Closing Set of Shipwrecked 2021 - played by the Festival Director, Creator and Curator, Logan Baker himself on the Humming Hut. Ended by the announcement of Auckland entering another lockdown that day - what a moment to remember.

Watch the video here: https://www.pro-live.tv/videos/new_release/logan-baker-shipwrecked-2021/

Logan Baker at Humming Hut - Shipwrecked 2021

This new year I had the absolute honour to play on Aum's incredible main stage, The White Stag. It's been a bit of a journey to get here, I was meant to play this stage last new year but because of covid and the restriction levels my set clashed with another festival I was booked for so it didn't happen. I was heartbroken at the time, so being able to step onto the stage this year was a very special moment for me. 

There's a few people I need to thank for making this happen. 

Firstly, Mr John Paul Moss. Mossy, your support goes way back, you gave me my first ever solo club set playing after Antix all those years ago, so playing this stage for you at the incredible set time you gave me means the absolute world. Thank you for your love, support and belief in me, and for the incredible women you booked to play alongside me that night. What you, Anna and Steve have created with Aum is completely unrivalled in New Zealand. It's magic beyond words. thank you all for all your mahi to ensure we all have the best new year every year, it doesn't go unnoticed.

Thank you to Lara, Bronte, Ainsley and Yuna for being my before and after support crew, you kept me calm beforehand (and I will freely admit I was nervous to play this one!) and the love you showed me when I finished brought me to tears.

To my darlings Cyril Orson and Cooper Khan, teaming up with you both musically has changed my world over the last few years. I've learned so much, discovered incredible music and your support when I finally made the jump from Serato to USB's in August made it so much easier. This set would not be what it is without you two.

Thank you to Shelley Watson (AKA Miss Mixtape) for the photo, you always have such a great eye!

And finally to all the dancers and revellers, THANK YOU for allowing me to take you on this journey and for staying up for my set on night one. It was a privilege and an honour to play for you all.

Happy new year, everyone! May 2023 be filled with amazing music, incredible dancefloors, love, laughter, and good times. 

See you on a dancefloor soon.

Aum New Years Festival 22/23

Live on The White Stag - Aum 22/23

Hello friends! It's been a minute since I posted a live set here, and as a thank you for the support I've received on my latest EP I wanted to share something new and special. This ons is a Downtempo set I played for House Party's Bartledoo Campout  in 2022. I was very inspired by my friend Bridges who was going to play after me, so wanted to set a proper setting at sunset hour. 

Hope you like it :)

PS. I also played some live guitar in between, but somehow I messed up the LINE IN switch, so everytime I played my guitar the music would duck and make my guitar sound louder than it was... whoops, I tried 🫠

Live @ Bartledoo Campout 2022 [downtempo set]

On Waitangi Day morning we were honoured to play the closing set for 2023's Taniwha's Den. It was a beautiful morning and the cathedral of trees was humming with the sound of cicadas, as it transpires, they like house and techno! There are a few people who we would like to thank for making this happen.

Grant and Leon thank you for trusting us with this years close, the Den stage is such an unbelievable setting and playing at the end of it all was such an incredible experience.

To Mike and Pete, once again the sound was out of this world! Every year it gets better, you are both magicians.

To the VJs, DJs, crew and volunteers, thank you for making our time onsite such a pleasure, we had the most insane amount of fun all weekend and already can't wait to do to all again.

Huge love and thanks to the amazing Miss B for the image, HAZARD WARNING!

TO ALL OF YOU DANCERS! Wow, what a floor to play for! Thank you for coming on the ride with us, we will never forget this morning and a huge part of that is because of your energy you brought. thank you, thank you, thank you.

And finally, our crew slash backup dancers, Bronte, Lara, Lawrence, Nikki and Tina, it was so much fun having you all in the booth with us, and so much fun out of the booth as well. The love, laughter and support you all gave us means the absolute world.

We loved every minute in that booth playing for everyone on that floor, it was a magical morning, it was a privilege and a joy to share COMMUNICATE with you all at the Den for the first time.We hope you all enjoy listening to this as much as we loved playing it. We can't wait to dance with you all again soon.

Live at Taniwha's Den

Taniwha's Den 2023 Closing Set

Transported back to that time when Mary Hush'ed out an invite to the Holographic Hotel. After hours of wonderment and lucious audio and visual experience I wondered into the hot sweaty boiler room where I got to play these tunes. It sounded pretty much identical to this ... live raw recording.  I had sooo much fun, If you listen you might do tooo....

Mary Hush - BoilerRoom 2023

I was totally honoured to DJ the "Tuesday Tune-up" for Mirage Garage at Burning Man 2023. This set is comprised of uplifting, vocal house music from around the world and I had an absolute blast performing it in the dust! 🔥

Tracklist:

Kapote - Jass Func Haus (Art Of Tones Remix)
Gerd Janson & Shan - Surrender (Original Mix)
Johnick & Joey Chicago - Out Of This World (Original Mix)
Aroop Roy - Talkin Bout Life (Original Mix)
Ian Pooley - What’s Your Number (Jazzanova Renumber)
Soul Reductions - Got 2 Be Loved (Extended Mix)
Mighty Mouse - The Spirit (Extended Mix)
Disclosure - Expressing What Matters (Original Mix)
Choices - Less Is More (Original Mix)
Mark Brickman - Again & Again (Original Mix)
David Penn - Nobody (Club Mix)
Dr. Alban - Sing Hallelujah (Original Mix)
Til West & DJ Delicious - Same Man (Vocal Club Mix)
The Mabon Dawud Republic feat. Dele Sosimi - Na Lie (M. Caporale Remix)
Lindstrom & Christabelle - Baby Can’t Stop (Aeroplane Remix)
Octave One - Black Water (Full Strings Vocal Mix)
Crystal Waters vs Christian Marchi - 100% Pure Love (Clint Morgan Bootleg)
Oliver $ - Doin’ Ya Thang (Original Mix)
Elfenberg - Elfenboogie (Original Mix)
Emmanuel Jal - Kuar (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
The Joubert Singers - Stand on the Word (Dimitri From Paris Sunday Morning Remix)
Soul Central - Strings Of Life (Danny Krivit Re-Edit)
Tinush - Struggle (Extended Mix)

Eternal thanks to my brother Timour for trusting in me ❤️
https://soundcloud.com/timourxyz

LIVE at Mirage Garage [Burning Man 2023]

Beat & Pathways 014 - Matt Drake

For the 14th Pathways we welcome Matt Drake.

Drawing inspiration from the astral arpeggios of 70s Krautrock, ragged Balearic vagabond synth pop of the 80s and proto-rave machine rhythms of the 90s he has dedicated his life to music. 

Being a core part of New Zealand's underground dance music scene since the early 90s - touring clubs, festivals and events across the land, a founding member of Nurture Recordings, running Crucial Records on Auckland's High Street, hosting the decade long Slipstream radio on George FM, running club nights such as Beatstreet, and is a creative director at Lo-Fi Productions who have been creating epic boutique music experiences with the very best house and techno artists from Aotearoa and from across the globe.

Stoked to have MD on the BP poddy. Quality listening pleasure,

Follow Matt here: https://soundcloud.com/mattdrake
https://www.facebook.com/djmattdrake
https://www.instagram.com/matthewtdrake

Matt Drake - Beat & Pathways 014

Not bad considering I was a last minute fill in, it was the wettest Splore of all time, and I had no monitors for first part of my set -the amazing sound crew managed to locate and instal another set without a break in the music.

Thank you to @beaconbloom, @maz_project & @antdotmusic for the advance copy of "Sky Father"- their recent release on @dawnpatrolrecords - it started raining as I played it. 🌧☔️

Live from the Crystal Palace @ Splore Festival 2023

A deep techy evolving minimal soundscape for the after hours

SLUG SEX (4am Minimal Mix)

The 2024 festival season was filled from start to finish with good times, incredible music and amazing humans across all the wonderful events we played. This season we were asked by Earth Beat Festival to run a stage takeover right at the end of the season, what a way to cap it all off!

We put together a lineup the we are incredibly proud of; it was diverse, fun, filled with talented musicians and didn't cater to just one type of four to the floor. We asked our artists to record if they felt comfortable, we are very grateful that most of them did. We are also very grateful they are all allowing us to release their work.

Following on from Yunset's amazing opener, we asked our good friend Lawrenz to join the fray and bring his brand of fun to the stage. Lawrenz booked Heylady to play his birthday party a few years ago and she came away very impressed with the B2B set he played with Drake. A firm friendship was forged that has seen plenty of good times, some sterling jam sessions and some solid DJs sets at some very well known festivals being laid down by the young up and comer. It was a no brainer for us asking him to join us on the stage for Earth Beat. In his own words:

"Here’s my set recorded live at Earth Beat festival 2024. It was Daytime + Sunshine and whilst the day hadn't quite got to "let’s party" time, I wanted to create a groovy yet techy vibe for the EB revellers as a happy interlude between workshops and exploration. Hopefully it’s cheeky, catchy and dancey! Whatever you think it is, it was a lot of fun to play."

COMMUNICATE proudly presents Lawrenz live at Earth Beat. We hope you enjoy this set as much as we did on the day.

COMMUNICATE presents: Lawrenz live at Earth Beat Festival 2024

Here's my set from the delightful Festival 23, recorded live on the Saturday afternoon. Hugs x

Alex Anderson @ Festival 23

MissB played her first DJ set on a bright yellow and black double cassette deck in 1989. 
Since upgrading her technology and mixing skills, she has played at AUM, Brazen, Burning Man, The Lucky Star, Gardens Festival, Kiwiburn, Ponderosa Ranch, Relish, Rhythm and Alps, Shipwrecked, Splore, Synthony, Taniwhas Den and WaipuPaLooza.

MissB has opened for Basement Jaxx, LP Giobbi, Crazy P, Dr Packer, Pitch Black and Greg Churchill, but a cyclone stopped her opening for Fatboy Slim. 

MIssB loves how music inspires and connects people to create supportive communities. 

MissB released her first EP, The Temple in 2021.
Her remixes of tracks by The Dastardly Bounder/ Flying Mojito Brothers, cusp, Max Maxwell, Martyn Martyniuk, Kennedy, and House of Downtown have been released on paperecordings,  
Sun Explosion Records, unReliable Recordings, Broken Dawn Records, Deep & Under and Hot Jandal Music with more due for release in 2023.
MissB combines her love of classical music and the acid synths of her youth with quirky percussive and vocal elements.

Live from the Crystal Palace @ Splore Festival 2023

MissB (Artist)

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