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This weekend sees a few musical happenings in Auckland, which is welcome as its been pretty musically dry here lately.

Friday night Beatstreet is back – with local Poker Flat/Moon Harbour/Curl Curl boy Simon Flower playing live, alongside birthday boy Matt Drake & Brooke Casey.

On Saturday night I finally get to get my dub techno on with Rhythm & Sound and Tikiman at Totos. Unfortunately Moritz won’t be here due to ill health, but as long as I hear mango drive I’ll walk away more than happy.

Derrick Carter is also in town on saturday night, playing at a “secret location”, which is aisha. Not that thats much of a secret really. Details here

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From the promoter:

Booka Shade will be performing live in concert on November 21, 2008 at Studio. Their live performance is simply unbelievable. They’re dubbed by many as the best live electronic act in the world!

Booka Shade will tour their 3rd album “The Sun & The Neon Light” which has seen them headline prestiged festivals around the planet. With immense showmanship, feeling, and energy, they’ve touched millions. Booka Shade’s music is undeniably loved, so expect a concert of genius and great roaring anthems to mark this extravagant night.

To support this gigantic event, we have Dick Johnson, Karn Hall, Tim Richards, Dan Aux, Daniel Farley, Mark Emerson, Matt Drake, Shaveer, James Giles, and Matt Berry. All three rooms will be open for this event to ensure we are able to handle the monstrous capacity and electric vibes expected.

Tickets available from here: http://www.deline.co.nz/bookashade/tickets.htm 

or DMC (High Street), Route 66 (Newmarket)

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Last time he was in town he trucked through a few sound problems and a poorly promoted gig – but those that headed along, me included, left damn impressed as the ease in which he was jumping between house and techno without a hitch.

I would post up the flyer, but it looks like something a blind 3 year old would come up with (although likely have the sense to screw up before showing it to mum). So instead, heres a picture of robocop on a unicorn.

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A night of music, art and performance. The evening kicks off with an art exhibition, featuring works by City, Mijic and Chadid. The lovely Judy Garment of the Hootchy Kootchy Girls Burlesque Troop will get the crowd warmed up with a bit of sizzle.

Then onto the DJs, including: Issac Oron, Lady K, Scott Lelo, Brooke Casey & Dave Davies

Friday, September 5, 2008 at 9:00pm
Location: 4:20
Street: 373 K’ Rd
City/Town: Auckland, New Zealand

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Tomorrow night (friday 15) I venture into the rain to play at the supperclub on Beresford square. I like supper – despite having a dodgy rep (thanks mainly to the antics of late morning up all night mentalist partygoers) it is generally a relaxed place where you can pretty much play whatever music you like. On an early evening in summer there are few better places in Auckland to be. On a night like tomorrow promises to be I can think of a bunch of nicer places to be, frankly, but it still should be fun.

Friday nights at supper are dubstep oriented. While I don’t mind the wobbly-bass noise sound seemingly favoured in Auckland I tend to buy the deeper/weirder/techno influenced sound. So I have assembled records from some of my favourite dubstep producers of recent times (Pinch, Shackleton, TRG, Martyn, Appleblim, Ramadanman, 2562) alongside some older 2step records on loan from the Websta collection. I am really enjoying the current deeper sound being pushed by the above artists (perhaps best showcased recently on Appleblim’s Dubstep Allstars 6). So anyway for those of you in Ak, feel free to pop along tomorrow, I believe I am playing between 10 and 11.

Saturday night brings with it a couple of gigs, I am going to kick it off at the Jet Jaguar gig at Khuja lounge, I have a Jet Jaguar album from a good few years ago which I recall as being some nice (if a little inoffensive) laid back electronic noodling. Should be a relaxing start to the night. Carrying on, Zen (the ‘new’ fu bar) has Loefah – who I know mainly from his great run of releases a few years back on DMZ. These records opened my eyes to the emergence of this style of music which was hacking away the extraneous matter and melodies and instead exploring the possibilities of pure, heavy bass. I have seen Mala (of Digital Mystikz) play twice, and enjoyed both times a lot – hopefully loefah will be another great night.

In the search for some musical goodness to link to I have found a podcast from Appleblim recorded in april. Shouts to Friedmylittlebrain.com for pointing this one out.

Appleblim – Rinse FM Podcast April 2008

Tracklisting:

Part1

• 1. A Made up Sound – D1 (unreleased)
• 2. Resilent – 1.2 (Chain Reaction ‘96) )
• 3. Shed – Warped Mind (Ostgut Ton ‘08)
• 4. Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda (Impulse ‘70)
• 5. Bill Conti – Reflections (off Rocky III soundtrack)
• 6. Beach Boys – Feel Flows (EMI ‘71)
• 7. Mr Fingers – Stars (Alleviated ‘87)
• 8. Fun Boy Three – Faith Hope & Charity (Chrysalis ‘82)
• 9. The Clash – Magnificent Dance (CBS ‘81)
• 10. 2 Bad Mice – Waremouse remix (Moving Shadow ‘92)
• 11. Davey Graham – I Cannot Keep From Crying Sometimes (Decca ‘64)
• 12. Advanz vs Gescom – Viral (Skam ‘98)

Part 2

• 13. Skream – Siminimal – dubplate
• 14. Ramadanman – Humber – dubplate
• 15. Shut Up & Dance – Epileptic (Martyn’s No Strobe mix) – dubplate(forthcoming on Z Audio)
• 16. Geiom – Reminissin (Skream’s Time Travel mix) – dubplate(forthcoming on Berkane Sol)
• 17. Greena – Houze – dubplate
• 18. Vista – Elixir – dubplate
• 19. T++ – Audio19958 – dubplate
• 20. Jack Sparrow & Exodus – Blue – dubplate
• 21. Geiom & Appleblim – Shreds – dubplate
• 22. Calibre – Stolen Shadow – dubplate
• 23. Scuba – Systematic Decline – Hotflush
• 24. Martyn – All I Have Is Memories – Apple Pips
• 25. Komonazmuk – Bad Apple – dubplate – (fortchcoming on HENCH)
• 26. Wedge ft. Shadz – Everybody’s Movin – dubplate

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Quarion from Drumpoet Community will be gracing Auckland next weekend (Saturday June 28th), playing (the most unlikely of clubs) Khuja Lounge.

I’m pretty excited about this, as drumpoet seems to be somewhat of an unhealthy obsession of mine at the moment (for those interested, checkout Drumpoems Verse 1 which is a collection of some of the drumpoet releases featuring Quarion, Manuel Tur, Soultourist, Kawabata and Sasha Dive to name a few).

I found a recent Quarion set from last month over here which aint too bad at all.

Art Bleek – Modern spaces (connaisseur)
Westpark - Unit Goin’ Steady (future classic)
Soultourist – Fo eva (drumpoet community)
Unknown/Three – 3.1 (slowhouse recordings)
Lee Jones – As you like it – Recloose remix (aus)
Quarion - Vibrations (drumpoet community)
Milton Jackson – Randoms – Hiro remix (tronic soul)
Stephanie Cooke – Holding on to your love – Mood II Swing dub (king street)
Omar S - Psychotic photosynthesis (fxhe)
John Daly - Falling angels (plak)
Dachshund - Holiday now (perspectiv)

Quarion (Berlin)

with Chris Cox, Recloose
Khuja Lounge
Saturday, 28 June 2008

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