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Niko Ne Zna are New Zealand’s very own Balkan Gypsy brass extravaganza. Formed in Wellington five years ago, the band has been stunning audiences ever since with their exuberant, dynamic performances.Comprising trumpet, saxophone, accordion, trombone, sousaphone, drums and percussion, Niko Ne Zna are a truly authentic ensemble. They can roam while playing, and enchant [...]

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SUMONE PRODUCTIONS presents the epic music video for Polkapocalyptic featuring The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band. Filmed in Berlin 2009. Written produced and directed by Nathan Taare and Dylan Bakker. Music from The Benkas debut album ‘Polkapocalypse‘.

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A psychedelic Afro-Soul explosion in 12 parts, The Hot Grits cover the stylistic ground between deep Funk, Soul and Afrobeat. From Meters-style struts superfast deep funk assaults to churning Afrobeat Soul. This music is designed to hit you in your soul, your face and your dancing equipment. My Rites is the third single (and video) [...]

too-drunk-to-fuck.mp4
‘Too Drunk to F**k’ is the second single to be released from The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band’s debut album ‘Polkapocalypse’ and is their version of the much loved Dead Kennedy’s song.
Hailing from the slums and ghettos of Auckland, New Zealand (the Prague of the South), The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band bring their unique brand of [...]

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Lorazopam is the fourth single from Renee-Louise Carafice’s debut album ‘Renee-Louise Carafice Tells You to Fight’ which was recently included in Nick Bollinger’s new book 100 Essential New Zealand Albums.
The video for Lorazopam is by Chicago-based director Israel Alpizar, who also directed the acclaimed clip for Renee’s first single, Bodhisattva.
Says Carafice -”This song was originally [...]

silver.mp4
‘Silver’ is the second single from Bond Street Bridge’s critically acclaimed debut album ‘The Mapmaker’s Art.’
The song and the video tell an epic story of folly, adventure, and eventual insanity.  A well-dressed but confused-looking young man pushes a mannequin in a post-apocalyptic shopping trolley through a desert populated by dessicated skulls, poisonous snakes, and cantankerous [...]

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Sixteen year-old Colin Lepper from Canada created and directed this clay animation music video for Renee-Louise Carafice’s third single “To Run” during his school holidays.
It took him 3100 still shots and two months to put together the beautiful end product.
“To Run” is the third single from Renee-Louise Carafice’s debut album “Renee-Louise Carafice Tells You to [...]

motorways.mp4
The debut album from Bond Street Bridge, ‘The Mapmaker’s Art,’ was recorded with one microphone and an old laptop in a falling-down villa next to Auckland’s northwestern motorway.  The circumstances of the recording had a strong influence on the content of the record; and this is particularly audible on the track ‘motorways,’ the new single [...]

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The Hot Grits is putting the party back into political party with their new video for the bFM chart topping single ‘The Ballad of Joe Stalin’ from their debut album ‘It’s too Drunk to be this Early’. The video takes the form of a party political broadcast and the Grits look certain to breathe a [...]

house-on-fire.mp4
“House on Fire” is the second single from Carafice’s debut album “Renee-Louise Carafice Tells You to Fight”. It was written for Texan alt-country singer Micah P Hinson who Carafice met while supporting him on his New Zealand tour in 2005.
“We were instant buddies and got on extremely well,” Carafice explains. “For me that was quite [...]

headlights.mp4
The Hot Grits have had their first music video release banned by TVNZ. The video was produced by the award winning local production house The Downlow Concept, and features a cast of four year old kids simulating an adult night out on the town. The kids are shown to be drinking milk, and dancing at [...]

bodhisattva.mp4
‘Bodhisattva’ is the first single from Renee-Louise Carafice’s debut album, ‘Tells You to Fight’. The video was shot and directed by Chicago-based Israel Alpizar.
Renee-Louise on Bodhisattva
“One of my friends was really struggling, deep in this mess – a very melodramatic
character who had a reputation for feeling suicidal whenever he broke up with a girl..
I [...]

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White features Matt Gibbons and Jesse Steel, two dancers heading out on the town to do some street performance with their trusty ghetto blaster. It is Christmas Eve 2006 in central Auckland and there are a lot of anxious shoppers running about scarcely paying attention to Matt and Jesse and their ‘Dance With Us’ sign.
After [...]

cater-for-lovers.mp4
Cater for Lovers is the second single off Tim Guy’s new album ‘Hummabyes’ and features the heavenly backing vocals of Anika Moa and Anna Coddington.
This is a beautiful video built around traditional non-digital special effects of scale and perspective.
It is the story of a shy girl and an artistic man who connect through her doll’s [...]

summer-breeze.mp4
Tim Guy comes forth with what surely must be the lightest gentle ode to the sound of the old Pacific. ‘Summer Breeze’ is the latest offering from Tim’s second album, the self-produced ‘Hummabyes’, and is a surefire antidote to the winter blues. The track, rolled along by ukelele, also features harmonica, slide guitar and [...]

the-dance-of-death.mp4
Following a frantic and explosive year of touring, festivals and crazy parties, The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band finally unleash their first music video . After sellout crowds across the country, including an extensive month long tour of the South Island in the summer, and spots in festivals such as Prana (where the band [...]

onelung – new scientist
A mad sonic scientist played here by Onelung himself takes a little too much of a substance he has just brewed up in a test tube and goes on a pyschedelic bike ride through the city of Auckland.

onelung – banana jelly tower
Brilliant wacky animated music video by Kim Newall featuring a seriously catchy tune by Onelung from his latest album ‘Binary Pop Songs’

sleepytime – triangles in the snow
This beautifully minimalist film was shot and edited by Sleepytime aka Johannes Contag in the Austrian Alps and features three of his friends making triangles in the snow.
The track is currently unreleased but may possibly feature on the rumoured Sleepytime boxset (rumour started by Johannes).

Peachy Keen – not your kind of girl
Peachy Keen had a gig at the sadly now defunct Odeon Lounge in Auckland one night and were approached afterwards by two filmmakers who loved the music and wanted to make a video for the band.
The resulting video for the single ‘Not Your Kind of Girl’ was [...]

Karen Hunter – Perfect Jump
Perfect Jump is the first single and music video to be released from Káren Hunter’s stunning new album ‘Rubble’.
A perfect summery song, the video features an office-bound worker who flees his humdrum existence to make the Perfect Jump into a nearby swimming pool while Káren and band are playing poolside. This [...]

onelung – the royal loop
This video features the colourful character of Stuie during the course of his day as he makes his way to a gig with his band The Lost Socks. The voice of Stuie is by Stuart Petrie and the music by Onelung from his album Nu Scientist. Puppetry by Olly Smart.

onelung – far as i
Surreal, eye-popping animated music video by Kim Newall with music by electronic whizz-kid Onelung from his ground breaking album Nu Scientist.