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The Angry Rabbit crew (which includes me) will be doing some more radio interviews in support of this Friday's release party. We'll be talking about the release gig (we make up 3 of the 4 acts between us) and the CD.

First up is Tuesday 6pm on Radio Active's Drive show.
Thursday night we'll do a bit of a guest spot on The Session, from 9pm.
And I believe Friday will be another quick spot on the breakfast show, sometime after 7 and before 9am.

You can stream Radio Active if you like. It's that kind of thing.

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Here are the details for the Wellington release party for Angry Rabbit's new compilation CD featuring new tracks by me solo as Jet Jaguar and with Stuart McDonald as Malty Media. Follow the link for streaming audio of every track and a couple of free MP3s.

Jet Jaguar
Malty Media
Group Five (coming down from Auckland)
Panoramica (coming up from Dunedin)
All live!

Friday 29th August from 9.30pm
The Burgundy Room, under Bodega
$10 to get in, $20 gets you a CD as well. Bargain.

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Back from Auckland and tonight I'm doing my DJ slot on Deep , broadcast on Radio Active .

11PM-1AM NZST
Tuesday 19th August

Not in NZ? You can check out when the show will be streaming in your time zone .

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I'm doing a whole lot of interviews leading up to the Auckland release gig for 'Apropos of Nothing'.

First, there's more information about the cD itself over on the label site , including some tunes to download and a player to listen to every track.

Kirsten Johnstone from Radio National interviewed me and Stuart McDonald, last week. Jet Jaguar & Aquaboogie respectively, collectively Malty Media, and two of the three organisers of the compilation.
It's going to air twice:

The Music Mix, Thursday 14th from 11.06PM (Check the time in your timezone )
Stream Radio National

Music 101, Saturday 16th from 2.00PM (Check the time in your timezone )
Stream Radio National


Andrew Loughnan (Group Five, and the other CD organiser) and I are also being interviewed by Andrew Manning on B, and we'll have some give aways of the CD.

Freak the Sheep, Wednesday 13th from 9.00PM (Check the time in your timezone )
Stream BFM


And finally, an early morning chat with Lewis Tennant.

The Morning Toaster, Friday 15th - probably just after 7.00AM or I might still be in the shower! (Check the time in your timezone )
Stream BFM


Oh, and we've also got a wee feature (contradiction in terms!?) in this week's print version of Groove Guide which is out tomorrow.

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So those of us involved with our little label Angry Rabbit are releasing a CD compilation of exclusive electronic num nums called '...Apropos of Nothing'. It's taken a lot of work, but we're doing the Auckland leg of our release antics in a couple of weeks, and another gig in Wellington 29th August. Will throw up a flyer for that in good time.

Jet Jaguar
Malty Media
Group Five
+ DJ Bignificent D

Khuja Lounge
16th August 2008
Starts at 7pm, ends at 11! We mean it.

$20 gets you entry and a copy of the shiny new CD. $10 gets you in. Awesome.

If any of you are Facebook types, you can sign up to the event there.



More about the CD as it comes to hand at the Angry Rabbit website.

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Next Tuesday I'll be doing my monthly slot DJing Deep , broadcast on Radio Active .

11PM-1AM NZST
Tuesday 22nd July

Not in NZ? You can check out when the show will be streaming in your time zone .

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I'll be DJing Deep , broadcast on Radio Active .

11PM-1AM NZST
Tuesday 17th June

Not in NZ? You can check out when the show will be streaming in your time zone .

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Yeah, much to my shame I've caved...

http://www.myspace.com/jetjaguarnz

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I slipped The Jewel School some exclusives for their all-NZ music week show. They blended a track of mine with an acapella from Slum Village! Bit of a giggle, and glad to know New Zealand has annexed Detroit (Hey, we got Recloose, it obviously started a while back...).

You can download the whole show, with heaps of other NZ music on the downtempo / jazzy / Gilles-Peterson-is-alright-with-us tip:

http://www.straightup.com.au/page?n=1192

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I'll be DJing Deep , broadcast on Radio Active .

11PM-1AM NZST
Tuesday 20th May

Not in NZ? You can check out when the show will be streaming in your time zone .

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The Netlabels Revue blog has posted a review of my Monotonik EP. Four stars. Merci. :)

Here's a rough translation in English, courtesy of one of my workmates:

We're interested in Jet Jaguar because, despite what you might think initially, the music of this New Zealander lacks neither originality nor interest.

Somewhere between ambient, downtempo, jazz and hip-hop, Jet Jaguar's music pulls you in and is reminiscent of the Englishman, Howie B. And although this guy had already released three albums prior to signing up to Monotonik, it's nice to get on board at this point and discover this bouncing, as well as minimal and groovy EP, direct from the laptop of Jet Jaguar.

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My first solo release in about 5 years is available now, thanks to ridiculously long-standing net label Monotonik . 5 tracks, all free. Hope you enjoy it.

Jet Jaguar - Biddy Bids

Here's a little blurb about each track:

Red

Was working on it for a dub net label that's yet to see the light of day, so it's obviously got a bit of a skank going on. To add some grit beyond what software would do for me I actually used an FM transmitter to send bits of the track from my computer to my MP3 player and record them off-station, walking around the house and so on. Well, plus some recordings of Tokyo radio.

Basashi Aisu

Japanese for "raw horse meat icecream". Search if you like, but, believe me, it exists. It's not popular at all, at least from people I spoke to in Tokyo, but it is available. More Japanese radio samples, some strings from a Dvorak recording at the end.

Enjoy Mask Aesthetic

Name is a t-shirt slogan I saw on a young woman in Tokyo. The drums in this are all sounds of walking in snow through Hokkaido, processed and built into beats, recorded again, played at wrong pitches, re-rhythmed, re-sequenced, re-sampled... So basically it could've been anything, but I think a bit of the chilliness remains. Really happy with the stupidly grubby bassline, the sub bass wobbles, and the mangled melody.

Disasters In Reverse

Another t-shirt slogan title. I recorded the entirety of a subway ride to see one of my private students when I was teaching English in Tokyo, and you can hear big chunks of that in here. The ambient number, I suppose. Maybe, that describes all of these tracks.

Kent's Windchime Recording

A guy called Kent made these recordings of his neighbour's windchimes. This track is made entirely from those recordings - beats, bass, chords, and melodies. Figured the prosaic name was suitable - not often my track titles actually connect much to the sounds!

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Here's the flier for the latest Malty Media gig, happening at Katipo Cafe, Wednesday 20th February.

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I've added a Jet Jaguar musician profile to Facebook. Still haven't surrendered to myspace...

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