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ideas, thoughts and perceptions from musicians in wellington

Hiroshi AKA Nikos Otis — Mysterious Vibes aka If You Don’t Like Disco You’re A Big Idiot

President Bill Clinton’s administration was really great for many reasons, but is mostly celebrated in pop culture as being a vehicle for…good ol’ Bill to get unsavory sexual favors from members of staff. Disco and Clinton have a lot more in common then wavy saxaphone solos and questionable ethics: the good stuff is overlooked, and the stuff that should probably be forgotten is all that remains in the public psyche. ¶ I’m not really talking about Saturday Night Fever and ABBA and flared pants and shit like that. All I’m saying is that disco/funk bands in the late 70’s and early 80’s provided the DNA for so much good music, but…

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A few thoughts… (AWPW)

Since I’ve written that first blog post about understanding local music in a contemporary context, I’ve had a lot of thoughts about what it is to be a musician versus being a listener, where the line is blurred, what is an inspiration versus what is an appropriated aesthetic in a new…

Admiral Conbar —

Alongside my jumbled thoughts there is always something i am pondering to do with music. From listening to and thinking about sounds i hear in other peoples music, to working out a cool rhythm for a part in a song or constructing a riff in my head while i’m walking to work. The music i create is…

What’s ya buzz?

When I was a kid and leading into my teenage years I would become obsessed with a musician, put them up on some sort of untouchable pedestal and treat them like a god. I wonder if this is partly from coming from a small town, and not really being exposed to any sort of hub of musicians outside of a…