NZ On Air will fund 24 new music projects in its latest Making Tracks funding round.
The 24 projects were selected from a field of 126 applications.
Thirteen are $10,000 grants for recording a song and making a music video to back up the release of the song and 11 are $6,000 grants for making a music video only.
This means NZ On Air has funded 217 Making Tracks projects so far this financial year (commencing on 1 July 2012) from 1,167 applications.
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 May projects follows -
(a) Funding of up to $10,000 for each of the following 13 Making Tracks projects in the May 2013 round, comprising up to $4,000 for recording a song and $6,000 for making a music video of that same song -
- Annah Mac/Crossfire
- Blacklistt/Home
- Die Die Die/Angel (Some People Will Have Their Day)
- Ekko Park/My Crime
- Five Mile Town/The Lucky Ones
- Grand Rapids/Sorry, You're Crazy
- Happiness Stan/Melville's Big White Whale
- Lips/Freddy Bardot
- Princess Chelsea/No Church On Sunday
- Sherpa/Stars Aren't Play Doh
- She's So Rad/Cool It
- Streets Of Laredo/Laredo
- Suren Unka/Golden Town featuring Gala Georgette
(b) Funding of $6,000 for each of the following 11 Making Tracks projects in the May 2013 round, being funding for making a music video only -
- David Dallas/Wire featuring Ruby Frost
- Evan Sinton/Prisoner's Cinema
- Gareth Thomas/Gone Cold
- Jetski Safari/Like A Lie featuring Helen Corry
- Ladi6/Automatic
- Loui The Zu/City Of China
- P-Money/Finding God featuring @Peace
- Rival State/Aces
- Shapeshifter/In Colour
- Soljah/Message
- The Make Believe/Til The End Of Time
The independents on the May Making Tracks panel were -
Mike McClung [Radio Hauraki; Auckland]
Aaron Hawkins [Radio One, Dunedin]
Gaye Stebbing [Juice Music Television; Auckland]
Lydia Jenkin [NZ Herald Time Out; Auckland]
Neil Cox [Chart, Christchurch]
Rikki Morris [Morrisound, Auckland]
The next Making Tracks funding round closes at 5.00pm on Saturday 01 June. Applications can be made online here.