In a nice way, from nice way town.....  (Part one)

Cory Blaikie

This ain’t Hollywood
https://soundcloud.com/mudflatrecordings

Stiff neck thugging OG Charles Wood was born for this!
From the early inspiration of hip hop, funk and soul, he brought his first pair of turntables at the tender age of 15 and has been cutting and scratching his way through ever since. Rolling out from the shores of the English east coast , once he got a taste for electronica there was no looking back.
These days he can be found deep in the Auckland Ghetto, providing the soundtrack for our days and nights - and with his slow jive down beat, sexed up deeper house and intergalactic future B Boy tech, he's got us good.
Turn it up!

The journey began in 2000 producing and hosting a variety of shows on Wellington's Radio Active 88.6FM (http://www.radioactive.fm). The radio medium provided fertile ground for experimental forays tumbling through genres from 'death'till'dawn' . It also provided endless opportunity for Kate to expand her musical horizons due to the extensive and eclective collection that the studio housed. A natural progression to the club and festival scene ensued. 

A fan of deep, dark, & moody bass lines; atmospheric interludes; soul & melody; everything lush, and downbeat grooves. Lover of house music in all forms to weave it together, and always on the hunt for tracks that challenge genre defining boundaries.

Gig Highlights:
2021: Ignition Festival, LO-Fi Stage - Matamata, NZ
2020: AUM Psychedelic Wonderland NYE Festival, LO-Fi Kanuka stage - Parakai, Auckland, NZ
2020: Galaxy - Fitzroy Bar, Auckland, NZ
2020: Unknown Beat - Matakana, NZ
2019: Last Place on Earth Festival - Pepepe Site, NZ
2019: Mekong Baby Restaurant - Auckland, NZ
2018: Burning Seed Festival, Mind Sub, CocoPocoLoco & The Brink Stages - Red Earth City, NSW, Australia
2017: Audio Project - Ink Bar, Auckland, NZ
2016-17: Mount Social Club (Resident) - Mount Maunganui, NZ 
2016: FMC Football Music Culture - Mount Maunganui, NZ
2016: Kiwiburn Decompression Warehouse Party, Auckland, NZ
2016: Burning Man Festival, The Seven Deadly Gins Bar (Resident)- Nevada, USA 
2016: Kiwiburn Festival Dance'a'Lot stage - Hunterville, NZ
2015-16: Britomart FM (Resident) - Auckland, NZ 
2015: AUM Psychedelic Wonderland NYE Festival - Parakai, Auckland, NZ
2015: Essential Sound Series - Backyard Bar, Auckland NZ
2015: Ginger Jam (Resident) - Ginger Minx, Auckland, NZ
2015: Shipwrecked Festival - Te Arai, NZ
2014-2015: Backyard Summer Sessions - Backyard Bar, Auckland NZ (Resident)
2014: Sisters of Underground - Ink bar, Auckland, NZ
2014: Ish - Red Bar, Auckland, NZ
2014: Ginger Summer - Ginger Minx, Auckland, NZ
2013: Modern Love Masquerade - Ginger Minx, Auckland, NZ
2013-2014: Ginger Sundays - Ginger Minx, Auckland, NZ (Resident)
2013: Asylum - Red Bar, Auckland NZ
2013: Groovepool - Red Bar, Auckland, NZ
2012-13: Mekong Baby Restaurant (Resident) - Auckland, NZ 
2001-2011 - Radio Active 88.6FM Show host/producer and founder of 'Step Up' (all female dance music show) Saturday nights 11pm-1am - Wellington, NZ