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Join the Car Crash Set Anna Logue Records is a German label that is rereleasing Kiwi electro act Car Crash Set on vinyl. Never heard of the Car Crash Set? Listen to em here. There's also plans afoot for some remixes of the CCS (from the likes of Roger Perry, Joost Langeveld), including a Dub Asylum rework featuring the lovely Ms Dianne Swann on vocals. More on that one when it slides into view.

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Rock & Roll Refugees: 10 People Who Escaped the Music Industry From Rolling Stone - Expat Kiwi Simon Baeyertz in there, amongst folk who now work in roles such as blogging on good lunch eats in NY, managing a vineyard ("A vineyard, by definition, grows each year. Music sales do not"), and training to be a nurse. snip... "NAME: Simon Baeyertz FORMER JOB: Head of international, V2 Records. "I've

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Nas tops Lil Wayne via JaySmooth from eurweb: Rapper Nas is about to replace Lil Wayne atop the Billboard 200 chart Wednesday when sales figures for his new untitled album hit the streets from Nielsen SoundScan. According to the tracking firm, the Def Jam release sold 113,000 copies during its first three days of commercial availability through Thursday. The total, however, is considerably less

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Ring The Alarm playlist, BaseFM, July 19 Didier's Sound Spectrum - Sound spectrum Commodores - Brick house Erykah Badu - Honey (Moody Boyz remix) Courtney Melody - Black liberation Phillis Dillion - Rocksteady Steel n skin - Afro punk reggae dub Baby Charles - Treading water Fat Freddy's Drop - The Camel Karl Hector and the Malcouns - Nyx Kova and Miles - Clap Clap Talking Heads - Born under

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Dip Dap Dive Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings are playing in Los Angeles this weekend, as are the Budos Band. Oliver Wang wrote about the band members of the Dap Kings here. "... Dap-Kings’ leader, Gabriel Roth, jokes that the current retro-soul fad “makes pop music more bearable,” but he knows that “it can always bite you in the ass. Everybody wants stuff to sound like what we’re doing right now,

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Happy happy joy joy Video to make you smile. Nice one. Link. Also just read about this - Apple have lodged a patent for a music/Dj interface for the iMac. Looks like Serato, but runs off touch-sensitive screen, like an iPhone or iTouch. Interesting stuff.

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Vinyl junkies - time to get your fix! The Beat Market Record Swap Swap records in the courtyard of Safari and Santos. From the promoter: "An old school record swap where classic collections get to see the light of day. Bring your swap-ables, mine the collective history, and find that rare masterpiece." Saturday, 19 July 2008 at Safari Lounge, 116 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby. 12 midday start, FREE

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Muhammad Ali vs Mr Tooth Decay One of the epic sound battles of all time! Get it here. Bonus Ali clips here.

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Tony Veitch is a coward. He quit his high-paying media jobs this afternoon. "I would ask that people now respect the agreement Kristin and I made to keep our personal affairs private. At all times I have been honest with my employers and at all times I have tried to do the right thing for everyone." You were honest with your employers? Yeah, right. You want people to respect the agreement you

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I now own a limited edition Banksy Seriously. Bought it at Real Groovy. Numbered 12-inch vinyl. Coolest ish ever (see picture - same graphic on the back cover with different text -"Laugh now, but one day we'll be in charge"). Description from Turntablelab.com - "Limited edition Banksy 12"s are in the building and DJDM is on the wax. Put the needle on the "Keep It Real(1)" side and you'll hear

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500 guys named Osama Blackdown is a blog I read that is focussed on the dubstep genre. This, however, is way off-topic... Link. "Blackdown: So Farrah, obviously you’ve sung on several of the tracks on our album “Margins Music”, but recently you’ve got yourself involved with a proper project: travelling the Islamic world for Channel 4 to find 500 men called Osama. So with that in mind, introduce

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Ring The Alarm playlist, BaseFM, July 12 James Brown - The Bose (Geisha Boys remix, off 'Gamm Doin James Vol 4') Rob Symeonn - Chosen one - Bigga Bush remix Fat Freddy's Drop - The Camel The Delegates - Pygmy pt1 Michael Prophet - Been talking Dillinger - Melting pot J Rawls and Liquid Crystal Project - Tribute to Troy Sharon Jones and the Dapkings - Stranded in your love (Cool Calm Pete remix)

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BaseFM vs KFM Soundclash! The little guys vs the other little guys, head to head for one night of madness! Starts 1opm sat July 12 at Rising Sun, K Rd. Be there, or miss out. Back to back you're gonna hear it all - Soul, funk, hip hop, D'n'b, Reggae, Dubstep and who knows what else! The game is on and the contenders are... representing the mighty BaseFM, Chip Butty 00Afro Dylan C The Sandy

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iHype Just down the road, on Queen St, is a queue of folk waiting to be the first in the world to buy a 3G iPhone (see video). Sure, it's tied into a ridiculously expensive data plan (but hey, all cellphone plans here are generally more expensive than the rest of the planet - fact). And Luke Soules is there too. "Soules, of iFixit, a California-based provider of Mac and iPod parts and upgrades,

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"Vinyl has been eliminated" From the Guardian a while back - Jamaican DJs have ditched vinyl. I was chatting with Nick D recently, and he told me that when he was in Jamaica shooting his tv show, all the DJs there were on Serato, using MP3 files. (The Jamaica episode is available to watch online at c4.co.nz.) Hello C4, please re-screen Making Tracks! Thank you. That is all.

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Karl Hector and the Malcouns: Sahara Swing "Stones Throw subsidiary Now Again is out to prove that it's not just a reissue label trying to dig up yesteryear's lost gems; it's also out to prove there are still some dope sounds being constructed today. After last year's Heliocentrics release ... the label follows it up with an album of jams rooted in afrobeat rhythms with funk undertones.

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From the weekend papers Real Groovy is up for sale. "Managing director Chris Hart told the Weekend Herald yesterday a bad foreign exchange deal had left the 28-year-old business in need of capital. With his business partners wanting to pursue other interests, he had no option but to offer the entire business for sale ... "New sales are only 28 per cent of our business, so it's not like it's a

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Ring The Alarm, BaseFM, July 5 playlist Patti Labelle - Most likely you go your way and I'll go mine Natural self - The rising Quantic -Cuidad del swing version Tenor saw - Golden hen Tommy McCook and the Skatalites - Sauvitt Me + You - Brown paper bag (Flowering inferno version) James Brown - There was a time (Kenny Dope remix) Lonnie Givens - The heat is on Pioneers - Papa was a rolling stone

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Suicide by box set "A fertile year for No Wave nostalgia reaches its apex, as one of the movement's forefathers is honored with a year-long series of special releases. Suicide formed in 1971 when artist, gallery-owner, and singer Alan Vega met Martin Rev, a keyboardist who had studied with jazz great Lennie Tristano. The downtown New York duo created confrontational, cathartic rock, with Rev

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More Glasto... Why Didn't Anyone Tell Me About Ethiopiques At Glastonbury? [Shows I've Missed This Year, Chapter XXXVII] - "We covered a bit of the Glastonbury lineup announcement, had our bit about Jay-Z as headliner, even that stupid "upside-down house" tent, but at no point did I hear that an all-star band comprised of those featured on the 23 volumes of the Ethiopiques series would be

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99 Problems and Oasis aint one Check out this clip - introduction from our boy Zane Lowe, getting paid to watch Jay Z. Damn, that's hard work.From Idolator - "After months of buildup, Jay-Z played his much-discussed headlining set at the Glastonbury Festival last night, and he opened it with a special dedication to Oasis' Noel Gallagher, who was quoted in the buildup to the festival as saying

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Ring The Alarm, BaseFM, June 28 playlist Womack and Womack - Teardrops Karl Hector and the Malcouns - Sahara swing Willie Royal - General alarm Lee Perry - Venus Al Brown - Aint no love in the heart of the city Junior Murvin - Cool out son Quantic - Cuidad del swing Budos band - Chicago falcon Brighton port authority (aka Fatboy Sliim) feat Iggy Pop - He's Frank (check their new video!) James

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Rip it up and start again Go read Chris Bourke looking back on Rip It Up magazine... "Each year as New Zealand Music Month comes round, it feels good to see the bulls-eye T-shirt so widespread on our streets. But May isn’t the right month to celebrate New Zealand music: it should be June. It was in June 1977 that Rip It Up first appeared, and more than any other factor it changed the way New

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There is no depression in New Zealand 99% of the time I like to write about music here, because music makes me happy. But then there's that irritating blip when the real world intervenes. I read this earlier today, and I still can't quite believe it. National Party leader John Key claimed on Newstalk ZB that "One of the things that is unique about New Zealand is we're not a country that has come

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Beats for daze "MRR-ADM (Michael Raymond Russell & Adam Douglas Manella) are the San Diego based production duo previously heard as Sound In Color’s MHE. They released a privately pressed untitled 10” EP limited to 1000 pieces featuring Malcom Catto (B1 - Bass, B2 - Drums, Bonus Beat - Drums) & Mike Burnham (Mixed at Tardis) & Jeannette Deron (B1 - Guitar). www.dirtydrums.com is their site where

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