconds to skip an advert in your dreams.
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Remember Lewis Road Creamery’s Fresh Chocolate Milk? 🤣
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let me guess... frozen yoghurt is trending on Tiktok?
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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
...He put the hard yards in behind the turntables and running events, along the way becoming a crucial figure on the national scene. Jay's AudioCulture profile is by @martynpepperell.bsky.social 2/2
Jay 'Bulletproof' Monds winning the 2010 Best Electronic Album award, for Soundtrack to Forever, at the Vodafone NZ Music Awards, 2010.
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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You can’t talk about drum and bass music in New Zealand without talking about Jay Monds, who sadly passed away on 29 September 2022, aged 46. Also known as DJ Pots or Jay Bulletproof, Jay was a product of the early 90s warehouse rave scene... 1/2 audioculture.co.nz/profile/jay-...
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Jay Monds - AudioCulture
In the early 2000s, he took the sound of New Zealand drum and bass to the world as one-half of Bulletproof, the production duo he shared with his friend Josh Lees, before turning his skills towards du...
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Kraus @kraus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Had a chat with @tonylstamp.bsky.social on National Radio www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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Cult favourite Kraus on his latest synth-focused psychedelia
For over twenty years Auckland-based musician Kraus has been outputting acclaimed albums of sonically adventurous instrumentals. His latest is called Water Music, and was created entirely on Elektron ...
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🔋 eoeoeoeo.bandcamp.com/album/batter...
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Battery Pack, by Eo
4 track album
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shy🎀 @shy.center · 16/09/2026
Good morning. I wrote a little love letter about Haruomi Hosono's 23rd solo record. The old legend is still bursting with great ideas as he creeps up on octogenarian status. Thanks for all the music. Sincerely, 💌 pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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Haruomi Hosono: Yours Sincerely
Read Shy Clara Thompson’s review of the album.
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UnderTheRadar @undertheradarnz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Dive into our Release Radar — Aotearoa highlights from deepState, JessB, Daffodils, Achtung!, Paddy Fred and the new South Pacific Dance Organisation compilation ☔️
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Release Radar: deepState, JessB, Daffodils, Achtung!, Paddy Fred, South Pacific Dance Organisation
New and recent sonic gems from Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"How's your algorithm going?" "Terrible. Thanks for asking."
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Crazy to be like, I swear I know that giant alien humanoid from somewhere and then you realise it's fucking Michael Fassbender.
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's a beautiful day to listen to Haruomi Hosono's new album, Yours Sincerely. haruomihosono.bandcamp.com/album/yours-...
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Yours Sincerely, by Haruomi Hosono
10 track album
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 11/09/2026
“It amazes me no one else has been able to see that post-punk was our version of the abstract expressionists of the ’50s. We were very similar: hedonists, bourgeois, nihilist, badly behaved, brattish, horrible, narcissistic—all that stuff, you know?” Jah Wobble’s Family Business:
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Jah Wobble's Family Business - SPIN
Jah Wobble is why God made woofers. Not only was the clean, full-bodied, three-dimensional throb of his Fender Precision bass the first sound people heard
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Listen to PREMIERE: Paddy Fred - 'Honey' [Extra Soul Perception] by Mixmag Australia / NZ on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/P0vKvyZxXy4U...
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PREMIERE: Paddy Fred - 'Honey' [Extra Soul Perception]
Paddy Fred is a guitarist, beatmaker, singer-songwriter and producer based on Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington’s rugged south coast in Aotearoa/New Zealand. A longstanding live musician, he turned his h
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I strongly urge you to give Look! by Parksdale a spin. parksdale.bandcamp.com/album/look
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LOOK!, by Parksdale
13 track album
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
DJing on TBC until 2pm. tbc.radio
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TBC Radio
TBC Radio - A nonprofit broadcast connection based out of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I think you're still on mute.
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We're throwing a listening party for Paddy Fred next Friday in Welly. RSVP below. events.humanitix.com/paddy-fred-c...
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UnderTheRadar @undertheradarnz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Dive into our Release Radar — new & recent Aotearoa highlights from Jonathan Bree, AW, Harry W, Two Dollar Trio, crossingwater, the Kanikani Therapy compilation, Christoph El Truento, Lady Shaka, Sandra Bell, Haast Hunter, and the pink opaque 🔥
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Release Radar: Jonathan Bree, AW, Harry W, Two Dollar Trio, Crossingwater, Kanikani Therapy, Christoph El Truento + More
New and recent sonic gems from Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
He's a Chris's Chris 🤣
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Meet me at the intersection of locked in and losing it.
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A.I. posters are crazy cause suddenly DJs and takeaway spots have the same visual aesthetic. It's bloody everywhere. Slop World.
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sebmal @mrdo.pro · 20/08/2026
awesome way to explain the concept of money
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A free show?! In this economy?
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Politics in New Zealand: A guy named Chris sacked a guy named Chris for trying to stage a coup. Another couple of guys named Chris offered the news some commentary.
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Phantom Limb @phantomlimb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🌐🌐 It's the one we've been waiting for 🌐🌐 The three albums of Baltimore luminaries Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals are finally back on wax. But don't sleep. They'll go quickly. Especially the special editions (exclusive to Bandcamp)! Head here to purchase: www.submithub.com/link/phantom...
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A conversation with Ché Fu for Rolling Stone AU/NZ. au.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Ché Fu Discusses 'Navigator', New Zealand Tour and More
This October, Ché Fu is celebrating 25 years of 'Navigator' with a 10-date national theatre tour.
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Tricky is still a master at work. tricky.bandcamp.com/album/differ...
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Different When It's Silent, by Tricky // False Idols
14 track album
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I'll be in conversation with Hun Lynch at Auckland Library from 2-3 pm today. She'll be playing songs as well. Come along. www.eventfinda.co.nz/2026/one-mor...
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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
without telling me your year of birth, what is your favourite three digit number from the back of your credit card?
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Last week, I interviewed @delibeat for @Mixmag's The Mix series. The story and her mix are live on the site now. mixmag.net/feature/the-...
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The Mix 113: Debit
Debit shares an energetic mix she's titling  'Handling Polyrhythms Without a Jog Wheel: Time Doesn’t Exist' and speaks to Martyn Pepperell about how much the creative landscape has shifted through her...
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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
As @martynpepperell.bsky.social notes, if things have been ramping up in the modern NZ jazz scene over the last decade, jazz had an especially big moment in 2025. A bevy of established groups and newer names turned out world-class albums; here are 10 of them: www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/jaz...
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Jazz in the Year 2025: take ten - Article | AudioCulture
Crystal Chen with Ruby Fainaa on congas/percussion,  Michael Howell on bass, Joe Kaptein on keyboards. There are always two ways you can look at a situation: from the inside and from the outside. Both...
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shy🎀 @shy.center · 29/06/2026
Hello there. I wrote an effusive essay about synth-pop genius Mioko Yamaguchi, who made three perfect albums in the 1980s, disappeared from the spotlight, then made a stunning comeback as if she'd never left. www.shy.center/p/mioko-yama...
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Mioko Yamaguchi, the princess that never dropped her crown
Unraveling the work of a synth-pop genius before and after a 35 year hiatus.
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Witchdoctor.co.nz @witchdoctornz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Lōemis is still running in Wellington — and the lineup is wild!  Troy Kingi, Shayne Carter with the NZSO, Acid Mothers Temple, Kavari, plus a Midwinter Solstice Ball on the eve of the solstice itself. Genuinely one of the more interesting festival programmes on the calendar this winter.
Reforms Shayne Carter with the NZSO Fri 19 June Michael Fowler Centre LoemisTroy Kingi at Loemis june 18 A genre-bending, cornerstone New Zealand artist. With Night Lords, Troy Kingi's foray into hip hop (part of his 10/10/10 series), the composer-musician pushes himself to the limit. Featuring a who’s who of NZ hip hopAcid Mothers Temple playing June 18 Old St Pauls for the Loemis Festival A Japanese psychedelic collective known for prolific output, creating "head-melting" sonic soups that mix heavy krautrock, raga rock, and intense noiseJune 18 Kavari Loemis Kavari is a Liverpool born electronic music artist and DJ based in Glasgow, known for her transgressive art and experimental approach to sound and performance. Raised and emerging from the Scottish Highlands, she began performing in her late teens, creating a distinct, high-intensity style that blends her influences of industrial, ambient, club, EDM, and noise music.
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Jyoti Mishra @jyotimishra.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Well, that was a fucking ride.
A cropped screenshot of an article section titled "Gary Larson cartoon incident" from a Tumblr page. The text describes a controversy involving a Far Side cartoon and Jane Goodall. 

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Gary Larson cartoon incident

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 In 1987 Gary Larson published a Far Side cartoon of two chimpanzees grooming, in which one discovers a blonde hair and says, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"[127] The Jane Goodall Institute called the cartoon an "atrocity" in a letter drafted by its lawyers to Larson and his syndicate. Goodall, who was in Africa at the time, later found the cartoon amusing.[128] 

She went on to name it her favourite depiction of herself in pop culture.[129] Larson offered profits from sales of a shirt featuring the cartoon to the Jane Goodall Institute.[130] 

Goodall wrote the preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the controversy.[131] She praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behaviour of humans and animals. 

In 1988 Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania.[128] While there, he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.[127][132]
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Mōrena.
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Nobody ever asks the DJ what they want.
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Writers will write a deeply moving exploration of the fragility of the human mind, and then not be able to recognise signs of depression in someone else during deadline week.
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
That's a lot of water.
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Popping up on TBC Radio in Tāmaki from 4-6 PM today. www.tbc.radio
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
A quick Q&A with Rudy from A.R. Kane / inrain for Test Pressing. www.testpressing.org/magazine/che...
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Tāmaki Nights.
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Q&A time with Kaishandao for Mixmag ANZ/Asia mixmag.net.au/feature/kais...
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Kaishandao 开山刀: Bridging Aotearoa & Asia
Writer Martyn Pepperell speaks with an artist, blogger and promoter with two feet proudly at two opposite ends of the globe.
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Logic has left the building, and so have I.
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Funniest April Fool's prank imo 🤣
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br_dge / Hasji 🍃⛲🗻 [GORGE.IN/Noa Records] @brdge.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Thanq for the inclusion on this fab list @martynpepperell.bsky.social ~! ⛰️🔊✨
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Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Q1 2026 www.dazeddigital.com/music/articl...
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10 great albums you may have missed in the last three months
Featuring Mon Rôvia’s calming Afro-Appalachian folk music, Florence Sinclair’s enigmatic fusion of rap and dream pop, Auckland artist Hasji’s combination of Māori and Nepalese Gorge music, and Scratch...
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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Over the last 15 years, Ōtepoti Dunedin dream-pop/post-punk trio Death and the Maiden has released three critically loved albums: Death and the Maiden, Wisteria, and Uneven Ground. And they're not named after The Verlaines song. By @martynpepperell.bsky.social www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/deat...
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Death and the Maiden - AudioCulture
In 2011, the synthesiser player, producer, audio engineer and DJ Danny Brady was living in Berlin and playing in the experimental rock band, Thought Creature. After receiving the news that his grandmo...
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