A Low Hum
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A Low Hum is the on-going project founded by photographer and music impresario Blink (born Ian Jorgensen
Ian Jorgensen
Ian Francis Jorgensen is a Wellington-based events manager, editor and photographer. He is the producer of the New Zealand music compilation and magazine series A Low Hum....

), and is based in Wellington, New Zealand. Under the umbrella A LOW HUM, Blink organises tours, releases records, makes music videos, organises one-off events/festivals and publishes magazines & books. As of 2009, A Low Hum has organised and supported tours for over seventy musical acts from New Zealand, USA, Australia and beyond.

In 2006, tours occurred every month and comprised between two and four rising Kiwi bands who played venues and gigs in about a dozen New Zealand locales along the way. In conjunction with each tour, A Low Hum published an A5 magazine, usually including a feature album or EP (often unreleased material by bands) and a music compilation CD with songs by local and international acts.

In 2006, A Low Hum also began publishing "Local Knowledge", a comprehensive guide for bands wanting to tour New Zealand and engage with the music industry.

In 2007, A Low Hum entered new territory as the producer of a major new live music festival, Camp A Low Hum, held on a large rural campsite close to Wainuiomata
Wainuiomata
Wainuiomata is a suburban town located within the city limits of Lower Hutt - and part of the greater Wellington urban area - in the lower North Island of New Zealand...

, 30 minutes drive north of Wellington. Attended by an intimate 350 campers, 49 bands performed 3, 4 and 5 February . In 2008 the festival spanned a total of four days featuring over 60 bands and doubling in audience numbers to around 700, according to Blink, the maximum capacity. The 2009 event sold out a month before the event, though capacity was limited to only 800 people. The 2010 event has been renamed Campus A Low Hum and has relocated to an unused agricultural college outside the town of Bulls in the North Island. Regarding changes to the format of the festival, Blink has said:

I have retained everything that was special about the Camp A Low Hum philosophy: intimate performances, small crowds, multiple environments, renegade performances, no band announcements, multiple performances by bands, spontaneous party action – and taken it bak 2 skool and added a whole bunch of new concepts to make it a brand new experience.


In 2007, after having released music for a few years in conjunction with its magazine, A Low Hum ventured further into the territories of a traditional record label by starting a monthly subscription-based CDR singles club and releasing albums by local New Zealand artists, Disasteradio
Disasteradio
Disasteradio is the pseudonym of Luke Rowell, a computer musician from Lower Hutt, New Zealand. He began writing a mixture of Chiptune and synth-pop in 1999 and has released eight albums, toured New Zealand over ten times and completing several tours of Europe and one of the US.- History :Beginning...

, Over the Atlantic and The Enright House
The Enright House
The Enright House was the moniker under which Mark Roberts wrote, recorded and performed music. The project began in Chicago in 2001, and, after Roberts moved to New Zealand, was based in Christchurch from 2004 until 2009. After touring the United States in early 2009, Roberts relocated back to...

.

in 2008, A Low Hum released a trilogy of free digital download EPs by up and coming NZ recordings artists; Secret Knives, Mount Pleasant and Red Steers

In 2009 Blink from A Low Hum tour managed Disasteradio around the World as well as worked on the next phase of his music festival series, renamed to Campus A Low Hum

In 2010 Blink is working on a documentary of the first three Camps, and is working on the follow-up to his 2006 book "Local Knowledge"
April 2010, As reported by the Creative Freedom Foundation, A Low Hum announced it has ditched CDs for future releases and is planning on mainly only releasing Mp3s with accompanying artwork.

A LOW HUM Tours

Bands whom Blink/A Low Hum have toured around NZ and the World

Degrees K & Ejector (September 2003)

Batrider (April 2004)

Ghostplane (May 2004)

The Fanatics and Disasteradio (June 2004)

Degrees K (July 2004)

The Accelerants (August 2004)

The Phoenix Foundation, Cassette, Phelps and Munro (October 2004)

Cortina, Coolies, Disasteradio, Golden Axe (November 2004)

Gerling (December 2004)

Shocking Pinks, The Inkling (March 2005)

Connan and the Mockasins, The Chandeliers, Hot Swiss Mistress (April 2005)

Ghostplane, Mestar (August 2005)

So So Modern, Teen Wolf (November 2005)

Die! Die! Die!, French Horns, Yokel Ono, The Vacants (February 2006)

Connan and the Mockasins, Whipping Cats, Gran Prix (March 2006)

The Reduction Agents, Over the Atlantic, The Undercurrents (April 2006)

Diasteradio, Kill Surf City, Voom (May 2006)

The Sneaks, The Shaky Hands, Thought Creature (June 2006)

Jakob, Operation Rolling Thunder, City City City (August 2006)

So So Modern, Collapsing Cities, Alps, Frase+Bri (September 2006)

The Ruby Suns, Odessa, The Bengal Lights (October 2006)

Rock and Roll Machine, The Mysterious Tapeman, The Bloody Souls, Don Julio and the Hispanic Mechanic (November 2006)

Ghosptlane, Signer, Phelps and Munro, Diasasteradio, Frase+Bri (December 2006)

So So Modern, My Disco, Disasteradio, Frase+Bri (February 2007)

The Evens (February 2007)

So So Modern, Cut Off Your Hands (July 2007)

Yacht, Panther (August 2007)

The Enright House
The Enright House
The Enright House was the moniker under which Mark Roberts wrote, recorded and performed music. The project began in Chicago in 2001, and, after Roberts moved to New Zealand, was based in Christchurch from 2004 until 2009. After touring the United States in early 2009, Roberts relocated back to...

, Thought Creature, Little Pictures (band), Get Set Play (September 2007)

Disasteradio
Disasteradio
Disasteradio is the pseudonym of Luke Rowell, a computer musician from Lower Hutt, New Zealand. He began writing a mixture of Chiptune and synth-pop in 1999 and has released eight albums, toured New Zealand over ten times and completing several tours of Europe and one of the US.- History :Beginning...

 (October 2007)

Over the Atlantic (April-September 2008) - World Tour - USA, England, Scotland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand

Disasteradio
Disasteradio
Disasteradio is the pseudonym of Luke Rowell, a computer musician from Lower Hutt, New Zealand. He began writing a mixture of Chiptune and synth-pop in 1999 and has released eight albums, toured New Zealand over ten times and completing several tours of Europe and one of the US.- History :Beginning...

 (April-September 2009) - World Tour - USA, England, Scotland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Belgium, Austria, Australia, New Zealand

2007 - Brookfields Outdoor Education Centre, Wainuiomata. 3-5 Feb

2007 Line-up:

Actor/Model, Bang! Bang! Aids!, Batrider, Birthglow, The Bonnie Scarletts, Captain Sergeant Major, Collapsing Cities, Coolies, Cortina, The Cosbys, The Deadly Deaths, Disasteradio (Lower Hutt), The Enright House, Flick, Frase+Bri, Get Set Play, Ghostplane, Ginger Brown, Girlfriend, The Gladeyes, Goldenaxe, Grayson Gilmour, Holidays With Friends, The Inkling, Kill Surf City, Ladybird, Lester Osborne a.k.a. Liam Finn
Liam Finn
Liam Mullane Finn is a New Zealand musician and songwriter. Born in Australia, he moved to New Zealand as a child...

, Operation Rolling Thunder, Over The Atlantic, MC Stormtroopa, Not So Experimental, Phelps and Munro, Pig Out, Polka Dot Dot Dot, Pumice, The Rise and Demise, Shaft, The Shocking Pinks, The Shrugs, Signer, The Situations, The Sneaks, So So Modern, Thought Creature, Tiger Tones, Tommy Ill
Tommy Ill
Tommy Ill is a Wellington, New Zealand based hip hop artist. Tommy Ill is one man, Tom Young, though the live band has three members: Kelvin Neal, Buck Beauchamp and Brian Hainsworth. Tommy's music has a reputation for being quirky, witty and eclectic...

, Vacants, The Whipping Cats

2008 - Tatum Park, Ohau. 2-5 Feb

2008 Official Line-up:

Alphabethead (Wellington), Bang! Bang! Aids! (Melbourne), Bang! Bang! Eche!
Bang Bang Eche
Bang! Bang! Eche! are a dance punk band currently based in Christchurch, New Zealand.-History:Bang! Bang! Eche! is the musical project of Australian-born T'Nealle Worsley, aided by a revolving team of session musicians. The band started playing shows in early 2007.Towards the end of 2007, Worlsey...

 (Christchurch), Batrider (London/Aus), Big Flip The Massive (Napier), Black Market Art (Christchurch), Brand New Math (Auckland), The Brunettes
The Brunettes
The Brunettes are an indie pop or twee pop group from New Zealand formed in 1998. The band consists of core members Jonathan Bree and Heather Mansfield with additional contributions from part-time band members including James Milne , Ryan McPhun , Harry Cundy, and most recently,...

 (Auckland/New York), Boss Christ (Palmerston North), Cassette
Cassette (New Zealand band)
Cassette are an alt country/indie rock band from Wellington, New Zealand. They were formed in summer 1999-2000, and originally consisted of Tom Watson , Craig Terris and David Fraser . The Band was joined by Paul Trigg of Letterbox Lambs fame after their move to Melbourne in 2001...

 (Melbourne/Wellington), The Conjurors (Auckland), Connan and the Mockasins
Connan and the Mockasins
Connan Mockasin is a psychedelic pop musician from Te Awanga, New Zealand. Formerly part of a blues rock/pop group called 'Connan and the Mockasins'.-Biography:...

 (London/NZ), The Cosbys (Auckland), Cosmic Rays Of Death (Auckland), The Damned Evangelist (Lyttelton), Death In Gaza (Auckland), Desktop Icons (Auckland), Dick Dynamite And The Doppelgangers (Hamilton), Die! Die! Die!
Die! Die! Die!
Die! Die! Die! is a noise pop/punk three-piece from Dunedin, New Zealand, formed in late 2003 and signed to Flying Nun Records.Their self-titled album Die! Die! Die! was released in 2005 in New Zealand, with an international release soon after. It was recorded in Chicago's Electrical Audio by...

 (Dunedin), Disasteradio (Lower Hutt/The Future), Disciples Of Macca (Auckland), The Enright House (Christchurch), The Family Cactus (Wellington), Fighting The Shakes (Wellington), Frase+Bri (Christchurch), Hot Swiss Mistress (Wairarapa), Kittyhawke (Auckland), KOTAC (Dunedin), Ladybird (France), Lawrence Arabia
Lawrence Arabia
Lawrence Arabia is the musical guise of New Zealand artist James Milne. In 2006, Lawrence Arabia released his self titled debut album and the debut album his band The Reduction Agents, The Dance Reduction Agents...

 (London/NZ), Liam Finn
Liam Finn
Liam Mullane Finn is a New Zealand musician and songwriter. Born in Australia, he moved to New Zealand as a child...

 (Auckland), Little Pictures (Wellington), Los Hories (Auckland), Mean Street (Auckland), Oi! Boy (Auckland/UK), Onanon (Dunedin), The Phoenix Foundation
The Phoenix Foundation
The Phoenix Foundation are an progressive indie rock band formed in Wellington, New Zealand.-Early years and China Cove:Founded by Conrad Wedde, Samuel Flynn Scott, and Luke Buda in 1997 while students at Wellington High School, they were joined by Tim Hansen , Richie Singleton and Will Ricketts ...

 (Wellington), Pikelet (Melbourne), Popolice (Melbourne), The Ragamuffin Children (Christchurch), Raised By Wolves (Wellington), The Reduction Agents
The Reduction Agents
The Reduction Agents are a New Zealand band fronted by James Milne, who also records under the name Lawrence Arabia. In 2006 the band released their debut album The Dance Reduction Agents, as well as Milne releasing his debut solo album, Lawrence Arabia...

 (Auckland), The Ruby Suns
The Ruby Suns
The Ruby Suns are an indie/pop group from New Zealand. They formed in 2004 when Californian Ryan McPhun moved to Auckland and started playing in several bands such as The Brunettes and The Tokey Tones.-Biography:...

 (Auckland), Samuel Flynn Scott (Wellington), Seth & Merle (Wellington), Sets Of 57 (Wanganui), Shaun K Anderson (Wellington), Sheba Williams (Wellington), Signer (Wellington), Smokin' Hot Bitch (Melbourne), Somethingorother (Melbourne), Sora Shima (Hamilton), Steve Abel & The Chrysalids (Auckland), The Tape Men (Wellington), Teen Wolf (Auckland), Thought Creature (Wellington), Tiger Tones (Christchurch), Tourettes (Auckland).
Trans Am
Trans Am (band)
Trans Am is a three-piece band which originated in Bethesda, Maryland that was one of the originators of "post-rock" in the mid 90s. Their work centers on a cerebrally robotic, usually instrumental, semi-danceable, minimalistic format, with influences including Krautrock, heavy metal, hardcore...

 (USA)

2009 - Homedale, 6-8 February

2009 Official Line-up:

Actor Slash Model (Melbourne), Alphabethead (Wellington), Bachelorette (Christchurch), Baseball
Baseball (band)
Baseball is a self-managed and independent band from Melbourne, Australia.Baseball played at the Hohaiyan Rock Festival in Taipei in 2005, where lead singer Cameron Potts smashed his violin at the end of the set....

 (Melbourne), Bang! Bang! Eche!
Bang Bang Eche
Bang! Bang! Eche! are a dance punk band currently based in Christchurch, New Zealand.-History:Bang! Bang! Eche! is the musical project of Australian-born T'Nealle Worsley, aided by a revolving team of session musicians. The band started playing shows in early 2007.Towards the end of 2007, Worlsey...

 (Christchurch), Basketball Nightmare (Wellington), Big Flip The Massive (Napier), Bonaparte
Bonaparte (band)
Bonaparte is a Berlin-based indie punk band headed by Swiss songwriter Tobias Jundt. Jundt is the only permanent member, and there are up to 20 other live performers.The band is characterized by their expressive critically acclaimed live performances...

 (Germany), The Crayon Fields
The Crayon Fields
Crayon Fields are a four-piece Melbourne based band signed to the labels Chapter Music and Rallye. They have been described as having an artful naïve-pop aesthetic and as lo-fi....

 (Melbourne), Damsels (Hamilton), Disasteradio (Wellington), The E.L.F.
The E.L.F.
The E.L.F. is a solo indie dance band/ producer formed by ex-Gerling frontman Darren Cross based in Sydney Australia. Darren Cross described his debut free online album released as of October 2010 "Plankton Icke and Tina Turner David City Limits"as " Future spoken shoegaze".-History:With Gerling...

 (Sydney), The Family Cactus (wellington), The Finn Family Band (Liam, Niel and Elroy Finn), Guy Blackman (Melbourne), Justice Yeldham (Sydney), Mean Street (Auckland), Moron Says What! (Auckland), Mount Pleasant (Christchurch), Mr Hayday (Auckland), My Disco
My Disco
My Disco is an Australian rock band.-Background:Formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2003, their first public appearance was performed at The Good Morning Captain, a cafe in Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne...

 (Melbourne), Ned Collette
Ned Collette
Ned Collette is a Melbourne singer-songwriter signed with the Australian record label Dot Dash Recordings.-Background:...

 (Melbourne), Over The Atlantic (Wellington), Ouch My Face (Melbourne), Pikelet (Melbourne), Rand & Holland
Rand & Holland
Rand & Holland is the project for Sydney musician Brett Thompson. In 2003 the group released its debut album, Tomorrow Will Be Like Today, on Sydney based label Preservation, and it has since been released in Germany on Staubgold. In 2007, the band followed up this album with the release...

 (Sydney), Rifles (Wellington), Sickboy
Sickboy Milkplus
Sickboy Milkplus is the stage name of Jurgen Desmet, a Belgian electronic music producer of Breakcore Gives Me Wood and "servants of the apocalyptic goat rave" with music releases on Tigerbeat6, Peace Off, Mirex and Wood.- Discography :* Ganja Bullet / Worst Trade Central * Swingin' in the Rain EP...

 (Belgium), The Show is the Rainbow
The Show is the Rainbow
The Show is the Rainbow is a music act from Lincoln, NE, A.K.A Darren Keen. For much of 2006, The Show is the Rainbow toured as a three-piece, with Javid Dabestani and Jim Schroeder playing alongside Keen. Currently, Keen is touring as a one-man band...

 a.k.a Darren Keen (Nebraska), The Sorry Entertainers (Germany), So So Modern (Wellington), Stefanimal (Dunedin), Sven Dohse (Germany), Teacups (Auckland), TFF
TFF
TFF may stand for:* TFF Rudolstadt, a music festival* Tangential Flow Filtration, a technique in biochemistry* Tanzania Football Federation* Telematics Freedom Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Rome, Italy* Tears For Fears...

 (Dunedin), Toecutter (Sydney), Tom Watts (Wanganui), Wilburforces (Auckland)

2009 Renegade Room Line-up:

brains, Boyfriend, New Friend, Gearloose, God Bows to Math, Thugquota, Joe Blossom, The Enright House (Christchurch), Tono, FAUX (now XUAF) (London).

Campus A Low Hum

2010 - Flock House, 23-25 Jan

2010 Official Lineup:

Bandicoot, Daedelus, Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon is an American composer and electronic musician based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2003, Deacon has released eight albums under several different labels...

, Dear Times Waste, Deer Park, Denim Owl, Dent May
Dent May
-Biography:May attended Jackson Prep, then later NYU Film School and Ole Miss, where he studied English and Southern studies, and found his home in the music of Serge Gainsbourg and Lee Hazlewood...

, DHDFDs, Diana Rozz, Die Die Die, The Dodos
The Dodos
The Dodos are an American indie rock band consisting of Meric Long and Logan Kroeber.- History :The Dodos began playing music together in 2005, when musician Meric Long, who had been gigging steadily in San Francisco as a solo singer-songwriter, was introduced to Logan Kroeber through a mutual...

, DZ,
EBGC, An Emerald City, F in Math, Flying Scribble, Frase, Gaywyre, God Bows to Math, Golden Axe, Jens Lekman
Jens Lekman
Jens Martin Lekman is a Swedish musician. His music is guitar-based pop with heavy use of samples and strings, with lyrics that are often witty, romantic, and melancholic. The English lyrics reflect an advanced knowledge of the language and its idioms...

, John the Baptist,
Koko Nuts, Love Connection, Lucky Paul, Mild America, Monster Mash, Nevernudes, Newtown Street Justice, Orchestra of Spheres,
Old Grey Wolf, Oloverly, Ouch My Face, Parking Lot Experiments, Pets with Pets, Polka Dot Dot Dot, Popstrangers, Potential Falcon,
Richard Paul Alexander, Rifles, Ruby Suns, Secret Knives, Seth Frightening, Shiver Like Timber, Shocking Pinks
Shocking Pinks
Shocking Pinks are a band formed by Nick Harte and based in Christchurch, New Zealand.Nick Harte has been in New Zealand bands such as CM Ensemble, Hiatus, The Incisions, Montessouri, Laudanum, Luxor Dance Ensemble, Urinator, Solaa, The Brunettes and Pig Out. The band has been signed to New York...

, Signer, Surf City
Surf City
Surf City may refer to:* Huntington Beach, California, legally trademarked as Surf City, USA* Surf City, New Jersey* Surf City, North Carolina* Santa Cruz, California, colloquially referred to as Surf City...

, The Zits, Thugquota, Tiger Tones, Toecutter, The Show is the Rainbow
The Show is the Rainbow
The Show is the Rainbow is a music act from Lincoln, NE, A.K.A Darren Keen. For much of 2006, The Show is the Rainbow toured as a three-piece, with Javid Dabestani and Jim Schroeder playing alongside Keen. Currently, Keen is touring as a one-man band...

, Witch Hats, So So Modern, Siamese

A Low Hum Releases

HUM001 - Ejector, The Lower You Go EP

HUM002 - Ghostplane, EP

HUM003 - A LOW HUM Issue 8, CD1

HUM004 - A LOW HUM Issue 9, CD2

HUM005 - A LOW HUM Issue 10, CD3

HUM006 - A LOW HUM Issue 11, CD4

HUM007 - A LOW HUM Issue 12, CD5

HUM008 - A LOW HUM Issue 13, CD6

HUM009 - A LOW HUM Issue 14, CD7

HUM010 - A LOW HUM Issue 15, DVD1

HUM011 - A LOW HUM Issue 16, CD8

HUM012 - A LOW HUM Issue 17, CD9

HUM013 - A LOW HUM DVD2

HUM014 - ALH Series 3, Issue 1 CD1 + Xanadu "Live, demos and studio recordings"

HUM015 - ALH Series 3, Issue 2 CD2 + Dead Pan Rangers "A selection of songs"

HUM016 - ALH Series 3, Issue 3 CD3 + Dana Eclair/Ghostplane "National Velvet"

HUM017 - ALH Series 3, Issue 4 CD4 + Disasteradio "Synthtease"

HUM018 - ALH Series 3, Issue 5 CD5 + Urban Tramper "Best of, So Far..."

HUM019 - ALH Series 3, Issue 6 CD6 + Looma III

HUM020 - ALH Series 3, Issue 7 CD7 + Ejector "Two Thousand and Seven"

HUM021 - ALH Series 3, Issue 8 CD8 + Enright House "Broken Hands EP"

HUM022 - ALH Series 3, Issue 9 CD9 + Dark Beaks "Spill Your Heart"

HUM023 - A Low Hum DVD3

HUM024-030 - A LOW HUM Singles Club Series 1

HUM031 - The Enright House
The Enright House
The Enright House was the moniker under which Mark Roberts wrote, recorded and performed music. The project began in Chicago in 2001, and, after Roberts moved to New Zealand, was based in Christchurch from 2004 until 2009. After touring the United States in early 2009, Roberts relocated back to...

 - A Maze and Amazement
A Maze and Amazement
A Maze and Amazement is the debut album by New Zealand post-rock band The Enright House, released in May of 2007, on A Low Hum Records.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Mark Roberts – production, performance, vocals, art direction...

, Septemebr 2007

HUM032 - Disasteradio - Visions, October 2007

HUM033 - Secret Knives - The Wolves EP, February 2008 (Digital Release only)

HUM034 - Mount Pleasant - Mount Pleasant EP, September 2008 (Digital Release only)

HUM035 - Red Steers - Lagaluga Lagoon EP, September 2008 (Digital Release only)

HUM036 - Over the Atlantic - Dimensions, 17 November 2008

HUM037 - A Low Hum 2009 Digital Sampler, 6 February 2009 (Digital Release Only)

HUM038 - Signer - Next we Bring You the Fire, 23 November 2009

HUM039 - Red Steers - The Fever Fold, 26 April 2010 (Digital Release with Artwork)

HUM040 - Secret Knives - Affection, Out 1 October 2010 (Digital Release)

HUM041 - Disasteradio - Charisma, 15 October 2010 (Digital Release)

HUM042 - Leno Lovecraft - EP #1 (Digital Release)

HUM043 - Disasteradio - Charisma (CD)

HUM044 - Disasteradio - Charisma (LP)

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