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TUESDAY 23RD DECEMBER 2025
23/12 NO AP

TUESDAY 16TH DECEMBER 2025
16/12 NO AP

TUESDAY 9TH DECEMBER 2025
09/12 NO AP

TUESDAY 2ND DECEMBER 2025
02/12 NO AP

TUESDAY 25TH NOVEMBER 2025
25/11 NO AP

TUESDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 2025
Action Paddle #17 - Rosa F. and Louis C.

This AP I brought my very good friend Rosa and her friend Louis on to talk about a vvvveery eclectic range of music.. Interesting day

TUESDAY 11TH NOVEMBER 2025
11/11 NO AP

TUESDAY 4TH NOVEMBER 2025
04/11 NO AP

TUESDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2025
28/10 NO AP

TUESDAY 21ST OCTOBER 2025
Action Paddle #16 - Carcass Lottery

Today we had Carcass Lottery on for like 10 minutes of interview and a lot of random conversation. We played a lot of grindcore and random junk it was pretty haphazard. The bookend today was Music Has The Right To Children by Boards of Canada. 

Discordance Axis - Carcass Lottery 
Pig Destroyer - Boy Constrictor
Orchid - Don't Rat Out Your Friends
The Locust - Anything Jesus Does, I Can Do Better
Cuck (dn) - Eat Dirt
Repulsion - Festering Boils

Kristian Groves (dn) - Te Hane Davis By The Sea
ALL YOU NEED IS KILL - FORGET LIFE
Mandate (dn) - Take It Or Leave It + Waste My Time
Slint - Ron
DJ Shadow - Untitled

Internet Death (nz) - Beatdown!
Piss Baby (nz) Judge
Loves Ugly Children (nz) - Falling Down
Bailter Space (nz) - Robot World
RADIUM (nz) - TRENCH KNIFE

GINGIVITIS - Self Extraction
Haggus - Of Self Degredation
Bongzilla - Stone A Pig/
Belzebong - Bong Thrower

Boards of Canada - Happy Cycling

Background music: Jeremy Soule -The Bannered Mare

TUESDAY 14TH OCTOBER 2025
Actual Paddock #16 - "Slow and Painful"

Today I started off with the intent to play some random doom metal picks but ended up honing in on a particular vibe of doom metal that is slow, crushingly heavy, and really really sad. Towards the end of the show we starting veering away from this a wee bit, but it was still slow and heavy like our opening and closing tracks, taken from Satan Worshipping Doom by Bongripper.

Bongripper - Doom

YOB - Our Raw Heart
Warning - Bridges

Mournful Congregation - The Waterless Streams
Windhand - Eyeshine

Plague of Carcosa - Over Innsmouth
Bong - Wizards of Krull

Mike Scheidt - Marrow

Bongripper - Satan

Recommended listening: Bong - Bong

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TUESDAY 7TH OCTOBER 2025
Action Paddle #15 - This Software is Shareware

This week I brought on This Software is Shareware to talk about Chiptune, the gigs he organises, and the setups of the bands he plays in. He explained to me the mysteries of tracker software and how a tiny handheld toy can make so many sounds. SO so cool. We bookended with Retrospective Forward Thinking by FuturNari.

FuturNari (nz) - ANALYSE

Dot.AY - Bambiraptor
DJ Speedsick - I DESERVE WORSE THAN A BAD TRIP
GOTO80 - Torpartechno
Hella - The D.Elkan

thirtytwobit - Michou Hardcore Sardou
Talk to Animals - Fake Blood
cLOUDDEAD - JimmyBreeze (1)
Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families - Leaving Home

Rumy 6 Years Old (dn) Dun Dun Dun

This Software is Shareware (dn) Foxhound: Camelcase (TAB covers)

Henry Homesweet - Sprite Heart Bleeds No More
godinpants - The Deep Sea Expedition for the Hell-Wale Monolith
Low - All Night
Amon Tobin - Creatures

$noregazZzm (dn) - I Wanna Be Chad
TAB (NZ) - Pizza of Death
Shitbird - Shitduck
This Software is Shareware (dn) - File Manager

FuturNari (nz) - RESULT

Recommended listening: Talk To Animals - Always EP

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TUESDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER 2025
Actual Paddock #15 - "Plain Ol' Noise"

Today I went for mostly the purest, unfiltered noise I could find. If you ever think Actual Paddock isn't noisy enough then you can listen to this over and over and over. Featuring the first full colour weather spectrum we've seen yet on the weather report. This is all the kind of noise that binds and traps you. Bookend was Going Places by Yellow Swans.

Yellow Swans - Sovereign

LR, Puce Mary - Recognition Of Man
L$D Fundraiser (dn) - Compromise Of Disinterest
Merzxiu - Merzxiu B

OCS - Untitled 1
Under Her Skin (dn) - YNA3 08/12/2024
Merzbow - Sedonis C

Lingua Ignota - SO THAT HE MAY NOT RISE AGAIN
Uboa - Epilation Jow and Please Don't Leave Me

Rehberg Dedicat (dn) YNA3 08/12-2024
Tod Luffa (nz) - Horizon I've Ever Seen

The Rita - Thousands Of Dead Gods

Yellow Swans - Opt Out

Recommended listening: Yellow Swans - Going Places
(with headphones and turned up real loud)

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TUESDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER 2025
Action Paddle #14 - Talking Furniture

This Action Paddle we had Dylan and Taylor from Talking Furniture on. I cannot really remember what we talked about because I'm finally updating this entry after so many weeks. 

Sebadoh - Careful
Sonic Youth - The World Looks Red
Unwound - Envelope
Big Black - Kasimir S. Pulaski Day

Cameron Winter - Nausicaa (Love Will Be Revealed)
Blake Mills - Wintersong
White Magic - Keeping The Wolves From The Door
Thee Oh Sees - We Are Free

HEART SHAPED HATE - Haircuts
The Locust - Live From The Russian Compound
Sparklehorse - King Of Nails
Lungbutter - Flat White

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TUESDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER 2025
Actual Paddock #14 - "Drones"

Today we explored some drone music and it's derivatives. The 3 main blocks were Drone Doom, ""Drone with a beat""", and NZ Drone. Bookending the playlist today was Le Sacre De Soleil Invaincu by Neptunian Maximalism, a droney jazzy metal band. I really enjoyed making this playlist and getting to drone out to some zones in the studio. I hope everyone sat there with their eyes closed and patiently awaited the end.

Neptunian Maximalism - At Dusk: Raag Marwa: Vilambit Laya Alaap

Boris - Feedbacker, Pt. 1
Earth - Like Gold And Faceted
Sunn O))) - Troubled Air

Bull of Heaven - Eleven Floors Down
Bowery Electric - Inside Out

Surface of the Earth (nz) - LoF 27/10/23
Peter Porteus (dn) - rdc 25/05/25

Neptunian Maximalism - At Dawn: Raag Bairagi: Vilambit Laya Alaap and Rite D'Ovairture & Badhat Unisson

Recommended Listening: Boris - boris at last -feedbacker-

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TUESDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2025
09/09 NO AP

TUESDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER 2025
Actual Paddock #13 - "Weird Vocalists"

Today we explored bands and projects with interesting, unique, or just plain odd singers. The music itself was a mix of weird folk and nasty blues, some punky stuff, and kraut. I was getting over a cold so my voice sounds yuck. Sorry. The bookend was Real Gone (the original mix/master) by Tom Waits.

Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag

Circuit des Yeux - Philo
:: Wet Marble - White Strawberries
Animal Collective - It's You
Thee Oh Sees - Sucks Blood

Animal Collective - La Rapet
Neutral Milk Hotel - Three Peaches
Moor Mother - Creation Myth
Scott Walker - Corps De Blah

Oxbow - Yoke
Christeene - BEAUCOUP MORROCCO
Big Black - Cables
The Shadow Ring - Heart, Liver, & Lungs

CAN - Spoon
Gnod - People
Amon Düül II - Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm

Björk - Where Is The Line

Recommended listening: Christeene - MIDNITE FUKK TRAIN

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TUESDAY 26TH AUGUST 2025
Action Paddle #12 - DJ Dead Hog

Today I brought on a friend and frequent collaborator of mine named DJ Dead Hog. We played heaps of electronic music across various energies and genres with the aim to avoid any acoustic instruments. It was pretty hectic. We also talked about upcoming music releases from the both of us. The bookend was Back On Time by Plug.

Plug - Come On My Skeleton

Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers
Actual (dn) - Teviot
Massive Attack - Be Thankful For What You've Got

The Bug (ft. Nazamba) - War
Blackstar - Emperor Selassie I
Matt Rapid (nz) - Amen Dyon Anaswa
Om - Garden of Dub

Bowery Electric - Fear of Flying
Hype Williams - Your Girl Smells Chung When She Wears Dior
cLOUDDEAD - I promise never to get paint on my glasses again (1)
Hype Williams - blue dream

Perishing Goods (dn) - Success

Plug - Flight 78

Recommended listening: Plug - Back On Time
Background music: Bone Chapel at Yours February 2024
Background music: A Dream Is Like A Magic Cloak at Yours February 2024

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TUESDAY 19TH AUGUST 2025
Actual Paddock #12 - "Black Metal"

Today we explored 3 different subgenres of Black Metal, neatly packaged into 3 blocks made up of 3 songs each. These were Atmospheric Black Metal, Blackened Noise, and War Metal. I really enjoyed doing the research for this playlist and I hope you enjoyed listening to it. This was by far the least American AP, only 1 band was from the US. Normally I play a lot of American bands so just an interesting thing. Intro/outro for today was Il était une forêt by Gris.

Gris - Il était une forêt...

Wolves In The Throne Room - I Will Lay Down My Bones Amongst The Rocks And Stones
Mistchaser (dn) - Kindred Spirits
Feigur - Die Herrschaft des Eises / Leichenschmaus

Μνήμα - Cosmic Lunacy
La Torture des Ténèbres - The Enigma Of The Intergalactic Canyon
Draugur (nz) - eymd

Blasphemy - Goddess of Pervasity
Deathmodulation (nz) - Abyssic Convocation 
Revenge - Vengeance Absolute

Methchrist (dn) - Anthropic Dysecdysis

Gris - Cicatrice

Recommended listening: Gris - Il était une forêt...

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TUESDAY 12TH AUGUST 2025
12/08 NO AP