Counting The Beat Best Of 2019

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/CTB-21-12-19.mp3

Playlist:
The 40 Watt Banana - Maharashna, Peeled (Pharaway Sounds)
Delaney Davidson & Bruce Russell - Crown Electric King, One Hand Loose (Ilam Press Records)
Miss June - Polio, Bad Luck Party (Frenchkiss)
Dum Dum Boys - Looking For Fun, Let There Be Noise (In The Red Records)
Beastwars - Storm Of Mars, IV (Destroy)
Francisca Griffin - Ghost Boy, The Spaces Between (CoCoMuse)
Aldous Harding - The Barrel, Designer (Flying Nun)
Maxine Funke - Time To Return, Home-Fi (Feeding Tube)
Ben Wood - Praise, Put (Melted IceCream)
Brian Crook - This World (Just Eats Me Up Alive), This World Eats Me Up Alive (Ba Da Bing)
David Kilgour - Threads, Bobbies A Girl (Merge)
Tiny Ruins - How Much, Olympic Girls (Flying Nun)
Seafog - Feelings, Animal Lovers (Zelle)
Swallow The Rat - Echos Of A Tide (Headbump Records)
Bill Direen - The Utopians R Just Out Boozin’, Memory Of Others (Sophomore Lounge)
Alastair Galbraith - Marcasite Lace, Morse (Siltbreeze)
Tiny Pieces Of Eight - Wooden Boat, She Shanties For Frank (self released)
Sandoz Lab Technicians - Long Arm, Grey Orders Distant Trails (Ikuisuus)
Sarah Mary Chadwick - I Just Came To Pray, The Queen Who Stole The Sky (Rice Is Nice)
Pickle Darling - Rinse Spin Cycle / Nicholas Cage, Bigness (Z Tapes)
Si Si Es - Ode To Holger Czukay, Spaced EP (Hypnotic Rhythms)

Counting The Beat 16 Nov 2019

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/counting-the-beat-16-nov-2019.mp3

Playlist:
Bill Direen - Alligator Song, A Memory Of Others, Sophamore Lounge)
Upper Hutt Posse - UHP To The People, Declaration Of Resistance (Kia Kaha)
Hex - Page Of Pentacles, The Hill Temple (Sloth records)
Silly Drunken Bastards - Hey You, Fingers In The Air (self released)
Transistors - Confidence Man, Cuppa Jarra Bossa (Melted Ice Cream)
Contenders - Attract Repel (self released)
Pickle Darling - Even Pinker, Bigness (Z-Tapes)
Marineville - 15 Wax Tears, Penguins Ate My Chips (Zelle)
David Kilgour - Ngapara, Bobbie’s A Girl (Merge)
Womb - Blow You Away, Like Splitting The Body From the Head (Arcade Recordings)
Sulfate - Fetus, Sulfate (Prison Tapes)
Mice On Stilts -Tuatara Lawn, An Ocean Held Me (Allgood Absolute Alternative)
Tiny Pieces of Eight - Hymn to Poet Is, She Shanties For Frank (self released)
Peter Jefferies - Age For The Innocent, Clutter (Bada Bing)
Dum Dum Boys - Hold Me Tight, Let There Be Noise (In the Red Records)
Bulletbelt - Mistaken Identity, Down In the Cold Of The Grave (Headless Horseman)
Torana - Fired Up, Fired Up (Dadpunk Productions)
Brian Crook - Sisyphus, This World Just Eats Me Up Alive (Badabing)
Roy Montgomery - Realm Of The Senses, After Nietzsche (Aguirre)
Ben Woods - Indulge, Put (Melted Ice Cream)
Vincent H.L. - Up All Night, Weird Days (1:12 Records)
Hallelujah Picassos - Voices Of One, Voices Of Exuberant Hellhounds (1:12 Records)
Naked Spots Dance - About But Not Our, Certain Ways (NSD)
Adults - Like The Moon, Haja (Warner)
Blam Blam Blam - Don’t Fight It Marsha (Blam Blam Blam (self released)
Little Skull - Marlborough Sounds, A Light In The Window Will Guide Us Safely Home (Planam)

In Two The Drone Zone

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/CTB-InTwoTheDroneZone.mp3

Playlist:
Peter Wright - Pursuance, A Lowtides Rising (Fordamning Arkiv)
Little Skull - Untitled, Ubique (Planam)
Nigel Wright - Mossopolis (The High Seas)
Sandoz Lab Technicians - Back from The Dead For The Third Time, New Botanists (Knotwilg)
Stumps - The Movement, Split Fleet Dodge (Palindrone)
Richard Francis & Clinton Watkins - Untitled (Dungeon Taxis)
Tim Cornelius - Lampara Del Ermitano, A Lowtides Rising (Fordamning-Arkiv)
Dust/Omit - Section 2, Fore-Casts (Fisheye)
Birchville Cat Motel - Crestfallen (Killer)
Surface of the Earth - Estoppel, Interference (Fusetron)
K-Group - Over-Future Shop (I Dischi Del Barone)
The Never Quartet - 1.001.006 (I Dischi Del Barone)
David Watson & Tony Buck - Exhale, Ask The Axes (Besom)

Counting The Beat A to Z Pt. 2

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/CTB210919.mp3

Playlist:
Mint Chicks - F**k The Golden Youth (Flying Nun Records)
Mole Manne - Do You Remember (A Mole Record)
Nazgul - Private War, Good Demons (Out Of Order Records)
No Tag - Legalised Dogs, Oi Oi Oi (Propellor)
Onaweta - Dance Little Children, Killing Capitalism With Kindness (Turbulence)
Otara Millionaires Club - We R the OMC (Volition)
Playthings - Coloured, Live 1981 (Flying Nun)
Pumice - Greenock, Pebbles (Soft Abuse)
?Fog - Fat Man With A Big Dork, Fatman With A Big Dork (Fog City Enterprises)
QED - Everywhere I Go, Animal Magic (CBS)
The Rip - Up And Down, Timeless Piece (Flying Nun)
The Renderers - A Dream Of The Sea, A Dream Of The Sea (Tinsel Ears
Soane - Go  Master (original Version) (Paper Recordings)
Sommerset - Fast Cars Slow Guitars, Fast Cars Slow Guitars (Drug Bust Records)
Tyrant - Nowhere To Run, Breaking Out (Tyrant Records)
Tall Dwarfs - Crush, Slugbuckethairybreathmonster (Flying Nun)
Upper Hutt Posse - E Tu (Jayrem)
Unrestful Records - No Job, First Movement In Eb (Jayrem)
Vortex Brothers - China Town, Pick A Winner (self released)
Vincent H.L. - The Unknown & The Infinite, Weird Days (1:12 Records)
WASP Factory - Eric’s Song, The WASP Factory (F-Star)
Weeds - Wheatfields (Flying Nun)
Exploding Budgies - Hank Marvin, The Grotesque Singers (Flying Nun)
Xanadu - Sky, 1999-2002 (Xanadu)
Alan Young - In New Orleans, Thats No Way To Get Along (Ode)
Y.F.C. - Son Of A Gun, Between Two Thieves (Hit Singles)
Ziggy Stardust Band - Bob Hope Love, Ziggy Stardust Band (Onset Offset)
Ivan Zagni & Steve Garden -Arkin Dahba D’Geehan, A Selection Of Trouble Spots (Ode)
Pin Group - Ambivalence, Pin Group Goes To Town (Superior Viaduct)
Piece War - Darkness, Apathy (Square One Again)

Counting The Beat Aug 2019

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/Counting-The-Beat-17-Aug-2019.mp3

Playlist:
Pickle Darling - Rinse Spin Cycle/Nicholas Cage (Bigness (Z Tapes)
Purple Pilgrims - Love in Lunacy (Saturn Return), Perfumed Earth (Flying Nun)
Mark De Clive Lowe - O-Edo Nohonbashi, Heritage II (Ropadope)
Hegz - Moodstone, Nevabeefaymuss (self released)
Herbs - Azania, Whats’ Be Happen (Warrior)
Ha The Unclear - Things Rituals Things, Invisible Lines (self released)
Shunkan - Garden, The Pink Noise (Art Is hard)
Soaked Oats - My Mud Your Shoes, Sludge Pop (self released)
Earth Tongue - Astonishing Comet, Floating Being (Stolen Body Records)
Swallow The Rat - New Cross, Swallow The Rat (Headbump)
Terror Of The Deep - When The Planets Align, Space Epic (Selection)
Dog Power - Entourage, Dog Power (Flying Nun)
Pin Group - Jim (Superior Viaduct)
Fields - Life Cycle, The Fields EP (self releasaed)
Tiny Ruins & Hamish Kilgour - Hurtling Through, Hurtling Through (Flying Nun)
The Terminals - The Rain Has Come And Gone, Antiseptic (BaDaBing)
Warm Leather - Manic Static (Kato Records)
Beastwars - Storms Of Mars, IV (Destroy)
Gianmarco Liguori & Tom Ludvigson - Mollusc Respiration, Espiritu Santo Variations (Sarang Bang)
Piece War - Darkness, Apathy (Square One)
Contenders - Attract Repel, Contenders (self released)
Contenders - Dead Brain Rot, Contenders (self released)
Bulletbelt - Sacred Tongue/Nine Centuries, Nine Centuries (Headless Horseman)
Tall Dwarfs - All My Hollowness To You, Three Songs (Furtive)

The Drone Zone

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/CTBTheDroneZone1.mp3

Playlist:
RST - Vibrations Beams Rays, RST (Utech Records)
1/3 Octave Band - The Ritual Of Gravity (Fusetron)
Peter Wright - Clavius (20city)
Bruce Russell & Noel Meek - Classical Music (side one), Classical Music (Feeding Tube Records)
Fausto Maijstral- Kensington CA, Fausto Maijstral (La Station Radar)
Alastair Galbraith/Jean Jacques Palix/David Watson - Pure Speculation (La Station Radar)
Pumice - Greenock, Pebbles (Soft Abuse)
Glory Fckn Sun - Specificity Through Absence, Spectra (Tipped Bowler Tapes)
Sunken - Eelman 003, New Zeland Eels (Emerald Cocoon)
Michael Morley - 1/4 Or 1/2 / Redemption Come, Call Back Your Dogs (Precious Metal)
Shallow Grave - Threshold Between Worlds, Threshold Between Worlds (Sludgelord)

B-sides: Steve Robinson from Tamburlaine

An interview with Waiheke musician Steve Robinson, APRA Silver Scroll winner, award-winning record producer, jingle writer and member of '70s folk rock band Tamburlaine.

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/CTBsidesSteveRobinson.mp3

Playlist:
Tamburlaine - Lady Wakes Up
Tamburlaine - Blood Red Roses
Richard Parangi - Rail Freight
Briscoes - You'll Never Buy Better
Steve Robinson - The Zoo
Sharon O'Neill - Words
Jon Stevens - Jezebel
Kev & The Kiwi Fruit band - Good On Yer Kiwi
Tamburlaine- Rebirth

B-sides: Chris Orange from the Terrorways

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/CTBsidesTerrorways.mp3

An interview with Chris Orange from New Zealand punk band The Terrorways on the occasion of their recent shows and release of an album Short haired Rock And Roll. The interview was first broadcast on Waiheke Radio's Island Life show on Sat 6 July 2019

Photo credit: Chris Zwaagdyk @ ZED Pics

Counting The Beat June 2019

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/counting-the-beat-june-2019.mp3

Playlist:
Soaked Oats - Don’t Chew, Sludge Pop (Dot Dash)
Hamish Kilgour - Open/Top Off, Franklestein (BaDaBing)
Aldous Harding - Designer, Designer (Flying Nun)
Hallelujah Picassos - Cracked Salvation, Voices of Exuberant Hellhounds (1:12 Records)
Junkanoo - Disgust Is The Most Appropriate Response, Junkanoo/Dillinger’s Brain (Onset/Offset)
The Primates - Bob Guccione, Tales of Mr Conductor (Onset/Offset)
The Brothers Gorgonzolas - You Are (Onset/Offset)
Beastwars - The Traveller, IV (Destroy)
Kerretta - The Guardsman, Exiscens (Golden Antenna)
The Terrorways - Leave Off, Short Haired Rock’n’Roll (Not On Label)
The Terrorways - Borstal Breakout, Short Haired Rock’n’Roll (Not On Label)
The Beths - Lyin’ In The Sun, Warm Blood (Carpark Records)
Contenders - Teenage Crybaby (Not On Label)
Sarah Mary Chadwick - Anniversary, The Queen Who Stole The Sky (Rice Is Nice)
Roy Montgomery - After Vermeer (Okraina)
Bruce Russell/Luke Wood - Via Suez, Visceral Realists (Ilam Press Records)
Bulletbelt -Thous Shalt Not Suffer A Witch To Live, Nine Centuries (Headless Horseman)
Piggery - Back to Soil, Piggery (Six Noises)
Punisher - Private Hell (Six Noises)
Long Distance Runner - The Outcast, Escape Plan (Not On Label)
Total Ruin - Chaos In Command (Limbless)
Ritchie Venus - Demetria (Selection Records)
Sarah Mary Chadwick - I Just Came To Pray, The Queen Who Stole The Sky (Rice Is Nice)

Kiwi Vinyl Video #67

Counting The Beat Lines Of Flight Special

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/CTB-Lines-Of-Flight-2019.mp3

Playlist:
Gate - Howl (Anarchofreaksproduction)
Armpit - Down The trail Of Aching Hearts (Il Dische Del Barone)
Futurians - Programmed, Programmed (Planam)
L$D Fundraiser - 101N1E
Motte - New Wanders, Strange Dreams
Ov Pain - See Me Glow, Ov Pain
A J Sharma - Forces, Tabla Diablo
Negative Nancies - Candy Milk, You Do You
L$D Fundraiser - 101N1E
Francisca Griffin - Stardust, The Spaces Between
Seafog - Sanctuary, Animal Lovers (Zelle)
Maxine Funke - Time To Return, Home-Fi (Feeding Tube Records)
Eye - Black Lightning, Other Sky (Ba Da Bing)
A Handful Of Dust - Sefer Yetsirah: The Book Of Creation, Dragging Her Wings Of Rusty Knives (Thin Wrist Recordings)
Roy Montgomery - Nor'Wester Head-on, Scenes From The South Island (Drunken Fish)
Michael Morley- A Termination Of Baleful Sunsets, Heavens Idleenes Awaits (Thin Wrist Recordings)

Counting The Beat April 2019

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/CTB200419.mp3

Playlist: 
Hazbeats - 55 to Shoreditch, E5 EP (Low Key Source)
Mint Chicks- I Can’t Stop Being Foolish, Screens (Warners)
Cookie Brooklyn & The Crumbs - Is There Logic In Pop? (Epic Sweep)
Lawrence Arabia - A Little Hate, Singles Club (Honorary Bedouin Records)
Francisca Griffin - One Eye Open, The Spaces Between (CoCoMuse)
Troy Kingi - Golden Taurus, Shake That Skinny Ass All The Way To Zygotron (Allgood Absolute Alternative Records)
Brendan & Alison Turner - Lady Luck, Ghost Of A Friend (HTY)
Delaney Davidson & Barry Saunders - Track 3, Word Gets Around (Rough Diamond Records)
Finn Andrews - Body Of Light (Nettwerk)
Mermaidens - You Maintain The Stain (Flying Nun)
Swallow The Rat - New Cross, Echoes of A Tide (Headbump Records)
Seafog - Feelings, Animal Lovers (Zelle)
Maxine Funke - Time To Return, Home-Fi (Feeding Tube Records)
Marlin’s Dreaming - Mellow, Talk On ComMic (Safe)
Raiden Freeman - Mosese, The Interlude, New Zealand Comedy (Prison Tapes)
Ounce - Desert, Oz (1:12 Records)
Avantdale Bowling Club - Home, Avantdale Bowling Club (Young Gifted & Broke)
Marlon Williams - Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore, Live (Caroline)
Delaney Davidson & Bruce Russell - Crown Electric King, One Hand Loose ( Ilam Press)
Headless Chickens - Donde Esta La Pollo Kentucky Freud Chicken Remix, Body Blow (Flying Nun)
Superturtle - Hit The Floor, Student Flat Reunion (Sarang Bang Records)
Arc Of Ascent - Serpents 25, Arc of Ascent/Zone 6 Split (Head Spin Records)
40 Watt Banana - Maharashna, Peeled (Pharaway Sounds)

Counting The Beat ABC

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/CTB160319.mp3

Playlist:
3Ds - Sing Song, Swarthy Songs For Swabs (Flying Nun)
25 Cents - The Witch (Flying Nun)
Androids - Auckland Tonight (Velvet Tigers)
Alpaca Brothers - The Lie, Legless (Flying Nun)
Bailter Space - Splat, Wammo (Matador)
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me, Future Me Hates Me (Flying Nun)
Darcy Clay - Jolene, Jesus I Was Evil (Grim Tale)
Cyclops - Simpleton (Feel Good All Over)
Dead C - Bitcher, The Whitehouse (Siltbreeze)
Doublehappys - Needles And Plastic, Cut It Out (Flying Nun)
David Eggleton - Bingo, Wrap Up (Partisan)
Exploding Budgies - Sunflower, The Grotesque Singers (Flying Nun)
Fatal Jelly Space - Miseriah, Hole (Flying Nun)
Features - City Scenes, Perfect (Propellor)
Gordons - Adults 7 Children, Future Shock (Flying Nun)
GhostClub - Cool Air, Ghostclubbing (Hausmusik)
Humphreys & Keen - Eyes Of A Blue Dog, The Overflow (Sweet Pea Records)
Herco Pilots - Essential Services, It’s Bigger Than Both Us (Propellor
Instigators - Hope She’s Alright, It’s Bigger Than Both Of Us (Propellor)
Idiot Prayer - Black Black Eyes, Falconer (Monkey Killer Records)
Jakob - Amasae, Erfo (Crawlspace)
The Johnnies - Who Killed Johnny (JohnArchy Records)
King Loser - Troubled Land (Flying Nun)
David Kilgour - Diamond Mine, Left By Soft (12XU)
Low Profile - Elephunkin’, Elephunkin’ (Flamewave)
Look Blue Go Purple - Hiawatha, LBGPEP2 (Flying Nun)

Counting The Beat Best Ofs Retrospective

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/CTB160219.mp3

Playlist:
2012
Gaytime - Do You Think I'm Ugly, In Their Prime (1-12 Records)
Sharpie Crows - Hebrew vs Key, Nostalgia Kills (Flying Nun)
Daniel Boobyer - Shake Your Dirty Chain, Time Killed The Clock (Tasman Records)
The Puddle - Tender Validation, Secret Holiday/Victory Blues (Fishrider Records)
Pumice - Covered In Spiders, Puny (Soft Abuse)
Sarah Mary Chadwick - Knots Unwind, Eating For Two (Bedroom Sucks Records)
2013
Two Wolves - An Unaccounted Death, The Roar and Peal Of Distant Thunder (self released)
X-Ray Fiends - Big Black Spider, X-Ray Fiends (Sound Recordings)
The Conjurors - We Could Be So Now, The Six Trials Of Hercules (Sound Recordings)
Sam Hamilton - Future Generations Will Thank Us For The Roads We Never Built, Integrifolia (self released)
2014
Nick Raven - Love, Love And Lomography (Custome Made Music)
French For Rabbits - Spirits, Spirits (Lefse)
Vorn - Flint And Tinder (Zelle)
Kerretta - Kawea Tatou Ki Nga Hiwi, Pirohia (Golden Antenna)
Mice on Stilts - Tuatara Lawn, An Ocean Held Me (Allgood Absolute Alternative Records)
Eye - Electrical Storm, Winterwork (Nyali Recordings)
2015
Shifting Sands - Making It Through, Cosmic Radio Station (Fishrider)
Robert Scott - Lights Are Low, Green House (Flying Nun)
Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing - Rainbow Islands, Scrying In Infirmary Architecture (Muzai Records)
Jackal - I Cannot Go, Sparkle (self released)
The Coolies - Shut Us Out, Kaka (Feeding Tube Records)
Greenfog - McNugget, Bruce Farm (self released)
2016
Roy Irwin - Metal Breath, S.O.D.A. (1:12 Records)

Counting The Beat Jan 2019

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/Counting-The-Beat-19-Jan-2019.mp3

Playlist:
Labretta Suede & The Motel 6 - Gary Glitter, Dirty & Dumb (self released)
Salmonella Dub - Loletta, 25 years Vinyl Boxset (Self released)
Jed Parsons  -Get Lost, Midnight Feast (self released)
Harry Lyons - To The Sea, To The Sea (Norm Records)
Superturtle - Student Flat Reunion, Student Flat Reunion (Sarang Bang Records)
Snapper - Lock & Load, Celia Mancini Tapes (Leap Decade Records)
Negative Nancies - G.O.S.T., You Do You (CocoMuse)
Dog Power - Come Back To Paris, Dog Power (Flying Nun)
Builders - Nil Nil, Cut (Zelle)
Don McGlashan - Come back To Me, Lucky Stars (self released)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Hanoi 2, IC-01 Hanoi (Jagjaguwar)
Dimmer - Powercord, I Believe You Are A Star (Columbia)
Avantdale Bowling Club - Afternoon Tea, Avantdale Bowling Club (Young Gifted & Broke)
Orchestra Of Spheres - Chimes, Mirror (Fire Records)
Unsanitary Napkin - State Psychopathy, Orgasmic Capitalism (Always Never Fun)
Bloodbags - Elder Statesman, Sinister Deeds (Spacecase Records)
Kerretta - From Elbow To Claw, Excisens (Golden Antenna)
Shallow Grave - Master Of Cruelty, Threshold Between Worlds (Sludeglord)
Arc Of Ascent - Black Seed, Arc Of Ascent / Zone 6 Split (HeadSpin)
Shallow Grave - The Horrendous Abyss, Threshold Between Worlds (Sludeglord)
Surly - 4Q 510-511, Trip to Warsaw (Polish Juke)
Holly Arrowsmith - A View From Above, A Dawn I Remember (Zenith Records)
Maxine Funke - Right Scene Wall, Silk (Feeding Tube Records)

B-sides: Bad Politics

B-sides is an occasional series where I explore the oddities, obscurities and obsessions of my New Zealand vinyl collection. In Bad Politics I focus on records that feature, or are about, NZ politicians.

Download: http://podcasts.countingthebeat.gen.nz/CTBsides-Bad-Politics.mp3

Playlist:
Dead C - Bad Politics
Schreuder and Wilson - Hey Mr Lange
Gerry Otimi And The Inventors School - Kia Kaha David Lange
Ebony - Big Norm
Brendan Dougan, Gray Bartlett & Friends - The Ballad Of Robbie Muldoon
The Knobz - Culture
Danny Faye - My Way (Rob Muldoon)
Danny Faye - My Way (Bill Rowling)
Marilyn Waring - Walking Class Hero
Bushfire & Mike Moore - Taumaranui
Bunny Walters - To Be Free
National - We're Keeping Our Word
Dawn & Buck Williams - Tribute To Sir Joh
Unsanitary Napkin - KeyHole
Shortlived - Pyrotechnic Parliament
Darren Watson - National Guy
A Record Of it - Political Novelties