Stumbling through YouTube on a Waitangi Day inspired trip down NZ music memory lane dug up this little gem. I had almost completely forgotten – but not long after this was filmed, I became the live sound engineer for The Warners and went on tour with them. If I recall correctly, it was the Satellite [...]
Categories: Music
I thought I’d try out the brand new Soundcloud HTML-5 widget on one of Jake’s new tunes. Soundcloud is a tool that’s been invaluable to him as an independent electronic musician just starting out, and he’s had to upgrade a couple of levels (from Free to Lite to Solo) to accommodate his fairly prolific output. [...]
I’m going to be speaking at Un-Convention Voices at the Roundhouse in London on Saturday the 11th of February. It’s a joint event running in parallel with The Museum of Modern Art in Medellin, Colombia, that features a day of panels, conversations, debates, performances and interactive sessions on the theme of political voices and social [...]
Categories: Music,New Music Strategies,Politics
Tagged: London, unconvention
December by Jake Dubber Jake has just released the fourth of his series of albums from 2011. That’s it there. Have a listen. It’s a bit of a landmark, because it marks the end of a major project for him. The idea was that he would just collect together everything that he’d finished at the [...]
Tagged: Jake
The New York Times says that 2011 was the year when rock just spun its wheels. The Guardian calls it the year of boring music. And while “beige against the machine” is a cute and retweetable one-liner, it’s nothing more than a cheap shot based on a faulty premise: that something went wrong with music [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: journalism
Just thought I’d say a quick Merry Christmas before the yuletide activities kick off here in the Dubber house. A quiet one this time: friends over for dinner tonight, and then since Jake’s away in India and we Skyped today (he’ll have no internet for the next day or so), we’re probably going to eat [...]
Tagged: Christmas
One of the things I’m going to be working on over the next 12 months is developing a research project into the network of independent music collectives in Brazil, known as Fora do Eixo (Off-Axis). If it’s new to you, they’re an affiliation of ‘cultural producers’ (promoters, managers, labels etc.) who use the internet to [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: brazil
About ten years ago – maybe a little more – I made some programmes for a Radio New Zealand series called Musical Chairs. Each programme focuses on a person who is very important in the world of New Zealand music. Usually it’s a musician, of course – but for me – one radio DJ had [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Radio
Tagged: documentary
