We like....

Feeling the love... from Mr Duncan Grieve, editor of Real Groove Magazine.

Apparently 'Take Me Home' is Duncan's local single of the year! Of course we knew that (along with a few others... of ours....haha) but since we're a tad biased its nice to hear it from others.

"I’m gonna be playing this for months so gonna push it again. This is my local single of the year by far, a beat and a rap which need no apologies, and stand up to anything from anywhere right now. Now it has a clip to match, B&W faux-sophistication that is more OMD than OMC.

PNC runs a beautiful, rolling cadence on Take Me Home, sounding all businesslike as he recounts this tale of an illicit romance that ran on a little long, with all the detachment the situation requires.

When he first posted it he called it “the most comprehensive reflection of the shit I actually listen to”, and it kinda sounds like a New Zealand hip hop artist breaking free - rather than obeying these hidden laws that keep the local music credible, but a little safe, he’s going big, having fun, spending as much time on the chorus as the verses. It pays off big time.

The hook, with its call and response contrast between the eager female begging “take me home” and the vocodered-to-infinity “well I don’t want you in my life now” is pure ’80s Miami, sun-bleached and empty, and 41’s production gleams like a Countach (see below), all sharp angles and crystalline surfaces."

Check out more at Duncan's blog, http://thewire.co.nz/duncan

If you're of similar opinion to Mr Grieve and you live in the general vicinity of Wellington then perhaps its best if you head down on October 25th to Super Club, at Shooters. It'll be hip-hop madness with PNC and Dave Dallas both playing live along with a veritable who's who of NZ talent.

Tour Of Dirty Part 1

Well overdue we know, but we finally have the first episode of footage from the Tour Of Dirty in March 08. The tour went all over the country and combined hip-hop with drum & bass, featuring all our artists:
Tiki, Concord Dawn, P-Money, Bulletproof, Scribe, PNC, David Dallas and State of Mind.

We'll get the rest of the footage edited and posted as soon as our editor has a little spare time... For now though, here is Episode 1, the first leg of Hamilton and Palmy:

The Juice TV Awards

Tomorrow night the dirty crew will head off to the Stamford Plaza for the 8th annual Juice TV Awards. www.juicetv.com

We're up for a few, hopefully you all got in and voted before voting closed...
These are the trophies we could walk away with:

Best Solo Video: Tiki; 'Always On My Mind'



Best Hip-Hop Video: two possibilities here... PNC featuring Chong Nee; 'Find Me', and Scribe featuring Tyra Hammond; 'Say It Again'






Best Roots / Electronica Video: Tiki featuring Julia Deans; 'Our Favourite Target'



Video Artist Of The Year: Tiki

Telecom Top Video: 48May; 'Car Crash Weather'



Juice are broadcasting the awards live from 7pm tomorrow night, on Juice TV... strangely enough...so check it out and clap loudly if we win.

Get Out The Way..... la da da da da da day

Finally we have the new David dot Dallas video for his outstanding single 'Get Out The Way'. Worth the wait however as the boy racers take over...



Enjoy!

Back to the 80's...

PNC's brand new clip has just been completed... its the video for 'Take Me Home' featuring Mz J. Straight from the 80's... enjoy!

The VNZMA's

Quite a mouthful there.... the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards are fast approaching on the 8th of October.
This ceremony marks the 43rd annual awards, and they grow every year... this year outgrowing their old home at the Aotea Centre and moving into a new home at the Vector Arena. This means tabled seating instead of rows which i'm sure will be much more civilised!! Until you throw the drunk musicians into the mix of course...

Anyway, Dirty has a nice healthy bunch of nominations this year, thanks to man of the moment Tiki and 'blitzer of 2004 with a mighty 7 wins' Scribe.

Tiki led the way this year with 6 nominations; Best Album, Best Single, Breakthrough Artist, Best Male Solo, Best Maori Album and Best Aotearoa Roots Album, plus Best Video for Carey Carter and his work on Tangaroa, while Scribble has 2, Album of the Year and Best Hip Hop Album.

October 8th will see the Dirty crew stalking the red carpet and hopefully leaving with handfuls of awards. If Scribe wins this year for Best Hip Hop, that will make a solid 5 years in a row with Dirty Records taking out the top spot.

Past winners from the camp have been:
2004 - Scribe, The Crusader
2005 - P Money, Magic City
2006 - Frontline, Borrowed Time
2007 - PNC, Rookie Card

For the full list of nominees and all the latest goings on, check out www.vnzma.co.nz
And watch C4 live on the night to check out both Scribe and Tiki performing at the awards.

Pedro Moola hits the Top 10

Well it looks like the fingers crossed paid off... P Money's new single 'Everything' featuring Vince jumped up this week on the singles chart from # 24 to # 7!

This single is only available in a digital format with no physical copies anywhere so we're hoping 'Everything' follows in in the footsteps of Tiki's fourth single 'Always on My Mind' which became the first single in New Zealand history to sell platinum (15,000 copies) as a digital release only.

'Everything' can be bought online from Amplifier, itunes, Digirama, Vodafone and Telecom.

Our brand new blog, giving you all the latest information on our artists.

First up is P-Money and his brand new single 'Everything' featuring Vince Harder. All over the radio already and having jumped 16 spots from its debut at # 40 on the singles chart to # 24 last week, we have high hopes for today's chart!

Check out the video here - this was Record Of The Week on C4 last week...