There's a fire deep in voodoo magic hill

Sometimes when you listen to music you start hearing things which aren't there but are maybe supposed to...

...so you fill in the gaps, sometimes in your head, sometimes by clashing 2 songs together

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a mashup of an omen remix of a loefah tune and a native american flute song...merry x-mas

from the Dept of Hell Science

Buy a freakin t shirt why don't ya ???

just hit me up and for 25 kiwi dollars and some postage I'll sort you out proper...

The big WOW

3 weeks in windy welli working on WOW...world of wearableart awards

...picture above is me and the flyingteam/riggers. We put everything up in the roof so it doesn't come crashing down over the audience and during the show we chuck shit over the handrails and pull it back up again when the talent has finished playing round with it on stage.

The ladder/scaffold we're climbing is a one to one human counterbalance system. High tensile steel cable and safety harnesses make the whole thing pretty safe. Basically it goes like this. We hook on from the ground, a performer hooks on in the roof, they jump over the handrail and when we climb up they drop down naturally it works vice versa...duhhh

picture below is me waiting in the roof for a cue to throw some stuff over the side...

Nothing but bubbles

Imagine, if you will bubbles...
expanding as they float around
bumping into other bubbles
and inside of these bubbles
is another bubble expanding
and so on...

...and if all these bubbles
made a musical note,
as they bumped and merged
and expanded,
they created chords and melodies
and so on...

Red Sky at Night...Shepherds Delight

Under the red sky

Under the big red sky

Under the big bright red sky

Under the big bright burning red sky

Under the big bright burning red sky...

...we die

Simply Ratz Inn Amaze

ratz inn amaze


Full length digital versions of selected cuts can be bought at the really good digital dowload sites...



Theres plenty more where that came from too...

a footnote to history

recordings that made an impression on me and I had an impression in making...huh ???

remember back in the day when I was young and fighting the system, spent my youth believing myself to be another victim... 'if i gave u the mic' by sheelahroc and remixed by Rhian Sheehan

How true those words seem now cos back then i wanted to take on the world with music as art, no bullshit behind the scenes machinations of the big label monopolies, no compromises, no sacrifices, just talent and an abundance of gung ho enthusiasm...

...it shouldn't then have come as a big surprise that i got my arse well and truly kicked, but it did

Sheelahroc... 3 young women of exceptional talent and rare beauty. When i came across them they were already busting rhymes and spitting fire on the mic around christchurch. The group then consisted of Kid/Kbelle, Voodoo child, sister of Dallas from fat freddies drop and Ladisix

Kid pulled out of the group but Ladi never one to give up on anything let alone her dream, merely drafted her then 16yr old cousin Tyra now with the sublime opensouls , into the group

Through a strange turn, the accapella got into Rhian Sheehans hands

I see glimpses of a strange new world. You fill my world right up with sweet music, you fill my soul right up with love from 'glimpses' featuring Michaela Carnavale...


Hearing this tune coming from a little PA in the bedroom of a guy, who is still the partner of a dear friend, inspired me to help liberate the many tunes like it

Confucius aka funkamental aka basscamp aka dubwise aka... bah!!! too many aka's and I've always said that about him and to him. "Consolidate under one moniker and define a sound". As it stands he is still sometime producer for dubwise soundsystem, keyboardist for Pbass expressway, fulltime in charge of his latest basscamp incarnation, confucius making hard jungle drum n bass with his brother Damian aka Mysterious D and still an awesome good friend who is one of New Zealands most prolific and exceptional underground producers.


Shanti riddim riding me to ecstasy - from 'Shanti riddim'... ladisix on the mic confucius on the beat

For some reason i always thought shanti meant peace and if it doesn't, then it should. Somewhere on my hard drive is a jump up version of this tune which I'll post up later.It's bloody good too...

...this version was remixed by Christchurch drum n bass don Pylon


The cliche lines we say to people we wish we knew. Take me as you find me - from 'newex' by chrome vs reyne

jordan reyne and johnnychrome produce an achingly beautiful song which, while working in Wellington on an arts festival and staying in my van, parked up johnnys drive, i get to hear.

Convincing him to let me pimp it righteously, we also blaze up one night and strip it back to the 'midnight mix'...


...to the future we go


knowing good music lasts forever in the hearts and minds of those who believe it to be among the highest achievements of mankind is good enough for me to want to keep pursuing it

shine on

dead and buried

so what happens when you cross a Hell Science Dept beat called 'the dead truth' with a Burial tune called 'homeless' ???

you get 'dead and buried' available as a 128 bit mp3 download


note that i didn't do anything to our beat or his. I just ran them both at the same time and re-encoded it slower...


...you like that don't you ??? but if you tell anybody the truth they're dead

a game we can all play

BAN DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONS

laughter in the face of death

there is nothing like it...

...putting your arse on the line at the risk of really and truly dying while laughing at the absurdity of things we do to get by

today I was building a tower crane. It is only 70 metres high but in the pissy, pouring rain and wind, freezing your nuts off hanging out there above everything with an unfettered view of the surrounding city, it is exhilarating...

...knowing one false move and you're plummeting to certain death or one careless move and something falls 70 metres to hopefully not land on someone but if it did then it's their death

it makes you appreciate life, loves and your surroundings all the more...

...as much as i would hate to die from a fall, cos it's more the embarrassment of it than anything else that worries me, i would die with no regrets but for not having seen my children grow up to be all that i wasn't or could have been

live and love life...

coldtap

Dept of Hell Science

...shit happened when he was 21 and it sent him into a depressing spiral culminating in his becoming a derelict waster doomed to perpetually wander the dark, gloomy streets looking for victims to mug for change so's he can get a bottle of cheap liquor and a hit to see of the cold nights

he dodges the cops and their constant radio chatter, hears scatterings of music blaring from nightclubs as the doors briefly open just long enough for the ladies of the night to come out, blow off their latest john before heading back in for the next sucker...

...maybe if he's lucky he can knock john over as they wander off to catch a taxi back home to wifey

he eats from restaurant rubbish skips fighting off the dogs for the best morsels, sleeps most all day in abandoned buildings unless he scored big the night before and only comes out at night to repeat the misery of previous days...

...his sad and lonely life is peppered by drug fuelled flashback visions of better times when as a young exective on the rise in a transglobal corporation, the world was his oyster

he is a broken shell of a man whose face you never see beyond the shrouded overhang of his ratty hoody...

truth and reality

nothing is perfect
in the space where nothing exists
will one find perfection
the perfect nothing




accept nothing as fact
question everything
determine your own truth
define your own reality

the true middle

If you take a set of opinions on any given subject and keep the most extreme positive yet eliminate the negative...

...what forms the bulk of consensus isnt actually reflective of the masses

what you get is a false sense of where the majority perspective lies with regards to taking the middle road...

...if you keep the extreme negative, the middle shifts to what is actually a true representation of popular opinion

the down side is people would rather not hear it...

...fuck the haters they say, if you haven't got anything nice to say don't say anything

I say spit it out lest you choke on it...

The balancing act...

BALANCE : what's that all about ???...halfway between one or the other, this and that ???

Balance lies in not destroying or creating too much...

...in order to create something truly beautiful one must destroy something that may simply be attractive

every now and then chaos must reign...

...let the games begin