Publications
Everybody SoundSystem
August 2022
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Keep On Moving*
Heather Galbraith -
Dance Parties—Feel the Bass
Emma Jean Gilkison -
The Empleasurement Effect (or, pleasure shared is potential expanded)
Laura Marsh -
Like here, like us
Grant Smithies -
You meet some of the best people on the dance floor !
Eve Armstrong, Gabby O’Connor, Josephine Cachemaille, Liang Cui, Claire Harris
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Grant Smithies
Grant Smithies DJ set at Everybody SoundSystem Housewarming, Saturday 13 August 2022. Image courtesy of Enjoy Contemporary Art Space
In 2007, I wrote my first and only book. Named Soundtrack, it was a collection of essays about New Zealand music, and I wrote it to give a nudge to a hundred or so local albums I thought crystalized something remarkable, potent and true about the times and places in which they were made.
One such record was Inside A Quiet Mind by Denver McCarthy, a humble young Krishna devotee from Tokoroa who released it when he was only 20, under the name Micronism.
I loved McCarthy’s album so much, I devoted an entire chapter to its brilliance. My somewhat florid intro noted that Inside A Quiet Mind was “the best electronic album ever made in this country—luxuriously melodic, rhythmically complex, tinged blue with sadness and—occasionally—bright red with joy; a record not so much touched by the hand of God as given a lengthy massage.”