This week on Native Tongues!… Featured Artist: SWIDT Tracks: ‘WONDERS (feat B Wise & Mikey Dam)’ & ‘U PROBLEM’ SWIDT hit us with a 3 pack of singles ‘GOOD THINGS COME IN THREES’ and enlisted South-West Sydney’s own B Wise and Mikey Dam on the standout ‘WONDERS’. Featured Artist: Eno x Dirty Tracks: ‘GETURSELF2GETHA’ & […]
This week’s Local Eyes is from Hamilton-based rapper NXVA with ‘The Summer Fall Fears’. This powerful track is taken from the Gemini Ultra EP. Which consists of five eclectic tracks are produced by longtime friend and collaborator STUSS. Recruiting Beau Monga’s alluring vocals, NXVA shows off his pen skills paired with visuals by Joshua Dey. The Summer Fall […]
We Love Aotearoa December 19th at ASB Showgrounds – Free Entry Whānau Fun Day: 10 am – 3 pm Saturday, December 19th We Love Aotearoa (r18): 5 pm – 11 pm Saturday, December 19th (ticketed) We Love Aotearoa is back and bigger than ever, with an unmissable line-up of celebrations set to take place next […]
Native Tongues this week has a mix of old and new, plus a live mini throwback mix from guest DJ Seymore. Featured Artist and Track: Krispy & The Pooch ft. Matt Paull – Drop The Needle (Instrumental) Starting off the show this week is Krispy & The Pooch. Kriston Batistic (aka Krispy) and Simon Townsend […]
This week’s local eyes video is from New Zealand rapper/producer duo, NO COMPLY who have followed up their single ‘She Likes’ with their high energy new track ‘Bad To The Bone’. Inspired by their own personal growth, the song is “pays homage to the new and improved self; someone who doesn’t take unnecessary sh*t from anybody and believes they can take […]
More highlights from our Youth Mentoring Programme, this time with up and coming rapper Sylas who teamed up with Sunshine Sound System for a few weeks. He built up his confidence and even dropped some freestyles live on air with KP. Big ups to Creative Communities Auckland for the support!
Grey Lynn Park Festival 2020 is happening on Saturday 21st November from 10am – 6pm On the Main Stage, we’ll have our Base FM Showcase featuring The* SUNSHINE SOUND SYSTEM * NEW ZEALAND *, IllBaz & friends, Raiza Biza, SØJOURN & more. Plus our very own Base FM Jafa Mafia-Soundsystem-Stage and on the heaviest HI […]
‘Breaking Artists’ on Base is a monthly feature where we pick 3 local artists and showcase 3 new tracks we think you should know. All ‘Breaking Artists’ tracks are fresh and featured for the entire month so we can push their music far and wide. This month’s picks!… Pacific Heights – ‘The Weight of It’ […]
Over the past few weeks, we have had three amazing students from Mangere Central School on the Base airwaves with DJ Grassmouth as part of our Youth Mentoring programme. Matai – 10 years old – Confident with an outgoing personality. Loves to sing and hit those high notes Karina – 9 years old – Quiet […]
This week on Native Tongues we’re kicking off the show with Nat Lover‘s track featuring Glad2Mecha ‘Catalogues’. This was featured on the last Base FM Turn It Up compilation album and was chosen as we are running the Turn It Up competition again! (Find out more about the competition here). Nat Lover released his “Lesson Four” EP […]