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Music 101 for Saturday 4 October 2025

  • Mohi live on Music 101

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    1:00 PM.To celebrate his new album The Flowers That Grow From Concrete Pavements award-winning neo-soul artist Mohi and band join Kara in the RNZ studio for a performance and korero. Audio

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  • Bumpy is bringing her fusion of jazz and soul to Aotearoa

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    2:30 PM.Naarm/ Melbourne-based composer, vocalist and Noongar woman Bumpy has just released her debut album Kanana, and will soon perform in New Zealand as part of Wellington Jazz Festival. Audio

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  • Te Kahureremoa Taumata on new series Tukanga

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    2:45 PM.Te Kahureremoa Taumata is an artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, her work spans music, storytelling, visual art and education. She is part of a new series on Whakaata Māori called Tukanga which… Read more Audio

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  • Not For Broadcast - Part 1: Book of the Banned

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    12:02 PM.From the earliest days of radio, there have been songs that were deemed unfit for airplay. Who banned these records and why? Starting with the discovery of a mysterious old leather-bound book, Nick… Read more Audio

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  • The Sampler: Collection From Second Year by Birdlings Flat

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    3:30 PM.Tony Stamp looks at a new collection of sincere acoustic singalongs from Otautahi Christchurch. Audio

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  • The Mixtape: Stefaan Van Leuven

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    4:10 PM.This week's guest is a member of the successful Belgian band Soulwax, who since 1995 have been producing high impact alternative dance music, and this month will release their new album All Systems… Read more Audio

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Show Notes

13:15 Mohi live at RNZ

To celebrate his new album The Flowers That Grow From Concrete Pavements award-winning neo-soul artist Mohi and band join Kara in the RNZ studio for a performance and kōrero. 

Photo: ++TrudyStyle++

14:10 Bumpy is bringing her fusion of jazz and soul to Aotearoa

Naarm/ Melbourne-based composer, vocalist and Noongar woman Bumpy has just released her debut album Kanana, and will soon perform in New Zealand as part of Wellington Jazz Festival.

Melbourne-based jazz artist and Noongar woman Bumpy.

Melbourne-based jazz artist and Noongar woman Bumpy. Photo: Youthworx 2018

14:10 Te Kahureremoa Taumata on new series Tukanga

Te Kahureremoa Taumata is an artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, her work spans music, storytelling, visual art and education. She is part of a new series on Whakaata Māori called Tukanga which offers an intimate view into the processes of eight Māori artists.

Te Kahureremoa

Photo: Seb Charles

15:10 Not For Broadcast part one

Songs and censorship have a long connected history. Nick Bollinger has been delving into RNZ’s archives to find out which songs were kept off the airwaves and why. He’ll be sharing some of his discoveries in Not For Broadcast, and we’ll be hearing a sample of this series in today’s show.

A podcast cover with a bright blue background, featuring vintage vinyl records with a scratched-out song (physically scratched on the vinyl surface) and scratched-out labels, and the title Not for Broadcast. RNZ logo in the bottom left corner.

Photo: Robert Whitaker

15:30 The Sampler: Collection From Second Year by Birdlings Flat

Tony Stamp looks at a new collection of sincere acoustic singalongs from Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Marcus Burton.

Marcus Burton. Photo: Supplied

16:10 The Mixtape: Stefaan Van Leuven

This week's guest is a member of the successful Belgian band Soulwax, who since 1995 have been producing high impact alternative dance music, and this month will release their new album All Systems Are Lying.

Stefaan Van Leuven is a happy-looking man in a suit holding a beer.

As a member of the electronic band Soulwax, Auckland DJ Stefaan Van Leuven toured the world for a couple of decades before settling in Auckland. Photo: Supplied

Songs Played:

1pm-2pm

  • Mulatu Astatke - Major

  • Bic Runga - It’s Like Summertime

  • Ngati Whatua Orakei  - Take Whenua (Kapa Haka)

  • Mohi - Flowers In Hendo, Up Late, The Flowers That Grow From Concrete Pavements (live @ RNZ)

  • Joy Crookes - I Know You’d Kill

  • Hemi Hemingway – Wings of Desire

  • Geese - Cobra

  • Georgia Knight - Mingle

  • DJ Shadow - Six Days

2pm-3pm

  • Julien Dyne - Beecon

  • The Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze

  • Mel Parsons - Don't Leave the Light On

  • Bumpy - Feel Good, Maambakoort

  • Lord Echo - Thinking of You

  • Te Kahureremoa - Ōrongonui

3pm-4pm

  • Leonard Charles - Heaven

  • Roni Size - Brown Paper Bag (Full Vocal Remix)

  • Lady Wray - Higher

  • Em - Crush

  • Babe Martin - Only Good

  • Birdlings Flat - I Am Afraid, Can Understand, To Be Known

  • Falle Nioke - Mousolou

  • Mulatu Astatke - Yèkèrmo Sèw

4pm-5pm

  • Monstermagnet - Sin's A Good Man's Brother

  • Will Powers - Adventures in success

  • Depeche Mode - Shake the disease

  • The Weathermen - POISON!

  • Charlotte Adigéry - 1.618

  • Beth Ditto & Polo & Pan - Petite Etoile