A 24-hour recording of RNZ National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
14 May 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ); 12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (BBC); 2:05 NZ Live; 3:05 That Were Freedom by Christopher E Horan read by Peter Vere Jones (RNZ); 3:30 The Week (RNZ); 4:30 Global Business (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 Voices (RNZ)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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The Clangle Jangle Robot, by Janice Marriott, told by Davina Whitehouse; Gombei and the Pine Trees, by David Somerset, told by Catherine Downes; The Legend of Knockmany, by David Somerset, told by Fiona Samuel; Michael, by Apirana Taylor, told by Apirana Taylor; Just Dropping In, by Mike Carter, told by Michele Amas
===7:10 AM. | Country Life===
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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)
===8:10 AM. | Saturday Morning===
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A mixture of current affairs and feature interviews, until midday (RNZ)
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08:12
Charles Foster: being a beast
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Kim Hill talks to veterinarian, lawyer and passionate naturalist Charles Foster, who took on the neuro-scientific and literary challenge of living like a fox, badger, otter, deer and swift to write his latest book, Being a Beast.
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Charles Foster is a Fellow at the University of Oxford. Much of his life has been spent on expeditions (he ran a 150 mile race in the Sahara and skied to the North Pole), and he has written or contributed to over 35 books.
A passionate naturalist, he took on the neuro-scientific and literary challenge of living like a fox, badger, otter, deer and swift, to write his latest book, Being a Beast (Profile Books).
He talks to Kim Hill.
Topics: author interview, books, environment, food, identity, life and society, rural, science, spiritual practices, world
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Tags: animals, badger, deer, otter, Fox, swift, Henry Williamson, Gavin Maxwell, Robert Macfarlane, Richard Mabey, David Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake
Duration: 46'58"
09:06
Robyn Gallagher: enjoying Eurovision
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Kim Hill talks to Robyn Gallagher who is in Stockholm, Sweden for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest.
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The Eurovision Song Contest is the biggest singing competition in the world – with 42 countries competing for the title.
This year is it taking place in Stockholm, Sweden and the theme is 'Come Together'.
Self-described Eurovision obsessive Robyn Gallagher is currently in Stockholm for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest.
Robyn is usually based in Raglan, and works in the internet and broadcasting industries, and this is the first time she has been to the contest.
She says Eurovision has always been about technological advances and the accompanying visual spectacular.
"It’s huge. Eurovision has always been about music and also broadcast television technology. It's one of the reasons it was created back in 1956 to sort of showcase this new technology that they had.
“So it’s always been about technological advances and this year we’re getting a lot of projection mapping, people performing with things projected behind them, the floor of the stage is a big LED screen so you can have computer graphics underneath performers, creating [sort of] 3D environments.”
But she says having a strong song at the heart of the performance is still the main thing.
And as the competition enters the final stages she says it is "going off".
Robyn Gallagher also writes the blog 5000 Ways to Love You, documenting every NZ On Air-funded music video.
Topics: arts, media, music, world
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Leonard Cohen, Eurovision, Russia, Australia, Sweden, Ukraine, San Marino, Georgia
Duration: 29'53"
09:35
Cory Taylor : writing about dying
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Kim Hill talks to Australian writer Cory Taylor who wrote her last book, Dying: a Memoir, while dying of melanoma-related brain cancer.
Topics: author interview, books, health, law, life and society
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Tags: death, suicide, Australia, Japan, cancer
Duration: 24'21"
10:06
Michel Faber: grief, creativity and faith
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Kim Hill talks to Michel Faber, award-winning author of a range of writing, including the novels Under My Skin and The Book of Strange New Things, who is a guest at the Auckland Writers Festival.
Topics: author interview, books, environment, health, life and society, spiritual practices, world
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: animals, vegetarianism, death, cancer, Scotland, writing
Duration: 31'08"
10:40
Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami: freeing a refugee rapper
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Kim Hill talks to Iranian filmmaker Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami who is presenting her feature-length documentary Sonita, about an Afghani refugee girl who wants to be a rapper, at the 11th International Documentary Edge Festival in Wellington and Auckland.
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Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami is an Iranian filmmaker who has documented the story of young Afghani refugee Sonita Alizadeh in her feature-length documentary Sonita.
Sonita is a young refugee who was destined to be sold as a bride so that her brother could buy himself a bride.
But she argued for her freedom, and as a rapper made her case in her lyrics too, despite the fact women in Afghanistan aren't allowed to sing in public.
Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami heard about Sonita's story through her cousin and decided to document her story.
She also became personally involved in Sonita's struggle.
"I got touched by her ability [for] dreaming because a teenager in her situation – usually they stop dreaming because the reality of their lives is so harsh."
She will present her award-winning feature-length documentary Sonita, about a young female Afghani refugee, at DocEdge, the 11th International Documentary Edge Festival in Wellington (13, 15 May) and Auckland (19, 29 May).
Topics: arts, conflict, inequality, music, politics, refugees and migrants, world
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Tags: film, Afghanistan, Iran, United States
Duration: 23'57"
11:05
Stephen Hough: piano, performance and the priesthood
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Kim Hill talks to composer, poet, painter and columnist Stephen Hough who was named one of 20 Living Polymaths by The Economist, and one of the 25 greatest pianists of all time by Classic FM. He visits New Zealand this month to perform Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 with the NZSO.
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Stephen Hough is a composer, poet, painter and Daily Telegraph columnist, and was named one of twenty Living Polymaths by The Economist, and one of the 25 greatest pianists of all time by Classic FM.
He is a Governor of the Royal Ballet Companies, received a CBE for services to music in 2014, has written music for orchestra, choir, chamber ensemble and solo piano, and has more than 50 recordings to his credit.
He is visiting New Zealand to perform Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with the NZSO, under guest conductor Gustavo Gimeno, in Wellington (13 May), Dunedin (18 May), Christchurch (19 May) and Auckland (21 May).
He talks to Kim Hill.
Topics: arts, author interview, education, history, life and society, music, spiritual practices, world
Regions: Auckland Region, Wellington Region, Canterbury, Otago
Tags: Catholicism, television, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, NZSO
Duration: 33'59"
11:40
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: two Pacific writers
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Kim Hill talks to Gregory O'Brien about two new collections of poetry: Fale Aitu Spirit House by Tusiata Avia, and The Lives of Coat Hangers by Sudesh Mishra.
Topics: arts, books, history, identity, language, life and society, Pacific, spiritual practices, world
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Tags: Tusiata Avia, Sudesh Mishra, poetry, Fiji, Samoa
Duration: 17'53"
11:55
Listener Feedback to Saturday 14 May 2016
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Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 14 May.
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Duration: 4'16"
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8:12 Charles Foster
Charles Foster is a Fellow at the University of Oxford. Much of his life has been spent on expeditions (he ran a 150 mile race in the Sahara and skied to the North Pole), and he has written or contributed to over 35 books. A passionate naturalist, he took on the neuro-scientific and literary challenge of living like a fox, badger, otter, deer and swift, to write his latest book, Being a Beast (Profile Books).
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9:05 Robyn Gallagher
Robyn Gallagher is based in Raglan, and works in the internet and broadcasting industries. She writes the blog 5000 Ways to Love You, documenting every NZ On Air-funded music video, and is currently in Stockholm, Sweden, for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest.
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9:30 Cory Taylor
Cory Taylor is a celebrated Australian novelist (Me and Mr Booker, My Beautiful Enemy), screenwriter, and children’s book author. She wrote her last book, Dying: a Memoir (Text Publishing), while dying of melanoma-related brain cancer.
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10:05 Michel Faber
Michel Faber is an award-winning author of novels, novellas, short stories and non-fiction. His 2000 novel, Under the Skin, was adapted as a film in 2013, and he has said that his 2014 work of fiction, The Book of Strange New Things, will be his last. He will speak at an event and a workshop at the Auckland Writers Festival (10-15 May).
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10:35 Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami
Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami is an Iranian filmmaker. She will present her award-winning feature-length documentary Sonita, about an young female Afghani refugee, at DocEdge, the 11th International Documentary Edge Festival in Wellington (13, 15 May) and Auckland (19, 29 May).
11:05 Stephen Hough
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Stephen Hough is a composer, poet, painter and Daily Telegraph columnist, and was named one of twenty Living Polymaths by The Economist, and one of the 25 greatest pianists of all time by Classic FM. He is a Governor of the Royal Ballet Companies, received a CBE for services to music in 2014, has written music for orchestra, choir, chamber ensemble and solo piano, and has more than 50 recordings to his credit. He is visiting New Zealand to perform Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with the NZSO, under guest conductor Gustavo Gimeno, in Wellington (13 May), Dunedin (18 May), Christchurch (19 May) and Auckland (21 May).
11:45 Poetry with Gregory O’Brien
Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien is the author of a number of books. His latest book is See What I Can See: New Zealand Photography for the Young and Curious (Auckland University Press). He will discuss two new collections of poetry: Fale Aitu | Spirit House by Tusiata Avia (VUP) and The Lives of Coat Hangers by Sudesh Mishra (Otago University Press).
This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Brad Warrington
Auckland engineer: Blair Stagpoole
Research by Infofind
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Artist: ABBA
Song: Waterloo
Composer: Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus
Album: Waterloo
Label: Polar, 1974
Broadcast: 9:05
Artist: Dami Im
Song: The Sound of Silence
Composer: Anthony Egizii, David Musumeci
Live at Eurovision Semi-Final
Broadcast: 9:15
Artist: Sergey Lazarev
Song: You Are The Only One
Composer: Philipp Kirkorov, Dimitris Kontopoulos, John Ballard, Ralph Charlie
Official Eurovision video
Broadcast: 9:20
Artist: Jamala
Song: 1944
Composer: Jamala
Live at Eurovision Semi-Final
Broadcast: 9:30
Artist: Stephen Hough (piano), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno (conductor)
Work: Piano Concerto No. 2, 2nd movement (excerpt)
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Recorded by Radio New Zealand Concert in Wellington
Broadcast: 11:05
Artist: Stephen Hough (piano), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno (conductor)
Work: Piano Concerto No. 2, finale (excerpt)
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Recorded by Radio New Zealand Concert in Wellington
Broadcast: 11:35
===12:11 PM. | This Way Up===
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Exploring the things we use and consume. Some content may offend (RNZ)
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12:01
This Way Up Part 1 of Saturday 14 May 2016
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NZ skin cancer, disposable batteries, how silver nanoparticles can fight tooth decay, and scratching studies.
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Duration: 47'59"
12:15
NZ skin cancer: what role does where you live play?
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The first comprehensive genetic analysis of melanoma in New Zealand has shown that that where you live could be critical to your chances of getting skin cancer, and how it can be treated. Aniruddha Chatterjee is a Research Fellow at the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago.
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A team of New Zealand scientists has discovered that where you live in the country could be critical to your chances of getting skin cancer, and surviving it.
They've found that melanomas here in New Zealand are unusual, genetically speaking, and this could be one of the reasons we have the highest skin cancer rates in the world.
The study, published in the journal Oncotarget by a team of researchers from the University of Otago, looked at the genetic makeup of hundreds of patients from around the country with metastatic melanoma, or skin cancer that had spread from its primary site to elsewhere in the body.
Melanoma is caused when there's a mutation in a gene that results in uncontrolled growth of certain cells, which can lead to a cancerous tumour. These genes that have the potential to turn nasty are called oncogenes, and in this particular study they looked at 20 of them.
The most common genetic mutation for melanoma happens in a gene called BRAF, with a third of melanomas here showing a change to this specific BRAF gene, a lower rate to the rest of the world.
However melanoma sufferers here in New Zealand have twice the number of mutations in another gene called NRAS, and where you live is a huge factor in determining if this NRAS gene mutates, with far higher mutation rates in the South Island than the North.
One of the authors of the study is Aniruddha Chatterjee, a Research Fellow at the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago. He spoke about it to This Way Up's Simon Morton.
Topics: health, science
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Tags: cancer, melanoma, genetics
Duration: 12'45"
12:25
Batteries: which ones are best?
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Disposable batteries: heavy duty, alkaline or lithium? Which one's are best for you, and the environment? With George Block of consumer.org.nz.
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Disposable batteries: heavy duty, alkaline or lithium? Which one's are best for you, and the environment? With George Block of consumer.org.nz.
Topics: technology
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Tags: batteries
Duration: 8'41"
12:40
How silver nanoparticles prevent tooth decay
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Silver particles a hundred thousand times smaller than the tip of a human hair could hold the key to improving our dental health. Dr Carla Meledandri, a Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute, is applying nanoscience to dentistry in the hope that her silver-based dental products could soon find their way into dentist's clinics around the globe.
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Tiny silver particles could hold the key to improving our dental health.
Dr Carla Meledandri, a Principal Investigator at The MacDiarmid Institute, is applying nanoscience to dentistry in the hope that her silver-based dental products could soon find their way into dental surgeries around the globe.
She's a finalist at the KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards in the Emerging Innovator category.
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Tags: nanoscience, dentistry, silver, colloids
Duration: 10'50"
12:50
Scratching studies
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Diana Bautista of the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley studies itching and scratching, and what they can tell us.
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One of life's pleasures is scratching an itch!
That's because itching activates pleasure centres in the brain, and this can trigger further, purely gratuitous, hedonistic scratching too.
Diana Bautista of the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley studies itching, scratching and what they can tell us.
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Tags: itching; scratching; cancer; psoriasis; eczema
Duration: 11'54"
13:01
This Way Up Part 2 of Saturday 14 May 2016
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Mexico's mezcal muddle, Flyover Country app, 'smart contracts' and the blockchain, also tech news (paywalls for media/news and 'Netflix tax' on digital products).
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Duration: 51'14"
13:10
Mexico's mezcal muddle
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David Agren lives in Mexico City and he reports that under new denomination of origin rules being considered by the Mexican government, many family mezcal producers could be forced out of business and have to relabel their products to no longer use the mezcal name.
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The Mexican spirit mezcal has a long tradition of being distilled in small batches by family-run outfits using home stills.
Perhaps because of these humble origins, for a long time mezcal was viewed as the poorer cousin of tequila.
But a recent surge in interest in all things artisanal, hand-crafted and locally produced means that mezcal's smoky, distinctive taste is appealing to a rapidly growing audience both at home and overseas.
Now under rules being considered by the Mexican government, many family mezcal producers could be forced out of business, having to relabel their products so as not to use the mezcal name.
David Agren lives in Mexico City and has been to visit some small-scale mezcal producers whose livelihoods are under threat.
Topics: food
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Tags: Mexico; mezcal; tequila
Duration: 10'45"
13:20
Flyover Country
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Have you ever had that experience of flying somewhere, looking out of the aeroplane window, and seeing a mountain or a river or a valley and wondering where it is and what it's called? Well wonder no longer, because there is an app for that! Shane Loeffler came up with the idea for the Flyover Country app.
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Have you ever been flying somewhere, looking out of the plane window, and seen a mountain or a river or a valley and wondered where are we, what's it called and what are the nearby towns and cities?
Well wonder no longer...because there is an app for that! It's called Flyover Country and Shane Loeffler's the man behind it.
Topics: technology
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Tags: apps; aviation; airlines; flying
Duration: 6'28"
13:30
'Smart contracts' and the Blockchain
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Mark Pascall is organising two conferences held in Auckland and Wellington looking at the emergence of the blockchain, and of what's being called the 'smart contract'. He thinks it could have some far-reaching impacts in areas including banking, law and gambling.
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2008 was the year the world's financial systems went into meltdown, wiping trillions of dollars off the global economy. In November that year Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper on a new peer-to-peer electronic cryptocurrency called Bitcoin. A cryptocurrency is a way of transferring value electronically, independent of any bank or financial institution. It's powered by the crowd of users so no intermediaries, agents or middlemen usually mean minimal fees.
At the heart of a cryptocurrency is the blockchain, an idea that's getting lots of hype at the moment. The easiest way to think of a blockchain is as a big list, a digital ledger that records transactions which are stored in secure blocks. This database is distributed, so there are copies throughout the network of users, and this distribution means that no single person or organisation controls it.
According to the Wall Street Journal, more than 40 top financial institutions and a growing number of businesses are experimenting with blockchains as a way of doing business. Here in New Zealand Kiwibank and the NZX are among those businesses looking at how they can use it too.
Now the blockchain is being used to not only record transactions, but other information as well in so-called 'smart contracts'. A smart contract is a set of instructions written in code and stored on the blockchain.
Ethereum is one platform for creating and recording these smart contracts and Mark Pascall is organising a conference called 'Understanding the Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Ethereum' in Auckland on Tuesday 17 May and in Wellington on Thursday 19 May.
Mark Pascall blog article
"If two people can easily agree and create a set of rules..[and]...we also agree to put those rules (a smart contract) on this immutable system that we both trust (the blockchain) then we have created a transaction between two untrusted parties without a intermediary. The same concepts could apply in theory to a will, a loan, a mortgage, a Trade Me/eBay purchase, an Uber trip. The list is endless and implications are huge. If you think about it most of our global financial/commerce system and government is made up of centralised intermediary organisations who are performing these transactions on our behalf."- Mark Pascall
Topics: technology, internet, business, law
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Tags: bitcoin, blockchain, ethereum
Duration: 15'02"
13:45
Tech: new undersea internet cable and 'Netflix tax'
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Peter Griffin gives his views on 'smart contracts' and some potential applications of blockchain technology. Also how willing are New Zealanders to pay for their news, media and other content? Plus the government introduces GST on online purchases; the 'Netflix tax' starts in October.
Topics: technology, internet, media
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Tags: online, digital, paywalls
Duration: 15'00"
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We're playing these tracks too...
Artist: M83 feat. Mai Lan
Track: Laser Gun
Composer: Mai Lan Chapiron / Anthony Gonzalez
Album: Junk
Label: INERTIA 270376
Artist: Novelist X Mumdance
Track: 1 Sec
Composer: Novelist X Mumdance
Album: 12" XL675
Label: XL Recordings
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Artist: Jefferson Belt
Track: The Green Termite
Composer: Jefferson Belt
Album: Table Manners
Label: Round Trip Mars
===2:05 PM. | Music 101===
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The best songs, music-related stories, interviews, live music, industry news and music documentaries from NZ and the world
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14:00
Josh Rosenthal of Tompkins Square
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Tompkins Square's label head Josh Rosenthal chronicles his musical journey in 'The Record Store of the Mind', a book about his thirty years releasing an eclectic catalogue of American music.
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Josh Rosenthal started his career working at CBS Records New York before founding his own record label, Tompkins Square in 2005. As part of the celebration of Tompkins Square’s 10th anniversary, he’s chronicled his musical journey in The Record Store of the Mind, a book about his thirty years dedicated to releasing an eclectic catalogue of American music. Trevor Reekie speaks to Josh Rosenthal.
"I figure if I can sign someone really great every couple of years, and bring them along to a place where they can play in any city in the United States or even in Europe and they can make money, then I've done my job. And that's really my goal, as far as signing new artists." Josh Rosenthal, Tompkins Square
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Music Details
Artist: Peter Walker
Song: City Pulse
Composer: Peter Walker
Album: Long Lost Tapes 1970
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Karen Dalton
Song: Katie Cruel
Composer: Trad./Karen Dalton
Album: In My Own Time
Label: Light in the Attic
Artist: Alice Gerrard
Song: Follow The Music
Composer: Alice Gerrard
Album: Follow the Music
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Robert Johnson
Song: Love In Vain
Composer: Robert Johnson
Album: Robert Johnson - King Of The Delta Blues
Label: Columbia Records
Artist: Ryley Walker
Song: Twin Oaks Pt 1
Composer: Ryley Walker
Album: All Kinds of You
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Brigid Mae Power
Song: Is It My Low Or Yours
Composer: Brigid Mae Power
Album: Brigid Mae Power
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Michael Hurley
Song: Werewolf
Composer: Michael Hurley
Album: Armchair Boogie
Label: Warner Music. Rhino Ent Corp
Artist: John Fahey
Song: A Raga Called Pat
Composer: John Fahey
Album: Days Have Gone By, Vol. 6
Label: Takoma Records
Artist: Robbie Basho
Song: Khatum (Instrumental)
Composer: Robbie Basho
Album: Bashovia
Label: Fantasy Inc.
Artist: Brad Barr
Song: Do I Have To Understand This ?
Composer: Brad Barr
Album: The Fall Apartment : Instrumental Guitar
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Lou Johnson
Song: The Beat
Composer: Lou Johnson
Album: Crazy About You
Label: Maestro Entertainment Corp
Artist: Michael Chapmen
Song: Stockport Monday (For Tom Rush)
Composer: Michael Chapman
Album: Fish
Label: Tompkins Square
Topics: music
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Tags: Tompkins Square, music industry, record label
Duration: 15'23"
14:00
Introducing Tom Cunliffe
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Alt-country-folk newcomer Tom Cunliffe introduces his song 'There's Your Lord' from his album Howl And Whisper.
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Name of project: Tom Cunliffe
Real names: Tom Cunliffe
Age (of project): 29 years
Hometown: Auckland
Associated acts: Will Wood, The Dave Khan Experience, HUF, Thomas Landon-Airplane
Musical guilty pleasure: I love the 'intentionally bad' albums Dylan made to troll his fans. And the Travelling Wilburys. I don't know what the point of that was but it seemed fun.
Formative musical experience: Playing hundreds of open mics to handfuls of uninterested shout-talkers.
Bandcamp / itunes
Music Details
Artist: Tom Cunliffe
Song: There's Your Lord
Composer: Cunliffe
Album: Howl And Whisper
Label: Lyttelton Records
Topics: music
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Introducing, country, folk, singer-songwriter
Duration: 4'31"
14:05
Louie Knuxx transformed
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Louie Knuxx, rapper, podcaster and youth worker, talks with Sam Wicks about his new album Tiny Warm Hearts.
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Louie Knuxx tells Sam Wicks how his work as a mentor working with marginalised youth has heightened his hip hop.
Getting his start with New Plymouth hip hop outfit Dirtbag District, before graduating to Breakin Wreckwordz, and now serving as the elder statesman of the Young, Gifted and Broke collective, Louie Knuxx has an extensive history of producing unvarnished reality rap music in this country.
Louie’s troubled past set the agenda for his early releases, detailing a rap sheet of youthful indiscretions. With the release of his third LP, Tiny Warm Hearts, the casual violence of these recordings has been tempered by his role as a youth mentor with South Auckland’s Nga Rangitahi Toa creative arts initiative.
“I have to be cautious – especially being in the public eye to a certain degree,” says Louie. “I have a responsibility to the young people I talk to to be careful, and I’m really prone to being a big mouth and being outspoken, so there’s a balance to that that I’m finding still.
“At this point, my job is starting to cross over into the other areas of my life,” he continues. “And I remember my boss telling me when I started, she was like, transformational work transforms – and it is. It’s changing how I view my responsibilities out in the world.”
Louie Knuxx’s Tiny Warm Hearts is out now.
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Music Details
Artist: Louie Knuxx
Song: Cold and Dead Heart Stealing, Jump Off, Bad Bad Bastards, YARP, Bare Skin
Composer: T.Williams
Album: Tiny Warm Hearts
Label: Private
Topics: music, life and society
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Tags: Louie Knuxx, hip hop, rap, Nga Rangatahi Toa
Duration: 10'40"
14:45
Blink talks about the DIY Touring the World web series
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Blink AKA Ian Jorgenson is tireless promoter, manager and local music champion. On the release of his web series D.I.Y. Touring the World, Blink talks to Zac Arnold about the project.
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Blink aka Ian Jorgenson is the brain behind the A Low Hum empire of music tours, fanzines, festivals and photography. He's a tireless champion of underground music, and a veteran of the road. He’s just produced a video series called DIY Touring The World for our sister site The Wireless.
Blink talks to Zac Arnold about the project.
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DIY Touring The World Ep 2: USA
Visit our extensive Camp A Low Hum collection
Topics: music
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Tags: A Low Hum, The Wireless, touring, indie music, Blink
Duration: 11'12"
17:00
The Mixtape - Andrew Tolley
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For New Zealand Music Month we've invited our guests to make us a mixtape of their fave local releases. Here is Andrew Tolley's C60 of underground rarities and obscure tracks from our land.
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For NZ Music Month, we invite musical guests compile a C60 of local sounds, and talk us through their selections. This week Andrew Tolley, New Zealand Garage Rock legend and former guitarist for acts like Hustler, Jawload and The Hasslehof Experiment.
Music Details
Artist: Satina Saturnia
Song: Scorpio Rising
Composer: Satina Saturnia
Album: Clitorous Goddess
Label: Kato Records
Artist: Poultice
Song: Lust Will Wet It
Composer: Poultice
Album: Three Beefmeisters And A French Movie
Label: Poultice
Artist: Michael J Hex
Song: Then You’re Gone
Composer: Michael J Hex
Album: Are You Hexperienced
Label: Noseflute Records
Artist: Ed Gains
Song: When I Fall From The Sky
Composer: E. Gains
Album: Edweird - An Edward Gains Anthology
Label: Powertool Records
Artist: Shit All To Hell
Song: Human Killing Machine
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Artist: The Renderers
Song: Low To The Ground
Composer: The Renderers
Album: A Dream Of The Sea
Label: Stiltbreeze
Artist: Golden Axe
Song: Tree Huts
Composer: Golden Axe
Album: Party Alarm Bell LP
Label: Golden Axe
Topics: music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: indie music, garage rock, Kato Records, Bloodbags, Satina Saturnina, Poultice, Michael J Hex, Ed Gains, The Renderers, Shit All To Hell, Stink Magnetic, Golden Axe, The Hasselhoff Experiment, rock, New Zealand music, The Mixtape
Duration: 52'25"
12:00
Music 101 Pocket Edition 86: Louie Knuxx/Tompkins Label/DIY Touring The World
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This week's Music 101 Pocket Edition, how youth work has changed Louie Knuxx's approach to Hip Hop, 10 years of Tompkins Records and Blink of A Low Hum shares his D.I.Y. touring secrets.
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This week's Music 101 Pocket Edition, how youth work has changed Louie Knuxx's approach to Hip Hop, 10 years of Tompkins Records and Blink of A Low Hum shares his D.I.Y. touring secrets.
Music Details
Artist: Power Nap
Song: Forever, Man
Composer: C. Cudby
Album: Power Nap Mixtape
Label: VMR
Artist: Louie Knuxx
Song: Cold and Dead Heart Stealing, Jump Off, Bad Bad Bastards, YARP, Bare Skin
Composer: T.Williams
Album: Tiny Warm Hearts
Label: Private
Artist: Pikelet
Song: The Neighbours Grass
Composer: E. Morris
Album: Tronc
Label: Chapter Music
Artist: Peter Walker
Song: City Pulse
Composer: Peter Walker
Album: Long Lost Tapes 1970
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Karen Dalton
Song: Katie Cruel
Composer: Trad./Karen Dalton
Album: In My Own Time
Label: Light in the Attic
Artist: Alice Gerrard
Song: Follow The Music
Composer: Alice Gerrard
Album: Follow the Music
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Robert Johnson
Song: Love In Vain
Composer: Robert Johnson
Album: Robert Johnson - King Of The Delta Blues
Label: Columbia Records
Artist: Ryley Walker
Song: Twin Oaks Pt 1
Composer: Ryley Walker
Album: All Kinds of You
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Brigid Mae Power
Song: Is It My Low Or Yours
Composer: Brigid Mae Power
Album: Brigid Mae Power
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Michael Hurley
Song: Werewolf
Composer: Michael Hurley
Album: Armchair Boogie
Label: Warner Music. Rhino Ent Corp
Artist: John Fahey
Song: A Raga Called Pat
Composer: John Fahey
Album: Days Have Gone By, Vol. 6
Label: Takoma Records
Artist: Robbie Basho
Song: Khatum (Instrumental)
Composer: Robbie Basho
Album: Bashovia
Label: Fantasy Inc.
Artist: Brad Barr
Song: Do I Have To Understand This ?
Composer: Brad Barr
Album: The Fall Apartment : Instrumental Guitar
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Lou Johnson
Song: The Beat
Composer: Lou Johnson
Album: Crazy About You
Label: Maestro Entertainment Corp
Artist: Michael Chapmen
Song: Stockport Monday (For Tom Rush)
Composer: Michael Chapman
Album: Fish
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Perfume Genius
Song: To Lay Me Down
Composer: Garcia, Hunter
Album: Day of The Dead
Label: 4 AD
Artist: Mongo Skato
Song: Perc
Composer:Mongo Skato
Album: MA.C001
Label: Margins
Topics: music
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Tags: Music 101 Pocket Edition, Louie Knuxx, Tompkins Square, A Low Hum, DIY Touring The World
Duration: 55'41"
19:30
Views by Drake
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Nick Bollinger discusses the innovations and irritations of Canadian-born rapper Drake.
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Nick Bollinger discusses the innovations and irritations of Canadian-born rapper Drake.
In the seldom-static world of R&B and hip-hop, Canadian rapper and singer Drake is impossible to ignore. In many ways he has changed both the sound and content of the genre. His records, more than anyone else’s, dissolve the line between rapping and singing, shifting back and forth between melody and recitation, over backings that are mellow and seductive in the mode of early-90s R&B.
Which is not to say his music is to everyone’s tastes. Up until ‘Hotline Bling’, his big from last year, I did my best to resist. Still, anyone who can revive Timmy Thomas’s ‘Why Can’t We Live Together? while fashioning a whole new song from its 70s-home-keyboard hook at least gets points for sharing my tastes in vintage soul.
That hit appears as a kind of bonus track, right at the end of the new album. Of course the message of ‘Hotline Bling’ is somewhat less altruistic than that of the song on which it is based; a profound and soulful plea for black civil rights. In Drake’s song – as in just about all of his songs – the chief subject is Drake, and the only injustice is the one being perpetrated against him by one or other ex-girlfriend. Which gets to heart of what is both most innovative and irritating about Drake.
When the former teen-television-star broke big with his 2010 debut, hip-hop was just emerging from a period of domination by self-styled sociopaths like Eminem or 50 Cent. But along with Kanye West’s ground-breaking 808s and Heartbreak, Drake’s Thank Me Later advanced the notion that the rapper could be vulnerable, could have doubts and insecurities and express these in a way that didn’t conform to the gangsta norm. Drake may have draped himself in all the usual symbols of success – big cars, bling, sexual opportunites – and yet he was left with something resembling depression, which he gave voice to in disarmingly personal songs. And, to a great extent, that’s still what he’s doing on this new disc.
In fact, his sensitivity borders on paranoia in ‘Keep the Family Close’, the album’s opening track, as he delivers in his Autotuned croon one of his typically curly melodies against a big moody orchestration. And he continues as he begins for the 80-odd minutes of music that follow.
“Why do I settle for women who force me to pick up the pieces? Why do I want an independent woman to feel like she needs me?” he moans rhetorically in ‘Redemption’, a track that displays both the best and worst of Drake. Musically the track is evocative; the backing is like a sound system playing in the next room. We’re on the other side of the wall; in fact we’re inside Drake’s head, right up against his conflicted thoughts. He almost puts us in the role of a priest taking confession, or at least a therapist.
But if we might, on the one hand, thank Drake for helping to shift hip-hop away from the guns, the violence, the overt misogyny of the gangsta rappers, how admirable are the things he replaces it with?
Materialism, as well as angst, looms large in Drake’s world. I stopped counting the number of different cars he namechecks on this album, each one seemingly status-encoded.
As black artists like Kendrick Lamar and Beyonce and D’Angelo usher in a new era of political awareness in black music, using their work to make strong statements on black lives, the only politics in Drake’s music is the personal. His Canadian background surely has something to do with it; his father was an African-American, born in Memphis, but his mother is Canadian and Jewish. And having grown up mostly in Toronto, perhaps he doesn’t feel qualified to speak out on African-American issues. But I also get the feeling that, whatever is going down in the wider world, Drake will always be too tied up in his own psychological dramas to notice.
Songs featured: Feel No Ways, Fire & Desire, Hotline Bling, Keep The Family Close, 9, Redemption, Hype, Views.
Views is available on OVO Sound/Young Money Entertainment/Cash Money Records.
Topics: music
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Tags: Drake, music, music review
Duration: 9'49"
19:30
Human Performance by Parquet Courts
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Nick Bollinger digests a New York-inspired album from transplanted Texans Parquet Courts.
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Nick Bollinger digests a New York-inspired album from transplanted Texans Parquet Courts.
The essential ingredients of rock ‘n’ roll are so simple, I sometimes wonder whether every combination has been exhausted. Then a band like this comes along and refreshes them again.
Parquet Courts’ new album, grabbed me with the opening track ‘Dust’. Not that I haven’t heard all the elements here plenty of times before: a kinetic drumbeat reminiscent of early Devo, that relentless one-chord guitar, an organ that might be straight off the first Jonathan Richman album, and a droll, sung-spoken vocal that taps a tradition stretching from Lou Reed to Steve Malkmus. And yet for the three-and-a-bit minutes that this song lasts, they make all those things seem new.
For a start, anyone who succeeds in writing a song which gets all the chord changes out of the way in the ten seconds before the drums and vocals come in has my respect; that’s making minimalism work for you. And what a great subject for a minimalist rant: those atmospheric particles that are unavoidable and everywhere. It’s the perfect metaphor for whatever you want, or don’t want, in your life. Or it’s ecological, the wearing down of the world. Sweep as much as you like, it keeps on coming. Or it could just be a song about dust.
Human Performance is the fifth album Parquet Courts have made, since they formed in New York City, just over five years ago, around Texas-born brothers Andrew and Max Savage. And kicking it off with a track as immediate as ‘Dust’ (a song by guitarist and co-lead-singer Austin Brown) is their most surefooted move so far.
In some ways, it is case of maximising limitations. Neither Brown of Andrew Savage, who share most of the vocals, is a conventionally strong singer, though that doesn’t detract from the effectiveness of the song that gives the album its title.
There is the odd melodic moment. The title track has a pretty tune with a lilting ache, as befits the lyric: a love song, or at least a song about losing love.
For most of Human Performance, though, Parquet Courts write as though all the tunes have already been taken and they are not going to let it bother them. Instead they work in an area that’s not quite melody, not quite rap, yet perfect for lyrics as thoughtful and playful as these.
On ‘Captive of the Sun’ the music shimmers, like a city through fog, helped by the pealing notes of a vibraphone, while the images pile up in a way that reminds me of Beck. The song makes a picture of urban New York – the Savage brothers’ adopted home – as music; hence great images of ‘half-tone harmonies from the sewer’ and a ‘first-chair car crash’ in the Philharmonic.
This is thinking-person’s rock’n’roll, but Parquet Courts’ thinking can be as punk as it is poetic, particularly in a song like ‘Two Dead Cops’, which sounds a note of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter campaign by comparing the public mourning over the shooting of two police officers with the overwhelming complacency towards the number of black youths who die at the hands of the cops. It’s hardly the album’s most musically original moment, but in its punk directness and tough political stance it smashes through any notion that these transplanted Texans have turned into effete art-rockers.
Parquet Courts are a relatively new band, and can still sound a bit like a tribute to their record collections. But with Human Performance, they have made a good album; perhaps better than anyone could have predicted who saw their musically impressive yet oddly uncharismatic shows here a year ago. Hopefully they will come this way again, and I’ll be curious to see whether their presence has grown as much on stage as it has on disc.
Songs featured: Dust, Human Performance, Captive Of The Sun, One Man No City, Two Dead Cops, Outside.
Human Performance is available on Rough Trade Records.
Topics: music
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Tags: Parquet Courts, music, music review
Duration: 9'54"
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2-3pm
Artist: Power Nap
Song: Forever, Man
Composer: C. Cudby
Album: Power Nap Mixtape
Label: Power Nap
Louie Knuxx Transformed
Artist: Louie Knuxx
Song: Cold and Dead Heart Stealing, Jump Off, Bad Bad Bastards, YARP, Bare Skin
Composer: T.Williams
Album: Tiny Warm Hearts
Label: Private
Artist: Spycc
Song: Ain't A Phase ft. David Dallas
Composer: Spycc
Album: SWIDT vs EVERYBODY
Label: SWIDT
The Sampler: Views by Drake
Artist: Drake
Song: Feel No Ways, Fire & Desire, Hotline Bling, Keep The Family Close, 9, Redemption, Hype, Views.
Composers: Graham,Shebib,Cobey, William Norwood, Michael Peter Olsen, LaShawn Daniels, Freddie Jerkins, Rodney Jerkins, Timmy Thomas, Aion "Voyce" Clarke,
Album: Views
Label: OVO
Artist: Chelsea Jade
Song: Colour Sum
Composer: C. Metcalf
Album: Colour Sum single
Label: Chelsea Jade
Artist: Mongo Skato
Song: Perc
Composer:Mongo Skato
Album: MA.C001
Label: Margins
Artist: Elan Vital
Song: Albtraum
Composer: Elan Vital
Album: Albtraum
Label: Elan Vital
Artist: Pikelet
Song: The Neighbours Grass
Composer: E. Morris
Album: Tronc
Label: Private
Artist: Jordan Rakei
Song: Talk To Me
Composer: Rakei
Albim: Single
Label: Private
3-4pm
Josh Rosenthal
Artist: Peter Walker
Song: City Pulse
Composer: Peter Walker
Album: Long Lost Tapes 1970
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Karen Dalton
Song: Katie Cruel
Composer: Trad./Karen Dalton
Album: In My Own Time
Label: Light in the Attic
Artist: Alice Gerrard
Song: Follow The Music
Composer: Alice Gerrard
Album: Follow the Music
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Robert Johnson
Song: Love In Vain
Composer: Robert Johnson
Album: Robert Johnson - King Of The Delta Blues
Label: Columbia Records
Artist: Ryley Walker
Song: Twin Oaks Pt 1
Composer: Ryley Walker
Album: All Kinds of You
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Brigid Mae Power
Song: Is It My Low Or Yours
Composer: Brigid Mae Power
Album: Brigid Mae Power
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Michael Hurley
Song: Werewolf
Composer: Michael Hurley
Album: Armchair Boogie
Label: Warner Music. Rhino Ent Corp
Artist: John Fahey
Song: A Raga Called Pat
Composer: John Fahey
Album: Days Have Gone By, Vol. 6
Label: Takoma Records
Artist: Robbie Basho
Song: Khatum (Instrumental)
Composer: Robbie Basho
Album: Bashovia
Label: Fantasy Inc.
Artist: Brad Barr
Song: Do I Have To Understand This ?
Composer: Brad Barr
Album: The Fall Apartment : Instrumental Guitar
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Lou Johnson
Song: The Beat
Composer: Lou Johnson
Album: Crazy About You
Label: Maestro Entertainment Corp
Artist: Michael Chapmen
Song: Stockport Monday (For Tom Rush)
Composer: Michael Chapman
Album: Fish
Label: Tompkins Square
Artist: Perfume Genius
Song: To Lay Me Down
Composer: Garcia, Hunter
Album: Day of The Dead
Label: 4 AD
Artist: Julia Jacklin
Song: Pool Party
Composer: Jacklin
Album: Single
Label: Private
Introducing: Tom Cunliffe
Artist: Tom Cunliffe
Song: There's Your Lord
Composer: Cunliffe
Album: Howl And Whisper
Label: Lyttelton Records
Artist: Cat Power
Song: Manhattan
Composer: Marshall
Album: Sun
Label: Matador
Artist: Isao Tomita
Song: Snowflakes are Dancing
Composer: Debussy
Album: Snowflakes are Dancing
Label: RCA
The Sampler: Parquet Courts
Artist: Parquet Courts
Songs: Dust, Human Performance, Captive Of The Sun, One Man No City, Two Dead Cops, Outside.
Composer: Parquet Courts
Album: Human Performance
Label: Rough Trade
Artist: Hex
Song: Prayer
Composer: Hex
Album: Calling To The Universe
Label: Hex
4-5pm
The Mixtape - Andrew Tolley
Artist: Satina Saturnia
Song: Scorpio Rising
Composer: Satina Saturnia
Album: Clitprous Goddess
Label: Kato Records
Artist: Poultice
Song: Lust Will Wet It
Composer: Poultice
Album: Three Beefmeisters And A French Movie
Label: Poultice
Artist: Michael J Hex
Song: Then You’re Gone
Composer: Michael J Hex
Album: Are You Hexperienced
Label: Noseflute Records
Artist: Ed Gains
Song: When I Fall From The Sky
Composer: E. Gains
Album: Edweird - An Edward Gains Anthology
Label: Powertool Records
Artist: Shit All To Hell
Song: Human Killing Machine
Composer:
Album:
Label:
Artist: The Renderers
Song: Low To The Ground
Composer: The Renderers
Album: A Dream Of The Sea
Label: Stiltbreeze
Artist: Golden Axe
Song: Tree Huts
Composer: Golden Axe
Album: Party Alarm Bells LP
Label: Golden Axe
Artist: Orchestra Of Spheres
Song: The Devine Horses
Composer: D Beban, H Thomas, E Grant, R Gooch
Album: Brothers and Sisters of The Black Lagoon
Label: Fire Records
===5:11 PM. | Focus on Politics===
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Analysis of political issues presented by RNZ's Parliamentary team (RNZ)
===5:30 PM. | Tagata o te Moana===
Tagata o te Moana for 14 May 2016
Manus Island detainees free to come and go from centre; MSG chairman takes firm stand on West Papua; Fiji's Prasad says accounts body now toothless; Guam Teacher Campaigns against child sex abuse civil statute of limitations; PNG fraud squad under close watch by police hierarchy; NZ group to help improve Pacific surgery access; Micronesian police attend desensitising workshop; Fiji's historic Levuka needs help after Winston; Sport: Solomon Islands to host 2023 Pacific Games.
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Pacific news, features, interviews and music for all New Zealanders, giving an insight into the diverse cultures of the Pacific people (RNZI)
===6:06 PM. | Great Encounters===
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In-depth interviews selected from RNZ National's feature programmes during the week (RNZ)
===7:06 PM. | Saturday Night===
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Saturday nights on RNZ National is where Phil O'Brien plays the songs YOU want to hear. All music from 7 till midnight (RNZ)
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NOTE: This playlist is a work in progress and gets updated as requests arrive. Therefore the final version will be online just before 7pm.
7 - 8
Tom Petty - The Last DJ
Lonnie Donegan - Putting On The Style
Roy Hudd - I Live In Trafalgar Square
Jeanette MacDonald - Beyond The Blue Horizon
GIl Dech - Robin's Return
Maria Callas - La Mamma Morta
Rowan Atkinson - The Father Of The Bride Speech
Winifred Atwell - Black And White Rag
Dionne Warwick - Alfie
Artie Shaw - Begin The Beguine
Shirley and Lee - Let The Good Times Roll
Al Green - For The Good Times
Manhattan Transfer - Operator
8 - 9
Aimee Mann – Yesterday Once More
Joe Brown - Picture Of You
Ella Fitzgerald - Desafinado
Jack Teagarden - Peg O' My Heart
Helen Shapiro - It Might As Well Rain Until September
Rodney Crowell - I Coudn't Leave You If I Tried
Mark Knopfler - Don't Crash The Ambulance
Kere Buchanan - Never Gonna Give You Up
Toni Price - Talk Memphis
Cilla Black - Anyone Who Had A Heart
Tommy Adderly - Good Morning Mr Rock And Roll
Carol Emerald - Liquid Lunch
The Pretenders - I'll Stand By You
Stornoway - Josephine
9 - 10
Mike Nesmith - Joanne
John Campbell - When The Levee Breaks
Leon Russell - Of Thee I Sing
Aaron Neville and Robbie Robertson - Crazy Love
Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him
John Mayall - Something New
Sara Isaksson and Rebecka Tornqvist - Rose Darling
Willie Nelson - Just Breathe
Marshall Hain - Dancing In The City
Lotte Kestner - Bluebird Of Happiness
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Queen - Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
10 - 11
Leon Redbone - The Sheik Of Araby
Snowy White - Bird of Paradise
Brian Eno - Third Uncle
Etta James - Tell Ma All About It
The Highwaymen - The Highwayman
Ultravox - Hymn
The Beatles - Julia
John Grant - Down Here
Half Man Half Biscuit - Joy Division Oven Gloves
East Village Opera Company - Le Nozze Di Figaro (Overture)
Dean Martin - Memories Are Made Of This
Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Mack The Knife
11 - Midnight: Late Night Phil
We look back at the week in music history...
Shelly Manne - Get Me To The Church On Time
Joe Bonamassa - Stop!
Tori Amos - I Don't Like Mondays
Rolling Stones - Come On
Dr. Hook - The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan
Eric Burdon And War - Spill The Wine
Bob Marley - Coming In From The Cold
Ian Dury - Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3
Steve Winwood with The Jools Holland Rhythm And Blues Orchestra - I'm Ready
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
BB King - Midnight Blues