December 2009
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Interview: Bangkok Invaders
Bangkok Invaders DJ Ono, MC Dandee and DJ Kenny V dropped by Zouk on Christmas to giveaway their Hip Hop party cheers to the club packed with merrymakers. Big names back in Bangkok and rising faces of Asia, Zul Andra met up with the boys before any dance floor destruction occurred.
At Zouk’s office, a representative noticed that I had no writing pad and no photographers; to look intelligent I...
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Infected Mushroom @ Zouk
The patrons in Zouk were restless. The majority few that lined the front knew that they were in for some kind of carnage on the dance floor. Their stance was that of the ready -of the knowing and the prepared; awaiting their judgment through the books of psy-trance propagators Infected Mushroom, that of a destructor -merciless and unforgiving.
As keyboardist Erez Eisen and drummer Rogério...
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Bangkok Invaders @ Zouk
On Christmas day, Zouk decked their halls with boughs of holly; for this is the season to be jolly. 3 men Bangkok Invaders, donned their gay apparel of black T-shirts with the words “RUN BKK” and they trolled the ancient Yule tide carol. “See the blazing Yule before us!” MC Dandee seems to say and turned to DJ Kenny V and continued, “Strike the harp and join the chorus!” and Kenny dropped his...
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voice of nothing
she was sparkling gold. her words were wheeled with growls of consonant and vowels that were inconsistent. she walked down the streets and offer her hellos to people she has yet to meet.
today, she walked down a crowded avenue -she stopped with her arms dangling easy by her sides -her chin lay rest on her chest -she looked beyond the eyes of the passerby -her eyes gave birth to a...
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“You are strong darling, you are just too weak to see it.”
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“I didn’t mean to make you feel stupid, stupid.”
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“I am occasionally dumbfounded by brilliance, but more often than not to...”
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“In Times New Roman, I sat with Palatino as he repaired the Linotype. From afar I...”
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“In Facebook statuses,
the description of dandy dinners,
the woeful worries of...”
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“I don’t play my music loud so people can notice me. I play my music loud...”
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Sarah Hurts
Her head against my chest. I swam a mile of her hair, threading from the back of her neck and drowning towards the waterfall of her ponytail. My hands counted the strands, of the million lines of pain, in the million little seconds we murdered what we had and the million words we had not said to save it.
I cushioned her head closer to my chest. Her tears, the stench of dusk’s pasts and dawn’s...
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come back when you can
i smoke a cigarette that awakes my day a glass of gin in a short glass, two cubes of ice the aroma of tobacco and the sound of sizzling tonic oh why do we care? oh why do we bear? today is a very morbid day, i touched my face and it’s still there i’m still alive! oh yes! oh no! i watched a video of “howl” and i’m still very much aroused i’m still alive! oh no! oh no! i am waiting for...
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the silence and resilience
i keep awake while my dreams keep on dreaming this silence is definitely deafening but inside my heart the resilience is ready baby loads a gun and it raises half-mast at me
her tears are for fears of logic and reasons her tears are for everything she wanted to see this silence and resilience plays out a season baby loads a gun and it raises half-mast at me
and i know, i know why we all...
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The Road Less Traveled and Frequent Flyer Points
The mind, when wandering off to discover the boundless beauty of Mother Earth will inevitably meet the insipid, vomitous, evil, death scented shadow of her nature. When veered off course, scared, tired and dying; no one can take you back for they would be too afraid to have trail the tracks of which you have discovered. They could only spectate from afar and hope and give you kind words that sound...
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when the mind takes a medical leave of absence
the weight within your words, for every pound you mutter. it gets heavier i heard, master disaster utter clutter.
rain dance, rain, man; i don’t understand a word you say, man anchor invisible weather, super, man! you’re bended over are you a woman, man?
on one to two-three trees, for four fifty fit sit sixth! even seven eighty-eight in ninety tent tenth…
you are hungry for my hunger. ...
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she’ll say i love you before she’s sober
i met a girl, her name was zaire. in her heart was a desire for fire. flames extinguished by words that matters. she had always needed something to define the latter. her words are worlds of robbers. she sweep you off your feet and dress them up like cobblers. all my life I did things proper. she’ll say I love you before she’s sober.
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The Measure of a Great Man
The measure of a great man is not through his idealistic innovations, creative concordance, immovable identity, integrity and ideals or the passion, beliefs and love that he holds so dearly.
The measure of a great man is in his knowledge of the difference between what is right and what is righteous, between what is and what is not; that the world does not revolves around him as he revolves within...
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“You made my Microsoft when I Google you through your Windows from MySpace....”
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She Tries
She came into the picture holding a frame. She tends to blame her Chaakara awesomeness for it and the other million humanoids who claim they do not understand her, because understanding her is minus cool. Like cucumber. “Cucumber is very dildo-ish.” she said, “Hahaha.” I said.
She know her Bollywood and Sinetron tv schedule at the back of her Henna graffitized hand. She claims that she is a...
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“The idea of a straight job is an idea of a straitjacket.”
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“Pain is inevitable, suffering is a choice. Don’t live in fables if you...”
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on a good morning for the evening after
for my friend, she takes two sips of coffee and makes a cup of tea she rolls the narcotics and the spliff politics her swagger sways in the alley way between the kitchen and stacks of tupperware
for my friend, she fries hash browns over marshmallows i try to get up from my pillow before she vomits her hello she cuts a line over my dimes between my knees and a clock that showed no distance...
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song for melody
so listen here my dear, when no one is listening if i could only have your fear, i’ll die like a million kings and what’s this about your heart, of recycled dreams that never start if i could have you my dear, you’ll leave me before i start to say…
that your words are frightfully same, that lovers rightfully claimed the difference is similar, indifferent to what i hear you sat before a...
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“When you are wrong and the ego denies correction, suck a thumb.”
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“If you are lost, dazed, confused, bewitched, bothered and bewildered, put some...”
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ZoukOut 2009 @ Siloso Beach, Sentosa
The catch for partying through a dusk to dawn dance music festival is of it being daunting but for most -the roster for the 9th installment of ZoukOut is reason enough to ditch the catch and scratch that itch.
On 12 December, well over 27,000 ravers flocked to Siloso Beach to drown in the sounds to the likes of Armin Van Buuren, Aldrin, Richie Hawtin and Martin Solveig. But what was to be a...
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Interview: Aldrin
One of Singapore’s longest-serving purveyor of quality music, all rounded business and creative honcho, the versatile, the uncompromising, the One and the only, DJ Aldrin. Zul Andra interviews to the lead up to ZoukOut 2009.
Your schedule reads like breakfast, lunch and dinner timing. Packed to the brim, throw in a supper. How do you ever find time for time?
To be honest, my schedule isn’t...
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Interview: Martin Solveig
Classically trained, self-declared nerd and House music extraordinaire millionaire; Martin Solveig -who will be gracing ZoukOut this year- rates his singing, explains his quirky appearances in most of his music videos and on being awarded the Chevalier Des Arts et Des Lettresand and the Artiste de Musiques Electroniques de l’Annee. Zul Andra interviews.
You were born in 1976 in Paris and your...
November 2009
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Interview: Amateur Takes Control
If the sound of our surroundings were to be given a musical score, Amateur Takes Control would have nailed it. Zul Andra catches up with Adel Rashid and asked about ZoukOut 2009, being nominated for Junksounds and what happens when maturity takes control.
Amateur Takes Control started as Adel’s solo project back in 2006. What got you to form it up as a band instead?
The first ever show ATC...