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Nick Atkinson presents fresh music, interviews, performances and event coverage.
11 February 2010
Florence And The Machine
This week The Music Mix talks to Florence Welch of Florence And The Machine who wowed audiences across Australia and New Zealand at St Jerome's Laneway Festival. We are with her when she gets the news that her debut album has held the number 1 spot on the UK charts for three consecutive weeks! Unmissable.
Massive Attack
Kirsten Johnstone speaks with Daddy G about the new and hotly anticipated Massive Attack album Heligoland. Already fans are frothing at the chops at the prospect of seeing the band perform at Vector Arena on March 25.
Eagles Of Death Metal
Richard Wain interrupts the Rock'n'Roll antics of the Eagles Of Death Metal ahead of their New Zealand dates with Faith No More. Then we spice up the show with Panamanian rappers and leaven the dough with DJs from Montreal. The bowl is chock-full of exotic ingredients for this weeks edition of The Music Mix.
4 February 2010
Shapeshifter and Tiki Tane
This summer Shapeshifter played to 26,000 kiwis and grossed the best part of 1.5 million dollars. Nick went to their second sold-out show at Mangawhai Tavern to find out why Tiki still has to load the PA, how the drummer Redford came to leave the band and will the band eventually loose their hearing from the excessive crowd noise and awesome onstage volume the group produce.
Nick is talking to Sam Trevethick from Shapeshifter
The Veils
Prolific travellers and captivating performers The Veils are also breaking in a new drummer. Nick caught up with Finn and Sophia before their Big Day Out show and then spoke to Finn the week after the big festival. With a speaking voice that could seduce an iceberg Finn spun captivating yarns about the ensemble almost catching fire in Portugal among other things.
Passion Pit
This baby-faced set of synth scientists from Boston were the must-see it-band of the Big Day Out. Nick spoke with the cherubic Ian Hultquist as the rest of the band succumbed to a battery of interviews from all sectors
of the New Zealand music press. Hultquist is the bands multi-instrumentalist switching from guitar to synth with searing speed and dexterity. Fans of Phoenix and dance-music, Passion Pit are being worked hard by SONY as they bludgeon themselves against a relentless touring schedule. Perhaps the question is how bright will this flash in the pan burn?
28 January 2010
New Music Mix producer Nick Atkinson takes a walk through his record collection with Kirsten Johnstone. Beginning with a Front Lawn track recorded live at Roundhead studios Nick charts his musical odyssey through rock, rap and soul. From the latest Julian Dyne cut to Ellington from archives, from Fugazi to Bachelorette, Nick picks a hand-full of tunes from acts that have had a lasting influence on his musical development. Tune in to hear an essential mix 35 years in the making.
Nick's Mix Tape track listing
Andy. Don McGlashan and Neil Finn recorded live at Roundhead by Radio New Zealand
I'm Coming Home. The Spinners recorded live in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1974
Home, Land And Sea. Trinity Roots
Thanks For The Beautiful Land On The Delta. Duke Ellington
Long Division. Fugazi
On My Radio. The Selecter
Her Rotating Head. Bachelorette
Layer. Julien Dyne
Lie In The Arms. The Stereo Bus
29 October 2009
In The Music Mix, we meet the players in the surf rockabilly group fronted by Supergroove’s Karl Steven - The Drab Doo-Riffs.
Plus we’ve got a little ‘Wicks’s Picks’ in ‘the best of The Music Mix’…
The Drab Doo-Riffs
22 October 2009
The Music Mix delves into the terrifyingly upbeat Europop of Swedish producer, Basshunter
Dark indie rockers, Editors return with In This Light and On This Evening;
Plus local brooders, Dimmer in session.
Editors
15 October 2009
Detroit singer and multi-instrumentalist, Mayer Hawthorne channels his parent’s Motown-heavy record collection on A Strange Arrangement;
We’ll meet Kenji Sakajiri, a man co-signing the cream of Aotearoa’s future soul talent through his Wonderful Noise Productions;
And Auckland duo Bear Cat talk about their EP and its take on the retiring life of the Panda Bear.
Mayer Hawthorne
8 October 2009
Robert Plant’s guitarist Justin Adams talks about tracing the African origins of the blues;
And we get an audience with heavy metal evergreens, Megadeth.
Miriam Clancy. Photograph by Jo Currie.
1 October 2009
In The Music Mix:
UK tongue-twister Dizzee Rascal and his DJ, Semtex are in the mix, giving it some ‘Tongue N’ Cheek’;
New Zealand’s most dangerous rawk band, Deja Voodoo fly the flannel with their new one, ‘The Shape of Grunge of Come’;
Plus North Carolina funk’n’soul veteran, Lee Fields.
Deja Voodoo
24 September 2009
In The Music Mix:
TV on the Radio’s falsetto-voiced front man, Kyp Malone goes it alone as Rain Machine;
Franco-Algerian’s Speed Caravan wield the oud - a fretless lute - as a rock 'n' roll instrument;
And Isaac Aesili – soul man and horn-for-hire – talks about the broken beats of his solo album, 'Eye See'.
Isaac Aesili
17 September 2009
Electric Wire Hustle introduce us to their beat-driven, future soul;
Indie rock legends The Clean are back with their first studio album in eight years - we talk to Robert Scott about 'Mister Pop';
Plus more beat business from Wellington drum & bass duo, The Upbeats.
Electric Wire Hustle
10 September 2009
The Music Mix visits Christchurch songstress LA Mitchell at Auckland University where she’s currently Songwriter in Residence at the School of Music;
We meet rock’n’roll revivalists Kitty Daisy and Lewis;
Plus the multi-monikered Mark Pritchard talks about his Harmonic 313 project, which pays tribute to the synthesised sounds of Detroit.
LA Mitchell
3 September 2009
The Music Mix has glow sticks at the ready, as we talk to Scotsman Calvin Harris about reviving stadium rave on Ready For The Weekend;
Local players Aaron Tokona and Nick Gaffaney crew-up as Cairo Knife Fight;
And we take a left-wing turn to talk to The Coup’s Boots Riley about teaming with Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello as Street Sweeper Social Club.
Street Sweeper Social Club
27 August 2009
The Music Mix talks to Hassidic reggae musician Matisyahu about his Torah-true sounds;
David Dallas – formerly one-half of Frontline – steps out on his own to deliver 'Something Awesome';
Plus the multi-talented Riki Bennett, Eynon Delamere and Rewi Spraggon of Maori music group Te Aratoi have a chat, and play guitar and a selection of Taonga Puoro.
Matisyahu
20 August 2009
The Music Mix talks vintage soul with Opensouls’ Tyra Hammond, Jeremy Toy and Julien Dyne;
We’ll check in with Disasteradio and his manager/minder, Blink in the UK;
We follow glam-popsters Charlie Ash to Brighton and Berlin as they begin their push northwards;
And talk to Neil Finn about the latest chapter of 7 Worlds Collide.
Open Souls
13 August 2009
The Music Mix heads to the Golden Triangle to meet psychedelic Cambodian pop group Dengue Fever, a band made up of players from Phenom Phen and Los Angeles;
We talk globetrotting rock’n’roll ambition with locals, Midnight Youth.
And we speak to Edmund McWilliams – Pie Warmer – about his latest slice of twisted pop genius.
Dengue Fever. Photograph by James Hickey.
30 July 2009
This week, The Music Mix celebrates Te Reo Maori Week with a show co-hosted by local rhyme smith and Te Reo speaker, Jamie Greenslade – Maitreya.
We'll meet J.Williams, the new face of New Zealand R&B;
Break fiends Minuit tell us about their mouthful of a new album, 'Find Me Before I Die A Lonely Death Dot Com';
Plus East London pop'n'grime practitioner, Mica Levi – Micachu.
J Williams
23 July 2009
This week, the Music Mix is back with fresh interviews with Brooklyn pop alchemists, MGMT;
Much-buzzed British band, White Lies;
And MIA producer Switch – one half of dancehall duo, Major Lazer.
MGMT
‘The Radio is Broken’
The Music Mix is in hiatus til Thursday 23 July, and a series on the late-great mother of invention, Frank Zappa takes our place.
In ‘The Radio is Broken’, Jim Gardner traces a personal thread through Zappa’s 35 year career.
According to biographer Greg Russo, in his book ‘Cosmik Debris: The Collected History and Improvisations of Frank Zappa’:
"A very creative and intelligent five-part series on the musical career of Frank Zappa was created by James Gardner for Radio New Zealand Concert... With its expert editing and insightful analysis by Gardner, the program is the most definitive radio-oriented work on Zappa."
11 June 2009
Hamburg-based New Zealand musician Jordan Reyne, whose new album resurrects the life of a pioneering West Coaster;
Frisco punk stalwarts, Flipper;
Real Groove editor Duncan Grieve speaks to Palmerston North rhyme sayer, PNC;
And Trevor Reekie talks to British jazz trumpeter Harry Beckett about his collaboration with On-U Sound’s Adrian Sherwood.
Jordan Reyne
4 June 2009
Boh Runga explains how to craft the perfect pop song for other voices;
The Clean’s David Kilgour and performance poet Sam Hunt talk about joining David’s music and Sam’s words on 'Falling Debris';
And we’ll hear from The Heartless Bastards, an Austin Texas-based blues and bluegrass outfit, built around lead singer and guitarist Erika Wennerstrom.
Boh Runga
7 August 2008
This week Kirsten Johnstone visits Shapeshiter's Devin Abrams at home in Wellington to talk about his new album as Pacific Heights;
Troy Ferguson puts in a call to Baltimore duo Beach House;
And we korero with Wanganui family reggae outfit House of Shem.
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