For The Record Podcast

For The Record Podcast LO-FI presents For The Record: cultural insights from the people who matter in NZ club culture.

We end our first season with Rob Warner DJ: a man about town since the 90s who’s DJd at all the major venues and festiva...
29/11/2023

We end our first season with Rob Warner DJ: a man about town since the 90s who’s DJd at all the major venues and festivals, and he's just about to do the next LO-Fi Explorations mix. As underground promoters, we certainly know how difficult it is to make the case for what we do to the local authorities, so we thought it’d be good to speak to someone who actually knows how to do it. How can we change archaic licensing laws? How can underground promoters get funding? Why are strip clubs given longer licenses than DJ-led venues? etc. etc.

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Rob became an obsessive record collector when he discovered the US sounds of Murk and Strictly Rhythm while in Japan. When he came back to Auckland, he would go religiously to Simon Grigg’s BPM Records and feast on the latest underground house from the US and Europe. This eventually led to him playing at one of the most legendary venues in Auckland, The Box, and being the NZ tour DJ for Global Underground. He’s been a constant on the scene ever since, fighting the good fight for underground music and club culture.

ANTIX are one of the biggest names in NZ electronic music. They're one of the few NZ acts to properly make it in Europe ...
21/11/2023

ANTIX are one of the biggest names in NZ electronic music. They're one of the few NZ acts to properly make it in Europe and America, and they're still going strong, with a new album coming out imminently. LO-FI worked with them to create a 25th anniversary tour that was sadly cut short by COVID, but not before they'd played an epic set at the Auckland Wintergarden at The Civic. We talk to them about that night and a whole host of other things, including:

-Do you have to leave NZ to make a proper living out music?
-The Cyberculture Records and Normanby Road parties in the late 90s
-How it felt to be selling out 30,000 shows in South America, but struggle to make a living when they came back to NZ
-Why they moved away from ANTIX and used pseudonyms, and why they've come back to ANTIX
-Were they ever psytrance?
-What the scene can do to protect itself in difficult economic times
-How ANTIX are breaking into NFTs

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Get the first instalment of the ANTIX MUSIC 25th anniversary release series here: https://iboga.fanlink.to/bKtL

16/11/2023

Jamie Larnach discussing the beauty of democracy at parties where the food is just as important as the music. To hear the full episode, go to our show page:

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For episode 2 of the series we speak to all-round creative legend, Jamie Larnach. He’s been a great friend and confidant...
14/11/2023

For episode 2 of the series we speak to all-round creative legend, Jamie Larnach. He’s been a great friend and confidant to LO-FI down the years, and by God, this man has some stories! From the moment his parents took him to Nambassa Festival, Jamie was destined to create and perform in NZ’s great outdoors… he’s been a fixture on the festival scene across five different decades. You won’t be surprised to hear him give very good insight on where our festival culture is today, and the deeper meaning of what we’re doing as performers and participants on the dancefloor.

Other topics covered:
-Why has there never been no festival in NZ as big as Nambassa?
-Are the younger generation taking on the mantle?
-Should events have a more democratic structure so the DJ is not centre stage?
-Jamie’s life travelling the world in a psychedelic micro circus
-The history of the ‘burner’ ethos
-The policing of conduct on dancefloors
-Indoor events V outdoor events
-The purpose of recorded DJ mixes

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10/11/2023

Joost Langeveld remembers Reliable Recordings' breakthrough release, Disco Hoopla, and the legendary producer Alan Jansson Listen to the whole episode in the comments —>>

09/11/2023

Do established members of the scene have a responsibility to encourage new artists and improve diversity?

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