July 1980 You entered the Turquoise Room, the Hillcrest’s live band venue, by skirting down the side at the back of the modern, asymmetrical, single storey, concrete block tavern. Then it was right in...

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...

Continued from part 2 – HMV NZ: radio and records From its earliest days as a company, HMV had most of the New Zealand recorded music market to itself. By the middle of the 1930s, with a catalogue tha...

Continued from part 1 – HMV NZ: birth of an empire Prior to the incorporation of His Master’s Voice in 1926, Hyams’s Gramophonium operated retail premises at 120 Victoria Street in Wellington, but the...

Little known in his own country, de Castro captivated Australian audiences throughout the 1970s. He attracted some of the best musicians to support him and was sought after for a range of session work...

For much of the 20th Century, the recorded music sold to New Zealanders was dominated by a single company in a way we can’t imagine today. For the first five decades of the century, that company had a...

Lisboa, Coimbra and Madeira

Will grew up in Rarotonga and although he has spent much of his life in New Zealand, he has never lost his love for his island home. He will tell you “it is paradise”. It would seem the Crummer family...

Finding things in crates, undisturbed for 22 years, plus Duke, Bobbie and photos from Tokyo past.

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With Roger Perry, it’s a matter of where to start. His influence on Aotearoa’s cultural, club, DJ, and electronic music scenes from the mid-1980s onwards was immense and pervasive. It remains omnipres...

I wrote a few words, quite a few actually, for my buddy, Roger Perry, for AudioCulture, just published in three parts.

With Roger Perry, it’s a matter of where to start. His influence on Aotearoa’s cultural, club, DJ, and electronic music scenes from the mid-1980s onwards was immense and pervasive. It remains omnipres...

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The Others Way festival provided an annual smorgasbord of the hottest young independent acts from the local scene, with a smattering of cult acts from overseas. The event reached across generations by...

Music that makes me think of a friend.

Music that makes me think of a friend.

‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ premiered 50 years ago and remains, to this day, a strange artefact that almost nobody fully grasps. By most accounts, not even the singer ever really understood it

As a production duo, they had hits with the singer Ngaire, but initially their own music struggled. They followed the musical tastes of their community into reggae and found themselves back on the cha...