Super proud of this! Wifey and I are heading up the dance stage to spotlight our best Breaking and Street dancers in Aotearoa. It's going to crazy 🔥

Recent arrival: stock copies of NZ psychy sitar funkiness from 40 Watt Banana thanks to Kevin Clark who recently found some buried in the back of a cupboard 🍌

The pinnacle of New Zealand Jazz Funk: Pacific Eardrum! 🇳🇿 Their 3rd and final album showcases their most lush original Jazz, Funk & Soul music. Rainbathing is a 6-min simmering groove, showing off the musicianship centered around Husband-Wife duo Dave MacRae and Joy Yates 🌱

It was primo to be part of the 3 opening shows for our new theatre in Kirikiriroa Hamilton 🚀

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Newest additions to the collection. Some essential 90's / 00's NZ Hip Hop tapes 🔥

Yandall Sisters before the hype..

Sorting out the NZ tapes. Recently picked up this spare tape copy of this classic Rodger Fox album from 1978. It includes a banging cover of Kool and the Gang's Open Sesame and a mean original track One Night Affair featuring the soaring vocals of Dave Feehan 🔥

Classic 80's NZ Christian pose

First dig of the year: $1 dump score. Rare Polish Jazz which only had a NZ press outside of the OG UK press. Beautiful listen 🎶

And final pic

Fav finds of 2025! Extending gratitude to the record community; friends, traders and dealers whom I have received these taonga from. Churrr 🚀

Legendary singer Rim D. Paul from Rotorua had a full musical life. Here's perhaps his least known (and coolest) release from 1969: All God's Children Got Soul, a double-sided Soul 45 only released on Philips Australia in small numbers. It took me 5 years to find. Worth the wait.

I've been looking for this personal grail close to 5 years and finally landed a copy 🔥 Double-sided Māori Soul from Rim D. Paul on Aus-only 45 👏

A reissue will suffice! Human Instinct's Pins In It which would otherwise cost hundreds if an original was sourced 💸 5 of their albums are on the shelves recently reissued. Arguably NZ's greatest rock band from back in the day 🔥

Spotlighting music from Aotearoa 🔥🇳🇿 The queen of NZ Pop Dinah Lee dominated the 60's. She has literally been releasing music and performing 60+ years. Here's a non-album track Sorry Mama serving as a nice early NZ Soul cut from 1967, only on 45.

For a tiny country, we have a lot of unheralded music and artists that need spotlighting. Who knows anything about this duo?

Does anyone else's record room double as family storage? 🤣 Tidiest it's been in several months in prep for a cool NZ music heritage shoot 🎥

Big Soulful banger from Suzanne 🔥 Between The Chicks and Suzanne's solo output, there's a bunch of great soulful tunes that are worth finding and spinning!

Competing in 2013 Homegrown. In 2026, Homegrown returns to Hamilton and we have the honour of running the dance battle arena :)