Hopkins Creek

Every year there are a handful of artists that arrive on our desks accompanied by enthusiastic recommendations from people whose taste we trust implicitly. Scarlett is one of those.

A longstanding fixture of Tāmaki Makaurau's underground, she's spent years helping shape dance music culture in Aotearoa through projects like Friendly Potential, Run With The Wolves and ninthWave, the country's first feminist soundsystem. Her fingerprints are all over a particularly good corner of Aotearoa's dance music landscape.

The records tend to do the talking. Warm, soulful and unhurried. Stop in for a song or two then question where the afternoon went.

Sunday afternoon in the Planetarium, one for the heads.