26/01/2011

Shane carter and Peter Jefferies - Randophs going home
Minisnap - Innocent
Chug - Flowers
Beat Rhythm Fashion - Turn of the Century
Coate - I smoked the wrong end of a cigarette
Jon Lemmon - I followed
Grayson Gilmour - Phantom Limbs
i.ryoko - Disturbing the Quiet
Seth and Merle - Incubate my friend
Stef Animal - One Two Three Four Five
The Chills - The Doledrums
Cool Cult - Clouds
3D's - Sing Song
Fetus Productions - What's going On
Die Die Die - We Bulit Our Own Oppressors
Onanon - I don't know whats come over me
Squirm - Harmonic
Batrider - Dad
The Postures - Bushwalker
Trash - Glider to Sam
TFF - Tornado Paul
Children's Hour - Stuck Pig
Loves Ugly children - Junkfood
YFC - Self Destruct
God Bows To Math - I write witty slogans for T shirts
The Gordons - Mono flo
FATANGRYMAN - Fucked Up babies
Headless Chickens - Donka
The Terminals - Love, Hate, Revenge
Brains - Brains
Body 125 - A Sea inside
Barnards Star - Purple Room

19/01/11

Ghost Wave - Hippy
Look Blue Go Purple - I don't want you anyway
The Brunettes - Polyester meets acetate
The Bats - flowers and trees
The Deadly Deaths - half-time double-team
Chants R&B - I want her
Mammal Airlines - Brobama
Garageland - Life is so sweet
Pine - Tokyo
The La De Das - Little Girl
The Mint Chicks - Crush (tall dwarfs cover)
Spartacus R - Last Trace of the Golden Glow
The Phoenix foundation - Bright Grey
Stephen - Don't Know why
the Puddle - No Sequals
Kody and Bic - Darkness all around us
The Ruby Suns- Kenya Dig It
Surf City - Records of a Flagpole Skater
Surf City - Dickshakers Union
Mechano - Happiness
Tiger Tones - Short Thing
Mount Pleasant - Walking Waiting
Jimmy Zoom and the Beytown Grifters - 5 Day Fever
Black Market Art - The Corner Song
The Spelling Mistakes - Feels So Good
The Scavengers - Mysterex
Darcy Clay - Jesus I was Evil
The Situations - Sister
Rackets - 42 1/2
The Reduction Agents - 80s Celebration
The Verlaines - Death and the Maiden
Robert Scott - Daylight
the Sneaks - You All suck
The Sneaks - Gimmie some Reperations
Toy Love - Sheep

12/01/11

Tall Dwarfs - Sign the dotted Line
Connan Mockasin - Please Turn Me into the Snat
Squirm - She's Real
King loser - Song remains the same
Tape Man - Asteroid
Delaney Davidson - Hate a man like you
The Guest - Mr Waterfall
T54 - Julie K
Cat Venom - Bats are in the Bellfry
Paper Ghost - Sometimes you act like a dick you know
Basketball Nightmare - Fan
Hawaii Five O - Salem Strangler
Batrider - Swamp Thing
Loves Ugly children - Alter Ego
The Golden Awesome - highlife
Stef Animal - Fantasy
Roy Montgomery - the Road to diamond harbour
Doctors - lifes alright
Snapper - Hang on
How To Kill - burning ships
Bailter Space - Be on Time
HDU - Grace
Straightjacket fits - Life in one Chord
Surf City - Records of a flagpole skater
Surfing USSR - 007 Medley
The Mint chicks - 2010
3Ds - Outerspace
The Renderers - Half Life
french for rabbits - Claimed by the sea
Trinity Roots - little things

Sheeptapeone

01- Bible Black - Baby Doll (Silent Skull Farm/2002)

Bible Black is the solo project of Christchurch musician Brian Crook. Brian Crook is in my opinion the most underrated songwriter in New Zealand. He has played in The Max Block, The Renderers, Flies inside the Sun, Scorched Earth Policy, The Terminals and probably heaps of other bands over the years and consistently writes amazing songs. The name Brian Crook should really be associated with great New Zealand songwriters as much as Chris Knox, David Kilgour or Martin Phillips. In Bible Black he strips back the noise that usually accompanies his songs but keeps the awesomeness of them.

02- Doctors - Lifes Alright (Save No One/2010)

Doctors is the solo project of Rhett Copland from Christchurch with occasional help from friends. The live Doctors band is almost the same lineup as a local Brian Jonestown Massacre covers band which gives you a good idea of what Doctors sound like. Rhett has released a solid stream of free EPs and Albums on bandcamp but Save No One released in November 2010 is by far the best. http://doctors.bandcamp.com/

03- This Kind of Punishment - Although they appear (A Beard of Bees/1984)

This Kind of Punishment were amazing. Made up of the brothers Peter and Grahame Jefferies. There is heaps of info on them so I probably don't need to write anything more about them. Definitely check out their self titled album and the Beard of of Bees.

04- Stef Animal - Fantasy (single/unsure)

Stef Animal started out in the amazing Timaru band Mestar and makes beautiful ambient music. Stef is now in a shoegaze band The golden awesome based in Wellington. I don't think any Stef Animal tracks have had a proper release aside from the single Karl on the A Low Hum singles club.

05- Roy Montgomery - The Road to Diamond Harbour (Scenes from the South Island/1995)

I saw Roy Montgomery play with Grouper and Pumice in a church on Manchester st in early 2009 it was amazing, I've never been so impressed with the sounds one man can manke.Roy Montgomery is probably one of the most important guitarist from Christchurch, he was in the post punk band the Pin Group whose single Ambivalence was the first flying nun release. He was in Dadamah who made great ambient music, but out of everything he has done his solo stuff is my favourite. There is heaps of info on him out there so I won't write any more but pretty much everything he has done is worth a listen.

06- Demarnia Lloyd - Folding (Trace/2000)

Dermarnia Lloyd is probably most well known as the main songwriter of the ambient/triphop Dunedin band Cloud Boy. In her solo works she is far more minimal but keeps the beauty of it. Definitely check out both cloud boy and her solo stuff.

07- Peter Gutteridge - Chinese Garden (Pure/1989)

Peter Gutteridge was a founding member of both The Clean and The Chills and wrote most of Point that thing somewhere else. Most of his solo music is released under the name Snapper but this cassette of demos and home recordings of ideas pre-Snapper was released by the Xpressway label in 1989 under his own name. Well worth a listen to.

08- Jon Lemmon - The Inside of a Corner (Kindling EP/2010)

Jon Lemmon is originally from Thousand Oaks, California but has been residing in Wellington, New Zealand since 2007 working for Weta Digital, so I am going to claim him as a New Zealand artist. I could probably write about why I love this EP so much, it was number 3 in my top 25 New Zealand releases of 2010, but I don't think I would do it justice. Go and download the Kindling Ep at his bandcamp and you will see why it is so amazing. http://jonlemmonmusic.bandcamp.com/

09- Ejector - Motionless (Over the Atlantic Remix) (Two Thousand and Three/2006)

Ejector was Nik Brinkman from Over the Atlantic's teenage band. I got this EP free with an A Low Hum magazine in 2006. As much as the songs were great I'm not sure if they were pulled off completely well with an exception to this one song which in my opinion is better than anything either Ejector or Over the Atlantic have ever done. Bevin Smith (Signer/Over the Atlantic) is such a good producer.

Download the Mix HERE