| With a top-selling debut album and several years of successful New Zealand touring, Wellington-based band The Black Seeds have received nationwide recognition as one of the country's most exciting acts.
A 10-piece live band, The Black Seeds produce a unique blend of funk, reggae, soul and dub that has set dancefloors alight throughout Aotearoa and sees them regularly sell out shows and tours. The band have spent the winter months in the studio and in early February 2004 will release their long awaited 2nd album, titled On The Sun‚ supported by a nationwide album release tour in March.
In June 2001 The Black Seeds released their debut album Keep On Pushing on Wellington-based record label Loop Recordings Aotearoa. Acclaimed in all quarters, Keep On Pushing was the subject of rave reviews and extensive airplay. Songs like Keep On Pushing, Hey Son‚ and Coming Back Home received massive b.net support and reached the top spots of the stations listener-voted charts as well as receiving regular airplay on National Radio, Channel Z and other commercial stations. In 2001 Keep On Pushing was voted in Rip It Up magazine's Top 50 Albums Of The Year‚ and the album has since gone on to become a top seller.
With assistance from New Zealand On Air, four music videos were completed for the album, including two by off -duty Lord Of The Rings crew members. All four videos received significant airplay on New Zealand music television. The Keep On Pushing video was winner of both the Knack award at the 2001 New Zealand Music Video Awards‚ and the ultimate prize at Radio Active's 2001 Handle The Jandal Awards. The second video, for Hey Son‚ also won the viewer-voted Best Video award for 2002 on TV2's Squeeze.
Since forming in 1998, The Black Seeds have gained the reputation as one of New Zealand's finest live acts. The band regularly sell out shows and tours throughout New Zealand and in April, 2004 completed a successful 16-gig tour of Australia to coincide with the Australian release of Keep On Pushing through Loop Recordings and Shock Records. The Black Seeds also play regular headline slots at some of New Zealand's leading music festivals including Alpine Unity, The Gathering, The Sound Splash, b.fm's Summer Series and have completed two New Zealand University Orientation Circuit tours, one with leading like-minded locals Salmonella Dub.
In October 2002, The Black Seeds debut album was skilfully reworked and reshaped by some of the countries leading producers into the remix album Pushed. Jet Jaguar's Coming Back Home remix reached no. 1 on the New Zealand b.net charts and the album went on to sell well throughout the country. |
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