Music 101 for Saturday 29 March 2025
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Basement Jaxx on the eve of Synthony
1:20 PM.This weekend, 40,000 people will converge at Auckland Domain for Synthony, a sold-out spectacle that has become New Zealand's largest one-day festival. Dance music icons Basement Jaxx are a headliner… Read more Audio
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Forever is a Feeling by Lucy Dacus
3:00 PM.After the success of supergroup Boygenius, one third of the trio finds herself under extra scrutiny, doling out lyrical breadcrumbs while enjoying a major-label budget. Read more Audio
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Serebii live in the RNZ studio
3:15 PM.Tamaki Makaurau-based composer, multi-instrumentalist and rising talent Serebii has just released a new album Dime. Serebii, who has previously focused on production - often in collaboration with… Read more Audio
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The Mixtape: Collector Grant Gillanders
4:10 PM.Grant Gillanders is a collector of local music and has found some rare and historic recordings in unexpected places. He's this week's guest on The Mixtape and he'll be talking to Nick Bollinger about… Read more Audio
Basement Jaxx on the eve of Synthony
This weekend, 40,000 people will converge at Auckland’s Domain for Synthony, a sold-out spectacle that has become New Zealand's largest one-day festival.
Dance music icons Basement Jaxx are a headliner, and Kara Rickard tracked them down on the eve of the sold out show.
Basement Jaxx Photo: jean-luc brouard
2.15 Pony Baby’s Arahi on Taite nomination
This week Arahi’s project with Jazmine Mary, Pony Baby, was announced as a nominee for the Taite’s Best Independent Debut Award. Arahi jumped on Music 101 to talk Taite and Cuba Dupa ahead of his solo show tomorrow.
Photo: Putaanga Waitoa
3.15 Serebii live in the RNZ studio
Tāmaki Makaurau-based composer, multi-instrumentalist and rising talent Serebii has just released a new album Dime.
Serebii, who has previously focused on production - often in collaboration with Arjuna Oakes - has taken the brave step of putting his own voice centre stage on this album.
Callum Mower, who goes by the artist name Serebii, was live in the RNZ studio with his band Rachel Clark (Elisa) on vocals and Michael Howell playing guitar.
Serebii Photo: Crystal Chen
3.40 Review: Forever is a Feeling by Lucy Dacus
After the success of supergroup Boygenius, one third of the trio finds herself under extra scrutiny, doling out lyrical breadcrumbs while enjoying a major-label budget.
Photo: Universal
4pm The Mixtape: Collector Grant Gillanders
Grant Gillanders is a collector of local music and has found some rare and historic recordings in unexpected places. He’s this week’s guest on The Mixtape and he’ll be talking to Nick Bollinger about his life and work, as well as playing us a few of his musical discoveries.
It's "impossible to overstate" Grant Gillanders' contribution to New Zealand music. Photo: Victoria Birkinshaw/North & South
Songs played on the show
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Arc De Soleil - Sunchaser
Voom - I love you girl
Children - Robert Miles
Basement Jaxx - Raindrops
Everything but the girl - Missing (todd terry remix)
Crush - What if I Wanted It?
George VILLA - Keep it all Together
Julien Baker, TORRES - Sylvia
Jordan Rakei - Hopes and Dreams (live at the Royal Albert Hall)
Jungle - Keep Me Satisfied
Mark Pritchard, Thom York - This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice
Eddie Vedder - Needle and the Damage Done
2-3
Maribou State - Blackoak
Mel Parsons - Post High Slide
Nowhere Man - Greentea Peng
Hypersensitive - Casual Healing
Arahi - My Baby’s Like a Hurricane
Jalen Ngonda - Just as Long as We're Together
Matt Berninger - Bonnet Of Pins
Reb Fountain - Come Down
JJ Cale - Don’t Go to Strangers
Neive Strang - A Sweet Dive
Split Endz - Give it a Whirl
Durand and the Indicators - Been So Long
Tina Turner - What's Love Got to do With It
3-4
Floating bridge - Lord Echo (instrumental)
Ian Drury - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
La Cumbia me esta llamando - Nubya Garcia, La Perla [Kaidi Tatham remix]
Serebii Live - Dime
Serebii Live - Verran’s Corner
Serebii - Lost Your Breath
Beck - Que Onda Guero
Minor Gold - Way to the Sun
Chemical Brothers - Alive Alone
Limelight - Tune-Yards
Primal Scream - Movin’ on Up
Grant Gillander's Mixtape songs
Johnny Devlin - Teach You How To Rock
Grim Ltd. - Baby Doll
Bitch - Rollin’ Down the Road
The Groove - I’ll Be Home In About A Day or So
The Fourmyula - Since We
Corben Simpson - I Love Every Little Thing ABout You
