Night Manoeuvres & Green-screens at TMet Towers



It's been a hectic few weeks at the TMet Studios with a few of our out-of-town producers dropping through. Focus, Crises and Disorder AKA The Nitrate Boys were up from Christchurch for the Auckland leg of their 'Tantrum 2' tour. These motivated youngsters have toured their Nitrate all ages nights to three Kiwi cities. All by the tender age of seventeen. Thankfully they are ego free and it's inspiring being around teenagers with so much drive and passion. Focus spent a few days holed up in the studio with Chelfyn, swapping samples and music production tricks. We now have seven Focus releases out on TMet and he left us with some wicked new psychadelic trance for Chelfyn to engineer. We also had one of my favourite boys DJ Baxter staying for a few days, on his way back from two weeks in Melbourne. Baxter has been busy writing at his Northland studio, and he'll have more releases out on TMet Recordings in the next two weeks.

TMet Recordings was featured on this week's Night Manoeuvres on Radio NZ, as part one of a two-part interview I did with host Liz Barry last month. We've been plugging away at building the label for almost two years, and it's so exciting that people are starting to take notice of what we've built. I'd like to thank Liz Barry heaps for being so supportive, and letting us tell the TMet story. The second part of the interview with me will be on Night Manoeuvres this Friday from 11.06 p.m. on National Radio.

We've got some cool video projects in the Mohawk Media pipeline, like VJ gigs in November and December. We're starting to cluster with another Auckland videographics agency and our first collaboration with them may be a rock video for an Australian act. We also had an awesome meeting this week with JCK, a young Auckland duo who are making funky Hip Hop. They consist of songwriter/MC James CK, with slinky vocals from the gorgeous Lou Ludbrook. We are hoping to work with them on some music videos, as they are both creative and up for pushing visual boundaries. With the use of green-screen shoots and post production techniques, the only limit is our imaginations...