Campbell digs Japan, and he's just back from a ten day jaunt of well curated record stores, incredible food and many greetings of "Arigato gozaimasu!"
His set this month is full of raw, soulful heaters and cosmic jazz-funk that makes you screw your face up like you accidentally ate the ball of wasabi along with your sashimi. All time Swap Meet fave Garfield Fleming’s 'Don’t Send Me Away' still hits like heartbreak on vinyl, that pleading vocal over lush orchestration is pure modern soul gold. And then there’s Mystic Harmony’s Lovers Rock take on The Jones Girls' 'Nights Over Egypt' deep, spiritual, and epic. Add Freedom Suite 'Come Closer' to that category: a rare groove Trini disco dub with the kind of bassline that makes you look around the room for someone else who heard that. The funkier edges really pop off with Wild Fire 'The Dealer' another Trinidadian gem that’s psych-funk with fuzz guitar and heavy attitude.
Campbell keeps it moving with the glistening disco of Chantal Curtis ‘Get Another Love’ to Booker Newberry III’s ‘Love Town’, there’s that roller-skate-ready shimmer. Then off to Brasil with Alma Brasileira ‘Peixeiro’ a choro inflected samba and Dom Salvador’s ‘Barumba’, all syncopated rhythms and raw, earthy joy. On the modern tip, Cool Affair ‘Motoric Patterns (Kaidi Tatham Mix)’ slides in with some proper bruk energy: Kaidi doing what he does best. Mr Ngata has the jazzheads covered too - and we also gotta keep pumping current faves The Circling Sun!
The Future is an exhibition presenting new and recent work by Berlin-based artist Simon Denny, currently on at Michael Lett Gallery.
In channelling the spirit of aeropainting and Italian Futurism, Denny employs contemporary methods of making with today’s technology to create two new series of paintings whereby both mechanical and painterly qualities transpire, aiding in a recontextualisation of 20th-century modernism.
Sofia had a kōrero with Simon Denny about the show and his overall practice.
This weeks on bMovies, Director Andy Deere is one half of the brains behind Bludgeon, the documentary about competitive medieval combat in New Zealand. Swords. Axes. Armour. The name says it all. And 95bFM's Amelia Berry reviews The Green Fog, she reckons it encapsulates funny art. The film is a modern love letter to Hitchcock's Vertigo, cut together from clips of iconic San Franciscan films and TV shows. A surreal romp through cinematic history.
Bloc Party are coming to New Zealand and playing a show on November 18th. They're revisiting their debut album 'Silent Alarm' so for The Big Dig, Hunter dived into the 2005 album and picked out some personal favourites + tracks that have had significant representation in TV Shows, Films and Videogames. You can see the album performed in its entirety at Spark Arena on November 18th. Get your tickets here.
Bloc Party - This Modern Love
Bloc Party - Helicopter
Bloc Party - Banquet
Valentine's Day has held a long tradition for lovers with high expectations becoming rife in modern day society. University of Auckland's Dr Jessica Maxwell spoke with Charlie about monogamous and non-monogamous relationship, how to have a successful dating life, and why being single can still be fun this day.
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