"I humbly adore the acts of the Most High, Who has given to the synthesizer what is better than a soul, so that, when it plays, the men are silent. And their hands cover their veils to hide their emotions. The troubles of life were pushing me into the tomb, but thanks to the synthesizer, God has given me back my life." Music and Arts Writer / Publicist / Copywriter / Radio Host / DJ http://soundcloud.com/martynpepperell The Hard Deck - Every Second Tuesday, 9-11pm NZL time, www.radioactive.fm martyn dot pepperell at gmail dot com

RADIO PLAYLIST: THE HARD DECK 04/12/2012

The Hard Deck with Martyn Pepperell and special guest Kate Reddington, presented in association with August 13 Garrett Street.

Tonight we looked at the music of Folklore Tapes, Richard A. Ingram and Dean Blunt in microfocused depth. Outside of that we surveyed the modern beats and hip-hop scenes via two half hour sonic music essays from Kate Reddington. Something old, something new, something sampled, something (influenced by the) blue(s).

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RADIO PLAYLIST: THE HARD DECK 06/11/2012

The Hard Deck with Martyn Pepperell and special guest Kate Reddington 06/11/2012, presented in association with August 13 Garrett Street

This week we kept things very rap, progressive RnB and beats (of the tumblr variety). I played a bunch of new cuts from Miguel, Kendrick Lamar, Meek Mill, The Weeknd, Lapalux, Fatima Al Qadiri and others. Kate went tumbling through the blogosphere and ended up floating above the soundclouds? 

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RADIO PLAYLIST: THE HARD DECK 23/10/2012

The Hard Deck with Martyn Pepperell 23/10/2012, presented in association with August 13 Garrett Street

This week we looked over recent releases from M’Lady’s Records, Time No Place and the Young, Gifted and Broke camp. We also played new jams from Diving, Raiza Biza, Vessel and Miguel amongst others. Alongside that we broke out some older jams from Grimes, Males, Tlaotlon, Max B and more.

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RADIO PLAYLIST: THE HARD DECK - 09/10/2012

The Hard Deck, proudly presented by August 13 Garrett Street

Tonight we visited the Ottoman-American Diaspora of the early 20th century, listened to cool music from the internet and re-upped on the latest news in indie (and indie R&B) - all kinda other stuff as well. Cool story bro, right?

I even had a special guest in the mix, DJ Kate Reddington.

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THE HARD DECK RADIO ACTIVE 88.6 FM MARTYN PEPPERELL KATE REDDINGTON AUGUST 13 GARRETT STREET

RADIO PLAYLIST: THE HARD DECK 25/09/2012

From New Orleans to Grey Lynn, New Zealand

This week we rewound things to the glory days of No Limit Records and Cash Money Records and reflected. After that we explored the hyperlinked contemporary lo-fi (and lo-fi dance) global underground, reminded ourselves that Kiwi’s make great country music and visited Africa. This didn’t all happen in exactly that chronological order though. And that is okay, because life doesn’t always need to be linear.

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RADIO ACTIVE PLAYLIST: THE HARD DECK - 11/09/2012

This week we had a special guest up in the studio! Kate “Tumblrwave” Reddington, player of Bedroom Beat Music from across the globe. I played a bunch of World Music 2.0 at the start and some lo-fi future soul jams three quarters of the way through. S/O to my man MC Shan. Yes, THE legendary MC Shan.

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RADIO PLAYLIST: THE HARD DECK - 14/08/2012

You can read the full playlist for tonight’s show inside.

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RADIO PLAYLIST: THE HARD DECK - 31/07/2012

Played some music on the radio. You didn’t see that coming did you!!! #Laugh

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RADIO PLAYLIST: THE HARD DECK - 17/07/2012

A couple of days late on posting this!!! Sorry internets!!!

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RADIO PLAYLIST: The Hard Deck - 03/07/2012

Some young rappers, a dream explorer, some kids who really get cybernetic on their beats, a modern day bluesman, some really classic classics and a whole bunch more. We did it all last night, at the #SameDamnTime

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THE HARD DECK RADIO RADIO ACTIVE 88.6 FM MARTYN PEPPERELL 03/07/2012 9-11 PM.