Music 101 for Saturday 25 October 2025

Show Notes

13:15 Mark Williams AKA MC Slave on LoggCabin Radio

The longstanding broadcaster is bringing his unique vibes to RNZ over the Spring and Summer months, and has a preview for us. Plus he tells us what to expect from the upcoming Fat Freddy's Drop tour. 

14:10 Essential Album: Bressa Creeting Cake

Bressa Creeting Cake came of out of West Auckland in the mid-1990s with an album full of sonic and songwriterly surprises. Nick Bollinger takes a close listen and talks to members Geoff Maddock and Edmund McWilliams in this episode of Essential New Zealand Albums.

14:40 Joshua Worthington-Church on the Exploding Rainbow Orchestra

Back for 2025 with Volume Four, the 35 piece ensemble host an event happening across three very special nights in Auckland this November, featuring a cast of Aotearoa's finest songwriters including Bailey Wiley, Ladyhawke and Dam Native. The man behind the magic Joshua Worthington-Church joins Kara for a preview.

15:10 Not For Broadcast part four

Popular songs have often used sexual innuendo, but when does a song become too explicit for airplay? In the fourth episode of Not For Broadcast Nick Bollinger looks at the history of songs, sex and censorship.

15:30 The Sampler: And the Make Believers by Eden Burns

The "digital rock music" found on Eden Burns full-length debut is a departure from his usual club-friendly tracks, and the DJ sets that took him from Mosgiel to Melbourne and around the world. Influenced by bands like The Cure, it manages to tweak emotions without featuring any singing. 

16:10 The Mixtape: Lady Shaka

Recorded in March, Maggie Tweedie speaks with the Aotearoa DJ, known for her eclectic, vibrant, and diverse sets that reflect her mixed Māori, Tahitian, Cape Verdean, Tokelauan, and Samoan heritage.

Songs Played:

1pm-2pm

• Galt MacDermot - Coffee Cold

• Ned Doheny - Get It Up For Love

• Len Blake - Freckles

• Chronixx - Market

• M.A.D RECORDS 13 - Young Man

• Fat Freddys Drop - Del Fuego

• Earth Tongue - Ritual

• Gorillaz - The Manifesto

• Theia - My Sister’s Hand in Mine

• Bon Iver - Day One (feat. Dijon & Flock of Dimes)

2pm-3pm

• Kruangbin - August 10

• Shy FX - Soon Come ft Liam Bailey

• Bressa Creeting Cake - Palm Singing/ They Write Words to People Who Are Dead/ Greasy Grandma/ Egyptian Tanker/ You and I/ Superstation/ Rocky Mountain/ Zenax/ Peyton Farquhar/ Wood For Her/ An Early Microscope/ A Chip That Sells Millions

• Team Dynamite - Lightning Bolt ft. Bailey Wiley

• Exploding Rainbow Orchestra - Shut Your Mouth feat Lucy Suttor from Dick Move (live at Hopetoun Alpha)

• Vera Ellen and the Exploding Rainbow Orchestra - 'Andy'

3pm-4pm

• Yussef Dayes, Shabaka Hutchings - Raisins Under The Sun

• Yarbrough and Peoples - Don’t Stop the Music

• Deva Mahal - Sometimes Good

• The Rolling Stones - Let's Spend the Night Together

• Bobby Lewis - Tossin' and Turnin'

• The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday

• The Dedikation - Ruby Tuesday

• David Bowie - Let's Spend the Night Together

• Jerry Garcia - Let's Spend the Night Together

• Lianne la Havas - Can’t  Fight

• UMO - That Life

• Eden Burns - Slow Thing/ Goodbye Jingle/ So Good/ C2P

• The Bats - A Crutch, A Post

• Brandon De La Cruz - New Signs

• Cymande - Bra

4pm-5pm

• Hinewehi Mohi - Kotahitanga

• Te Vaka - Pate Pate

• Sunidhi Chauhan - Dhoom Machale

• Vybz Kartel - Fever

• Ciara - 1, 2 Step (feat Missy Elliott)

• Beyoncé - Irreplaceable