Matthew Crawley and Reuben Bonner join Oscar and Tess in studio to announce their very exciting upcoming gig, Strange Universe. A collaboration between Strange News and Banished From The Universe / Banished Music presents DIIV, Cut Off Your Hands, Wax Chattels, Imugi 이무기, and DJ Mealy Worm, an absolutely epic line-up and hopefully the first annual Strange Universe gig. You can't miss this one.
National’s Denise Lee joins Laura Kvigstad for their weekly chat...
This week they chat about National MP David Bennet's comments concerning covid 19 and the criticism the party has had from New Zealand's leading microbiologist, Souxsie Wiles.
Then they chat about the National Party's calls for a tax cut for middle-income earners to address economic concerns around the coronavirus.
Finally, they chat about the protests at National's 22nd Bluegreen conference.
Tonight's show starts with a 90 minute CS curated by artist Alexander Brown from Wrought Material, an eclectic mixtape that switches (abruptly) between death metal cuts and Japanese pop, with all manner of noise, mental hardcore and post punk in between. The last 30 minutes is a short mix from me, classic underrated West Bay hip-hop, some brand new shit from Bowel Rupture and L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation.
Today we are going to hear from the Epidemic Response Committee who is hearing from a range of media outlets in terms of how hard the industry has been hit by the Covid19 pandemic. First though, some context. Recent weeks have seen New Zealand’s media suffer a lot of closures and downscaling, with Bauer Media announcing its closure earlier this month and NZME’s recent announcement of job cuts. Felix takes a look at the current state of our media and what it could mean for the future.
Nick Johnston popped in this morning to say g'day and have a chat about Cut Off Your Hands swansong tour of the country and play us an early spin of the next single! Whakarongo mai nei to hear about the new album and old memories- nawww.
Fabian Fanboy's dials in to tell us what's new and good in cinema. He's got some phenomenal picks this week: Judas and the Black Messiah, a biographical drama set in the United States' 1960s Civil Rights movement, a documentary on the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia in 2018, The Dissident, and finally, Gaza, a documentary on the Gaza Strip in Palestine which has been cut off from the West Bank by Israeli land. Heavy and important picks this week, and not ones to miss.
It's time for the sixth annual NZ music special on FPR. This time, we hand over the keys to the legendary Roger Perry.
Roger Perry has been fighting the good fight for nearly 40 years. He started DJing in 1984 at the Venue, an all ages club run by Russ Le Roq (Russell Crowe). From there, he went on to run Asylum, where New Zealand audiences were first introduced to house music. He hosted NZ's first dance music radio show, Asylum FM on bFM. He has also made some masterful music as Reactor Music, Kingsland Housing Project, and Toolbox. His one-take mix for us tonight is a canvassing of house music in Aotearoa, from peerless classics to killer cuts from the new school.
Gee Dee lives in New York, where he deejays and makes music. He's co-founded Earth Beat, is a resident at Good Room in Brooklyn, and plays regularly at Philadelphia's long-running party Making Time. He also has a new live project with Juan MacLean called Infinity Machine, and hot solo releases for Planet Trip Records, Superior Elevation Records, and Light of Other Days. On FPR tonight he takes us for a two hour dive into meditative club music, with an emphasis on glorious 90s cuts. It's bliss bbs.
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