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singascene #01: Finders, Keepers

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.

Download singascene #01 (.zip)

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)

Thanks to channers for naming this mixtape!

Hey guys, here’s something I’ve been working on.

If I told you which of these 10 bands were great I would have 10 bands to tell you about

Let’s goooo

Another free download from The Lard Brothers. It’s the Bonsai Warriors EP:

This is our second remix album. We released one on Singapore’s National Day 2009.

We did a couple of remixes for fun since then and some of them were done in exchange with our friends for them remixing our tracks.

The idea of the title ‘Bonsai Warriors’ came from one of our common hobbies: model-kit building (not limited to Gundam model kits).

As one of our guys would say, “Cutting up the plastic bits is like crafting a bonsai tree. It requires patience and effort. A samurai does not use his sword or train swordcraft all the time.”

“Sometimes, he hones his soul through bonsai.”

You should hone your own soul too.

Not through bonsai. But model-kit building.

9837 Miles To Texas: A Fundraiser

15 Minutes Cafe, Lasalle College of the Arts (next to Sim Lim Square)
Friday 5th February
8pm
Admission: By donation (We will be selling merchandise during the event.)
Amateur Takes Control, A Vacant Affair, B-Quartet, Caracal, Plainsunset, Talk To The Walls and Inch Chua

zomg B-Quartet and ATC in the same room, unplugged

zomg first day of confinement for the recruits so I can’t go

sadface sadface sadface

Universal releases +65 Indie Underground — 3 whole CDs featuring top local independent acts from the 80’s up to now, including Amateur Takes Control, A Vacant Affair, MUON, B-Quartet, I Am David Sparkle, Astreal, The Observatory, aspidistrafly, Plainsunset, Stoned Revivals, Etc, Concave Scream, Humpback Oak, The Padres, The Oddfellows, Zircon Lounge, and if I don’t stop here I might as well post the entire track listing. I’d much rather you bought each of the great albums featured here, but it looks like a fantastic compilation if you’re starting out.

*SCAPE and Wake Me Up Music present ‘A Side Show’, featuring Chicosci, Taken by Cars, Plainsunset, and The Fire Fight.

Saturday 24th October
7.30pm
$18 at the door

details on the facebooks

Sunday 28th June that’s tomorrow!
Home Club
$15, doors open at 4pm

The Great Spy Experiment
B-Quartet
Plainsunset
West Grand Boulevard
Hear Me Toby
A.U.M
Amateur Takes Control

via fromheretomel

Facebook event page

To Texas and Back: A Benefit Show for I Am David Sparkle with performances by A Band Named Power, Indus Gendi, Amberhaze, A.U.M, Plainsunset, Amateur Takes Control, The Great Spy Experiment, 41 (from KL), and MUON; plus Flea.Fly.Flo.Fun runs concurrently outdoors.

Help bring I Am David Sparkle to South By Southwest in Austin, Texas. SXSW is one of the largest music festivals in the US and Sparkle are the 3rd Singaporean band ever to be invited.

TOMORROW Saturday 31st Jan 2009, 3pm till late @ Home Club (here’s the event on Facebook) Repost for great justice!

To Texas and Back: A Benefit Show for I Am David Sparkle with performances by A Band Named Power, Indus Gendi, Amberhaze, A.U.M, Plainsunset, Amateur Takes Control, The Great Spy Experiment, 41, and MUON; plus Flea.Fly.Flo.Fun runs concurrently outside Homeclub.

The guys are raising funds so they can play SXSW (they are the 3rd Singaporean band to be invited there?)… so this is compulsory for everyone within a hundred miles. Attendance will be taken.

31st Jan 2009, 2pm - 3am (here’s the event on Facebook) (via ATC)