Counting The Beat - Best of 2015

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Playlist:
Shifting Sands - Making It Through, Cosmic Radio Station (Fishrider)
JPSE - Bleeding Star, I Like Rain (Fire Records)
Death And The Maiden - Flowers For The Blind, Death And The maiden (Fishrider Records)
Glass Vaults - West Coast, Sojourn (Flying Out)
Robert Scott - Lights Are Low, Green House (Flying Nun)
SJD - Helensville, Saint John Divine (Round Trip Mars)
Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing - Rainbow Islands, Scrying In Infirmary Architecture (Muzai Records)
The Mint Chicks - Quick Show Of Hands, F**k The Golden Youth (Festival)
Marlon Williams - Dark Child, Marlon Williams (Caroline)
Jackal - I Cannot Go, Sparkle (self released)
Phoenix Foundation - I Want More, Phoenix Foundation/Eyelids split 7” (JBR)
Surf City - Beat The Summer Heat, Jekyll Island (Fire)
The Coolies - Shut Us Out, Kaka (Feeding Tube Records)
Sarah Mary Chadwick - Aquarius/Gemini, 9 Classic Tracks (Siltbreeze)
Nadia Reid - Holy Loud, Look To Formations, Look For The Signs (Spunk)
Triumphs - Solid Bones, Beekeeper/Bastardknocker (Monkey Killer Records)
Salad Boys - No Taste Bomber, Metalmania (Trouble In Mind Records)
Anthonie Tonnon - Water Underground, Successor (Wild Kindness)
The Chills - America Says Hello, Silver Bullets (Fire Records)
Greenfog - McNugget, Bruce Farm (self released)
Spook The Horses - Below Our Time, Rainmaker (Honesty Is Apreciated)
Shocking Pinks - Ice, Dance the Dance Electric (A Low Hum)
Richard Nunns & Mark Lockett - Redaction, Redaction (Rattle)

Counting The Beat radio show 28 Nov 2015

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Playlist:
The Chills - Pyramid / When The Poor Can Reach The Moon, Silver Bullets (Fire)
Fat Freddy's Drop - Fish In The Sea, Bays (The Drop)
Introverted Dancefloor - Feeling Unsound, Introverted Dancefloor (Carpark Records)
The Maitlands - Sweetest May, Ae Fond Kiss (Zelle)
Eb & Sparrow - The Sun, Sun/Son (Deadbeat)
Glass Vaults - Sojourn, Sojourn (Flying Out)
Jonathan Bree - Tear Your Face Off, A Little Night Music (Lil' Chief)
Darcy Clay - All I Gotta Do, Jesus I Was Evil (Real Groovy Records)
Chris Knox - Face Of Fashion, Seizure (Flying Nun)
Tall Dwarfs - Sign The Dotted Line, Weeville (Flying Nun)
David & Hamish Kilgour - The Collected Complete Works Of Robbie Burns, Ae Fond Kiss
Nadia Reid, Track Of The Time, Listen To Formations Look For The Signs (Spunk)
Avalanche City - Wild Places II, We Are For The Wild Places (Warner Music)
Exponents - Erotic, Something Beginning With C (Universal)
The Conjurors - When She Falls, Hints (1:12 Records)
The Cavemen - Fucked In The Head, The Cavemen (1:12 Records)
The Coolies - Scorpio 10, Kaka (Feeding Tube Records)
The Transcendents - Running Out Of Patience, Common Ground (Spirit Ditch)
The Dead C - T.I.F.F., Palisades (Dischi Del Baron)
Shortlived - Sick Of Excuses, Shortlived (Alwaysneverfun)
Ginzu And The Steak Knives - Huey Lewis And The News, Ginzu And The Steak Knives (self released)
Shocking Pinks - Nostalgia, Dance The Dance Electric (A Low Hum)
Robert Scott - Green Grow The Rashes O, Ae Fond Kiss (Zelle)
Nadia Reid, Ruby, Listen To Formation Look Sor The Signs (Spunk)

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Counting The Beat radio show 17 Oct 2015

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Playlist:
Opensouls - Standing in the Rain, Standing In The Rain (Jakarta Records)
Tami Neilson - Holy Moses, Don't Be Afraid (Southbound)
Shifting Sands - Abstract Objects, Cosmic Radio Station (Fishrider)
The Puddle, Valhalla, Playboys In The Bush (Fishrider)
Carb On Carb - Eden Terrors, Carb On Carb (Black Wire Records)
Salad Boys - Dream Date, Metalmania (Trouble In Mind Records)
Fields* - Life Cycle, EP (self released)
Wild Bill Ricketts - Five Speed, Later At Whitbys (Wondeful Noise)
Tokyo Prose - Dawn Chorus, Dawn Chorus (Samurai)
Shocking Pinks - Peace Out, Dance the Dance Electric (A Low Hum)
Car Crash Set - Another Day (Demo), Join The Car Crash Set (Anna Logue Records)
Shifting Sands - Waiting For The Sun, Cosmic Radio Station (Fishrider)
Rackets - Snake In The Grass, Could Do Better (Crown)
The Situations - Throwaway Society (Trouble In Mind Records)
Right Left And Centre - Don't Go (Virgin)
No Idea - Rugger Bugger, Class War (Jayrem)
Arc Of Ascent - The Inner Sign, Circle Of The Sun (Krauted Mind)
Creeping - Drear, Revenant (Iron Bone Head)
Shocking Pinks - Affection, Dance The Dance Electric (A Low Hum)
The Weeds - Wheatfields (Flying Nun)
2 Foot Flame - Mr H, 2 Foot Flame (Matador)
Timberjack - Come To The Sabbat (Top 12 1971 Loxene Golden Disc Award)
Shifting Sands - Making It Through, Cosmic Radio Station (Fishrider)

Counting The Beat radio show 19 Sept 2015

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Playlist:
Triumphs - Bastardknocker, Beekeeper/Bastardknocker (Monkey Killer Records)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love, Multi-Love (Jagjaguwar)
Silicon - Cellphone, Personal Computer (Weird World)
Salad Boys - No Taste Bomber, Metalmania (Trouble In Mind Records)
Jean Paul Satre Experience - Ray Of Shine, Bleeding Star (Fire Records)
Jackal - I Cannot Go, Sparkle (self released)
Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing - Rainbow Islands, Scrying In Infirmary Architecture (Muzai)
The Clean - Tally Ho, Anthology (Merge Records)
Liam Finn - Having A Baby, Champagne In Seashells (New Adventure)
Delaney Davidson - Eastbound, Lucky Guy
Marlon Williams - Dark Child, Marlon Williams (Caroline)
The Checks - Mercedes Children, What You Heard (Full Time Hobby)
Levitating Churches - Fullmoon Blues, Till Death Us Do Party (No Squares)
Loud Ghost - Cutting The Mustard Goose, Loud Ghost (Our Records)
Villainy - Love & War, Dead Sight (Warner Music)
Anthonie Tonnon - Water Underground, Successor (Canape King)
Chris Knox - Meat, Croaker (Flying Nun)
No Tag - Legalised Dogs, Oi Oi Oi (Propellor)
The Swingers - Counting The Beat (Propellor)
Kraus - Wolfram, I Could Destroy You With A Single Thought (Ultra Eczema)
Richard Nunns/Mark Lockett/Jeff Henderson - Tripped It, Redaction (Rattle)
Body Corporate - Blue Star Line, Howlaround (Kingsland Vinyl Appreciation Society)

Counting The Beat B-sides 002

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B-sides is an occasional series where I explore the obsessions, obscurities and oddities in my New Zealand record collection. In this episode - songs about New Zealand towns and locations.

Playlist:
Nick Nicholson & The Neketini Brass - Tararua Tramp
Ash Burton & The Nightcaps - The Strip At Dunsandel
The Formyula - Otaki
The Mockers - Murder On Manners St
Lou & Simon - The Streets Of Old Auckland
Les Andrews - Click Go The Toll Gates

Counting The Beat Radio Show 15 Aug 2015

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Playlist:
New Gum Sarn - Anxiety Nap, New Gold Mountain (Spunk)
Phoenix Foundation - Give Up your Dreams, Give Up Your Dreams (Memphis Industries)
Dear Times Waste - Blue & Gold, The End Of Puppies (A Low Hum)
Tiny Lies - Bag Of Bones, The Oaks They Will Bow (Lyttelton Records)
Streets Of Laredo - Dear Leron, Vol I & II (Dine Alone Records)
Carb On Carb - Phenomenal Ladies, Carb On Carb (Black Wire Records)
Wilberforces - Paradise Beach, Paradise Beach (Muzai)
The Mockers - Murder In Manners St, The First Five Years (RCA)
The Fourmyula - Otaki (HMV)
Scalper - Illusory Atmosphere, The Emperor's Clothes (Jarring Effects)
Groeni - The Oaks, Hewn (Project Mooncircle/Fines Ego)
God Bows to Math - High Strings, Brighter Futures (Muzai)
Proton Beast - Loading, Digitizer (Muzai)
Straitjacket Fits - Grate, A Flip And Two Twisters (Kingsland Vinyl Appreciation Society)
Death & The Maiden - Dear _____, Death & The Maiden (Fishrider)
Princess Chelsea - All The Stars, The Great Cybernetic Depression (Flying Nun)
Pumice - Greenock, Pebbles (Soft Abuse)
Phoenix Foundation - Sunbed, Give Up Your Dreams (Memphis Industries)
P.H.F.- Cry-On, Grind ST8 (Pyramid Power)
Street Chant - Less Chat More Sewing, Means (Arch Hill)
Gurlz - Out Of Bounds, Gurlz (RTC)
NRA - Glitch, Mud Babies (Flying Nun)
Loud Ghost - Another Lie, Loud Ghost (Our Records)
Transistors - Your Life Could Be So Easy, Is This Anything? (Arch Hill)
Old Loaves - First, Bad Rides (Press Gang)
Shihad - Think You're So Free, FVEY (Warners)
New Gum Sarn - New Gold Mountain, New Gold Mountain (Spunk)

Counting The Beat B-sides 001

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A show for New Zealand record that don't really belong on my main show. This is a show of obscurities, oldies and oddities. All kiwi, all vinyl - and plenty of crackle.

Playlist:
Gray Bartlett - Secret Agent 009 (Impact)
National Party - We're Keeping Our Word (National Party)
Bushfire & Mike Moore - Tamarunui (Tartat)
Tui Trio - Beautiful Waiheke Island (Viking)
Gray Bartlett - The Return Of Zero Man (Impact)

Counting The Beat Radio Show 18 July 2015

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Playlist:
Shocking Pinks - Smoke Screen (The Glimmers Beyond The Smoke Edit) (DFA)
Ponsonby DC's - G'day Mate, Ponsonby DC's (Strange Weekend Records)
Marlon Williams - Dark Child, Marlon Williams (Caroline)
New Gum Sarn - New Gold Mountain, New Gold Mountain (Arcade Recordings)
French For Rabbits - The Other Side, Spirits (Lefse)
Bloodbags - Talkin' Apes (1:12 Records)
Head Like A Hole - Creedence (Battle Hymn Records)
Heart Attack Alley - Cryin' (Voodoo Rhythm)
She's So Rad - Circles, In Circles (Out Of The Crate)
Onanon - Seacliff, Home Baking (Monkey Killer Records)
Operation Rolling Thunder - A Matter Of Space, III (Monkey Killer Records)
Idiot Prayer - Beautiful, Falconer (Monkey Killer Records)
Transcendents - Ed Ruscha, Lay Where You Collapse (Spirit Ditch)
Trick Mammoth - Doll (Wiaiwya)
Misfit Mod - Sugar C (Stars And Letters)
Desperate Models - Somme, Roaches (Burnt Rations Collective)
Pine - Siren, 12 Hour Collision (Arch Hill Records)
Skaface Claw - Shadowfax Can Suck It, The Last Alliance Of Rockets And Cats (self released)
Shoutin' Preachin' - Withdrawals, New Low Humans EP (Sound Recordings)
Split Enz - Kia Kaha (Ever be Strong, Conflicting Emotions (Mushroom)
Look Blue Go Purple - Safety In Cross Words, Bewitched (Flying Nun)
Bailter Space - X, Vortura (Matador)
The Renderers - Sea Of Total Darkness, Measured Strychnine Invitations (Exiled Records)
The Phoenix Foundation - I Want More, Phoenix Foundation/Eyelids Split 7" (Jealous Butcher Records)
Meterman - City Hum, Hemispheres (Midum / Someoddpilot)
Glass Vaults - Worrier, Glass EP (Jukboxr)

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Recent Vinyl Video #43

Counting The Beat Radio Show 20 June 2015

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Playlist:
Lord Julien - Tennis, Lord Julien (Wonderful Noise)
Strawpeople - One Good Reason (Pagan)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unnecessary Evil, Mulit-Love (Jagjaguwar)
Popstrangers - Country Kills, Fortuna (Carpark Records)
Age Pryor - The Best For You (Loop)
Car Crash Set - Heart Of Stone (Demo)(Annalogue Records)
Sexxx Haus - Dingo Dango, Fuck The Paparazzi (Kerosene Comic Book)
Vixons - Alfred The Alligator, V is For V!ctory (Envex Recordz)
Scalper - My Blood Your Blood, The Emperor's Clothes (Jarring Effects)
Mangle & Gruff - As A Business Math Teacher, Mangle & Gruff (self released)
Rocket Jocks - 25 Minutes From Rivendell, The Last Alliance Of Rockets & Cats (self released)
X-Ray Fiends - Big Black Spider, X-Ray Fiends (Sound Recordings)
Pumice - Covered In Spiders, Puny (Soft Abuse)
Lamp Of The Universe - Beyond The Horizon, The Inner Light of Revelation (Clostridium Records)
Fat Freddy's Drop - Rain, Live At The Matterhorn (The Drop)
Bailter Space - Tanker, Tanker (Flying Nun)
King Loser - Centre Of Things, You Can Not Kill What Does Not Live (Flying Nun)
Groeni - The Oak, Hewn (Finest Ego)
Sarah Mary Chadwick - Aquarius/Gemini, 9 Classic Tracks (Siltbreeze)
Fantails - Vegan Apocalypse, Fantails (PPD)
Our Love Will Destory The World - Carnivorous Rainbows, Carnivorous Rainbows (BaDaBing)

Counting The Beat Radio Show 16 May 2015

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Playlist:
Kamandi - Take Me Home, Divided (Red Bull)
Son Lux featuring Lorde - Easy, Alternate Worlds (Joyful Noise)
Androidss - Saturday Night, Androidss (self released)
Sneaky Feelings - Not To Take Sides, Send You (Flying Nun/Captured Tracks)
Bailter Space - Tri5, Trinine (Fire Records)
Signer - Hurricane Or Sunshine?, The New Face Of Smiling (Carpark)
Bozo - Swim Down, The Echo Ohs/Bozo split EP (Waist Deep)
Trust Punks - Gordian Knot, Discipline (Spunk)
Markdowns - French Import (Bonehead)
Princess Chelsea - We Are The Stars, The Great Cybernetic Depression (Lil' Chief/Flying Nun)
Anthonie Tonnon - Railway Lines, Successor (Canape King Records)
Sarah Mary Chadwick - Knots Unwind, Eating For Two (Bedroom Sucks Records)
Rhian Sheehan - Borrowing The Past, Stories From  Elsewhere (Loop)
Jackal - Treehugger, Castle In The Air, (self released)
3Ds - Animal, Strange News From The Angels (Flying Nun)
Chug - Mustang, Sassafras (Flying Nun)
Avant Garage - Sparrows, Music (Unsung Music)
Greenfog - Hear The Rain It Calls, Bruce Farm (self released)
Daniel Boobyer - Shake Your Dirty Chain, Time Killed The Clock (Tasman)
P.H.F. - I Was A Kid, Grind St8 (Pyramid Power)
Strange Harvest - Amnesia, temporary (Fishrider Records)
Downer Buzz - Train Grunt, Downer Buzz (Always Never Fun Records)
Bonecrusher - Witch Hunt, Bonecrusher (self released)
Shihad - Get Up, Killjoy (Warners)
Mint Chicks - The Perfect Machine, Anti-Tiger EP (Flying Nun)
Leather Apron - Down River, Leather Apron (Long Lost Music)

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Record Store Day & Recent Vinyl Video #41

Counting The Beat Recors Store Day Special 2015

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Playlist:
The Brunettes - The Record Store, Mars Loves Venus (Microfiche)
The Phoenix Foundation - I Want More, Phoenix Foundation/Eyelids split 7" (Jealous Butcher Records)
Liam Finn - Within An Inch, The Nihilist Demos (Yep Roc)
Black City Lights - XMYMXND, Divided (Red Bull)
SJD - Helensville, Saint John Divine (Round Trip Mars)
Surf City - Beat The Summer Heat, Jekyll Island (Fire Records)
Delaney Davidson - Wishin, Diamond Dozen (Squoodge)
The Mint Chicks - A Quick Show Of Hands, F**k The Golden Youth (Festival)
Shihad - You Again, Killjoy (Warners)
Death And The Maiden - Dear, Death And The Maiden (Fishrider Records)
Princess Chelsea - Digital Dream Girl (Lil' Chief)
Connie Benson - Stampede (Loral)
Bitch - Wild Cat, Bitch/Cleves (Real Groovy Records)
The Cleves - Work Out, Cleves/Bitch (Real Groovy Records)
Larry's Rebels - Let's Think Of Something, A Study In Colour (Real Groovy Records)
X-Ray Fiends - Herpes (Sound Recordings)
God Bows To Math - Oil Of Vitriol, Brighter Futures (Muzai)
Sneaky Feelings - Husband House, Send You (Flying Nun/Captured Tracks)
The Stones - Fad World, Three Blind Mice (Flying Nun/Captured Tracks)
The Echo Ohs - The Cooler, The Echo Ohs/Bozo (Waist Deep Records)
Jakob - Harmonia, Sines (Mylene Sheath)
Shayne Carter & Peter Jefferies - Randolph's Going Home (Flying Nun/Captured Tracks)

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Counting The Beat radio show 14 March 2015

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Playlist:
Opossom - Blue Meanies, Electric Hawaii (Fire Records)
Popstrangers - Rats In The Palm Trees (Carpark Records)
Yumi Zouma - Song For Zoe & Gwen, EP II (Cascine Records)
Princess Chelsea - Goodnight Little Robot Child (Lil' Chief)
Xanadu - Speeding, 1999-2002 (self released)
Transistors - Static Control, Transistors (Velvet Tiger)
Scorched Earth Policy - Calcutta Rail, Krypton Ten (Unwucht)
The Letter 5 - Haunted House, You Are Here (Flying Nun)
Spacious - Vector 27 (Flying Nun)
Terminals - Something Dark (Xpressway)
The La De Da's - All Purpose Low, A Day In My Mind's Mind (Real Groovy)
The Formyula - Up Country City Down, Turn Your Back On The Wind (His Master's Voice)
Larry's Rebels - Halloween , A Day In My Mind's Mind (Real Groovy)
Spook The Horses - Below Our Time, Rainmaker (Honesty Is Appreciated)
Proton Beast - Data, Digitizer (Muzai)
Sal Valentine & The Babyshakes - Warning Baby, Sal Valentine & The Babyshakes (self released)
Tiny Ruins - Rolling Mill Blues, Haunts (Spunk)
Surf City - I Had The Starring Role, We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This (Fire Records)
Shihad - Gimme Gimme (Noise)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Swim And Sleep Like A Shark, Blue Record (Jagjaguwar)
Bic Runga - Birds, Winning Arrow (Columbia)
Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing - Out Of Zone, Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing/Looks Like Miaou Split (Tendresse)
Tropic Of Capricorn - The Only Star In The Sky, Morning Star Rise (Svart)
David Eggleton - I Saw It In The New Zealand Herald, Wrap Up (Partisan Music)
The Mint Chicks - Fuck The Golden Youth (Flying Nun)
Sommerset - , Special Limited Edition Tour 7" (Swell Records)
Xanadu - Sky, 1999-2002 (self released)

Counting The Beat radio show 21 Feb 2015

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Playlist:

Mark DeClive-Lowe - The Processional, Church (Mashibeats)

Dictaphone Blues - Her Heart Breaks Like A Wave, Mufti Day (Banished From The Universe)

The Chills - Wet Blanket, BBC Sessions (Fire Records)

Robert Scott - Lights Are Low, The Green House (Flying Nun)

The Situations - Throwaway Society (Beyond Your Mind Records)

Christoph El Truento - Rats Scurrying In The Backyard, Conglomerates EP1 (Wonderful Noise)

Riki Gooch - Very Nerve, Conglomerates EP2 (Wonderful Noise)

Streets Of Laredo - Everything To Everyone, Vol I & II (Dine Alone Records)

Aldous Harding - The Hunter, Aldous Harding (Lyttelton Records)

Ritchie Venus - The Forbidden Planet, Battling The Odds (Unwucht)

Drowning Is Easy - Spoons For Christ, Drowning Is Easy (Unwucht)

Sarah Richards - Pogo, Your Laughter (unwucht)

The Chance - Plane Over Thailand, The Chance (Unwucht)

The Eastern - Come And Dance With Me, The Territory (Rough Peel Records)

Robert Scott - Vertigo, The Green House (Flying Nun)

FIS - Speech Spirits (Kassim Mosse'd), Speech Spirits (Loopy Fruit)

Govermint - All These Conditons, Pipe Drm (self released)

Spook The Horses - Footfall, Rainmaker (Honesty Is Appreciated)

Lamp Of the Universe - Domain Of The Buddha, Lamp Of the Universe / Trip Hill Split LP (Clostridium Records)

Head Like A Hole - Creedence (Battle Hymn Records)

Proton Beast - Cimmerians, Digitizer (Muzai)

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