Don’t Support Local Music
“Don’t Support Local Music” —an article that created a few discussions in the industry— is refined and now can be found on my new column “State of Sound with Zul Andra” in Juice magazine this month. Pick up your free copy at any good cafes, retail outlets, clubs and bars.
Six Ways To Become A Club Hotshot
[Juice magazine] Your favourite jaunt is where you can be yourself, have a drink and do your thang, but such an environment also produce a special breed of nuisance. In the wake of their need to be seen and heard, these merry gang of hanger-ons, free-loaders and tail-taggers, or for the lack of a better term -a club hotshot, exists scrupulously beyond the velvet ropes. In respect to this cringing annoyance and after years of losing acquaintances because I wouldn’t put them on a guestlist (boo-fucking-hoo, I don’t own the fucking guestlist), I offer six carefully observed tips on how to be a really great club hotshot. Don’t let your manipulative and self-absorbing talents go to waste -there’s a place for everyone in this world.
thecollectivememory @2012
[Juice magazine] For my Talk Shop column in this month’s issue of Juice, I took a quick look at how social media have impacted not only nightlife activities but also society as a whole. Heading into 2012, how have platforms like Facebook and Twitter changed the way we function, and stepping away from the “likes” and “retweets”, what does our culture look like?
Find out more in the December issue of Juice magazine.
Interview: Min Chen
[ThinkMaven] I had the wonderful opportunity to speak to Min Chen, Juice’s dedicated Editor who has helped developed the taste of local tastemakers. Whether it’s alternative music or street fashion, the globetrotting lady has it all covered.
Check out the first ever video interview with Min Chen, Editor of Juice magazine.
Conscious Listening
[Juice magazine] Confucius said that if you wish to know if a kingdom is well governed, if the morals of its inhabitants are good or bad, you just have to look to the music that is current there.
Plato goes further to say that music is a moral law that gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and everything else. He also said that music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche on the other hand, simply believes that without music, life would be a mistake.
But are we consciously listening? What does conscious listening ‘look like’, how did we lose that innate ability through the age of mankind, and how do we get it back?
Collectives Pass Go and Monopolise
[Juice magazine] How have local music collectives grew over the years? From the heydays of Frontallabs, Guerilla Collective and Trance Republic, and to the present burgeoning dance music scene with Syndicate, Electrocaïne, Midnight Shift and Bedsty to name a few, I took a look at the game, and discovered that we are indeed playing on a bigger board.
Read it all here in the digital edition of Juice August 2011.
