Tune Of The Week
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Following the release of her critically-acclaimed My Design, On Others Lives in April this year, ESTÈRE teams up with the poetically tongued NZ/ Rwandan MC RAIZA BIZA, to take on the myth of an infamous figure in cross-continental African folklore, the ‘Tokoloshe’. In this first song produced and mixed by ESTÈRE for another artist, RAIZA masterfully creates […]
Following a year of co-writing and songwriting sessions abroad, Louis Baker has just released ‘Gave It All Away’. The song has been released as two versions: a strikingly raw, acoustic version recorded by Baker, and as an electronic track produced by Fat Freddy’s Drop legend behind the MPC, Mu Written alone by the young Wellington songwriter, the song […]
Recorded at Auckland’s Red Bull Studios, Yoko-Zuna‘s second EP Luminols was released at the end of May through Loop. The 5-track EP shows a varied sound from Yoko-Zuna, and a band which have become incredibly comfortable in their own skin. Ranging from the pulsating electronic sounds of ‘Lightning Sabres’ to the brooding slow-burn of ‘Orchard St’, Yoko-Zuna is a […]
Since dropping Me And Mine on Soundcloud 18 months ago, we’ve been keeping a keen eye on Miloux. The jazz trained singer has finally released her debut album EP1, produced by Ben Lawson at Red Bull Studios, launching it at Cassette9 with support from Yoko-Zuna. After listening to the full album, with vocals and production reminiscent […]
For this year’s annual celebration of the life and music of James Dewitt Yancey aka J Dilla, Leonard Charles aka Jeremy Toy recorded the ultimate tribute to the producer. Tucked inside a small basement studio here in Auckland, Leonard Charles and his friends re-recorded the all 31-tracks off Dilla classic DONUTS on live instruments. Charles gives […]
This week’s Turn It Up local tune of the week comes from a young producer who’s been monopolising a whole lot of our attention in the past year. To call Montell2099 up and coming doesn’t feel right as he’s so ahead of his game. There are even reddit threads made by fans dedicated to dissecting his […]
Our Turn It Up local tune of the week is an epic Young, Gifted & Broke colab. ‘Boeing’ is a new project from Hone Be Good (of Side Steps Quintet) produced by K*Saba. Featuring vocals from Esther Stephens and verses from the Team Dynamite boys, it’s the perfect summer holiday come down for this heat. […]
Trust Troy Samuela to casually upload a track to soundcloud, simply captioned “been busy so here’s this for now” and rack up 25 thousand plays in just two weeks. ‘Ace’ features the tight horns, snares and cymbals of what sounds like the most fire marching band on earth. The mysterious caption from one of New Zealand’s […]
Legendary New Zealand hip hop trio Ill Semantics (Nemesis, DJCXL and Patriarch) return with their third album, TRILLOGY. The latest single, ‘Musik’, is a feel good song about the love one has for music and how music has been the one thing that has kept many blessed and strong. It features the soulful vocals of Grace […]
David Dallas returns with new single ‘Don’t Rate That’, with plenty of things to say. Produced by Fire & Ice and recorded at Red Bull Studios, ‘Don’t Rate That’ explores the social issues troubling NZ, from loan sharks to xenophobia. “To be honest I thought I would be writing one of these spiels this time […]