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This week’s Featured Base FM DJ is a bit of a dark horse but he has in fact been here at the station since the very beginning. Nick FitzHerbert has been holding down The Basement with Nabeel Zuberi for about 8 years now. The show started off it’s life as a Saturday afternoon thing, sandwiched […]
Label Love is an eclectic yet unified bundle of unique sounds compiled simply for the love of sharing them with the universe – each track plucked and presented by Jazz heads from Tru Thoughts Recordings, Impossible Ark Records, Gondwana Records, Jazzman Records, Edition Records, Katalyst Entertainment, Revive Music Group, and Basho Records. Each label and artist […]
Hiatus Kaiyote are future soul. Based in Melbourne, the four-piece fuses neo-soul, hip-hop and electronic beats along with flavours of Latin, jazz and opera, all presented with a cinematic sheen. Equal parts The Roots and Little Dragon yet so much more, Hiatus Kaiyote seamlessly blend their influences (too many to list here) and are held together by the velvety vocals […]
Breakage follows his critically acclaimed album ‘Foundation’ & crossover hit ‘Fighting Fire’ with his latest offering ‘The Promise EP’. Progressive in nature, with a nod to both the Balearic Island & the basements of inner-city London, this four-tracker is a taster of what is to come as Boyle readies his 3rd album, set for a […]
Jstar returns for another NZ summer and will be playing a number of shows & festivals while he’s here. After the big roots & reggae show coming up in Auckland (21st December 2012) here’s a taster of what’s to come from Jstar at Northern Bass. On 30th December he will be joining Digital Mystics, Black Sun Empire, […]
Recorded between February-July 2010, the debut album from Harbour City Electric “Without A Sound” is finally released on !2th September 2012. Dropping a track a week since the beginning of August, the Base FM tune of the week “Seek & Destroy” is a soulful gem with a heavy groove. Hailing from Wellington with various members […]
David Dallas is back with a new 6-track EP inspired by, sampled and interpolated from the catalogue of Jamiroquai, and it’s available for free download now. The Buffalo Man EP is the culmination of an idea David Dallas started floating around three years ago. With Jamiroquai both an influential artist for him and long time favourite, it wasn’t […]
Acclaimed genre-popping producers Brad Baloo & Dom Search from The Nextmen joined forces with arguably one of the world’s best Soul vocalists, Fat Freddy’s Drop frontman Dallas Tamaira – AKA Joe Dukie – in the Summer of 2003 to flesh out & record an idea hatched by Christopher Tubbs who, at the time, was working […]
“48 Hours with The Side Steps Quintet” is a 6 track EP featuring production duo Si Res & Dandruff Dicky, alongside Hone Be Good, Tonga Vaea & Tyra Hammond. Recorded, mixed, mastered & released in just 5 day. Grab it while it’s hot! Released 12 October 2012 Dandruff Dicky: Sax, Production Si Res: Guitar, Production Hone Be Good: Vocals Tonga Vaea: […]
Hamilton-based emcee Raiza Biza drops his debut full length album, featuring dope production from some of NZs finest beatmakers including Crime Heat, S.F.T., SoulChef, Si-Res and Jay Knight. Dream Something also features special guests Esther Stephens, Amanda Djo, Genocide & Kitty Kutz. A limited edition physical CD is also available featuring 3 exclusive bonus tracks. […]