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The sights and sounds of Saturations
Just in case we didn’t make ourselves clear on Saturday’s show (and listening to the playback we probably didn’t) the new Saturations album Runaway is now available to purchase over at Bandcamp for...
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Saturations “Black Circles”
Continuing the impromptu survey of recent Christchurch releases we get to long time favourite of The Joint, the one and only Blair Parkes. Blair is a one man Christchurch musical heritage (have a peek...
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Saturations video “Nowhere”
Blair Parkes aka Saturations has got a trippy new video for his track “Nowhere”. The track is from his recent “Black Circles” EP which is available now for $10 on Bandcamp. Have a sneaky listen below....
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The Show: Where The Joint gets a bargain
And here’s the playlist in full… 12pm – 1pm Boys Town Gang – Can’t Take My Eyes Off You Nancy Whang & Audiojack – Like an Eagle (Extended Version) Cooly G – The 3 of Us Definition Of Sound – Moira...
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Don’t be afraid, it’s only blood
Direct download: The Joint – 17 September 2016 Straight into the wonky and wobbly with Moogy synths, washing machine techno on hard sudsy cycles in the middle, the beats break up after that, and then...
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You’d better stop this playing on my mind
Michael Fortunati aka Pierre Michel Nigro It started as an earworm. That 1987 Kylie Minogue hit “I Heard A Rumour”. Except it wasn’t. It was Bananarama. So down the rabbit hole we went to listen to...
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I thought I had you on hold
R.I.P Jean-Jacques Perrey (1929-2016) French French electronic music producer and Moog knob twiddler extraordinaire. Direct download: The Joint – 12 November 2016 And here’s the playlist in full…...
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Rain, rain, drop down on me
Direct download: The Joint – 24 June 2017 Maybe it’s a winter thing but there was a lot of music of Te Waipounamu origin in the show today courtesy of Blair Parkes (New Brighton), Headland...
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The Show: I’m a prisoner. I’m a copier. I’m a repeater. I’m a follower.
Always fun to find a tenuous reason to stick a Martin Creed video in the blog. Well, not that tenuous really. A Martin Creed triple play features in the middle of the show today and is bookended by...
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The Show: I’m gonna cook the books, no matter how it looks
Direct download: The Joint – 15 July 2017 And here’s the playlist in full… Washed Out – Burn out Blues Semiazas – The Morello Curse Saine – Fireflies Loop Exposure – Who’s The Wolfman Interstate –...
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The Show: This is the water…
“Gotta light?” A show cut into distinct thirds. Starting off upbeat, a move into the happily melancholic, and then the squelchy acid techno rounds out the show. PS: Finally got The Woodsman in there....
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The Show: It’s more secret than Al Gore’s wallet
Excited. The KLF are back. And back as BADGER KULL. Henry Morris, personal trainer, gives the low down on The KLF… Direct download: The Joint – 26 August 2017 And here’s the playlist in full… Felix...
View ArticleThe Show: Christchurch –Ōtautahi 2017… the year in review
Today it’s a review of the year in music from Christchurch – Ōtautahi featuring some of our favourite releases throughout 2017. We couldn’t quite fit them all in, some may not strictly have been made...
View ArticleThe Show: Makin’ the ill just a little more sick…
With the winter ills upon us, and the World Cup diverting our attention away from the music’s, a tip of the hat to TULIP BLACK for putting us on to EBONY BONES‘ “No Black In The Union Jack.” Direct...
View ArticleThe Show: I got some things I cannot add up in my mind…
If the show today was a degustation menu it would go a little something like this… baroque pop, power pop, gentle pop, a musical sorbet, a noodle without, distressed beats, 80s synth house, and a final...
View ArticleThe Show: Just a feeling I get, when you’re close to me…
More tracks than you can shake a stick at today, with many of them originating from Christchurch’s Crooked Lidz label and the new Melted Ice Cream Christchurch compilation “Sickest Smashes From Arson...
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The Show: Sit down politely, do it like Nike…
Good friend of The Joint Blair Parkes has been busy as ever in his shed studio down in New Brighton and he’s got a new album ‘liveable city’ out now on Bandcamp. Dreamy, fuzzy, trippy and hazy. Just...
View ArticleThe Show: It all means the same, down the line
Winter hibernation doesn’t seem to have dented or affected musical productivity in Ōtautahi Christchurch. In these darkest and coldest of months the releases keep coming. Looking forward to the new...
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The Show: Electric black shadow runs ‘cross the sun…
New release from THE BIG FRESH COLLECTIVE out right now. JET SET GHETTO TECH sees Liam K. Swiggs and DJ Simon Dallow pay tribute to the video game soundtracks of Hideki Naganuma. And how the heck did...
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The Show: Once upon a time, we danced, Once upon a time, we took a chance…
A singing capuchin monkey, smoke, grainy black and white footage… it could only be David Lynch. And on with the show… Direct download: The Joint – 25 January 2020 Notebooks out completists, here’s the...
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