"Algorhythm" was Kog Transmissions first release of 1999 and continued their dedication to investigating and releasing the full spectrum of electronic music. Merging Techno, House, and a little bit of Disco, "Algorhythm" brought together a whoâs who of New Zealand's smooth beat producers.

The Gathering is New Zealandâs most loved and well-known dance event. The Gathering 2000 is the fourth Gathering and the seventh new year dance party held in the Golden Bay region. Thousands of people each year make the trek to the top of Takaka hill where a patch of bare farmland surrounded by ancient beech forest is transformed into a huge adventure playground of music, dance, performance, camping, play and sun.

This CD presents a selection of some of New Zealandâs finest electronic musicians that have played a big part in the growth of The Gathering and New Zealandâs electronic music scene. What makes it uniquely ours remains an enigma for words, but in feeling it's obvious - it's the music of our landscape, our people, our friends, our history and our collective spirit.

A stomping mix of cinematic soundscapes, booming beats and ambient electronic melodies, that moves the head and heart as much as the body. There is not a moment in the album which isn't influenced by delay. A hightlight release for New Zealand Electronic music.

A Dawn to Dusk journey from the wild complexity of a city to the vast spaciousness of the coastal horizons. An album of subtle melody and complex harmony riding on smooth beats and liquid ambience. leyton of epsilon-blue has also released Drum n Bass as Rotor, and Housey techno as Son.sine. The packaging uses fully recycled materials, and the artwork is by Fiona Jack who did the Gathering CD artwork (see above).

Six Degrees is an eclectic journey through dance culture and jazz blended with diverse grooves and infectious keyboards. Written, performed, programmed and produced by Mark, the album features tracks co-produced by Joost Langeveld (TriggerX), Sub Mariner (Che Fu's album) and turntable stylist Manuel Bundy. Guest vocalists featured are King Kapisi, Teremoana Rapley and newcomer Cherie Mathieson.

Kog's first foray into Multimedia territory with the Baitercell EP/CDROM "Prototype'. This was a prelude to the Baitercell album/CD ROM planned for 2000. The EP covers a wide range of dance music, with Baitercell's breakbeat numbers introducing it. The release features remixes by kog artists, Chumbwa, Emission Physician, Trigger X, and Rotor.

New Zealand's most respected and well travelled electronic music producer Denver McCarthey teamed up with label Kog Transmissions to produce "Inside a Quiet Mind". Following up previous releases on New York label IST, and the "Morningstar" album, Denver's Micronism project bridges the gap between ambient and dance in a smooth blend that fits just as well on the dance floor as on the couch.

Covering Psychedelic Trance and Breakbeat, with some dub and ubergroove thrown in "Transmit'' is the first Kog Transmissions release, it showcases various facets of the Kog Studio sound, and their associates and acts as a reference to where Kog has developed over the last year and a half.

Comprising of a wide range of New Zealand Drum n Bass and Breakbeat producers "Textyles" is an album that interweaves tech step to big beat to dubby dance grooves and the in between. It shows the experience that has developed in the local dance scene over the last few years, the artists on textyles having over 20 releases to their credit, 7 internationally as well as having remixed a multitude of music styles.

Textyles showcases the diversity of New Zealand breakbeat as well as providing a stepping stone for the artist's individual projects.

Kog Transmissions, and it's new House music imprint Reliable Recordings, present Algorhythm 2, the highly anticipated follow up to last years successfull (reaching number 7 in the compilation charts ) New Zealand House music compilation Algorhythm.

The release includes New Zealand's many of the biggest music producers in House music today including Subware, Greg Churchill, function-F, Jedeye, Tom Ludvigson, P.James, Baitercell and Mark deClive-lowe and also introduces some fine fresh contributors such as epsilon blue, DJ Phully, ReactorMusic, the Kingsland Housing Project, Signer and Cuffy & LeonD among others.

The dub style as a free-standing musical genre has been with us now for some thirty years. Whilst much has been made of dub's great influence on other contemporary musical styles like hip-hop, house and jungle, it is the reverse effect that has kept dub music so fresh and turned it into such a broad-ranging generic expression. Nowadays the term 'dub' can mean as many things to as many people. This new compilation from the house of Kog serves to display this huge diversity whilst also providing a showcase for many of this country's most experimental audio manipulators.