"Everybody suffers from that paving over of our natural environment, in a really basic sense."
Queen Morpheus, The Carpark Society, 2025
https://www.freefm.org.nz/Programmes/Details.aspx?PID=97468cee-0f3c-4451-952a-8d2473baa59e
https://thecarparksociety.xyz/
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"What *isn't* world music?"
https://accessmedia.nz/player?EID=2c7dbd05-682c-48c1-95fa-218427317f8d
"I continue to make 'product' though, or I continue to make a physical representation of the music that I make ... they're not big runs by any means. But I think it's important, for me, it does nothing more than denote my commitment to what I make.
... It's like making a physical thing throws [it] into the world ... like a message in a bottle to the future"
#KieranMonaghan, aka Mr Sterile, aka Vegetable Machine Animal, 2025
https://accessmedia.nz/player?EID=7d699db4-d9c7-44d1-b2fc-f67a90724092&audioOnlyMode=true
I'm #listening to the latest mix from SSSD (kia ora e hoa!);
https://www.freefm.org.nz/Programmes/Details.aspx?PID=97468cee-0f3c-4451-952a-8d2473baa59e
He drops a sample from a rah-rah post-WW2 film uses the phrase "future citizen's" to describe children in public education. That's some aspirational language. We could use a bit of that.
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For the climax of NZ Music Month, SSSD managed to pull off an interview with Jon Toogood of Shihad on his Deep INsessioNZ show;
https://www.freefm.org.nz/Programmes/Details.aspx?PID=97468cee-0f3c-4451-952a-8d2473baa59e
#podcasts #FreeFM #DeepINSessioNZ #music #NZMusic #NZMusicMonth #JonToogood #Shihad
#Listening to the last edition of Deep INsessioNZ for the year;
https://www.freefm.org.nz/Programmes/Details.aspx?PID=97468cee-0f3c-4451-952a-8d2473baa59e
My old friend SSSD has put together an amazing show over the last year or so. Interviewing dozens of kiwi music makers about their craft, their thoughts on life, the universe and everything, and what kind of pie their music would be.
If you need some wholesome holiday tunes, the back episodes are well worth a trawl.
"... crazy things are happening out there, and we've just got to keep making music, and we've just got to keep the vibe up.
We need to keep dancing, we need to keep feeling the feelings that we're given. Like music throughout history has done that for everybody, and if we can keep that alive and ... we need to really put our feelings into it ..."
#TAWSO, 2024
https://www.freefm.org.nz/Programmes/Details.aspx?PID=97468cee-0f3c-4451-952a-8d2473baa59e
A friend of mine is producing a fantastic music show called INsessioNZ on Free FM;
https://www.freefm.org.nz/Programmes/Details.aspx?PID=97468cee-0f3c-4451-952a-8d2473baa59e
He did some fantastic 100% kiwi music shows during NZ Music Month, and the latest show featured an interview with former WendyHouse keyboardist Martin Webclaw about his current musical projects. Like most (all?) access radio stations in Aotearoa, all Free FM shows can be heard on the web or in your podcast app.
Strypey
