MUZAI Records
MUZAI is an independent record label based in Auckland, New Zealand. There's some debate over whether it's slang usage means 'difficulty' or if it's official translation equates to 'innocent.' In either case, it's a win/win situation - one is apt and the other is irony.
Sometimes in this music business, the small groups that try and shout and wave their hands often don't get noticed when the big kids come in, so we like to think we're gathering up the small ones and a couple of the misfits from that big kid group and do something pro-active. Rather than complain. Or we could just be barking up the wrong tree. But really, we like everyone on the label and reckon they deserve a shot. So we're giving it to them.
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Artists
Little is known about BMX Rapists thus far, and some of their vital statistics come across as rumours or, at best, downright lies. More
A three piece all girl band from Wellington. Emily Jolliffe on Guitar and vocals (and occasionally keys), Gemma Syme on Keys and Vocals (and occasionally guitar) and Hannah Simon on... More
FATANGRYMAN More
Led by Will Rattray from Thought Creature and featuring members of Kittentank, The Pickups and Red Country, Full Moon Fiasco is Rattray's experiment/foray into the world of multi-tracked, rich psychedelic... More
3-piece Auckland mathrockers God Bows To Math have a passion for DIY. Taking their name from a Minutemen song, the band have built up a loyal following through relentless gigging. More
Wellington 3-piece The Postures. More
Intense, short, sharp, stabbing, stripped back guitar driven postpunk,
Harnessing the expected influences from NZ luminaries Bailter Space, Skeptics and 80s post punk groups to more auspicious nods to the...
Releases
Featuring Bones, a popular track from the group's In Session performance, in conjunction with 95bFM, (and subsequently charting on the station's Top 10 for a number of weeks) and popular... More
Full Moon Fiasco's debut album, Cosmic Palms, owes more to traditional Psy than anything 'neo', with a full, lush approach reminiscent of anything by
Brian Wilson or the 13th Floor...
Released 04 April 2011. Recorded and mastered by Robert Stirling Falconer April, Jun 2010 and February 2011. More
The debut EP from Auckland no-wavers FATANGRYMAN was released through MUZAI Records in June 2010. More
After a steady number of EPs and splits, across a wide variety of formats, Auckland's best noise merchants and long-time MUZAI act, god bows to math are finally ready to... More
Recorded during a month-long binge on prescription meds, Stone Roses records, and three dollar wine from the "milk bar", Casey Latimer and Jackson Hobbs made a pop album. More
The songs on Jurassic Warfare detail bourgeois "art-house" collectives, walking contradictions and the modern world's boring ridiculousness, captured this time in loud-fi youthful, feisty, noisy exuberance. Welcome to the future! More
Wellington party triplets Diana Rozz release their debut EP Numbskull. More
The new single from god bows to math, taken off their debut album set for release in November on MUZAI Records. More
Smile For Silver, Sing For Gold is a split CD EP on AK-based label Muzai with God Bows To Math and TFF. More
Muzai Records present an extremely limited self-titled split 10" between Auckland 3-piece God Bows To Math and
Wellington 3-piece The Postures. This vinyl release marks the latter band's first for...
Intense, short, sharp, stabbing, stripped back guitar driven postpunk, More
