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CLEOPHUS & LSJ came into the Base HQ to talk about their forthcoming album ‘Small Talk On K’rd’ and perform a track from it called ‘Beastly Banquet’. Follow CLEOPHUS: FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | SOUNDCLOUD Follow LSJ: FACEBOOK | BANDCAMP | SOUNDCLOUD
The Eclectic Garden Saturday, December 1st 2018 Corban Estate Art Centre (The show starts at 2 PM) WELCOME to the second year of our family friendly boutique music and arts festival. Held in Auckland, The Eclectic Garden gained rave reviews last year and we are honoured again to bring...
This week’s Local Eye is from Auckland-based vocalist Ladi6 with her colourful video for new single ‘Diagonals‘. The song is a bouncy, soulful celebration of accepting yourself, quirks and all, created by the combined talents of Tamati, Parks, Brandon Haru and Julien Dyne, who also just dropped his killer solo album Teal. The cartoony video...
Reality Chant Productions and Bless up Music proudly present the latest release from REALITY CHANT & ISRAEL STARR ‘Future Navigator’. Taking its cues from deep 70s Jamaican roots, ‘Future Navigator’ features tight well-rounded production and a roll-call of local and international musicians who provide a tapestry of instrumentation...
For the latest Base FM HQ Live we had MELODOWNZ in the studio performing his brand new track ‘Peace $igns, Gang $igns’ which is also our Turn It Up: Local Tune Of The Week, thanks to NZ On Air Music Plus Melodownz will be performing at this year Base FM Main...
This week’s Local Eye’s is from New Zealand rapper Raiza Biza who has teamed up with Melbourne emcee Remi. They have come together to collaborate on an exciting new EP consisting of beats provided by legendary hip-hop producer and rapper Black Milk, titled “Black Hole Sun”. “Runner” is...
Auckland city’s own Base FM is set to appear once again this year at Grey Lynn Park Festival 2018. The festivities will include Base DJs blasting tunes from the Base FM stage all day long, as well as a very special, two hour Base FM showcase on the...
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...
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!...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
‘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...
Where: Richmond Road school hall, 113 Richmond Rd When: Mondays and Thursdays Kung Fu – 6:30-8:00 Tai Chi – 8:00-9:00 A branch of Chan’s Martial Arts School has opened in Ponsonby, Auckland. Shao Chi Chuan Kung Fu was founded by Grandmaster Seng Chee Chan in 1975. The system and school has since grown...
This week’s local eyes video is POETIK ‘For My City’. Taken from the HAMOFIED EP, ‘For My City’ is produced by SmokeyGotBeatz with the video directed by Jordan Cherrington. Ventry Parker aka POETIK is an independent kiwi artist born in Hamilton but raised in Apia, Samoa. As a son of a well known...
WOMAD NEW ZEALAND is thrilled to deliver its first artist announcement with Angelique Kidjo, Silkroad Ensemble and Aotearoa’s own TEEKS all setting the stage for the 2019 festival. WOMAD New Zealand, 15-17 March 2019, TSB Bowl of Brooklands, New Plymouth. WOMAD New Zealand – the world’s festival, is a three day festival of world music, arts...
Friday Base Breakfast
23 Apr, 2019