Peter Haeder's *AI Buddha MK 2* arrives as an audacious attempt to translate ancient Buddhist wisdom into the language of contemporary electronic music. Released from his Auckland studio this November, the album represents a curious collision between the timeless teachings of the Dharma and the cutting-edge possibilities of AI-driven production. It's a project that could easily have collapsed under the weight of its own ambition, yet Haeder navigates this treacherous terrain with surprising deftness.

Auckland-based artist Peter Haeder arrives with "It's Just A Game," an audacious fusion of trance, dub, and reggae that positions itself as something rather more ambitious than mere entertainment—this is, we're told, a Dharma teaching wrapped in riddim and bass. The result is a curious beast: part spiritual manifesto, part dancefloor experiment, and entirely committed to its own peculiar vision.

Two decades into a career that has delivered platinum sales and national recognition, Jason Kerrison could have easily retreated into comfortable formulas. Instead, the OPSHOP architect has chosen vulnerability over victory laps, crafting his most emotionally exposed work to date with "You Are Love."

In an age where music videos often feel like afterthoughts, True North's "No Exit Wound" arrives as a powerful reminder of what happens when song and vision are conceived as one. Tones Thorburn's debut single for his new Auckland-based project doesn't merely announce itself through sound—it manifests as a complete artistic statement, where the self-directed visual component proves every bit as compelling as the groove-driven soul-rock that inspired it. Here is an artist who understands that great songs deserve great cinema, and vice versa.

New Zealand band Captain Blistermint released their new single 'The Ladder' on May 5. This is the first released song from their upcoming mini-album and 'The Ladder', judging by everything, is what all lovers of bright indie rock need.

New Zealand artist and DJ Molly Devine presented her new single 'Vibes Only' on April 25. This colorful and incendiary song is a kind of radiation of her resilience and renewal, because the song was written after a difficult breakup and despite this has a positive vibe.

Lexytron are a British husband and wife creative duo based in Auckland (New Zealand). This tandem is sincere and honest in their attitude towards each other and this allows their union to develop stronger on an even deeper level.

'Insecurities' is the new single of the New Zealand artist DayEyez, who continues his movement forward to the musical Olympus. His style includes elements of alternative pop and pop rock with broad anthemic choruses that sets him up for thinking about life and the role of feelings in it.

The Death Spell is a rock trio formed by three expats in Auckland, New Zealand. Idea inspirer and author of music and lyrics Ozan Turan is from Turkey, bassist Alessandro Iraci is from Italy, and drummer Owen Drew is from the UK.

On July 14, a new single was released by the New Zealand artist LearningToDive, which represents the work of singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Bravo Bonez. In this song called 'Rise', the artist examines the nature of people, conditioned by a difficult path in life, who constantly gets up after all the failures and disturbing upheavals to rise and move on.