This week’s Local eyes video is from Auckland electronic-pop duo Imugi 이무기 Taken from their long-awaited second EP, Dragonfruit. Imugi’s music video for standout single ‘Somebody Else‘ depicts the world of computerised digital characters where Carl and Yery become thrust into cyberspace, featuring appearances from friends and fellow Auckland musicians including Hans., Alexa Casino, Leaping […]
For our latest Base HQ Live performance we had Y$O – Young & Slept On members Sam V, JARNA & Disciple Pati in the studio. They performed a medley of Jarna’s ‘I’m Fine’, Sam V and bKIDD’s ‘Cruisin’ and Disciple Pati’s yet to be released track ‘Be My All’. Follow SAM V Facebook | Instagram […]
For this week’s Local Eye’s PollyHill teams up with Dera Meelan and Alexa Casino for ‘Spooky’, her first drop since EP Greatest Hits. The new single, fitted with the usual witty bars and not-so-usual blood curdling screams, sees PollyHill’s music video directional debut — co-directed with Freya Finch — nothing too far from Paloma Schneideman‘s skill set as an NZIFF award winner. Drawing from vintage horror cinema, […]
TALKING POINTS on Base FM – hosted by Ian Beatmaster Wright Thanks to NZ On Air Music Date: 20th October 2020 Guest reviewer: Sam V Featured release: Jarna ‘Memoirs For The Brokenhearted’ Released: 2020 Featured track #1: Crush Featured track #2: Chill Featured track #3: I’m Fine East Aucklander Jarna Parsons is a soulful singer […]
This week is Niue language week so we’ve picked some very talented artists from ‘the Rock’! Definitely no stranger to Base, Diggy Dupé is picked to start the show with ‘Island Time‘ and ‘40oz (The Gate)‘ both from his iconic 2018 release via Renaissance Music. Haz Beats, in-house producer of Team Dynamite, Homebrew and beat maker […]
This week’s Local Eye’s is from Belgian DJ and honorary Kiwi, Netsky & NZ producer Montell2099 with their track ‘Mixed Emotions‘ which is taken from his album Second Nature due out on 30th October. After playing shows in NZ for the last 10 years and becoming a household name across the summer festival circuit, it is […]
Singer/songwriter Valere came into Base HQ last week for a chat about her new album ‘colours’ and performed her track ‘like that‘. Like That was inspired by the feeling of love’s longing, confusion, wondering, and nods to the sounds of pioneering female artists of the late 90’s and early millennium, Aaliyah, Ashante and Mya, injected with a […]
This week we started off with some throwbacks! ‘Where Yat‘ and ‘Cookin Soul‘ from JBrown and the Mic Smith‘s classic EP ‘JB&TMS EP‘ which was released back in 2011. The Mic Smith is the voice and JBrown is the beats. JBrown, a 175 IQ genius with the motivation of a sloth, is rumoured to have found […]
This week’s local video is the debut from Gino October, the first official single from his forthcoming project Look How Far We’ve Come, due out October 16th. ‘Better For Ya‘ serves as a memoir of reflection for Gino and sets the tone for the whole project. The compelling visuals stem from the minds of Director Matt Mckenzie […]
This week marks the first of a two night of The Rolling Stones Tattoo You tour in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum – where the budding star Prince opened, to the extreme distaste of the crowd. Prince went on to describe the audience on the night as “tasteless in music and mentally retarded”. In the […]