Kayrn is back in the booth for another Saturday Spring installment. Rosetta Stone explains secondary dominant chords on Lecture Me. Dear Finn helps you with dates and mates, as resident empath. Stella explains what your brain's up to when you're blackout drunk, on Implausible Deniability. Whakarongo mai nei!
Welcome to your new weekend listening! Broadcasting legend Karyn Hay is on your Saturday airwaves, bringing you three hours of tunes and chats. Castor is the student that becomes the teacher on Lecture Me, telling us about his recent lecture on primitive accumulation. Stella Huggins is in for an explanation of the environmental impacts of AI on Implausible Deniability. Finn Johansson is our resident empath, giving the listenership advice and validation on Dear Finn. Listen back to the first show of many.
Finn Johansson’s more than a little buzzed to unveil the song he'’s been working on with Amamelia for Demo Gods. The prompt was "The Fine Art of Restraint” and Amelia Berry joins us from Melbourne to talk about the process. Hear the demo here!
This week George reckons the early 2000s turned out to be far more mysterious than he expected, thanks in part to Lazy Lane and the track Strange Dreams.
Finn Johansson’s been busy over the break lining up his Demo Gods. Amamelia is his latest collaborator and she’s picked "The Fine Art of Restraint’ as the prompt. In Pt. I we check out a few gems from Amelia’s back catalogue.
On a rainy Tamaki day we’re transported to the islands of the Pacific with Sefa Inari, the Director of the Pacific Dance Festival – on this month and showcasing the finest dancers from Aotearoa and across the Pacific.
Finn Johansson Zooms in from Queenstown where he’s on tour with Fables, while this week’s Demo God Karl Sölve Steven joins Karyn in the studio. The prompt Karl chose was “BPM” and the resulting demo is titled Bad People Music.
Finn Johansson gives us a potted musical history of Karl Sölve Steven before unveiling the finished demo next week, with the prompt being “BPM”. Tracks from The Drab Doo-Riffs, Supergroove, Queen Neptune and one from Karl’s highly successful movie soundtrack work.
Karyn talks with author Richard Langston about his new biography on the band that helped launch the Dunedin Sound – “The Clean: In The Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul”. Richard’s in the middle of a short book tour which comes to Auckland Wednesday 15th April at Flying Nun Records. (spoiler alert: Clean live music included!)