Hard News: Friday Music: Weird Auckland
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"but the Auckland music scene's not all intense young men with beards,"
Is the correlation between intensity and beardedness well established? I've been fuzz faced for 39 years and always considered I was rather placid. Even when young...
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And since you didn't plug it yourself, I'm going to do it for you: Russell's great reflection on AudioCulture on the 1984 Queen Street Riot. Chris Bourke said to me that Russell's original story in RipItUp was perhaps the best piece of reporting on the day's events at the time. Many agreed. I think this is even better.
And whilst I'm plugging AudioCulture - the Peter McLennan collection of stories about the EMI pressing plant and studio is wonderful, as is the Sonny Day profile (from John Dix) which has just gone live today. The photos on all the above are pretty neat I think.
Oh - and support Gary please.
You can have your site back now, Russell :)
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Russell Brown, in reply to
And since you didn’t plug it yourself
Ah. I didn’t realise it was public yet! I’ll write a separate post for this right now,
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Meanwhile: James Murphy remixes new David Bowie and it is awesome.
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Here are some more new Lorde interview/profile videos, proving that, OMG, she is so smart and so hilarious. She even makes the video crew crack up at one point.
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And here's a cool new local song - "Bridges" by Brood, produced by Joel Little. Already creating buzz beyond these shores. Very delicious.
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Gaaargh! L'il Louis!
They say smell is the most powerful sense, and the one most likely to hurl you back to a specific moment in time, but I reckon they're wrong.
I reckon it's House.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
And here’s a cool new local song – “Bridges” by Brood, produced by Joel Little. Already creating buzz beyond these shores. Very delicious.
Okay, I'm impressed.
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Party in the caldera...
If you like your music with a little Gallic flair - the under-publicised Bi-annual Piper Heidsieck French Festival is on in Akaroa (Banks Peninsula) this weekend - complete with French Cricket!Ride first time...
Nice to see Iggy Pop never lost that 'couldn't give a shirt' attitude...
and a really lovely (and moving) passenger comic...
(h/t boing boing )
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Becoming Lorde
You could say she was down in splendour...
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BTW, a bit of vocal from "Be Thankful for What You Got" is sampled in NWA's "Gangsta Gangsta", and it flips the sentiment, becoming what the original song is attempting to dilute.
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Pressing issues...
I think I still have somewhere, a rejected acetate 'master' from the cutting session Frank Douglas did of The Tall Dwarfs first record (Three Songs) - he wasn't expecting the sudden rise in volume and 'noise' at the end of Nothing's Going To Happen and all the levels dropped away to the lathe - so he had to start again, I remember him as a very nice and lovely chap... -
Simon Grigg, in reply to
I think I still have somewhere, a rejected acetate ‘master’ from the cutting session Frank Douglas did of The Tall Dwarfs first record
It was Glyn Tucker at Mandrill. It blew the speakers at the studio and cost me and Paul $200 for a new cone.
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Sacha, in reply to
cost me and Paul $200 for a new cone
better have been some good shit :)
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BenWilson, in reply to
better have been some good shit :)
Or a big cone!
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This is the week both my computer and headphones have given up on me, so I'll wait to listen to this wonderful selection.
That Yeke Yeke mix reminds me - the best musical experience I had this week was Afrika in Wellington. We saw Amiria Grenell do a delightful soulful country set at Poquito (the name is accurate), and then headed out to the capital's only Ethiopian bar (with a friend who lived there in the 2000's). Not 'authentic' and not a place for beard stroking, but it's certainly a good time. I loved hearing the exact same pop, hip hop and reggaeton songs I'd danced to for the last year in Timor Leste, with a good serve of contemporary African pop. Where else do you dance with joyful geriatric men?
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Sacha, in reply to
road cone
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
It was Glyn Tucker at Mandrill.
Time and space (between synapses), eh?
I musta went to the pressing plant for
another record then. I had one of those
black plastic 'dog turds' that press into vinyl
for a long time, too, wonder where it is? -
Having spent some time this week arguing on Twitter with the author of the blog post that declared Lorde’s ‘Royals’ is “deeply racist” (I’m not giving them any more inbound links, soz) because it observes that the ostentation of major label hip hop and other Top 40 pop isn’t terribly relevant to suburban teens in New Zealand, I can report that she and her friends aren’t really worth arguing with.
What a two-handed head clutcher. I wonder if anti-racism often comes to resemble normal racism because it starts out by accepting the assumptions and categories of racism itself?
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
thanks Robyn, more stuff for her mum's online scrapbook
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Marcel’s morsel…
It was Glyn Tucker at Mandrill
After sleeping on it – I’m sure it was during the transfer process to making a ‘mother’ for the stamper at the pressing plant – so I reckon that stomping thumping crescendo at the end created chaos twice!
(and god knows how many small stereos it wrecked after its release into the wild…)
So the Mandrill bit would have been mastering the tape to go down to the pressing plant (or did he master to acetate?)
I have vague earlier memories of Mandrill too – from the recording for a Toy Love single (‘Don’t ask me’ perhaps).
Memory is such an elastic and imprecise thing, I’m finding.
But just the mere mention of Williamson Ave and I can plainly see a rat decomposing in an enamel casserole dish in a front yard – metaphor or metamemory? -
... or a failed recipe?
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I decided I didn’t actually like that ‘Yeke Yeke’ edit – it kind of flattens out the remix – so I decided I’d try and buy the original remix digitally, ideally as a WAV file. I could not do that. Juno actually had it on a compilation, but that was denied to me in NZ “due to copyright restrictions”.
So I had to export one from a YouTube clip. There’s a big fat WAV file of it here, on principle.
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
After sleeping on it – I’m sure it was during the transfer process to making a ‘mother’ for the stamper at the pressing plant – so I reckon that stomping thumping crescendo at the end created chaos twice!
You're right I think Ian. Man that was a monster to master and cut. First time that sort of thing had been done in NZ. We were a no-red zone recording industry. I remember when Harlequin brought out Roy Thomas Baker (Queen/Foreigner/Cars etc) to NZ to hold a school for aspiring producers, they flipped out when he started driving everything into the red on the fancy new 24 track Harlequin desk.
We were flipping out because he was recording Blam Blam Blam and he'd made them sound utterly horrific. We had the option of using his version of their song 'Time Enough" on the album. We declined. I guess it was dumped when Harlequin closed (as were lots of tapes sadly).
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