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TrinityRoots released their third album ‘Citizen’ in March of this year. One of the stand out tracks from the album ‘This Road’ featured the vocals of drummer/multi-instrumentalist Ben Lemi. Scrolling through soundcloud a few weeks back we stumbled across this great remix from Wellington producer Moody. The man behind...
This week for our ‘Local Eyes’ Segment we have Kamandi with his official video ‘Martyrs’. Find out more about Kamandi Soundcloud | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Local Eyes is a weekly segment on BaseFM focusing on New Zealand Music videos. Big Thanks to NZ On Air Music!
From the woodwork of the recently revitalised Supervillains RMC crew comes the ENO x DIRTY project, with their debut single “How My Day Goes” featuring MeloDownz (Third3ye). Lay-low Central Auckland blunt rap for your teef. Keep an eye out for the EP Easter Eggs & Good Sportsmanship, releasing Sunday...
‘Best For You’ from Resin One & Orphan is a throwback to hip hop’s classic era: hard hitting boom bap beats topped with a straight forward lyrical delivery. Based in Auckland, the duo of Resin One and Orphan have spent hours in the studio nurturing the 5 tracks that appear...
Earlier this year Base FM featured the title tune from Jellphonic’s “Jell-O-Phone” EP, which was released exclusively on vinyl with no digital options to buy at all. Info on that EP here. 4 months later…. ‘Due to a complete lack of interest in my 12″ I got the...
Noah Slee has a gift. Through his voice, he finds hope in blank despair; he captures elements of lurking anguish in moments of sheer joy. Because he knows that—in life, love and music—you’ll find a myriad of colours between black and white if you only look close enough....
Entirely self-funded and self-released, the debut album Osiris is the culmination of a year’s worth of work for local artist Diaz Grimm. Named after the Egyptian god of life, death, and rebirth, Diaz describes the album as being “the soundtrack for a movie that doesn’t exist yet.” Being raised with...
TONIGHT’S EGO vs TROPICOLA are the brand new tracks from Auckland’s Team Dynamite. The double drop is the first in an on-going single series to play out in 2015 and is accompanied by an exclusive Haz Beats remix of last year’s standout single “Coconut Lime”, feat. Che Fu from their debut...
Soundboard maestros Lord Echo and DJ Day link up across oceans to trade remix duties on each other’s top tunes, flipping the pair onto a heavily dubbed out Double A-side single pressed up on frothing white vinyl via the Bastard Jazz label out of New York. California dance-floor...
From seemingly out of nowhere along comes a delightful tune that catches everybody by surprise… Alt radio is all over this leisurely tune from the LEISURE Collective – a handful of Auckland-based artists who haven’t offered up to much information about themselves, instead letting the music do the...
SILCON is the new brainchild of Ex-Mint Chicks / Opossum frontman Kody Nielson. ‘God Emoji‘ is the first official single and first music released from Silicon. To coincide with the release of the video, we’ve featured ‘God Emoji‘ as the Base FM local tune of the week. Enjoy the...
An the eve of Electric Wire Hustle’s European tour, this free download appeared via Red Bull Music Academy’s soundcloud page. Grab it HERE. Last time we heard from Electric Wire Hustle, the duo of RBMA alumni Mara TK and Taay Ninh were putting out their first full-length record in four...
While spending 10 years in the UK, Tali cemented herself as one of the most prolific female MC/Freestylers to emerge from the electronic dance music scene and worked with some of the genre’s biggest names. Tali signed to legendary Roni Size’s ‘Full Cycle’ Imprint in 2004 and released the...
Forthcoming on the Breakout Remix EP, She’s So Rad has drafted in a steller cast of vocalists for the rap remix of ‘Breakout’ – a track which appeared in it’s original form back in 2013. The remix of the disco/boogie tune now features hiphop pioneer Grandmaster Caz, active as...
‘Heartbeat’ was the first single from Esther Stephens & The Means full length album, originally released in Novermber 2014 – bridging the gap between the 2014’s ‘The Ends EP’ and the debul album. Featuring the talents of MC Hone Be Good (Sidesteps Quintet), and Keys by Daniel Hayles (Richter City Rebels/Myele...
Introducing FORTUNES (via whothehell.net) Fortunes are McCabe and Barnaby Matthews, a Melbourne-via-Auckland duo. You can’t really separate these two from their origins once you’ve seen them live a few times. The first thing you notice is McCabe’s Kiwi twang. The Melbourne in them a lot harder to discern,...
Satori (悟り?) (Chinese: 悟; pinyin: wù; Korean: 오 o; Vietnamese: ngộ) is a Japanese Buddhist term for “awakening, comprehension; understanding“. It is derived from the Japanese verb satoru. In the Zen Buddhist tradition, satori refers to the experience of kenshō, “seeing into one’s true nature”. Ken means “seeing,” shō means “nature”...
The threads of our past never unravel, they hover like invisible webs, occasionally glistening due to a sly angle of the sun. On ‘Multi–Love’, Unknown Mortal Orchestra frontman and multi-instrumentalist Ruban Nielson reflects on relationships: airy, humid longing, loss, the geometry of desire that occurs when three people align. Where Nielson addressed...
Even though we’ve been following his career for years now, this is the first time we have featured Sid Diamond as Base FM’s local tune of the week. ‘Truth Hurts’ is produced by none other than NZ’s premier producer P-Money and is an ode to those ‘taggers on’…. those...
March 3rd saw the release of the much anticipated debut release from soul vocalist Tyra Hammond. The 6 track EP goes from soul through to full-wall noise to afrobeat, and is produced by long time collaborator Jeremy Toy (She’s So Rad, Opensouls, Leonard Charles). ‘So Good At Being...
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