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New Zealand Net Radio is a music podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 25 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  In the Mix: Prog Rock Friday - In the Moog

  Aug 20, 202659 min

  The Moog synthesiser could only play one note at a time, and it went out of tune if somebody opened a window. For about ten years it was the most exciting instrument in music. This week In The Mix gives the whole hour over to it, starting with the accident that started everything: Emerson, Lake & Palmer‘s “Lucky Man”, where Keith Emerson — who had gone to the pub because he wasn’t feeling the session — came back, found a Moog that had just been delivered, and began working out what the glide knob did. Greg Lake kept the take. Emerson called it “the solo I’ve had to live with”, and years later had forgotten how to play it and had to ask a magazine for a transcription of his own work. Then Rick Wakeman, the only artist on tonight’s show who has ever played New Zealand — Western Springs, 1975, with the Auckland Symphonia — on an album he dreamed up after buying a book about Henry VIII at an airport in Virginia. And The Alan Parsons Project, jumping to 1979 and an album that went to number four here. The second half goes looking for the machine and keeps not finding it. Billy Cobham has Jan Hammer bending a Moog until it sounds like a guitar while Tommy Bolin runs a guitar through an Echoplex until it sounds like a machine — people genuinely couldn’t tell them apart. Then two of the most electronic-sounding records ever made, NEU!‘s “Hallogallo” and Ash Ra Tempel‘s “Light: Look At Your Sun”, neither of which has a synthesiser anywhere near it: guitars, drums, an organ, and a producer doing unspeakable things to a tape machine. And we finish on the big one — Tangerine Dream‘s “Phaedra”, seventeen and a half minutes recorded at a farmhouse studio in Oxfordshire in November 1973, on a Moog that had reportedly belonged to the Rolling Stones and arrived with a pile of cables and no manual. Edgar Froese said the tape machine broke, the desk failed and they blew the studio speakers with the low end. Then the room warmed up, the oscillators drifted, and the sequencer slid out of tune while they were recording. You can hear it happen. They left it in. Broadcast 21 August 2026

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  Musical Musings: Five of the Best - Fairport Convention

  Aug 18, 20261h 23m

  Apologies for some dropouts on the audio on this show – we think you’ll agree though Sughosh provides a wonderful and touching introduction to the dramatic story of this band. This week on Musical Musings: Five of the Best, Sughosh joins me to make the case for a band who can fairly claim to have invented something: Fairport Convention. They formed in London in 1967 and took their name from the house in Muswell Hill where they rehearsed — a group of English kids besotted with the American West Coast who, within a couple of years, had turned around entirely and started plugging centuries-old English ballads into an electric band. The engine of it was Sandy Denny, one of the great voices this country has produced, alongside a teenage Richard Thompson on guitar. In 1969 alone they released three albums, lost their nineteen-year-old drummer in a motorway crash, and made Liege & Lief, which BBC Radio 2 listeners would later vote the most influential folk album of all time. They officially broke up in 1979, promptly held a reunion, and have been reconvening every August in an Oxfordshire field ever since — the Cropredy festival that wrapped up only last weekend. Sughosh’s five run from 1968 to 1988, and there’s a lovely thread through all of them: every one is, in some way, about people meeting again. He opens with “Meet on the Ledge,” written by Richard Thompson at nineteen and named after a tree branch on Hampstead Heath — not a hit, but now the song Fairport’s audience sings back to them every year. Then Sandy Denny’s “Who Knows Where the Time Goes,” from 1969’s Unhalfbricking, which was somehow only the second song she ever finished writing, and which Judy Collins released before Fairport got round to it. “Matty Groves,” eight glorious minutes of murder ballad from Liege & Lief, is the sound of a band rebuilding itself after catastrophe. “One More Chance” is Sandy’s epic closer to 1975’s Rising for the Moon, the last studio album she made with them — a title a good few fans have read as a plea. And Sughosh finishes with “Red & Gold,” Ralph McTell’s song about the Battle of Cropredy Bridge in 1644, fought in the very fields where the band now hold their festival. This episode carries a little extra history along the way, because with this band the story and the songs are inseparable. Join us and let Sughosh walk you through it. Broadcast 19 August 2026

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  Ten From Then - The Liner Notes

  Aug 16, 202633 min

  Join Jim Bricker and I to discuss the mission of our new show Ten From Then and the story behind it. Broadcast 17 August 2026

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  Musical Musings: Five of the Best - Depeche Mode

  Aug 11, 20261h 1m

  Today on Musical Musings: Five of the Best, I’m joined by the endlessly knowledgeable Leon from Adelaide (South Australia) to take on one of the most influential bands Britain has ever produced: Depeche Mode. Their story begins in Basildon, Essex, at the turn of the 1980s, where a group of school friends — Vince Clarke, Martin Gore and Andrew “Fletch” Fletcher — started making music, before a young Dave Gahan, overheard singing Bowie’s “Heroes,” completed the line-up. Named after a French fashion magazine (Dépêche mode — roughly “fashion dispatch”), they began as bright synth-pop upstarts and grew, album by album, into the dark, sensual, stadium-filling pioneers of electronic music we know today — a band who took the humble synthesizer and made it sound like sin and salvation at once. Because Leon wanted the full sweep, this episode carries a little extra history — right back to how a single OMD B-side first set Vince Clarke on the path to synthesizers. His five picks are really five different Depeche Modes: “Photographic,” from the 1981 Vince Clarke-penned debut Speak & Spell (and the band’s very first recording); “My Secret Garden” from 1982’s A Broken Frame, the moment Martin Gore took over the songwriting and Leon’s favourite Depeche Mode song of all; the imperial “Behind the Wheel” from 1987’s Music for the Masses, the album version with that irresistible bassline; “Precious” from 2005’s Playing the Angel, a tender letter Martin wrote to his children during his divorce; and “People Are Good” from 2023’s Memento Mori, the band’s first record as a duo after the loss of Fletch. From synth-pop debut to elegiac farewell — forty-plus years in five songs. Tune in and let Leon be your guide. 12 August 2026

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  Musical Musings: #USAtoZ Picks

  Aug 9, 20261h 12m

  Today on Musical Musings we do something gloriously different. Rather than one band and five songs, my guest Jarrett McCall arrives with an alphabet. Jarrett recently took on a challenge organized by @metaphoralaura on X — the hashtag was #USAtoZ — to run through American bands letter by letter, A to Z, and this episode is his pick of the ones he chose, every one of them, by his own happy insistence, drawn from the 1970s. He’s titled it USA A-Z (Missing Some!), and the “missing some” is the whole charm of it: we get C, D, F, H, J, L, P, R, S, V and W, and cheerfully skip the other fifteen letters. What that leaves is less a greatest-hits run than an accidental map of a whole decade — in the space of an hour Jarrett’s alphabet sweeps up power-pop, Akron art-rock, Miami Latin disco, arena rock, P-Funk, Detroit folk, New York synth-punk, California hard rock, Alabama soul-rock and lush LA vocal-group pop. We travel in order down his list, and it’s a wonderful whiplash of a journey: Cheap Trick’s teen anthem “Surrender” gives way to DEVO’s Brian Eno-produced “Gut Feeling,” then Foxy’s Miami groove “Hot Number,” Jefferson Starship’s “Jane,” Parliament’s “Ride On” from their love letter to Washington D.C., and the astonishing “Sugar Man” by Rodriguez — the Detroit songwriter who was a superstar in South Africa and Australia without ever knowing it, as the film Searching for Sugar Man later told the world. From there it’s the confrontational electronics of Suicide’s “Keep Your Dreams,” Van Halen’s “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love” (a song Eddie wrote as a punk parody), and Wet Willie’s loose Southern strut “Weekend.” Then comes Jarrett’s cheeky twist for the final two, filed not by band name but by album title: the Beach Boys land under H for Holland, the record they famously flew to the Netherlands to make, and the 5th Dimension close us out under L for Living Together, Growing Together. Eleven letters, one decade, and just about every sound America made in the seventies. Tune in and let Jarrett take you through the alphabet — gaps and all. Hopefully in a few weeks we’ll be back with Volume 2 – the missing letters! Broadcast 10 August 2026

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