Deepgrooves Entertainment

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Deepgrooves Entertainment
Deepgrooves Logo.jpg
Founded 1991 (1991)
Founder Bill Latimer, Mark Tierney and Kane Massey
Status Defunct (2000)
Distributor(s) Festival Records
Genre Pop, urban, hip hop, jazz, instrumental
Country of origin New Zealand
Location Auckland
Official website www.deepgrooves.co.nz

Deepgrooves was an Auckland, New Zealand-based independent record label formed in 1991 by Bill Latimer, Mark Tierney[1] and Kane Massey. Tierney left the label eighteen months after the initial release and Latimer followed two months later. Massey continued with the label for approximately ten years working as producer or executive producer on over 20 albums. Deepgrooves is widely seen as being one of the labels at the forefront of the birth of New Zealand's modern music industry in the early 1990s.

Distributed by Festival Records (NZ) Ltd., Deepgrooves was responsible for a series of influential jazz and urban releases including early recordings and production work from Zane Lowe,[2] Phillip Fuemana, Justyn Pilbrow, Simon Holloway, Mike Hodgson, Anthony Ioasa, Joost Langeveld and Andrew Morton (aka The Submariner). Throughout the 1990s, the label and its artists were nominated for numerous New Zealand Music Awards [3] including, but not limited to, Most Promising Group and Most Promising Female. It secured wins for Jazz Album of the Year twice. The label also registered numerous Top 10 and Top 40 chart placings over the decade, with its biggest commercial success being the 1994 NZ number one hit, "Hip Hop Holiday" by the group 3 The Hard Way, the first New Zealand hip hop single to reach number one.

In 1994, Massey established the label's in-house recording studio and film production company, Kaiun Digital, with Chris Sinclair and Dean Mackenzie. In addition to officially recording and filming the majority of the label's material, Kaiun also went on to record a number of award winning albums for other New Zealand artists. Most notable was Dam Native's Kaupapa Driven Rhymes Uplifted (1997), produced by Zane Lowe, and numerous recordings for Philip Fuemana's Urban Pasifika record label.

Although Deepgrooves recorded over 20 albums during its 10-year life span, a number from the label's later years still remain unreleased. The label ceased production at the end of the decade.

Artists

Discography

Albums

  • Deepgrooves - Compilation (1991)
  • The Projector Mix - The Projector (1992)
  • Deep In The Pacific Of Bass[7]
  • A Multitrack Situation - Nemesis Dub Systems (1993)
  • Raw - Freebass (1993)
  • Instrumental Killers - Compilation (1993)
  • 37 Degrees Latitude - Urban Disturbance (1994)
  • New Urban Polynesian - Fuemana (1994)
  • Old Skool Prankstas - 3 The Hard Way (1994)
  • Found In You - Jules Issa (1995)
  • Deepgrooves 95 - Compilation (1995)
  • Black Sand Shore - Grace (1995)
  • Kia Koe - Sulata (1996)
  • Roofers - Breaks Co-op (1997)
  • Came A Weird Way - The New Loungehead (1998)
  • Samoans PTII - Ermehn (1998)
  • Sofa So Good ~ The Producers Selection - Compilation (1999)
  • Pacific - Compilation (2000)

Singles

Footnotes

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