In Hour 1 it's Route 8 who has been making a name for himself under a number of guises such as Q3A and DJ Ciderman for labels including Lobster Theremin, Nous, Fabrwechsel and Delsin for a number of years. The Hungarian producer has dipped his toes into a number of genres in this time touching on lo-fi through to electro, breakbeat, techno and anything in-between but always heavily leaning towards his love for house. He told us;
"The mix is basically a journey around the music I love. It includes records I bought during my travels and cheap forgotten gems from discogs. Few tracks I would definitely play for the dance floor these days, some tunes from my close friends and an acid one from me. I tried to put them together in order which kinda resemble a long night in the club. :)"
In Hour 2 it's Chevel following the release of his double EP entitled “In A Rush And Mercurial", which comes after his recent album “Always Yours” for Mumdance and Logos’ label Different Circles, The Italian electronic music producer released this project on his own imprint Enklav, reaffirming his own take on ambient, techno, experimental beats and rush-inducing synth lines. The Italian electronic music producer released this project on his own imprint Enklav reaffirming his own take on ambient, techno, experimental beats and rush-inducing synth lines. Composed and divided into two parts, “In A Rush” and “Mercurial” are a collection of 12 tracks entirely recorded or overdubbed during the artistic residency of four days at the Studio Venezia installation by Xavier Veilhan, which took place at the French Pavillon for the Venice Art Biennale in 2017.
First up on the Wire, we have worry week, where Oscar talked today to Professor Robert Patman about international relations and militarisation of the pacific. Then in a back to back double dosage of Oscar, he’s have harvested another great group to chat to in The Community garden, this week talking to Everybody Eats. After that, Andrew Little joins Lachlan for their regular chat, this week discussing potential future referenda and a meeting with the US intelligence services. Finally on This Day in History, Ben graces the air waves to discuss the ‘Blood in the Water’ water polo match of 1956.
It's The Thursday Wire with Stewart Sowman-Lund and Deb Rawson!
This week:
The Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has lashed out at coalition partner Labour, over their handling of the abortion law debate. Commentator Ben Thomas breaks down what this means for the government.
Plus, the Official Cash Rate dropped yesterday by 50 basis points… double market expectations. But what is the official cash rate? And why should we care that it’s dropped. Economist Shamubeel Eaqub explains it in language we can all, hopefully, understand.
After that, Justice Minister Andrew Little is here for his weekly catch-up. Stewart asks him whether he was blindsided by Winston Peters’ talk of a referendum on abortion use.
Then, as protests at Ihumatao continue, Deb asks what this all means from a legal perspective.
And finally - we’ll catch up with our Australian Correspondent to get all the latest news from across the ditch in Neighbourhood Watch!
The government has announced that there has been a surplus of 7.5 billion dollars - the biggest budget surplus in a decade, more than double forecasts. Justin talked to Finance Minister Grant Robertson to see what made up the surplus and how the government is going to spend it.
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