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Avondale’s very own MELODOWNZ again proves why he’s one of New Zealand’s front running MC’s.  His new track “Peace $igns Gang $igns” has just dropped ahead of an upcoming dual sided project.  In this track Melo explores the duality of modern life, and how life can shift from the peaceful highs to the darkest lows. […]

New Zealand’s First Lady of Drum n Bass Tali come into the base Studio last week to chat about her new video & track “Eye on You” with Base Breakfast host Ian Beatmaster Wright. Listen to the whole interview below. Watch full “Eye on You” video here! Buy the track here! Tali’s new album ‘Love & Migration’ – […]

Auckland rapper Meer (Reem Nabhani of hip-hop duo Cool Tan fka HEAVY) has dropped a music video for her juicy track ‘Pomegranate’, taken from her debut 2017 solo project Kushari. The track is produced by COOL TAN’s other half DBL-DBL. Directed by Delicious Miss, AKA Corinna Hunziker, Meer serves unapologetic bad bitch energy on a golden platter in the abstract ‘Pomegranate’ visual. […]

CHRISTOPH EL TRUENTO is back with new music for our listening pleasure and is set to release a double LP project titled ‘LWMP18’ on 11/11/18, through Cosmic Compositions. This is good news for all fans of instrumental hip hop, sampling and experimental sound design with Christoph being one the current front runners of experimental beats, […]

WONDERGARDEN 2018 – LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT DECEMBER 31st, SILO PARK Auckland city’s favourite New Year’s Eve destination Wondergarden has just added Ladi6, Matthew Young, Avantdale Bowling Club, Julien Dyne(DJ set), HIGH HØØPS, Peach Milk, k2k, Frank Booker , Hugo Jay and Aw B to their line up joining the already powerful lineup of Nightmares On Wax (DJ set), DāM-FunK, JessB , Kllo,  Cut Off Your Hands, Fortunes. and Tina Turntables! Nightmares on Wax (DJ Set) DāM-FunK […]

TALKING POINTS on Base FM – hosted by Murry Sweetpants Thanks to NZ On Air Music Date: october 2018 Guest reviewer: Hamish Pinkham Featured release: HELEN CORRY ‘Later for the Real Show’ EP Released: 2018 Featured track #1: STRIKE Featured track #2: LA FEMME Featured track #3: THE POWER HAMISH PINKHAM: Founder of music festival […]

For our second Base FM HQ Live, we had independent kiwi rapper Poetik up in the studio spitting bars. Born in Hamilton but raised in Apia, Samoa and son of a well known Samoan entertainer, music has always played a major roll in his upbringing. Check out his Brand New EP ‘HAMOFIED’ Find out more […]

A couple of months ago, Base FM & ORIKoL in association with Albert Eden Board put on a really cool event ‘MoZaic’.  It meant a lot to us as we wanted to showcase other forms of art like dance and fashion and celebrate collaboration and diversity. Since then, we’ve been working on a little highlights […]

This week’s Local Eyes is from New Zealand’s First Lady of Drum n Bass Tali. Taken from her first DnB album in over seven years ‘Eye On You’ is the lead track from ‘Love & Migration’ out on October 26th. After leaving NZ in 2001 for the UK, Tali signed to Full Cycle Records and promptly released a UK top 40 […]

‘Divine Plateau’ is the triumphant return of Hamilton based artist JANE DEEZY.  It has been quite some time since we’ve seen fans with the loyalty of Deezy’s and they will be nothing short of stoked with her latest release.  Produced by Sultry Sol, the track has a serious vibe that could be the start of […]


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