Fat Freddy's Hang On To Top Spot In IMNZ Chart

27th October 2005

IMNZ Chart October 2005

Rank	Artist	Title	Label	Distributor
1	Fat Freddy’s Drop	Based On A True Story	The Drop	Rhythmethod
2	Recloose	Hiatus on the Horizon	LOOP	Border
3	International Observer	All Played Out	Round Trip Mars	Flavour
4	Various	Dub Conspiracy	Dub Conspiracy	Rhythmethod
5	Fly My Prettie	Live At Bats	LOOP	Border
6	Fat Freddy’s Drop	Live At The Matterhorn	The Drop	Rhythmethod
7	Rhombus	Bass Player	MOKO	FMR
8	Ghostplan	Beneath The Sleepy...	Arch Hill	FMR
9	Kora	EP Volume	Kora	Border
10	TrinityRoots	Home, Land and Sea	TrinityRoots	Border
11	Whirimako Black	Kura Huna	Mai Music	Shock
12	The Illphonics	The Illphonics	Capitalrecordings	Rhythmethod
13	Bachelorette	The End Of Things EP	Arch Hill	FMR
14	Kitsch	The Burning Ground	1157	Shock
15	Phoenix Foundation	Horsepower	Capitalrecordings	Rhythmethod
16	Katchafire	Revival	Mai Music	Shock
17	BassCamp	Southern Face	BassCamp	Rhythmethod
18	TrinityRoots	True	TrinityRoots	Border
19	Various	Select 007: We Are Here	LOOP	Border
20	Die! Die! Die!	Die! Die! Die! EP	Capitalrecordings	Rhythmethod

Shows sales from 1 - 30 September 2005.

Compiled from outbound sales registered at selected music retailers by Media Sauce Ltd. for IMNZ.
Eligibility requires IMNZ membership or by registration fee.
For further information on IMNZ releases, labels or membership contact IMNZ Operations Manager Renee Jones.

October News...

IMNZ-related artists Fat Freddy's Drop, P-Money,Del Rey System,Scribe, SJD andArdijah all were awarded Tuis at the 2005 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards - good on you, mates.

Welcome to our newest member, FigureHead Records. IMNZ now has over 50 member record labels and distributors!

On the international front, the Windy City Strugglers are in Europe and the UK to promote the European release of 'Kingfisher' on French label Last Call. They will be playing at a couple of festivals in France as well as shows in Paris and London.

Intergalactic Australia will be releasingSubtract's album 'Formula One', and a tour by the band commences late November. The World Battle of the Bands starts in Australia this month. The Twitch won the New Zealand final; they will be meeting their Australian, USA, Singapore, Philippines and Hong Kong counterparts at the World Finals in Hong Kong on November 26.

Concord Dawn featuring Hollie Smith's 12" Say Your Words, complete with aGoldie remix, is coming out on Metalheadz, and a Concord Dawn featuring Devin Abrams (Shapeshifter, Pacific Heights) 12" is forthcoming on Metalheadz Platinum. They are also playing some European tour dates.

Savage's debut album 'Moonshine' was released in Australia on the 19th of September and it is currently sitting at #20. The Moonshine feat. Akon single has just been released to radio & TV and is the #2 most added song at Australian radio this week.

Back home, Jayrem Records are having a busy month with the release of double albums by Mahinarangi Tocker ('The Mongrel In Me') and UHP ('Legacy'). Roger Cunningham, a finalist in the APRA Maioha Awards, has his 'Toto' album also hitting the streets in October. Hot Club Sandwich's 'Toasted' album was given 4 stars in a recent issue of highly respected US jazz magazine Downbeat. All four of the Hot Club Sandwich CD's are distributed by Jayrem.

Since coming together in 2002, OdESSA have become firmly established as one of Wellington's most exciting live bands and some loyal fans have even taken to making their own t-shirts. Their debut album 'Oak Park Avenue' is out now.

Maorimusic.com is set to distribute in November the CD 'Gifted and Maori (Vol2)' compilation, produced by the late Phil Fuemana and released on Gifted and Maori Records/Urban Pacifika, now managed by brother Tony Fuemana.

The Disruptiv Music crew are gettin' busy this month; they have 4 Corners' debut single release, plus the Disruptiv Mixtape volume 4 is out this month, free with Disrupt Magazine #6. The compilation features 23 exclusive Aotearoa hip-hop tracks featuring big names alongside up-and-comers, plus of new stuff from the entire Disruptiv roster. Auckland duo The Downlow's new self-funded video is for Get It Crunk. Labelmate/manager MC 4Higher finishes up his 'High Time' mixtape, expected out late October/early November.

Te Vaka depart for Tahiti for a performance at the Toata Stadium in Papeete. In November they return to Hawaii for a show at the Waikiki Shell then on to the USA Mainland for a show at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on the 3rd of December.

The Shrugs have a new album that will be released on the 20th October.

The Bleeders hit the North Island for a run of shows prior to crossing the ditch to complete Australian dates early November. Also on the tour will be Cobra Khan who will be releasing their first single Wrapped In Plastic as an exclusive download to coincide with the tour.

Dirty Records releases Frontline's debut album 'Borrowed Time' on October 31st. To support the release of the album Frontline will be on tour through out New Zealand along with special guests P Money, PNC and D Form.

NEW AND FORTHCOMING RELEASES

4 Corners single (Disruptiv)
Boxcar Guitars 'Lamp Light' EP (Arch Hill)
Bored Gordon 'Lie If You Have To' (Powertool/Global Routes)
Chuganaut 'Wolf' EP (Global Routes)
Cobra Khan Wrapped In Plastic (1157)
Darren Watson 'South Pacific Soul' (Red Rocks Records)
Dawn of Azazel 'Sedition' (Global Routes)
Frontline 'Borrowed Time' (Dirty Records)
Kahu 'Okahu' (Global Routes)
Lorena Harding 'Clean Break' (Global Routes)
Lucid 3 'All Moments Leading To This' and 'Running Down The Keys' reissues (Lupin)
Mahinarangi Tocker 'The Mongrel In Me' (Jayrem)
Mark Airlie 'Marbled' (Powertool/Global Routes)
Montano 'Montano' (CapitalRecordings)
New Way Home 'Anomaly' EP (Midium/Global Routes)
OdESSA 'Oak Park Avenue' (OdESSA/Border)
Ryan McPhun and the Ruby Suns 'Ryan McPhun and the Ruby Suns' (Lil' Chief)
Shot Band 'Shot Band' (Red Rocks Records)
Sinate 'Beyond Human' (MGS Records/Global Routes)
The Inkling 'Deluge' (CapitalRecordings)
UHP 'Legacy' (Jayrem)
Various 'Disruptiv Mixtape 4' (Disruptiv)
Various 'Head For The Hill' (Arch Hill)
Various 'Supa Fresh 2' (King Music)
Vauxhall 'Hanging On By A Thread' (FigureHead)

TOUR DATES

- Sinate: 22/10 Auckland with Dawn of Azazel, 10/11 Dunedin, 11/11 Christchurch, 18/11 New Plymouth, 19/11 Palmerston North, 25/11 Wellington, 26/11 Napier

- OdESSA: 21/10 Auckland Uni with Electric Six, 22/10 Wellington with Electric Six

- Concord Dawn: 5/11 Portugal, 25/11 Holland, 26/11 England, 3/12 Hungary, 16/12 Slovakia, 17/12 Russia

- Concord Dawn New Zealand dates: 4/11 Dunedin with State Of Mind & Woosh, 5/11 Auckland withState Of Mind & The Upbeats & Cern, 11/11 Whangaparoa with State Of Mind, 12/11 Wellington with State Of Mind & The Upbeats & Agent Alvin, 25/11 Christchurch with The Upbeats & Rufio and Switch, 26/11 Queenstown with The Upbeats and Turbohag and Djade

- Kaleidoscope World Series: 28/10: Christchurch : The Undercurrents,Equus,Dragstrip, The New Originals, My Dad Bill, The Dialtones, House of Dolls, Thought Creature, A Million Lights, the Pit Stop Nymphos; 29/10: Dunedin: The Gladeyes, The Sweet Unknowns, Operation Rolling Thunder,The Riff Rats, The DDTs, Bored Gordon, Dragstrip, Thought Creature.

- The Bleeders and Cobra Khan: 29/10 Auckland, 3/11 Rotorua, 4/11 Hamilton (AA), 5/11 Auckland

- Frontline With P Money, PNC and D Form: 21/10 Christchurch, 22/10 Dunedin, 23/10 Queenstown, 28/10 Whangaparoa, 29/10 Auckland, 11/11 Wellington.

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