NZ Experimental / Psychedelic CDs

Legendary and multi-award winning Drum & Bass/Dubstep DJ/Producer BULLETPROOF releases his new single ‘Dub Me Crazy’ featuring the stunning Jessie G out today. The track is an onslaught of bass that would satisfy all true Dubstep fans, it has already been picked as the 2011/2012 summer anthem. Click...

Aotearoa's magnanimous psych-rock-blues quartet, Little Bushman, present their album, 'Te Oranga', their long anticipated follow up to 2007's 'Pendulum'. This third studio album was written and recorded over the last 2 years at Warren Maxwell's own recording facilities, Stonefeather studios.   ...

A new project from the Wellington scene. Melodies is the debut solo release from Lord Echo (aka. Mike Fabulous aka. Mike August aka. guitarist and producer for such bands as The Black Seeds, The Scribes of Ra and The Recloose Band).The album is a roaring romp through his crazy world of sound; a magi...

For over a decade, the name Bulletproof has stood for nothing less than the very best in the futuristic “Neurofunk” style of dance floor drum & bass. A relentless passion & devotion to Drum & Bass has established Bulletproof as one of New Zealand’s leading D&B DJ&rs...

The original Te Ku Te Whe was released in 1993, and was instantly recognised as a landmark in the history of Maori music - bringing the sounds of Nga Taonga (traditional Maori instruments) to the ears of a mainstream audience for the first time. Anyone familiar with the haunting musical sounds inter...

**NB: Album artwork shown here is for Pt 2 2009 album -- artwork for this album is the secondary image** Released to tie in with New Zealand music month, EMI are proud to present some of the finest bands in New Zealand today on Homegrown. This 2 CD set features 27 tracks from some of New Zeala...

Doug Jerebine is one of New Zealand’s (almost) lost musical legends - turning his back on a promising musical career in the early 1970’s, Doug joined the Hare Krishna’s and stopped making music. The debut album he recorded in 1969 which was never released has seen the light of day, being released...

Bailterspace compilation originally released in 2004, all tracks were also remastered in 2004 which did come in a digipak with artwork by Alister Parker and is no longer available. This version is the the standard jewel case version. Bailter Space (a.k.a. Bailterspace) is an atmospheric noise...

Metamathics: (n) (short form of 'metamathematics') The investigation of the properties of realities intrinsically unknowable by and from our own, but whose general principles can be hazarded at. -- Iain M Banks, 'Excession' It is nearly two decades since the HDU sound first reverberated from a ...

Rhian Sheehan’s new release “Seven Tales of the North Wind” is the follow up to his muchacclaimed “Standing In Silence”. The EP comprises of 7 dreamy ambient tales that explore the emotions of nostalgia and memory, of the past as it informs the present – a magical...

Contrite Elegant Rebel is the formal album debut of Porcelaintoy, a richly evocative and innovative musical collaboration between Elizabeth De la Rey (vocals/guitar/piano) and Emile De la Rey (electronics). Recorded in their home studio in Wellington over the course of a year, the album was also ...

Cool Rainbows make psychedelic indie pop music that is backed by swirling orchestration and layered dreamscapes of sound. Main songwriter, Djeisan Suskov, has had music in the background of his life since he was a child. When he was nine years old, his father started Revolver Studios and by the age ...

Now in their 10th year, the Wellington-based Klezmer Rebs ethnic/European world music band have released their latest CD Anarchia Total recorded (mostly) live on one of the last days of the now defunct Ruby Lounge in Wellington in November 2010. Anarchia Total features classic klezmer tunes (She...

Originally from Christchurch, now based in Wellington, the New Zealand duo Wet Wings released its debut EP, Skin to Soil, in October 2010 as a limited-edition cassette via US label Infinity Tapes. The final track, the six-and-a-half minute pastoral ode to a deer, ‘Running Like a Man’, wa...

Doug Jerebine is one of New Zealand’s (almost) lost musical legends - turning his back on a promising musical career in the early 1970’s, Doug joined the Hare Krishna’s and stopped making music. The debut album he recorded in 1969 which was never released has seen the light of day, being released...

Playing House parties, dance parties, DIY shows and opera houses, Orchestra Of Spheres have built a reputation for creating innovative, boundary-pushing music and performances. Now their cosmic dancing sound, pieced together on homemade instruments, is available on record as 'Nonagonic Now', al...

This is an arrangement of relaxing Spa Music from NZ artists Ross Hill and Nicole Leonard. Ross started playing guitar in 1977, at the age 16. During the first ten years of playing he experimented with a wide range of influences and styles. These included school rock bands, classical guitar tuiti...

Dubbed “Spooky Adu” by Steve Albini (Nirvana, Joanna Newsom, PJ Harvey) who recorded her latest solo album, “Dark Joan”. Raised in New Zealand of Ghanaian descent, Adu has produced three acclaimed albums, written for and sung with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, toured ex...