PocketLipps

23/10/2024

When Charlie XCX's Club Classics dropped a few months ago just ahead of her culture defining album I had a flash of inspiration to make an edit of it entirely out of other club classics. So I scanned my archives for tracks in the same key and came up with this ridiculousness!

But I sat on it and didn't feel confident finishing or uploading it, who needs another remix of this, there are a zillion of them already, but I recently thought screw it, and decided to finish it, add the cool vocal chops from the recent Bb trickz remix and take the plunge. I wonder how long this will stay up with this many samples in it?! :D

When Charlie XCX's Club Classics dropped a few months ago just ahead of her culture defining album I had a flash of inspiration to make an edit of it entirely out of other club classics. So I scanned

24/09/2024

Rest in Power Jase. I didn’t know your until later on but I will always remember nerding out with you as I sat in the RadioActive.FM office doing work late and I’d keep running into the studio to geek out over the latest dancefloor weaponry you deployed on The Floor or you’d come back and ask if I’d heard the new Soulwax or whatever. The kindness you gave when I asked about NZ music for my 100% music show and you invited me over to go through the Capital archives and kept lumping Nz music 12s on my plate. A titan of a DJ, a kind heart, a massive loss.

18/09/2024

I made this edit while in a fever dream recovering from Shipwrecked music festival earlier this year. Upon hearing the original I immediately wanted to distill some of the floaty airy vibe of some of the music I'd heard at the festival into a floaty dubbed out edit with, of course, liberal use of echo.

Made in a fever dream recovering from Shipwrecked music festival earlier this year. Upon hearing the original I immediately wanted to distill some of the floaty airy vibe of some of the music I'd hear

12/09/2024

Studio:nine. 2000. People have been waiting for this gig for weeks. A massive drum & bass DJ from the UK is tearing it out. Not a single person on the dance floor with a phone. Sweat, flailing limbs. The biggest tune of the now that only 3 DJs have on dubplate has spread like wildfire over Napster is teased in with quick cuts. Half the crowd instantly screams. The drop hits, the room explodes. The tune is pulled up, every single person in the room is screaming in unison all locked into one feeling of pure joy. The re cue. The excitement of the crowd as they are waiting to relive the drop again, the anticipation tight like string, hungry, grinning at each other, locked in. The drop is glorious but then the next tune comes in immediately, building and combining on top to drive the energy higher, and that energy just keeps going up with each layering, up, up, across, deeper, and up again. A fu***ng journey into some other place, magical.

I hope these types of moments still happen out there, it’s been a very long time since I’ve witnessed that type of intense fever pitch unison moment. I blame phones and social media. 100%. Half the crowd has their brains in two places at once. The one in the dance, half connected. The other half thinking about the next reel, or what might be happening in the internet space. Taking some s**t video to share back to the DJ which then the DJ has to laboriously curate and share back themselves to feed the beast for some bored disconnected person to scroll past and token like for 2secs.

Let’s take back our dance floors. I feel surges of this vibe sometimes and when I look around at us all dancing no-one has their phone. We are all together.

Put your fu***ng phone away and get down.

06/09/2024

I am drowning in music. I keep finding amazing new scenes, artists, labels and the list of these I keep up with just keeps expanding. Exponentially. Aaaaargh!

Help me process this later this arvo as I sift through the latest batch of amazingness and broadcast it for y'all on the radio. Late Late Breakkie with PocketLipps, 1–4pm on the mighty RadioActive.fm.

02/08/2024

What a day! 🌞 Tune in to PocketLipps on the Late Late Breakkie on RadioActive.FM this afternoon for some hair of the dog treatments for what ails ya.

02/08/2024

Looking forward to heating up the floor on this chilly evening down at b.space tonight! I’m on 10-11.30x

12/07/2024

Oh boy, looking forward to this afternoon! Tune in to RadioActive.fm from 1–4pm to chow down on some sunny-side up freaky-fried deliciousness with PocketLipps on the Late Late Breakkie.

11/06/2024

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10/06/2024

Tonight is my first time at the helm for the ambient/downtempo radio show Deep. Looking forward to blending and layering a lot of Marianas level tackle, come soak in it with me! Tuesday 11 June 11pm-1am.

07/05/2024

Pschyyyyd for a sold-out Morning People tomorrow am! Can't wait to bust out this C.XCX Club CLassics editttt made from actual club classics and my Gym Tonic edit out all via the Third Eye Hi-Fi soundsystem on the unsuspecting morning ravers! I'm all like a kid before Xmas. It's gonna get sweaty.

03/05/2024

Oh woweee, today I have THREE new edits to play on the show, in prep for Morning People People next week I made an edit of Bangalter/Sinclar's Gym Tonic, a cheeky Rumble edit and also a Charlie XCX Club Classics edit made entirely out of actual club classics! As well as all the usual fresh heat trawled from the interwebs. Let me know if you tune in! It's more fun with friends.
Sat 1–4pm on RadioActive.FM.

24/04/2024

I've been combing the archives and I've got 4 crates packed with goodness to sell down at the RadioActive.FM record fair this Saturday! From 10am at Bedlam & Squalor, should be a fun day.

15/04/2024

AMAZING ALBUM ALERT! You know its’ gonna be worth a listen at least when it gets a massive 9.1 from Pitchfork, this new Diamond Jubilee album from Cindy Lee is amazing. What’s really cool is its ONLY available as either WAV download from a GEOCITIES PAGE (?!?!!?) or by streaming one long 2 hour ad free Youtube video (linked on the GC page). Then you can Paypal them $30 from the GC’s page if you want. No streaming, not on any mp3 stores, vinyl forthcoming. I love this approach, a kind of f**k you to those platforms. Immersive hypnagogic (ie retro) pop, I keep staring wistfully into the distance while listening to it, it sounds like a lost psychedelic masterpiece from the 60's.

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13/04/2024

I've always been a fan of The Pudding's visual essays.

Examining 30 years of Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Albums of All Time” Rankings

11/04/2024

Shipwrecked Festival NZ tickets are live, and I’m super hyped about going, our crew has assembled and we are ready! grab some cheaper tix before they go up in price.

I can’t recommend this festival enough, super high quality. Picture lake swimming to disco and house in the waterfront bar, swimming in bass wubs with the bass skeksis in the bass pits of the Hidden Reef, fluttering with the fun sparkly rave people under the giant upside down boat to some airy house and techno in the main zone. Trapeze artists, insane production values and lighting/sculptures and art, live performances dotted here and there. So high quality. Do it!

7-9 February 2025 - Shipwrecked Music & Arts Festival 2025 ⚓ 7th - 9th February Shipwrecked is a boutique music & arts festival brought to you with love. Nestled between three lakes in an idyllic landscape, not far from the hum of Auckland, the festival site at Te Arai has been lovingly curate

05/04/2024

Get your recommended dose of roughage to help ease you into the weekend this arvo with me, PocketLipps, on the Late Late Breakfast Show, 1–4pm, on the mighty RadioActive.fm.

20/03/2024

Just clocked 1,000 plays on my Soundcloud for this Overmono edit I made! It’s not massive in the grand scheme of things but it’s a meaningful milestone for me at the beginning of my production journey. Stoked! 😁