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TRACKLISTING CD:

1. Jehro – Everything
2. Adi Dick – Our Place
3. The Black Seeds – Sometimes Enough
4. Nickodemus – Give The Drummer Some
5. Kraak & Smaak – Keep On Searching
6. Noiseshaper – Love To The Rhythm feat. G. Rizo
7. Booka Shade – Night Falls
8. Recloose – The Sanctuary feat. Tyna
9. P-Bass Expressway – Thundercleez
10. $olal – Psycho Girls & Psycow Boys (Haaksman & Haaksman Remix)
11. Samuel Flynn Scott – War Over Water
12. Paul McLaney – Is This Really How It Feels
13. Tommy – Holding On

SHORT FILMS
Dead Letters – Paolo Rotondo
The Speaker – Te Arepa Kahi
Frames – Sam Kelly
Just Like His Father – Jeff Hurrell
Nature’s Way – Jane Shearer
Truant – Michael Duignan
The Sunshine Man – Peter Tonks

DOCUMENTARY
The Living Room - Charlie Ash
The Living Room - Inia Taylor
Bacardi B-Live OE: Brazil – Project Trailer

MUSIC VIDEOS
Paul McLaney – Let Me Count The Ways
Recloose – Mana’s Bounce
Samuel Flynn Scott – War Over Water
Clube Do Balanço & Barnaby Weir – Doin’ It For Brasil

MOTION GRAPHICS
Beauty Is The Promise Of Happiness – Jon Yeo
RESN Reel

There’s something strangely stunning about the way LOOP drives through the changing music industry. Maybe it really is rare vision. Just when you think locally made selections are slowing down, comes another CD/DVD/book box set in stores put together by the LOOP family. It features cutting edge up-and-coming local and international music acts, thoughtful short films, motion graphics, stencil art, graphic design and photos. Diverse multi-media compilations like this simply don’t happen very often, not in New Zealand anyway. And, at the risk of sounding romantic, LOOP Select 008 is cinematic.

The CD compilation meanders from the beautiful openings of Jehro (mainstream radio PDs take note!) via homegrown heroes Adi Dick and The Black Seeds to hip New York producer Nickodemus (who also runs the infamous Turntables On The Hudson parties). Take a breath here, because the journey goes on immediately with a stint into international dub-tech and most upfront minimal techno (Kraak & Smaak from Sweden, Noiseshaper from Germany/UK and Booka Shade from Germany). Next pit-stop is Recloose with a brand new future funk track of his next studio album, followed by local companions P-Bass Expressway. Keep on moving! Quickly off on the international electro-motorway ($olal), then next turn right into… Aotearoa. The land of acoustic indie rock. And what a turn it is, with Samuel Flynn Scott, Paul McLaney and – finally – Tommy providing the familiar road back home.

The eclectic DVD starts with four diverse NZ Film Commission short films: Truant is a film about teenage discovery pieced together like fragments of a memory.  Natures Way is a haunting supernatural thriller about nature exacting revenge.  Discover a different kind of NZ war hero in the stunning film Dead Letters. The Speaker follows a young West Auckland graffiti artist who learns that saying sorry is best said with action. All films have premiered in the world’s top festivals, Nature’s Way In Competition in Cannes, Truant in New York Film Festival, The Speaker in the Panorama section at Berlin Film Festival and Dead Letters at Telluride Film Festival in the US. The three innovative independent short films will have you looking through the dreamy eyes of The Sunshine Man, laughing at a teenage boys’ awkward misfortune in Just Like His Father, and Frames will have you emphathising at an ironically doomed father- son relationship, showing you the laughter doesn’t need to end when a comedian is dying. The documentary section will have you laughing with the bright eyed starlets of neo punk band Charlie Ash and all their throbbing sexualtiy, and it will take you to Brazil, twice, you lucky things- one for a tattoo convention and then again for a musical collaboration experience. And if that’s not enough, sit back, relax and trip out to the music videos and motion graphics from NZ and around the world.

The 48 page artbook is a showcase of modern art and photography from New Zealand and abroad. From the stark realities of the Word Press Photo selections to the raw textures of Dora Longo Bahia’s stark portraits and Flox’s street born compositions, the Rare Vision art catalogue is brimming with visual treats. The book presents a taste of the new direction that is available in LOOP’s first free downloadable E Book and all are invited to experience LOOP Select 008’s digital extension via this new awe-inspiring medium.

www.loopselect.com