(2003- ) Born in Paris, France Gaspard Auge (May 21, 1979- ) Xavier De Rosnay (July 2, 1982- ) Recorded 'Never Be Alone,' 'Waters of Nazareth,' 'DVNO' and 'Stress'
Why they might be annoying
They smoke. Their name is shared with a German metal band. The guys usually play with a lighted cross on stage. Fans of Michael Jackson, their single 'D.A.N.C.E.' featured several references to his songs.
Why they might not be annoying
The duo remixed songs for Justin Timberlake, Daft Punk and Franz Ferdinand. The pair is acclaimed for innovative music videos. In 2006, upon winning 'Best Video' at the MTV Europe Music Awards, their director's acceptance speech was interrupted by Kanye West, claiming he should be the winner.
So there is like this clothing company that recently went online called 'Keep Three'..............okay lets back that up shall we. Think about it, there is a clothing company called 'Keep Three!' What retards came up with that name? Probably the same 3 fat retards depicted here
So here we go with yet another clothing label that tries too hard, and forever cementing themselves as prime Douche Bags of the fake Electro House Scene!
Okay well lets continue shall we? So here's a back story about how this shitvasty of a clothing label came to prominence (BTW the following is not from me, but from keepthree.com's website)
When three mates are hanging out and talking shit, the occasional gem lands like a swift kick to the nads. The idea is thrashed out but morning rolls round and nothing is ever done about it.
Jimmy, Adam and Zaid are the kinda guys that will give anything a crack, so when conversation turned to what they’d all love to pour their souls into, they found a common element and Auckland's freshest/hottest clothing label KeepThree was born.
It’s widely known that if you do something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. With Jimmy and Adam patently incapable of taking anything too seriously, its lucky Zaid has a big fuck-off whip to keep ‘em in shape. Even so, you can bet the humor, fun and awesome design stays inherent in every range keepthree releases.
From Melbourne to Auckland, the beach to the club, keepthree’s influences are anything that grabs you and says work hard, play hard and do it all with a cheeky grin. Unfortunately Jimmy’s idea of a portrait is a scribbly stick figure on a page, with that in mind the boys find hot designers to put their ideas to print, each with a different modern seasonal influence.
Yawn! Wow, compelling!
Did any of you get that? A stick figure? WTF? Obliviously these guys are rich if they seek outside help from graphic designers.
Now lets talk about the design, and by the looks of it, their logo appears to be a knuckle duster..........HOLY FUCK! A KNUCKLE DUSTER! Could these guys be any cliché?
The knuckle Duster is the most overused design element to be put on anything, and I mean anything! In fact here are some examples of the Knuckle Duster being put to use.
See a recurring theme here? Yeah I thought so. But looking at the examples above, I much prefer those designs than the simpleton offerings of Keepthree.com.
Now lets talk pricing because this will blow you out of the water when you here how much this shit cost. Ready?........................... Okay check this. The guys range are priced at $79:00 NZD and the girls start at 65.00 NZD! Well fuck me blind I say. Why such a high mark up guys? You're debuting clothing label!
And look at the designs! LOOK!
Now I also did an exchange conversion, and if you live in the states and wanting to buy these tees, it could set you back $60.00 USD, which may not sound much, but why would you want to pay for such a high markup when the designs themselves are not even worth that alone!
They do have complex designs in their range, but fuck it. This is a travesty! Utter travesty!
Now lets move to Crowded Elevator. Dumb name, nice range! This label which released its range last year (I presume) has some pretty good designs.Jasper Gape, our resident designer hates them because he wishes that he had some of that mad money to printout his designs! But who could blame him?
I mean lets look at that panther print above us. That must have been one expensive print job to get a image that complex on a tee shirt none the less
Yes these sure are pretty, but hey guess what, they don't come cheap! Last look at their pricing previous was around $80.00 NZD and I assume its still somewhat expensive.
Now as always there is something that I don't like about some of these designs.
Hey don't blame us, this is how the nerds roll!!@! But here is my gripe and its in the form of their slogan tees. What is up with slogans on their tees that say "Shoot hoops, not cops", "Iggy Vs. Ziggy" and "Fluorescent Adolescent"? What, now they're scribes and philosophizers? Have we not learned anything about wearing slogans on a tee shirt people. It just doesn't makes sense you know. Idiots wear slogans!
Overall the labels mentioned in this entry are marketed towards a more mainstream high-end demographic. In other words its for people who work 9 to 5 jobs, people who have disposable income to burn, people who are willing to shell out $80.00 dollars so that they can feel somewhat special on the dancefloor while the rising price of milk goes up and rest of us suffer!
Congratulations goes go out to Megan Fox for becoming FHM's sexiest woman of the year for 2008.
Her year has been good in terms of her acting performance on the Micheal Bay remake of "Transfromers:The Movie", and although I'm still trying to solve the Pandora's box which is her relationship with Brain Austin Green (Or as we like to call him, B.A.G) this also means that she Inherits the danger of being a really bad actress.
I don't know what it is, but when a mens magazine say 'this person is the sexiest of the year, date and time frame', it just further puts me off ever watching that person movies.
Remember how Jessica "Don't ever call me a latino, or else I'll cut you" Alba was dubbed "sexiest woman of year"?Well It was also a clear indication that I refused to watch her movies because of that very title. And her years in cinema haven't been good nor forgiving!
The Hollywood remake of the Cantonese horror classic "The Eye" in which she starred in, was panned by critics and with good reason...WHO WOULD WANT TO TAKE HER SERIOUSLY AS AN ACTRESS!!!! SHE WILL FOREVER BE A SEXUAL PROP FOR HOLLYWOOD!
Besides you should just get the original of "The Eye"
Over the coming weeks I'll be writing about the state of Hollywood actresses today. See who gets the thumbs ups, and see who gets the well deserved fisting of the most hurtful kind!
Yes I'm feeling a little bit better now, as you can see with the influx of blog entries that have been posted this week alone. As I said earlier I caught a nasty infection (and no its not AIDS thank you very much! ) from somewhere which ended up at the point of my elbow. It swelled up around the radius of my arm which left a welt. I need to get back to tip top shape ASAP, and I need to finally clean my room also!
Not to steal the thunder of the artists that I've posted here but Santogold is an artist that you should be looking out for over the coming months. Sure shes been compared to M.I.A. but somehow this comparison will be rubbed off shortly.........as soon as she releases her debut album.
Its the Anzac weekend here in Auckland, and I'll be finally getting off my computer tonight to help out with the Blah Blah Blah radio show. This show has been in existence now for about a year on Fleet FM playing the best in underground dance from around the world. I'm one of the Djs who gets to play out every Friday on radio! I'll be debuting some new tunes tonight fresh off the free severs of many mediafire links, and many blogs...Click on the link below for more info
A band that I'm currently enjoying right now is Elika (pronounced E-Lee-Kah) which is also Nerdy frames hit of the week.
Formed in New York in 2005 by Evagelia Maravelias and Brian Wenckebach, Elika describe their dreamy music as “blissed-out ambience with head-nodding beats that range from Downtempo to Trance to IDM.”
Their blog entry should be below us if you want more information.
Now on to stuff from youtube. Ask a Chola is a anarchist from the heart of South Califas! (hey I'm writing it as I see it okay!)
Chola in most of her vids is always masked with her trademark do rag bandanna, and much like that other masked idiot 'Ask a Ninja', Chola is always up for in-dept discussions about situationist movements, anarchy,America's dark history, unclassified information and whatever she can take down with her words, AK-47s, Switchblades, and Molotov cocktails! Its a blast watching her channel, especially her new episode about the relationship of the Irish and Spanish.
However there has been alot of negative backlash about whether she is another Borat. A white girl posing as a Hispanic. Trust me Borat has done more disgusting things than Chola, and she doesn't do it for fame nor fortune much like Borat.
Her Spanish sounds dead on to me when she was talking to some Mexicans on the streets of Los Califas!
All I can say about Chola is just watch her channel with an open mind. Would you rather have a dumb ass ninja, a even dumber ass Brit posing as a journalist from the great nation of Kazakhstan or a tough ass bitch from Los Califas!?
I just finished reading a blog from Momus of click opera frame about the imminent death of the magazine format, which of course I can relate to because some of my artwork was not only featured in this months issue of Black Magazine, but it was also Black Magazine's last issue ever as the mag announced that it went into liquidation (which probably explains why the mag took so god awfully long to come out).
Pavement, New Zealand's longest serving magazine closed its doors in 2006 due to a decline in advertising revenue and I would suspect that the internet was getting so popular around that time which also meant that blogs (or information conveniently available for the end user) was garnering much of a niche and unique readership which posed a threat to magazines.
Should magazines and other print media be cautious now? I mean give or take 3 more years, and you could be reading your daily through a 12"monitor!
Now not to play the dumb blonde advocate here, but have you noticed that Nz Herald, Rolling Stone and whatever mag you can think of the top of your head now have blogs on their sites? Does this also mean that our beloved print industry is also endanger of facing extinction? I can pretty much visualize it now, getting up in the morning, have some coffee, some toast, plopping your laptop on your lap, and not ever having that guilt of destroying another tree just so you can feel informed about current events.
Another thing which relates to the manufacture of the magazines is why on earth mags like Pavement and Black Magazine are sooo bulky? I know because of the advertisement and shit, and a good article about a certain someone does the magazine justice (Many memories from Pavement's vast articles), but why fill it with heaps of pointless photoshoots? Don't you know people have insecurity issues with their bodies? Just shoot the model at the back of the studio and call it a day!
Have you ever lifted a magazine (and by lift, I mean pick up)? Well back to the issue about blogs.
Are there any good blogs to read?...........Well it all depends on personal tastes. Much like a magazine there are thousands of blogs online. So to each, their own.
This blog for example is all about the facets of music, art, video games, TV, Movies and pop culture in general. The reason behind the name was influenced by many nerds who are out there either behind the scenes or infront of you everyday to amuse and entertain you, like Bill Gates! hahaha!
So lets end on this high and amusing point by saying this. Will blogs replace magazines? Straight up, yes they will. I mean lets face it, we're in the future now, and not many people can keep up with collecting magazines all the time. In fact I threw all of my IDN and Computer Arts magazines out because they now are available via their respective websites. So kids, remember what to say to your pops if you ever want to stay out of trouble..........Buy me a Computer!
Go to a mass service for the fallen Realizing that the Yoof of NZ don't give 2 shits about their Grand Parents and their war stories Play every Violent Video game you can think of Get drunk and pouring a 40oz to the falling homies from the 1940s Beating the shit out of anyone from Turkey Go to some shitty dance party and yes not giving 2 shits about the fallen Enlist in the New Zealand Army, which deploys nobody in war torn countries, because our army is really that bad
Having a huge orgy for the fallen
Have sex with an older guy (from the 1940s) Go on some murderous rampage in town just to pay tribute to the Anzacs! Go completely goth at some random grave site (which may have some deceased ANZACS) Go on a huge P binge And for the superficial, burnout your granddads credit card which is loaded with his pension! fuck Gossip columnist Bridget Saunders from Stuff.co.nz watch every ANZAC TV special.....or
Just observe a minute of silents to the men and woman who died defending your country so you can have those liberties to go to some shitty dance party with all of your mates, get fucked in the ass, and come back known you get to live another day without war!
(PS: Those radio buttons don't work....But thats the point!)
Well here's something we should answer to the 3 people who bother to even read our blog and that is..........When is everything going to be back to normal? 'Like when am I going to have my moments of smashing it big with 'Big Wednesday'? Or where's conan's top 5? Or have you (editor) recovered from that weird elbow infection?'
Well to answer all of that, it has gone back to normal (or what the worlds perception of normal is?). Posts are flying out the windows XP window, and shit is just getting better with new posts that the crew has been posting recently (notice that I've said 'post' 3 times within this paragraph?)
IHEARTCOMIX.COM & another reliable source has provided the fodder for us unreliable stupid arse Aucklanders to get with the program in the real world of music. None of this secret handshake bullshit or fellatio to some record company big wig or even trying to anally fuck some gay arse superstar DJ to get to the top of things!
No we at the nerd do it like it was the underground railroad, you know with the secret messaging and shit to our hommies on the front line of syndicated radio, pirate radio and wherever we can get that message across!
Here in New Zealand its 'New Zealand Music Month', a month that proves yet again that we as a nation still have this inferior complex towards Australia as Australia don't have a music month to prove that their music scene is 10 times better, faster, stronger than ours! I mean whats with all the hype with The Mint Chicks? Tui Nominations, now fucking Australia's MTVVA!
That's Ruban Nielson hanging off some scaffolding. Remind you of At The Drive In anyone?
Can I go out on a limb and say that I don't like The Mint Chicks?........Well can I?
After some intensive and extensive research, these guys have packed their bags and made their way Stateside to Portland, Oregon! Yes much like any Kiwi mans dream, to be American, just like the hommies who live in South Auckland!
Now let's Parlay this fact on another band from New Zealand, The Brunettes. Yep the band that consist of a man and a woman (a some backup band) and gross generalization of tween pop!
The band has made tracks Stateside also (I think they're signed to Sub-Pop.....I think) by moving to America, or it could be this other rumor that lead singer and xylophonist Heather Mansfield is married to her American Boyfriend.
Okay you're wondering 'is there a point to this?' Why yes there is........In order to make some form of living from your music here in New Zealand, you have to be a conformist, otherwise Helen Clarke will have to tell you to leave New Zealand, live in a small town in the U.S. and never come back, leaving more room for shit fuck artist like Opshop, Goodnight Nurse, Scribe, Mareko and Shapeshifter! (YES I HATE THIS FUCKING BAND SHAPESHIFTER. IF I HEAR ONE MORE ASSHOLE UTTER THE BANDS NAME IN MY PRESENTS, I WILL GO JESUS MEGA GRIM CHRIST ON THEM AND SMASH THEM BACK TO THE STONE AGES!@!#@$#$# )
And with Auckland still being a huge Polynesian city, New Zealand Hip Hop will still have some dominance here with the wealth of resources available for New Zealand shit hop fans such as radio stations, iwi stations, magazines, websites and record labels! I as Islander endorse those bands who keep it traditional with brown music. And please stop infusing rap into your tunes! Please!@@! For the last time we're brown, not black so stop it young sid!
So in conclusion take a real listen to what's out there New Zealand, a nice long listen, and if you got a friend that's in a band that refuses the dogma which is New Zealand Music Month, tell em Helen Clarke says hi and now fuck off.
Just received some new images of both the singles cover art and the album.....Pardon my ignorance, but who is Santogold?...............Oh well best better wait for that debut album huh?
OH DEAR TIME FOR SOME DAMAGE CONTROL.
Hi I'm the editor of the NF blogs and frankly my colleague is an idiot!
SANTOGOLD Hails from Brooklyn, New York and has been hot fire around the Blogsphere. So I guess we were bound to be next on the blogging hitlist.
Her style of singing is similar to her commonwealth counterpart M.I.A. but off course its Stateside!
My colleague was jokingly refering to the Hipsterrunoff article about how she is packaged (shame on you BDP!)
Look out for her releases and check out her tracks on myspace. I love em already, and I'm not just saying that too! http://www.myspace.com/santogold
By Cornchips Jeff Yes Winter is here in New Zealand.....Now if only I was a little prepared for it!
I was on a momentous streak with blogs over the weekend. I wanted to post some new shit like some new music reviews, but then the cold shivers struck me, and this unbearable pain at the point of my elbow was putting a utter strangle hold on my wellbeing! I've got this swelling at the point of my elbow, and now I have to go to the Doctors to get some antibiotics! There is the inherent danger of my body building a resistance to the drugs, but yeah.......
As you can see, we've added some new posts to the blog, such as Shibuya Suki's "album review" and now "Finger Muppets of the weak".
Now there is a reason if not explained already as to why we've decided to dedicate a post to shooting the bird, and it's because at nightclubs, people are suppose to have fun, and crack the odd grin or so! I do it, I love to smile for the camera and my favorite non threating hand gesture is the good old thumbs up! Or you can take a page from the Asians and give the peace sign!
Save those one finger salutes for other situations that will mean it the most, like if some douche is harassing you, or if you need to give an immediate answer to some cock who constantly butts you on the road.
I was surfing the youtube waves and I found this channel on youtube called 'thecruelworld'.Its basically a nit picking old frat who rips into the most popular youtube channels. He reads their stats such as how long they've been on youtube for, how many subscribers they have and other boring stats that blogs like ours can't cover or give a shit!
We did however found some of his reviews delightful and insightful such as him ripping into user Daxflame (which was recommended by a friend to check out)!
Although Dax comes across as a retard who needs more therapy and shock treatment, his youtube style of humor intrigues us!
There is one thing I would like to say about this critic of youtube.......Why should people work on proficient lighting and sound? That's the reason why youtube was set up in the first place, to promote a D.I.Y.aesthetics that most TV networks lack there of, otherwise it will come across as contrived and thats the last thing that we need in cyberspace! Fakeness! I was very reactive when he did a review on the nerds favorite Pinay Happy Slip!
Here's a lists his gripes as if he'd graduated from the same film school as Spike Lee!
>Shot composition needed work
>Her editing needed work
>Invest in some lighting and sound equipment
>And make some friends???????? WHAT!
Overall to each their own I say. I don't mind him ripping so much into Dax Flame cause he's a tard that needs therapy, but to hammer on Christine's DIY attitude due to her lack of equipment or friends is just a stretch too far within his critique!
And most critics tend to be utter cunts anyways! (Please don't give me that look!)
As for me, I love living on blogger.Now If only I can found a way to earn some cash and write blogs at the same time! Perez....Help!
Although I don't visit biggie, cityvibes and NZ Rave forums no more because they're all haters, I do however pay attention to the muppets who flip the bird with every photo op on these club sites. So I figured that maybe its time to give them a platform on our blog right here!
SO LADIES AND GERMS THE NERDY FRAMES PRESENTS........FINGER MUPPETS OF THE WEAK!!!!!
I don't know why they still posted them on Biggie, Cityvibes and NZ Rave. My momma always said to me 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say it'. And with these douches who go to clubs to have a good time always ruin it by giving the finger! Photographers just delete them! There is a time and place to give the finger, like when a cop pulls you over, or when some asshole harasses you or if a car asshole tail gates your ass on the motoway, that's when you should it, not a fucking night club!
Why do they give the finger? Its not like they're punks or anything giving the1ups to draconian authority, you know like how Black Power always shoot the bird to the pigs. See now thats justifying the means behind the one finger salute
So here are your muppets!
Its the same girl! Jesus!
Another reason for us warranting this entry is because bird flippers tend to be rare. I do have respect to those photogs who show some restraint towards posting these douches, but rest assured that the finger muppet posting will last for a lifetime! So yes its big egg on your face.
I'm also surprised that this weeks entries are all woman............Not very ladylike!
Photo by NZ Rave
Besides whats the point of posting photos of folks doing the whole West Coast fingers, or the reverse peace sign, or our favorite, the "raise your hood up pose", its just predictable and boring!
This is fun. Its like collecting Pokemon you know. Got to catch em all!
Tisk tisk tisk. Hello my name is Mr. Spell Wrong! I've only been hired like 5 minutes ago, and already there is heaps of Mr. Spell Wrong misspellings on this blog!
For example at the side where it says "Demo Policy", and on the line where it now says 'Send your Demos', well I had to jump into that and change it from what it used to say 'Send you demos'. English gentlemen! ENGLISH not Engrish!
I will be monitoring this blog for spelling imperfections! So stay on your toes!
Its Friday bitches and this entry will be a one of a kind.
I would like to know how far can an artist go in their pursuit of their own art practices. Do humans have any moral fiber left in them anymore?
Well this should be filed under "Lesbos who are vile in their art practice".
Enter one Aliza Shvarts. This woman has called her practice "Abortion Art" in which she impregnated herself via artificial insemination over a nine month period and later aborted the fetus using herbal abortifacient drugs!
I guess she didn't paticipated in a ritual gang bang like another artist from the late 90's Annabel Chong
Her art has clearly shocked alot of her Yale pears despite her stating that it was not meant to shock, but to incite dialog and debate about the relationship of the human body and art.
Let me break it into dummy terms that even a simpleton can understand. WHAT A SHITLOAD OF FUCK. Why would a woman go as far and go through all this trouble to promote discourse?
She obviously doesn't respect her body and should have thought this through. SERIOUSLY!
Well I don't want to go into semantics here, but here are some links
Well in all honesty I'm only going to post the Perez Hilton link, because this is quite alot to take in, and we at the Nerdy Frames HQ insist that you should not go to these extremes in order to make a point.
Dear fucking teenagers of New Zealand youtube.............You are not funny! So stop it! And would it help you to get some Maori or Pacific Island friends? Seriously?
Love The Nerdy Geeks
And the nominees are.....
It's Not Easy Being Scary by pommypictures The Package by corporalcadet Angular Distraction by zapzupnz Oh the Drama: Ep. 1 - Unexpected Guest by Patrickblog Orange You? by electromelia And The Booth by corporalcadet
And the winner is......none of you! Congratulations!
Now lets boost that hater readership up a notch with this entry. Next month is New Zealand Music Month, and with all honesty I haven't brought any New Zealand music..........ever!
Now you maybe thinking how unpatriotic of you not to support your homegrown backyard!
Believe me I would support it, but its just my tastes are hard to penetrate or please for that matter. Last year alone I've laid witness to my fair share of mostly downers from the industry and scenes which resulted from mediocre to downright disappointing music from Aotearoa!
With this entry, I will do my best not to drop band names at the risk of being more alienated than I already am, but I'll try to keep the whole thing civil and justifiable as possible.
First lets start with the Tui Awards. My definition of the Tui Awards is that you must be a complete utter sellout to receive one of these badboys, and I know what you're going to say 'What about Fat Freddys Drop?' Yeah what about them? Well for starters their album 'Based on a true story' went gold without any marketing from a major record label, and in 2006 it took out almost all the categories at the Tui Awards for Best Group, Best Album, Best New Zealand Roots Group and the Peoples Choice Award. (slightly sampled from wikipedia)
In all honesty 'Based on a true story' is by all accounts a very good album. Its well thought out, arrangements are good, vocals spot on and soulful and instrumentation is on par meaning those Tui accolades were well deserved. Now I'm basing this on people who'd played some of the tracks to me,which means that I will have to get myself a copy of the album and I would highly recommend it. But then again why should I tell you, the facts are clearly stated on the last paragraph (see above!). And can this feat be replicated at last years Tuis? Well............................................
Now back to the Tuis. Well in my opinion, anything that is broadcasted on C4 equals overhyped, overblown and overall crass! Case in point. This video!
Arriving in limos, that idiot Shavaughn Ruakere interviewing every musician with that rather whoreish voice of hers. I swear, if I got pulled to the side by this woman and having to go through that interview ordeal with her, I would soooo go Bjork on her ass! How can anyone stand this woman? Why do you give her employment C4? Just cut her pussy off and be done with it!
Now lets analyze the artists nominated at last years Tuis..............Well I can tell you that all those who were nominated are signed to majors such as BMG, Sony, and Universal. The Mint Chicks (think stage antics of the former At the Drive in) are now at the Tuis. I would had associated them with something like the Bnets.....Oh well!
I want to touch on one of the winners at the awards..............Hollie Smith! Her categories wins are as follows:
MAZDA BEST FEMALE SOLO ARTIST
KIWI FM BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR
BEST PRODUCER
Now I'm not putting a downer on her wins, but her music is sooooooo depressing! I'm serious I can't stomach her music, I feel like killing myself when I hear her sing.
"Bathe in the river" which was featured in the soundtrack of Toa Frasier motion picture NO.2 was pretty much the turn off point for me to Hollie 's music altogether.I swear If someone was on suicide watch, I would offer this album as his or her solution to offing themselves.
Overall the Tuis don't do it for me because I don't buy any of my music from The Warehouse (as noted by Brooke Frasier winning THE WAREHOUSE HIGHEST SELLING NZ ALBUM for Albertine) nor support any of the majors labels. So if you love industry cocksucking, then the Tuis should do for you. Okay now how about them Bnets?
Well from what I saw on the Bnet website I'm very impressed. Now with the Bnets its not as corporate driven as the Tuis! These awards give credence to independent artists who have the power of the Bnetwork and student radio along with the peoples votes (via its website).
Now there are alot of indie and alternative artist that are voted into the Bnet awards, which as I said earlier is good for those who aren't signed to major labels, and are dependent on radio play to plug their music when other means are exhausted!
The only gripe with the Bnets I got is with some of its music. Excluding the Electronic, hip hop and Downbeat categories cause they're favs of mines, I'm focusing more on the Rock, Pop and Live categories in particular the Alt Rock slash punk bands. How alternative can alternative music be? Because believe me there is alot of shit out there that is passed off as "Alternative" music, to me it just feels like maybe more band practice should have been enforced or maybe they should learn to play their instruments a little bit better? I don't know its my opinion and its just a minor gripe.
Overall the Bnets get my vote. Nothing glamorous, just straight up to the business! Yeah that's right no limos, or fancy red carpet or some washed up What Now star annoying you with her whorish voice, it just cuts straight into the juggler! Extra points to the Bnet for keeping that quoter up for New Zealand Music, because most of the Deeejays on B do play more variety into their shows which is what I like.
Now with that said, what on earth is George FM going to do for their part for New Zealand Music Month? Come on you can only play so much Dick Johnson and Greg Churchill remixes!
I know thats a gross generalization of George Fm I'm saying here, but they were originally marketed as a Dance music station. But if you want me to say something nice about George FM then just keep your ears out for the following shows that will fill that NZ quoter.
The George selector shows Chocolate Sundae with Gene Rivers P.U.B.E The Beatlicks Show with Isaac Aesili Double Up with Jefe Mañana & Lisa from Down the Road And In The Pocket with Nyntee.
In conclusion, my relationship with New Zealand Music is more of a Bi-polar relationship. I'm not entirely opposed to the idea, just hesitant and cautious.
Just recently I've been listening to Anika Moa and Anna Coddington. I DONT KNOW IM A BIG SUCKER FOR FOLK MUSIC!@#@!!!! Disasteradio's album "Visions" is a good one also so be on the lookout for reviews from moi on some of the artists mentioned here in this blog entry!
So I would like to wish everyone a happy NZ Music Month.
The open Roaders (That's me on the left with the Tongan tee)
Hi folks, my name is Jacob Sua. I dj for Fleet Fm and I'm a correspondent for the lovely and funny guys and girls of The Open road on Kfm Radio
Its my honor to present this segment of the Nerdy Frames blog aptly named 'Lowbitrate Lollies'!
Before my nosedive into dance music, I was listening to a whole different range of music altogether, far beyond anyones comprehension. But just recently I've stumbled upon my collection of DVDs which houses alot of my soulseek finds, yes I got some of these lollies from Soulseek!
But before you go and call the RIAA, just hear me out okay. The reason for this new segment of the blog is to make aware that I had a love of this genre once, and I want to share it with others who may feel the same about it.
This is pretty much my take on world music which spans influences from around the globe such as Germany, France, Japan, Korea, USA, and so on.
The name 'Lowbitrate Lollies' was something I've dream up, well.......not really and this does have an interesting back story
Around 2001, my dad and I went to purchase a computer. I fell in love with it and I wanted to find out about many things that a computer can do. Believe me, from what people can tell me it was infinite! Somebody mentioned that you can get music from P2P networks. So on a relentless search I found soulseek, and it was a godsend!
Also I wasn't aware about bitrates at the time, hence the reason behind the name 'Lowbitrate Lollies'. So this blog entry is for you to make somewhat of a intimate relationship with your Ipod (or Iriver whatever you have)
So for some of the links provided, I will indicate the bitrate for you. Most of these should be at 120 to 192, which is perfect for Ipods or for your own convenience, at the privacy of his or her own home.
And keep your lids well open as this will be a weekly segment. Enjoy!
God where is all the mastery which is Americas YouTube awards? Yes here in New Zealand, the youtube Demographic is mostly teenagers! Well fuck me blind I say! And this lovely montage slash promo video is for The New Zealand Youtube Awards! I bet half of these teens come from well to do homes!
On a positive note, I will be doing individual blogs of my favorite Youtube shows this week, starting with my all time favorite, Happyslip Productions!
I would like to go on record here and say that slingshot is by far the worst ISP I've ever hooked up with! Why?..........Take a look at my fucking internet bill!
Yeah note the many numbers on this son of a bitch! Jesus H. Christ!
And if you think that's worst, try get through to Slingshot via its 0800 number, and you'll be barraged with a shitload of options read out by a pre-recorded voice before you can get to a actual human being!
Advice for people and lessons learned here? Research! Research! Research!!!!!
Get some recommendations from friends, family, whoever, and try keep your data cap down, which is why that bill is the way it is, I've brought too much data, and with the mp3 downloads clocking up to 15megs per song, I guess I'm at fault with that.
As for my friend Annette Presley. You my dear need to be double barrel gang fucked sideways, with a side bukakke ritual from all of your clients!
Got a hot demo that you sooooo want us to listen to?...put it in here.
(Disclaimer: Please do not abuse our drop box. We will only take 320 Kbps Mp3 submissions or Wav. files within this box.
If you send us a demo that doesn't meet our criteria or the criteria of the Drop Box, it will automatically be deleted...sorry Skippy but those are dem rules!)Send me your track
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