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MakingTracks Grants - May
31 May 2012
NZ On Air will fund 32 new music projects from its May MakingTracks funding round.
The 32 projects were selected from a field of 114 applications.
Seventeen are $10,000 grants for recording a song and making a music video to back up the release of the song and 15 are $6,000 grants for making a music video only.
This means NZ On Air has funded 293 projects since the MakingTracks scheme was launched in July last year (from 1,087 applications).
Decisions are based on the broadcast, music and audience merits of the songs that have been submitted. An independent panel of broadcasting and music professionals makes the recommendations.
The list of 32 May projects follows -
(a) Funding of up to $10,000 for each of the following 17 MakingTracks projects in the May round, comprising up to $4,000 for recording a song and $6,000 for making a music video of that same song -
• Artisan Guns/Baby Blue
• Bang Bang Eche/Dreamers
• Beastwars/Realms
• Beat Kamp/Ain't Going
Nowhere
• Cool Rainbows/House By The
Beach
• Five Mile Town/Kids & Their
Chemicals
• Glass Owls/Let's Take The
Road
• Late Nyte Hype/Electricity
• Massad/Maybe One Day
• MayaVanya & P-Money/Turn Me
Out
• Mixt Frequencies/Breathe
• Sherpa/Love Film
• Skallander/Rain
• The Drab Doo Riffs/Tesla
Girl
• Tom Lark/Hipsteranity
• Tyson Tyler/To Be King
• Zionhill/Foot Soldier
(b) Funding of $6,000 for each of the
following 15 MakingTracks projects in the May round, being funding
for making a music video only -
• Badd Energy/How Do You Sleep
• Black River Drive/Hold The
Line
• Bury Me Low/Three Winds
• Cavell/I Need You
• Dam Native/Lick My Patu
• Luckless/Skin & Bones
• Maisey Rika/Tangaroa
Whakamautai
• Mother Motor/We'll Find The
Way
• Myele Manzanza featuring Rachel
Fraser/On The Move
• Paper Plane/Yes Ma'am
• Popstrangers/Heaven
• Rackets/Snake In The Grass
• Tommy Ill/New Car Money
• Toy Love/Swimming Pool
• Two Cartoons/Rainbows
The seven independent broadcasting and music professionals on the May MakingTracks panel were -
Phil Bell [Mai FM; Auckland]
Miles Buckingham [Radio Active; Wellington]
Dan Wrightson [Juice Music Television;
Auckland]
Russell Baillie [NZ Herald; Auckland]
Andrew Tidball [Cheese On Toast; Auckland]
Graeme Downes [Otago University; Dunedin]
Nick Roughan [record producer; Auckland]
The next MakingTracks funding round closes at 5.00pm on Friday 01 June. Applications can be made online at www.kiwihits.co.nz.
