just gunna stick this one out there. For some reason it’s only the second half of the show but hey what the hell.

planetary assault systems - boostar
incognito - castles in the air ( victor duplex aftrotech remix)
jill - match made up in heaven
vj’s inc. - take me
terje bakke - balloons are beter than flowers
recloose - keep on movin (isolee remix)
kerrier district - ceephax
mr fingers - waterfalls
critical rhythm ? i  forget
franki de jojo - turn off the lights
x-ray - let’s go
bfc - chicken noodle soup
loose ends - hangin on a string (frankie knuckles remix)

Finally a mix worthy of posting …

jump st band - b-cause
tokyo black star - innersequence
discemi - data sapiens (radio slave remix)
alton m - where my fathers danced (hot box mix)
designer music - problemz
lcd soundsystem - tribulations ( lindstrom remix )
larry heard - black oceans
daniel wang - like some dream
talk talk - it’s my life
(ramble)
major problems - overdose
dj pierre - the scream
phaeax - talk about
criminal element orchestra - Put The Needle To The Record Again (”Sky” King Needledub)
2 men a drum machine and a trumpet - tired of getting pushed around (mayday rhythm mix)
latin rascals - macho mozart
tokyo black star - blade dancer 
house 2 house - hypnotize me
ladycop - to be real
black science orchestra - new jersey deep
trentemoller & dj tom - an evening with bobi bros ( this might seem weird at first but i actually quite like this track in all its mashing together of old school deep and dub and peak hour ecstasy vocal cheesiness )
grace jones - nipple to the bottle

you might notice a large quantity of goofy house style scratching in the middle of the segment and a few of my even goofier attempts at it. i actually love house records that try and fit in a scratch, perhaps most famous (and goofily seen) of housemaster boyz house nation. the perfect antidote to all that turntablism business…

Tracklist

Paul Woolford - Untitled 
Quadrant Q1.1
Phantom Slasher - Blow Me Slow
Wagner - Saturday Sitdown
ELO - Drum Dreams
Steel an Skin - Afro Punk Reggae (Dub)
Kenny “Jammin” Jason - Can You Dance
Armando - Don’t Take It
House Master Boyz & the Rude Boy of House - House Nation
Vainqeuer - Antistatic
Sweet Exorcist - Testfour
dj b.cause -anne lennox’s paper planes (b.casue party break)
Vangelis - Multitrack
World 2 World - Cosmic Traveler
Laurent Garnier - Virtual Breakdown
Theo Parish - Ebonics
West Street Mob - Breakdance
Faze Action - My body your body
The Joubert Singers - Stand on the Word (Larry Levan Mix)
Fingers Inc - Stars
Crue-L Grand Orchestra - Spend the Day Without You

Maybe the best way we can get to know each other is to start with this pretty good english documentary, misses a fair bit espech later on but the early stuff is really good. Watched all 15 parts last night. phew

One sad imaginary exercise has prompted me to think about this. 

 Imagine if our signpost for the high quality of New Zealand Music of decades past, Split Enz had existed today as a band trying to “make it”. Maybe they would, by putting in all the hard work that bands today put in trying to promote themselves (99% of the time overseas and I expect 100% of the time now that EMI has taken it’s talent scout out of NZ). One thing I can guarantee however, is they would be having a tough time getting any money out of the NZ government with their weird ways. Shouldn’t getting that kind of support be easy for a band that sums up everything the NZ public supposedly thinks is great and our music should be?  

I actually think the idea of the government supporting creative endeavors is a good one. My major problem is that it seems the funds are massively misdirected towards pleasing dinosaur major label related industries and unimaginative wastes of money.

Earlier this month I talked to a struggling attendee of one of our high profile industry seminars. She described meeting some schmuck from middle echelons of one of the bigger labels from the States who’d been flown in to talk about something he knew nothing about ( how to reach a worldwide audience ) . I guess it’s nothing in the scheme of things but you can tell when someone’s feelings are hurt, they were busting arse just to stay in the game and not getting much love and here is this massive extravaganza of wasted money.  

Yet we still have all these talking heads saying “Good golly, We’ve Done It!”*

Whatever we’ve done, it’s been done very wrong. The way the system seems to work is the bulk of the money seems to go to those at the end of chain. People working for commercial radio stations, major labels, major promoters and advertisers seem to do ok so long as there are one or two big acts they can promote to fulfill their quoto. And who can blame them? These people push product, good or bad. If things were healthy, these people wouldn’t be struggling so much to find varied acts to promote. But these are the people at the end of the line, it’s the beginning that seems to be suffering. The sad thing is we just aren’t spending money on generating or refining talent. Largely the major labels may be disappearing, good riddance probably. 

But what’s to fill the gap of funding for signed bands that aren’t getting a chance taken on them anymore. It seems as though the democratization of media has been a bad thing for the New Zealand music scene. 

It’s it’s own fault really. It’s shot itself in the foot by not keeping up (with a few happy exceptions), but when you have the government initiatives still acting like the two most important things are signing to a major label and touring the same old places for ever it’s a bit of a lost cause. 

Maybe in the future we need to think about spending our money on things that actually affect NZ Music, developing local scenes and venues, helping bands get recorded, taking a chance on non conventional and gosh horror supporting non-profit radio. haha not likely.   *( see the youtube for some light relief )  

 Indeep - Last night (instrumental + sound fx)
Williams - Love on a real train
West Street Mob -Break Dance!!! Electric Pop Dance
Laurent Garnier - Virtual Breakdown (mind your head mix )
Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Hi Tech Jazz ( the science)
Tyree - I’m Free
Inner City - Pennies from heaven ( kevin’s dream a lot mix )
Quadrant - Q 1.1  
Marcus Mixx - Without Makeup (Ron Hardy Mix)
Steve Poindexter  - Maniac (origional 1986 Acid Replay Version)br \>Hard Drive  - Just Believebr \>Daniel Bell - Acid Phreak
Adonis - No Way Back
Trixxx - Chill Out (dub)
(interlude)
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
Basic Channel - Octaedre
Theo Parrish - Overyohead 
Goblin - Flashin’br \>Williams - Love on Real Train ( studio remix )  
David Morris - Love to lovebr \>Freefrom Five - Perspex Sex (Maurice Fulton Remix) 
Africali - Ayiko Bia
Quadrant - Dub II   
http://audio.substep.com/fleetfm/springfling150508.mp3 And this… just keeps upping the ante of awesome as the video goes on.