Tune! A Creative Playlist with Klaudia Bartos

We are stoked to bring you the newest entry to our growing playlist! We reached out to 2024 Little Street Art Festival artist Klaudia Bartos to find out what music inspires her creativity and keeps her going in the studio. As the multi-talented artist explains, much like her wide-ranging approach to visual art, her musical tastes are also varied: “There are so many different genres of music I like that I could never pick a favourite- especially while making art!” So, what songs will Klaudia never skip and what might we find her listening to as she creates the paintings, prints, sculptures and everything in between that we have come to love? Read on to find out!

Tiesto – Adagio for Strings

This is a classic for me. I heard it a lot growing up, so it has a super super nostalgic vibe for me. Kinda sad but up beat- I love it!

Foreigner – Waiting for a Girl Like You

Just a guilty pleasure song – it’s moody and I love it…

Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses

I mean, what can I say? It’s a bloody banger…

Guns N’ Roses – This I Love

Mid painting and this comes on… It pushes me through to the end. I might even replay it, hahaha…

Nirvana – Where Did You Sleep Last Night

🖤🖤🖤🖤

Linkin Park – Breaking the Habit

I would have added a whole album of Linkin Park to this list if I could, but let’s just go with this one. RIP CHESTER 🖤

Phil Collins – A Groovy Kind of Love

My Mum used to listen to Phil Collins all the time when I was growing up and it stuck with me. I kinda just love sad sounding songs I guess!

Rainbow – Rainbow Eyes

Soft singing Dio, guitar, melancholy – lovely!!!!

Robert Miles – Children

This song always makes me think of Dad ❤️

Ayla – Ayla (Taucher Remix)

To be honest, I’ve gotta have a good mix of trance to keep me going…

Make sure to follow Klaudia’s work on Instagram

Tune! is an ever-growing list of the music that inspires Ōtautahi creatives – stay TUNEd for more entries here at Watch This Space!

Tune! with Smeagol

Tattoo artist, painter of gory monsters and creatures, maker of miniatures and custom toys, illustrator, Smeagol describes himself as having his “fingers in all the pies”. This wide ranging creativity makes it understandable that his taste in music would be equally diverse. After sending a killer playlist of 10 tracks that span the alt 90s vibes of Jane’s Addiction, the verbose wordplay of Aesop Rock, the energy of Misfits, the grooves of Modjo and even the croon of Chris Isaak, he explained 30 might have allowed him to fully cover his eclectic tastes. Oh well, it looks like we will just have to have more volumes of Tune! with Smeagol in the future…

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Ironically asking a near deaf artist their favourite songs is probably a bad idea, but my art and lifestyle revolves heavily on music. From birth my parents enforced a good taste in music so to say, 70s staples like Led Zeppelin and Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix, and on and on…

My childhood was straight 80s and 90s baddassery. Grunge and alternative was life: Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Garbage… In between then and now, I’ve picked up on every genre in between and I literally listen to anything, hip hop mainly, but rock, metal, dance, DnB, soul, 90s trash, punk… Gimme something I haven’t heard please! Thanks for listening to my Ted talk.

Jane’s Addiction – Jane Says

Queens of the Stone Age – Burn the Witch

Aesop Rock – No Regrets

King Geedorah – Take Me To Your Leader

KMD – Sweet Premium Wine

Misfits – Hybrid Moments

Modjo – Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

Chris Isaak – Wicked Game

Ramirez – The Fo Five

Freddie Gibbs and Madlib – Giannis (feat. Anderson .Paak)

Follow Smeagol on Instagram to see all of his creative goodness!

Stay tuned for more editions of Tune! soon…