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This week’s Local eye’s is from Greek / Polynesian singer songwriter Cassandra. ‘Day Dreaming’ is her debut single and is a RnB pop jam about being caught on cloud 9. Marlborough based artist Cassandra Koutsimanis has been juggling motherhood, film and music for over a decade. Her Original compositions are a unique fusion of soul, […]
Following the sophomore release in 2020, the TURN IT UP compilation album returns for its third outing! We once again teamed up with Nosiehive to release,”TURN IT UP”, a compilation of top local releases. On the heels of New Zealand’s second lockdown, we sent out the call to local artists for new and unreleased tracks […]
‘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… Blaze the Emperor feat. Raiza Biza – […]
Local music broke several records for radio airplay and chart placings in 2020 – in spite of the many challenges the industry faced due to the pandemic, according to NZ On Air, the Radio Broadcasters Association and Recorded Music NZ. For the first time since 2005, commercial radio networks and stations playing contemporary New Zealand […]
This week on Native Tongues… Featured Artist: K-99 Featured Tracks: ‘2030 Mogul’ and ‘Pressure’ K-99 is a rapper and music producer from Wellington. Keep an ear out for K-99 as he has another brand new single set for release early March. Check out his music – https://linktr.ee/k99rapper Featured Artist: Jayrad Featured Track: Underground / Now & […]
This week’s Local Eye’s is something a little different with a live performance by Newly formed Māori music collective ‘IA’. The band held an intimate concert in the Pukemokemoke Bush Reserve in front of a live audience, as a creative way to debut their new single, ‘Ororuarangi’. IA has united nature and music with a taonga […]
A huge congrats to the boys of Low-End Theory, OB & Shan for their recognition as a top radio show in 2020 by radio blogger DJ Nigel Gentry! The boys started their show back in May of 2020, with their show new to the radio waves this is an amazing achievement for The Low-End Theory. The show was […]
This week’s local eyes is from New Zealand / Cook Island rapper Shane Walker. Walker presents a party banger in ‘Jump Up‘, which features New Zealand hip hop and R&B singer-songwriter Chong Nee. Widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s top musician, he has produced songs for many New Zealand artists including Pieter T, Che Fu, Dei Hamo, PNC, Dave Dobbyn, AKA Brown and the Deceptikonz as well as for […]
This week’s Local Eyes is from New Zealand MC MELODOWNZ with ‘Money’, the Polynesian wordsmith’s first drop of new music for 2021. Where previous release ‘Big Deals’ featuring Diggy Dupé celebrated the hustle, ‘Money‘ charts what comes next, when you’ve secured the bag. “Everybody want a piece of the pie right, so we can all eat?” MELODOWNZ raps – when you’re determined to grind and […]
BASE FM YOUTH MENTORING – OTARA’s NEXT As part of the Base Youth Mentoring Programme, we went out to Otara and teamed up with Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate and found these 3 very talented young ladies Eve, Rose & Cypress. We had a series of workshops here at Base HQ including on-air broadcasting, DJing and of […]