August 9th, 2011. While everyone else is enjoying their super long weekend from calling in sick yesterday, I’m still happily jobless, and I find myself putting together a little mixtape. Armed with considerable online stalking skills and a propensity to download everything I come across, I’ve collected a small stash of forgotten music from my favourite bands — early demos, ripped off abandoned MySpace’s, tracks shared on blogs long deserted, recordings taken from that friend who knows that guy in that band. Some of these might’ve seen limited release physically or online, but those that haven’t… well, I found them anyway. I’ve kept it to the more recognisable names of the past few years, but even loyal fans should be able to find something new.
So it is with some pride — the patriotic kind, mind, lest I be labeled as some kind of indie snob, which I might be, but that is not within the scope of this post — that I present to you singascene #01. I’ve already put in the hard work as a slightly deranged fan and musical pack rat; you need only move your mouse a little over this way to share in the spoils.
Tracklist:
01 Adel Rashid - Sun Through My Window
02 Giants Must Fall - Whale Song (demo)
03 Paris In The Making - A lonely sky bids farewell
04 A Vacant Affair - How About Enough (demo)
05 For This Cycle - For What It’s Worth (demo)
06 I Am David Sparkle - Dance of Death (Live at Cactus Records)
07 Inch Chua - Cheers To Love (Caracal cover)
08 Elsa Kidspy - The Cloud Song
09 Amateur Takes Control - The Difference Is (live)
10 West Grand Boulevard - DKNY
11 Postbox - Find A Way (Plansunset cover)
12 Caracal - When Open Inverted Commas Close
13 Seyra - You make me go (demo)
14 B-Quartet - Rainbow Connection / Beautiful Crash (live)
15 Plainsunset - Checking Email (live)
From Identite 3.3 at Homeclub a couple weeks back. Pleasantry are a new band to watch, comprising members from Postbox, Amateur Takes Control and Lunar Node. Indie pop + post-rock, what’s not to like?
KittyWu Records and designer t-shirt boutique Praise have come up with two t-shirt designs inspired by song titles from two bands under the KittyWu stable.
Each tee comes wrapped in a cool vinyl sleeve mimicking a record, as well as a free music compilation download.
Retailing at $35 each, you can pick them up from Oct 2010 at all Praise outlets.
The tracklist is suuuuper:
I Am David Sparkle - There Is No Time For Love, Only Chaos (07:54)
Amberhaze - The Beat My Heart Skipped (04:12)
Deepset - If You Can Still Hear This Whispering, You Are Dying (12:00)
Two shows for good causes! Two shows with Amateur Takes Control! Two shows I’ll be missing because I’ll be running about the jungles of P. Tekong all weekend!
*SCAPE Confessions presents: YOU KNOW, YOU CARE.
feat. Amateur Takes Control with Lunar Node and Silhouette
Saturday, 4th Sep
8pm - 10.30pm
*SCAPE Lab, *SCAPE Youth Centre, 113 Somerset Road
The recent news story of a family’s sole breadwinner killed in a tragic freak accident moved one young band into wanting to use their music to help the family in need.
From that desire to help arose You Know, You Care, a special Confessions initiative by homegrown band Amateur Takes Control. Alongside their friends and special guests Silhouette and Lunar Node, the band believes in using music to raise awareness of the needs of those around us, and wants to encourage young people just like them to use the talents they have to help others.
Tickets at $16 can be purchased at the door. Each ticket comes with a sticker/button pack!
Organised by Amateur Takes Control and *SCAPE. Supported by KittyWu Records. Presented by NYC. Facebook events page here.
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Alt(etude)
Sunday, 5th Sep, 10am to 7pm
Bishan Active (opp. Catholic High School, nearest MRT: Bishan)
Alt(etude) is a food and funfair carnival organized by a group of enterprising young students from Nanyang Girls’ High School who are keen on raising awareness of children’s cancer. This social cause is a part of their Youth for Causes project, jointly organized by Citibank and YMCA. Come join us for a day of fun and games this September Holidays at Bishan Active and do your part for charity! All proceeds from the carnival will go toward the Children’s Cancer Foundation. More info on Facebook
Bani Haykal on his trusty xaphoon, Adel on that sexy Fender Jaguar (American Vintage ‘62?), and Kevin Drew. It was an invite-only workshop that Esplanade organised for local musicians. TODAY’s Mayo Martin has the scoop.
RT @amtakingcontrol: Totally forgot we had twitter. So yeah next show this friday at Home Club. 9pm. alongside Arigato, Hato! (philippines), David Knight (US).
Just trying to see if I can do it with one guitar and a single looper. Since it’s a resounding — or reverberating :D — yes I think I’ll work on this more…
‘The Difference Is’ Live At The Esplanade Outdoor Theatre (10 April 2010)
Whoa, this is a good mix for a live recording. If you haven’t heard ATC recently, the new sound is tight, with space for the three guitars to cut through occasionally. Quite a departure from the clean layers and harmonies, heavy delay and simple loops. I think I still prefer the old dynamics, but J’s more precise/aggressive drumming could be a good thing. And Isa finally added some dirt to the bass or something? Pretty sweet overdrive from where I was sitting.
If you got that, we should totally hang out after… Look for the dork in the Three Keyboard Cat Moon t-shirt? I didn’t really think through my choice of clothing when I booked in this week.
