04/02/2025
Their 2017 hit single Woke Up Late made Drax Project a household name here in Aotearoa, and with the hype surrounding the song the pop alternative act secured a record label in the US, not long after moving to LA to live ...
22/01/2025
They’re definitely not two peas in a pod, but entrepreneurial musicians Marshall Smith and Tom Fox have nonetheless maintained a close business partnership in the challenging environment of music / sound design and audio ...
23/10/2024
According to herself, Body Of Work, real name Sarah Illingworth, has "worn a bunch of hats in the music industry", but is relatively new to releasing her own material which was produced by and recorded with Shannon Fowler ...
10/07/2024
We mostly know him as a solo and collaborative hip hop artist – which is to say the artist Mazbou Q and/or the artist previously known as Unchained XL. For some however those names may have stronger connotations with social ...
06/03/2024
When two high school friends started jamming at Saint Kentigern College in Pakuranga, Tāmaki Makaurau, little did they suspect eight years later they would be working with one of Aotearoa's biggest music producers and uniting ...
22/03/2017
Folk musician and researcher Phil Garland died on March 15th, aged 75. A founding member of the Christchurch Folk Club, Phil recorded close to 20 albums, published six books and was three-times winner of the NZ Folk ...
29/11/2016
NZ music legend Ray Columbus has died in Auckland aged 74. Columbus was best know for his 1964 hit She's A Mod. Performed with his band The Invaders, it was the first song from a NZ group to reach the top ...
31/03/2016
Ara Institute of Canterbury was announced on March 30 as Canterbury's new vocational educational provider, in dawn services at campuses in Christchurch and Timaru. Ara, meaning arise or pathway in te Reo Māori, is the ...
31/08/2016
Mixing in the box: Okay, valuable cliché time. ‘Start with the end in mind.’ There is a temptation to just start pushing faders around and see what happens. If you have an idea of what you want your final product to ...
15/08/2016
Mixing in the box - thanks to the ‘miracle of modern technology’ it has become possible to create a complete musical project in our computer. There is no shortage of material on mixing with plenty of great engineers, ...
13/11/2015
Writer, producer and music lecturer Godfrey de Grut takes a closer than usual look and listen to see what makes Don McGlashan's single, Lucky Stars, tick the pop song success boxes. I first heard Lucky Stars on National ...
17/04/2015
Many musicians nowadays record and mix their own material. This has allowed for an explosion of new music on the landscape. Creatively, there is a great deal of diversity in musical styles and expression, which is great, ...
15/09/2014
If you've ever recorded a sound source with two or more microphones simultaneously, chances are you have encountered phase problems. Unless correctly aligned, the sound from your instrument would enter each of the microphones ...
