Hey all,

If you had a gripe about the non-academic experimental music world being under-represented on the NZ Geographic CD, here’s your chance!

We’ve been funded for a compilation CD to be given away with February 2009 edition of The Wire magazine (subscribers only but that’s still 9000 copies!).
It’ll also be included with the White Fungus issue around the same time.

The compilation is intended to be an overview of current NZ audio culture, including both emerging and established artists.

Rather than having one person responsible for curating the CD we’ve decided to open it out for submissions, then a panel of 3 or so people will pick the tracks and collate it into its final running order.
We all know there’s a boxset worth of people who should be on it but it’s only a single CD and there will inevitably be some who feel overlooked by the end result. Hopefully the panel can be as fair and impartial as possible and still put together something with an overall sense of composition that’s a nice overview of our collective musical worlds.

So get cracking and send in your tracks...
Or more importantly, make us your best track ever!

Keep them around 3 or 4 minutes if you can.
Naturally we don’t want to compromise your musical decisions (this will be hard for some) but we also need to fit as many people on there as we can.

If you have anyone that you collaborate well with, and want to, then that gives us a chance to cover more ground.

Similarly, if you know of anyone this might not have reached, please forward it on to them.

All tracks need to be exclusive to the compilation and can’t be registered with any publishing agencies (otherwise The Wire gets charged mechanical royalty fees) so a royalty waiver will need to be signed.

Tracks need to be sent to us by Sep 30th 2008 at the latest (earlier is better).
The production and shipping are reliant on this date so we cannot accept any late submissions.

Please send your tracks to:

The Audio Foundation
PO Box 68518, Newton, Auckland.