Reed & Radley

21/02/2025

Chris Reed will be dropping some quality house music at InkBar, Auckland tonight.

15/11/2024

The sun is (finally) out - and so are the Brighter Days crew. See you at Ink tonight for deep and driving house action from DJ Andy Vann, Duncan Wylie and Chris Reed, from 10pm.

17/05/2024

Ahead of tomorrow's Natural Rhythms party, I just want to thank everyone who's supported any of the four labels in the NR family in any way - be they dancer, DJ, producer or promoter. We never take it for granted as we continue to take Kiwi club music to the world. Hope to see some of you at Ink tomorrow night.

18/04/2024

We've got the first Natural Rhythms party of 2024 coming up fast. And we're celebrating New Zealand Music Month with an incredible array of music-makers and DJs.

Natural Rhythms is a family of record labels (Grass Green, Electric Orange, Black Sands and Red Snapper) taking Kiwi club music to the world.

At Ink on Saturday, May 18, the brains behind tracks from Monkey Boots, nineteen79, soulfoundation, Mono/Loco, Hooky and more will combine for a night of house in all its forms.

They’ll be joined by very special guests Leon Dahl and label founder DJ Andy Vann

The party will mark the release of multiple new EPs, including a couple by me. Next up on Electric Orange is Unframed Pedantry, under my own name. Then there's Heroic Dancefloor on Red Snapper in my Mono/Loco guise. Not to mention a Monkey.Boots remix on Leon's excellent Gimme Love EP (Grass Green). Plus new stuff from the prolific Gene Schmutzer-Kennedy (Black Sands).

The theme of NZ Music Month 2024 is Amplifying Aotearoa / Paorotia Aotearoa. It aims to shine a light on those who are the heartbeat of our music scene.

Natural Rhythms is a chance to dance to homegrown beats and the people who made them - all night long.

25/02/2024

One of New Zealand's longest-running house music brands, Electric Orange started almost 20 years ago as a free party for the beamers, dreamers and schemers of the Auckland scene.
What they dreamed up next were Sunday afternoon sessions, Saturday night shindigs and - finally - a record label with a growing reputation for deep and driving underground grooves.
It's the natural place for Mono/Loco - one of the many aliases of label co-founder and resident DJ Chris Reed - to release his tribute to all those who put Electric Orange on the musical map, particularly founder Andy Vann.
The Saturday Night Mix is custom-built for smoky basement action, powered by rolling percussion, propulsive rhodes and a hypnotic single-note bass riff complemented by a syncopated acid line. Squelchy, filtered stabs and strings add further layers of warmth in the second half.
But it's the vocal that brings everything together, conveying emotion, meaning and soul in two superbly deployed lines.
The Sunday Afternoon Mix is a wobbly disco-tinged treat - proper tablet tackle if that's the kind of things that floats your boat.
Built around an ascending old-school bassline and expertly filtered loops it's both of its time and redolent of the late 90s US house sound that remains one of the Mono/Loco touchstones.
Mono/Loco - Theme From Electric Orange

Available for pre-order on Traxsource. One of New Zealand's longest-running house music brands, Electric Orange started almost 20 years ago as a free party for the beamers, dreamers and schemers of the Auckland scene. What they dreamed up next were Sunday afternoon sessions, Saturday night shin...