NZ on Air’s September Making Tracks funding decisions were published today.
NZ On Air will fund 23 new music projects from this round; selected from a field of 123 applications, up slightly on the 111 applications in the August round. Nine projects have been awarded $10,000 grants for recording and music video production; and 14 were awarded $6,000 each for music videos only.
This brings the tally up to 395 projects funded since the Making Tracks scheme was launched in July last year (from 1,552 applications).
The following tracks received $10,000 grants
Goodshirt/Sierra Leone
Joseph & Maia/Nothing I Can Do
Katie Scott & Mahuia/Living The Dream
Ladi6/Ikarus
Marlon Williams/Bloodletter
The Palms/Sun
Ria/Typical Boy
Streets Of Laredo/Girlfriend
The Wyld/Rome
and these tracks received $6,000 grants
Artisan Guns/Rain In Summer
Cavell/Last Summer
DJ Lenium featuring K.One, DLove & Rickey Okay/Want It
Donell Lewis featuring Fortafy/Missing My Love
Go Stop Go/If You Want It
Iva Lamkum/Blue Moscow
Junica/You’re My Sun
Kids Of 88/The Drug
Mile High/The Past
New Way Home/Tides
State Of Mind & Sasha Vee/Black Raven
Sweet & Irie/Take Me Back To The Islands
The Golden Awesome/Autumn
Truth featuring Yayne/Rain Dancer
The seven independent broadcasting and music professionals on the September Making Tracks panel were –
Jason Winstanley [Classic Hits; Auckland]
Jasmin Ziedan [Base FM, Auckland]
Phoebe Spiers [C4 Music Television; Auckland]
Martyn Pepperell [Music Writer; Wellington]
Graham Reid [Music Writer, elsewhere.co.nz; Auckland]
Scott Kara [NZ Herald Time Out; Auckland]
Dale Cotton [Audio Workshop; Dunedin]
