Right, before we get into it, who has or hasn't seen Sirât yet? Wow, what a movie. Devoting your life to travelling from outdoor desert rave to outdoor desert rave during the slow crawl of the apocalypse was never more artfully depicted. Honestly, I thought I was prepared when I sat down to watch it at the cinema last night, but I absolutely wasn't.

Today, I've got four antipodean releases from Aotearoa New Zealand for your consideration. New music from Hasji, Kaishandao, LUCOLA, Kong Kasi. Pkease enjoy.

For their latest release, the open-eared Aotearoa New Zealand label Noa Records reconnects with fellow Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland music maker Hasji. Ostensibly, Hasji makes Gorge, a style of music with roots in Nepal, India, and Japan. The genre has three rules: 1. Use toms. 2. Call it Gorge. 3. Don’t call it art.

Across Pahū, Hasji uses Gorge as a framework to explore the slipstreams between ambient music, minimalism and new age. Often delivered with a subtle, percussive bent, the album's seven tracks blend Taonga pūoro (traditional Māori instruments), most notably, the pahū (a slit gong) and outdoor field recordings with technonaturalistic machine beats and melodies, while reflecting on nature, our place within it, and everything we’ve lost therein.

Urtica Ferox serves up a sublime dream-pop vocal on ‘2b real’. Elsewhere on Pahū, Hasji goes on a juke/footwork adjacent tip with the thunderous rhythms of ‘come 2 Papa(tūānuku)’, before closing out in an eerie synth-drone style on ‘waitematā (feat. Waitematā)’. There’s much to ponder here.

With her latest EP, Aunty Dubs, the Chengdu-based Chinese New Zealand musician, producer, DJ and general D.I.Y boss Kaishandao, serves up four refreshingly raw and unfussy techno, house, IDM and dub cuts.

From the opening chimes of the psychedelic beatscape workout, ‘I HOPE UR DOING GOOD’, Aunty Dubs feels appropriate for late summer dancefloors and the fresh promise of spring in equal measure. Up next on ‘PŌNEKE’, she hits a skippy club rhythm, before letting a dubby synth pattern bubble through her soundworld. Juicing a lot out of a little, it keeps you eager for more.

Later on the EP, ‘不回家’ drops into a minimal digi-dub mode, all lean drum programming, warm bass and waking dream atmospherics, before wrapping up with the unhurried catwalk strut of ‘BUBBADUB’. The real D.I.Y crew know you can do your own version of anything anywhere. You just have to get creative with it.

Here’s one for the bubblegum synth jazz/lounge gang. It’s almost eerily optimised for lovers of 80s synthesiser pads, elevator music deepcuts, 4-track new wave/art pop demos, and anyone who has ever spent time searching for the perfect machine beat.

With roots in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, LUCOLA is one of those composer/producer types who has washed up on white sand beaches all over the world, while recording in studios from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland to Los Angeles and back again. Across Waikanae, LUCOLA and friends offer up a series of slanted takes on what Balearic can and might mean.

‘Deceraux’ starts with a technopop twist and glossy sunrise synth chords, gently stretching out to a smooth soundtrack for maybe not the party, but definitely the afterparty cuddlepuddle, and perhaps even a quiet one in the hotel lobby. ‘Suga Solusa’ has a retrofuturistic p-funk nightclub shuffle that reminds me of a laid-back take on Joker's decision to bring Longbeach to Bristol. The album’s final track, ‘Mother’s Room’, is a fluttery chamber of delicate melodies and pads that swirl like light shining through dust. Enjoy the ride.

‘Everyday Roots Rocker’ by the Te Whanganui-a-tara-based vocalist, musician, producer and DJ Kong Kasi is a striking piece of dub styling that effortlessly rides the line between vintage dub reggae and genius-era dub techno. As the four and a half minute track pours through the speakers, I find myself thinking about Berlin twenty-five years ago, and Jamaica fifty years ago at the same time. But Kong Kasi isn’t making his music in those eras or locations. He’s doing it right here, right now, in Aotearoa New Zealand.