05/08/2016
When Kiwi underground band crusader Blink toured the Shocking Pinks through China, Europe and the States in 2015, he was filmed in a Beijing rooftop interviewed by fellow Wellingtonian Kristen Ng. The video interview was ...
01/08/2016
Mother, musician, producer, promoter, vocal tutor and composer – Huia Hamon evidently likes to keep herself plenty busy, actively involving herself in numerous aspects of the local music scene. Drawing from an interview ...
01/07/2016
At the 2016 Taite Music Prize Awards held in April Upper Hutt Posse were announced as recipients of this year's Classic Record award for their crucial 1988 12” single E Tū. Released on Wellington indie label Jayrem, E ...
23/10/2015
Jamie McCaskill sometimes makes up the numbers in the Auckland-based Modern Maori Quartet, a foursome who take a crowd-pleasing, part acting/part-crooning, fun and fresh approach to the territory of the famously popular Maori ...
23/10/2015
It’s a band, but there’s no escaping that Shunkan is the vehicle of Marina Sakimoto, a clear thinking 22-year old who just a couple of years ago was a fully-fledged California musician. Somehow living in Southland has ...
16/09/2022
NZ On Air Music has announced the recipients of the September 2022 NewMusic Single funding round. Out of over 200 applications, 34 songs were chosen to receive up to $10,000 to support the artists' recording, video and ...
18/02/2022
Recorded Music NZ CEO Damian Vaughan has announced that he will soon be leaving the role he has filled for almost a decade. Previously head of the comparatively diminutive IMNZ, Vaughan's nine-year stint as CEO of RMNZ ...
20/12/2021
Delayed by Auckland's long lockdown, the 2021 Aotearoa Music Awards took place at Aotea Centre in Auckland, on Friday, December 15, a celebration filmed for live TV broadcast, but staged in front of an audience made up only ...
11/11/2021
A list of 36 finalists across 15 different categories has been announced for the 2021 Aotearoa Music Awards | Nga Tohu Pūoro o Aotearoa, which this year will be a live television event, filmed from Auckland's Aotea Centre ...
14/07/2021
Applications are open now for the 2021 Reo Māori Songhubs which will take place over a week, starting September 26, at Tāmaki Makaurau’s Roundhead Studios. Reo Māori SongHubs is a collaborative songwriting wānanga, ...
05/01/2017
Panning is one of the first concepts people become familiar with when getting into music production. The pan pot (panorama potentiometer) is right there on the channel strip and moving it around probably feels very intuitive. ...
30/11/2016
You’ve been given a track to mix. Where to begin? While there are many ways to approach a mix, starting with the drums can allow you to get right into creating the sonic environment for your track. So, first things first. ...
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 ...
20/12/2015
Deep Thinking is making a brief return to the world of progressive rock in this issue to make a tribute to the great Yes bassist, Chris Squire (1948 - 2015). Squire died in June this year, but the number of tributes ...
26/10/2015
This issue's Deep Thinking bass column is the result of a conversation between some of the University of Otago Music Department staff while we took a break during recording at our Albany Street Studios. We were discussing ...