Joined: 09 Nov 2004
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Location: KL
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THE FLY (CHINA)
The Fly was formed in 1993 by a group of avant-garde artistes of China, included the now front man of the band – Feng Jiang Zhou.
By the end of the 1995, The Fly had already developed their skills and talents, making their way from a Beijing Punk band to their current nation-wide status as the most adventurous and radical band in Beijing underground gigs. And during that period, The Fly has became the most controversial band in the country with its sharp satire, deliberate self-destruction and a very different voice, which was described as “dirty”, “disorganized” and “bad”.
But in actual fact, their music was technically sophisticated and artistically powerful. Their current members also comprised of guitarist Koji Takahashi and bassist Atsushi Sato from Japan.
With their noisy, punk, underground, rebel image, The Fly together with the bands "No" and "Confucius Says" established a new generation of Chinese music.
Discography:
1997
The Fly>1 (Released under Taiwan indie label “Hardcore Pop”, China indie label “Modern Sky” and Malaysia Chinese indie label “Huang Huo Productions”. Top 10 album of year, voted by music magazines in China and Hong Kong.
2000
The Fly>2 (Released in China under “Scream Records” and Taiwan under “Hardcore Pop”. Top 10 album of the year, voted by Hong Kong music magazine, MCB).
LIM GIONG & STINGRAYS (TAIWAN)
Stingrays presently resided in both Taiwan and Singapore. Both now work in the computer's engineering fields and spend their time immersed at works when not immersed in the passions of music. Stingrays played techno music in all shades and colors, from hard to experimental to down tempo and beyond, as well as some elements of house. They are quite ambitious to expose quality music to the dance floor through their own form of expression, and always improvising 100%. Stingrays deejay with integrated trickery and fast paced mixing to accentuate the right energy and atmosphere. Atmosphere is a crucial aspect of music.
Lim Giong’s musical career began with the release of his debut album, “Marching Forward”, in 1990. In his early days, he accompanied singing with musical instruments giving rousing performances of folk-pop music.
While recording his third album, “Entertainment World” in U.K in 1993, his musical ideology and composing style went through a radical change. His compositions become increasingly infused with digital music. In 1997 he took on the job of a DJ at a radio broadcasting station. His musical style has evolved from drum and bass, break beat and ambient, to more experimental and freestyle work.
KING LY CHEE (HONG KONG)
King Ly Chee formed in May 1999 to give the local music community a good kick in the ass. They are also widely recognized as the pioneers of Hong Kong Hardcore (HKHC) by promoting hardcore through the singer/guitar player of King Ly Chee’s own Chinese/English zine called “Start From Scratch”, which included interviews with various hardcore bands and labels around the world with the ultimate aim of giving kids a chance to learn the essence of hardcore.
King Ly Chee’s sonic landscape is a blend of the music that they grew up listening to: punk rock, hardcore, metal and indie-rock. They have always based their sounds on the energy and message of the hardcore culture combining socially conscious lyrics aiming to provoke thought amongst the younger generation of Hong Kong. The music and lyrics come straight from the blood, sweat and tears that flows within each band member resulting in their explosive performances, upon where the differentiation of band and audience becomes a finely thin line.
With the work ethic that is characteristic to hardcore, they’ve done several tours in neighboring Asian countries and have also done countless interviews throughout the world.
In October 2000, they independently released their first album, We Are Who We Are, which was simultaneously released in Taiwan and was also distributed in Japan. In December 2003, they released their second album, Stand Strong. In September 2004, Stand Strong will be released in Taiwan as well where King Ly Chee has developed a big following.
CPJ (SINGAPORE)
The band chose its name Chou Pi Jiang (CPJ) using an Chinese
proverb, which means that the strength of a united group of three can surpass the ability of the most capable person.
The Band Consist of six members with C.Y and Bernard as vocalist, Amos on Guitarist, Aloysius on bass, Melvin on drums and DJ Rough as the DJ for the band.
The band do not have a consistent style in its music, their music varies from hip hop, rap rock to reggae. The band members do not want their style of music to be stereotyped or fixated, thus they prefer to let their music style advance with the trend and their gradual exposure to more types of music.
NEVADA #51 (KOREA)
Self Introduction
“Nevada” is the state name of USA and '#51' means that the 'Area51 in Nevada'.
In Area 51 there are so much mysterious stories about UFO and X-file and etc...
We want make music that’s full of mysterious feel and atmosphere.
We don't want make music that’s usual and confined to mainstream and commercial values.
And we don't want have a common idea.
We want to raise questions about what happened currently around us (war, culture, media, love and etc ...)
We don't want become good and outstanding musician.
We want to become a culture maker and trend setter.
We will think and express it through our music.
LANG MANG (MALAYSIA)
The band faces the toughest challenge of expanding their fan base and grass root supports through their recent debut album - The Crow. The Crow was released in July 2004, the band spend 3 years to complete this self-produced album, however, with an outstanding sales performance of 1,000 copies within a month, the band has certainly proved that they are capable of breaking through the mainstream market with their popish and yet filled with experimental elements type of music. Their debut has received tremendous response from the local listeners and media and with an ongoing negotiation with foreign labels on the distribution deal, Lang Mang could be on their way to promote their music to a more established overseas market such as Taiwan, China and Singapore.
FURNITURE (MALAYSIA)
The band began as R.U.S.H. in 2000. After launching its debut album “Metamorphosis” in 2002 under Soundscape Records. The band explored new musical directions with a changed line-up and finally settled as Furniture, with original members Kacy (guitars) and Jeremy (drums) alongside Ron (guitars) and Adrian (bass). Coming out of the Chinese Indie scene, Furniture is also active within the English-speaking underground circuit.
The band is presently working on an album of new material that encompasses 3 minutes noise-pop numbers to extended floating instrumental jams.
NAO (MALAYSIA)
Established in the year of 2002, their music style is more towards funk rock, metal, grunge and post-rock. Due to the strong character of the front man, the band has gone through a few times of line-up change. In early 2004, the drummer and bassist of Zero Gravity and guitarist of Fire Ant filled up the void left by the previous band mates and the band has finally managed to settle down and carry on with the journey.
Their thoughtful lyrics mostly reflect the current situation of the society, including the struggle to save Chinese primary school.
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