[inSing.com] For what felt like an eternity, you waited with bated breath for your favourite band only to suffocate in the smog of inconsiderate punters. You poor soul. Now your life is meaningless and all you can think about is a tub of Ben & Jerry’s and ‘Dirty Dancing’ on repeat. We’ve been there, done that and ripped our merch apart in disappointment. Here, meet all 15 of the most annoying concertgoers. Print this out and voodoo dart ‘em.
[Time Out Singapore] After 40 years of being around, Aerosmith are performing in the Little Red Dot for the first time. Lead guitarist Joe Perry talks to Zul Andra about his hot sauce business, Steven Tyler, and why sex plays such an important role in rock and roll biz.
[inSing.com] Mayday! Mayday! (Sorry, had to do it.) The month’s roster of parties and gigs looks to lean towards some kind of intensity. Rock your kneecaps out with The Used and Deftones, there’ll be heavy downpours of bass with Skream and Benga and S.P.Y, and melodic to dark techno from the likes of Nina Kraviz, Recondite and Ben Klock. Maybe you’ll need a shot of calm-the-hell-down to take on the month ahead.
[inSing.com] Back in Sam Geiser’s hometown of Bern, Switzerland, his mother recalls little Sam being fascinated with the sounds of nature – birds, in particular. He went through a Michael Jackson phase and later, denied listening to anything but Prince.
But with 15 years’ worth of original releases and remixes cumulating in a guest appearance on BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix and RA Podcast last year, his first musical passion was actually hip-hop. But at a little party in a youth club of a village —where a friend introduced him to the sounds of Todd Terry and Kevin Saunderson— techno maven, Deetron was born.
inSing had a chat with the techno maven ahead of his Midnight Shift appearance at Velvet Underground this 13 April, to delve into his latest production work with the Singapore label, and his position on analog.
Your chugging techno re-edit of Basic Soul Unit’s ‘Black Ice’ on Midnight Shift’s RMX001 will be out soon.
Stuart Li (Basic Soul Unit) sent me ‘Black Ice’ a while ago but I never got around to finishing it. When Midnight Shift was going to release it and asked me for a remix, it was the perfect opportunity to finally get it done. I instantly fell in love with the hooks from the track, which was also what I started with and built the rest of the elements around from.
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The Nocturnal Voice (TNV) is a weekly column on Singapore’s nightlife written by the movers and shakers of the industry. From DJs to marketing executives and label honchos to club owners, TNV is where they share their opinions, visions and ideals.
Written by: Kurt Loy aka Clash The Disko Kids, DJ and founder of #vinyloftheday
Do I still play vinyl records? Well, yes, and dealing with it is quite labour intensive.
To be honest, vinyl is not for just anyone to play or care for. Collecting them is an expensive hobby and a holistic pursuit because you are a very active part of the process.
Image courtesy of Midnight Shift
Ciara returns; Felix da Housecat’s newest drop after almost half a decade; Four Tet gets house-ier; Black Butter Records’ string of stellar releases with future house proponents Kid Kidnap and Gorgon City plus my pick of the month from the label’s 19-year-old signee, Joel Compass; also, a censored music video. Damn, April. You’re good.
Behling & Simpson vs Ciara - Goodies Rebax
100bpm slow cookers, Ed Bayling and Sam Simpson are no strangers to Bristol’s bass scene. In their method to dancefloor-filling madness, the duo’s tempo-downed house-centric foundation allows space to weave in R&B inclinations. First savoured with a remix of Faith Evans’ “Love Like This” (found on the vinyl flipside of their rework on Julio Bashmore’s “Father Father” released on label Futureboogie’s offshoot, Boogiefuturo,) they’ve kept the future bass ball rolling with remixes of Ciara’s “Like A Surgeon” and “Goodies”. B&S edits are usually championed by DJs looking for sex.
Keeping the house in order with some Dusky, Disclosure, Duke Dumont, Eats Everything, George FitzGerald, Justin Martin, Kidnap Kid, Skream and Tessela plus newest drops from Four Tet and Felix Da Housecat. Worried about waking up the neighbours? No you’re not.
[inSing.com] We thought that the past few months couldn’t get any better. Then April comes along and makes us question our innate presumptuousness. Take Kraftwerk for example, who’ll be here for a 3D spectacular on the backs of sold-out shows in New York and London. Take a warehouse party hosting a stellar bill of electronic acts held every Saturday. Take Coheed and Cambria, Deetron, Eats Everything, Pan-Pot, The Radio Dept. and a roster of quality hip hop acts at the Big Wig Festival. Take our money. Take it all.
[RedBull.sg] VOX, Singapore’s only pop-rock string quartet is doing the unimaginable: remixing popular classical and contemporary music together. Come April 27 at the Esplanade Recital Studio, lead violinist Lester Kong together with ladies Huiwen Tow on the cello, Justine Loh on the violin and Melissa Liew on the viola will be mashing up the likes of Adele with Mozart and Nirvana with Schubert backed by a full band. We speak to Lester about leaving the traditional classical world, their forthcoming repertoires and rolling in the deep.
[inSing.com] As a festival-junkie, you might have been or heard or drooled over iconic set ups such as Future Music Festival, The Hot Barbeque, Kiss My Grass, One Night Only, Parklife, Summadayze and Winter Sound System all held in Australia. Well, it’s all borne from Aussie company, Future Entertainment – a company that thinks organising one festival a year to be slacking off, so they do 20.
Director Brett Robinson runs the team that puts up a plethora of festivals and club nights in Australia and they’ve been doing it for 20 years. Now, they are setting their sights on South East Asia.
I caught up with Robinson together with Iqbal Ameer (one of three founding members of Malaysian company, Livescape that co-owns and is organising Future Music Festival in Asia) at Bar on 5, Mandarin Orchard Singapore.
There, we broached the subject of South East Asia being a viable festival destination, how Future Music Festival Asia (FMFA) affects the Australian instalment, and how odd it must have felt to cut a ribbon to officially launch last year’s festival with Malaysia’s Tourism Minister.
It is kind of a big deal that after 20 years, Future Entertainment has now taken a step into South East Asia. What prompted the expansion?
Before we met Livescape, we found that there were a lot of Asian students in Australia who have been to Future Music Festival there and heading back to their homeland going, “f*** that was unreal!” and all a sudden there was a bit of a demand.
