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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 […]
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 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 […]
Despite delays and challenges created by COVID-19, the Pacific music community celebrated another year of outstanding music at the 16th annual Pacific Music Awards. The event was pre-recorded due to COVID-19 restrictions and aired as an online presentation this evening. The big winners were Elijah Manu and Albert Purcell – better known as dynamic Auckland […]
Despite delays and challenges created by COVID-19, the Pacific music community celebrated another year of outstanding music at the 16th annual Pacific Music Awards. The event was pre-recorded due to COVID-19 restrictions and aired as an online presentation this evening. Check out the Base Crew head behind the scenes at the 2020 Pacific Music awards, with […]
October the 2nd marks the date the Recording Industry American Association took legal action against Napster and 757 individuals illegally sharing music to the similar peer-to-peer sites. Listen along to discover how the now long-dead software sharing platform, alongside Limewire, shaped how we consume music in the modern-day. Every Friday morning tune into The Breakfast […]
The Pacific Music Awards will be shared as an online presentation this Saturday 3 October at 7pm. Watch the awards online at www.tpplus.co.nz or on the Tagata Pasifika Facebook page HERE A Tagata Pasifika special will be screened again on TV1 on Saturday 17 October, 9.30-11am. The 2020 Pacific Music Awards will feature live performances by the new […]
Since 2018, Base DJ and ‘A Groove Theory‘ show host Kirk James curates beautiful shows dedicated to Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. He carefully puts together 2 and a half hours worth of his favourite soulful waiata sung in Te Reo Māori. Listen back to this years special Vol.3: 2020 featured tracks and artists: […]
History class is in session, on today’s show we discussed DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, their boycott of the 1988 Grammy award show and Will Smith’s missed opportunity to star in ‘The Matrix’. Listen back on Mixcloud and tune into Base Breakfast every Friday morning with Ian and our new Base intern Daria.