April 2016 Making Tracks funding decisions

NZ On Air will fund 24 new music projects in the latest MakingTracks music funding round.

The 24 projects were selected from a field of 149 applications.

There are 18 $10,000 grants for recording a song and making a music video to back up the release of the song, and six $6,000 grants for making a music video only.

This is the eighth of 10 MakingTracks funding rounds for the 2015-2016 financial year. So far, we have had 1,069 songs submitted and we have funded 182 projects.

Decisions are based on the broadcast, music and audience merits of the songs that have been submitted, judged by a panel of broadcasting and music professionals.

The list of 24 projects funded in the April round is as follows –

(a) Funding of up to $10,000 for each of the following 18 MakingTracks projects in the April 2016 round, comprising up to $4,000 for recording a song and $6,000 for making a music video of that same song –

• Asti-Loren / Psychedelic Rose
  • B O K E H / Forget The Rules
  • Chores / Telling Lies
  • Ezra Vine / Say My Name
  • Fazerdaze / Lucky Girl
  • Fraser Ross / In The Rain
  • Grayson Gilmour / One Hundred Waters
  • Lake South / Renters
  • Lord Echo / Do U featuring Mara TK
  • MAALA / Kind Of Love
  • MIU / Roam
  • Nakita / Second Chances
  • Ryan Enzed / She Said featuring Helen Corry
  • Shakes / Strange Tides
  • Streets Of Laredo / 99.90%
  • Thomas Oliver / Shine Like The Sun
  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra / First World Problems
  • YOUNG TAPZ / Didn’t Know

(b) Funding of $6,000 for each of the following six MakingTracks projects in the April 2016 round, being funding for making a music video only –

• Armed In Advance / Same Old Story
  • Drax Project / Seemed Like Trouble
  • Hollie Smith / Water Or Gold
  • Noah Slee / Rampant Wild Free
  • Openside / Letting It Out
  • Sons Of Zion / Hungover

The April Making Tracks Panel was –

 Dean Campbell [The Edge; Auckland]
 Miles Buckingham [Radio Active; Wellington]
 Rikihana Douglas [Sniffers; Auckland]
 Lisa Paris [The Label; Auckland]
 Hamish Jackson [The Rock Shop; Auckland]
 Jeff Newton [NZ On Air; Auckland]
 Sam de Jong [Smoke Studios; Auckland]

The next MakingTracks round closes at 5.00pm on Sunday 01 May 2016.

Applications can be made online here.