have yourself... an ephemeral boxing day?

While we take a break over here to take stock of things, here's an interesting gig to look out for. Line-up includes:

* Dennis Tan aka iRa (Germany/Singapore): Based in Bremen's sonic arts scene for the last eight years, Dennis will be experimenting with a "quadrophonie playback system" at his homecoming (listen to iRa on FMN007);

* Goh Lee Kwang (Malaysia): Last seen at the 2008 Choppa Festival, the notoriously prolific "no-input" artist returns to Singapore off the back of his recent Hands release, an album described by The Wire's Dan Warburton as Lee Kwang's "most exciting and varied release since 2002's Nerve Centre".

* Amino Acid Orchestra: Zai Kuning (FMN002), Shark Fung (Engineered Beautiful Blood, I \ D) and Fuzz Lee (IF, Phorous, Life Without Dreams) play their first show together. View their promo video.

Facebook event pages:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212051511075
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205454006374

FMN007: Electronic Renaissance

Free Music Now! Vol. 7
Original broadcast: December 17, 2009 (THU), 2230-0000h (GMT +8)

Presented by Mark Wong

Broadcast "live" from a cluttered bedroom on Balestier Road, Singapore, FMN! is an internet radio programme hosted on unpopular.radio. We pay special focus to music developments in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

"Free music" refers as much to the ideas of information flow and cultural dissemination as it does to musical forms which refuse to be shackled to genre orthodoxy. Inevitably, "Free Music NOW!" becomes clarion call for open ears and unfettered minds.

Vol. 7 is all about the bits (beats optional). This will also be our last show of the year. We'll be back in Jan to do a round-up of 2009. Thanks everyone for your support and Happy New Ears!

To tune in "live" to the show, please click on either of the following:

http://unpopularradio.b2netsolutions.com:8000/listen.pls

http://unpopularradio.unionpost.org:8000/listen.pls

Open the listen.pls file in your iTunes, Winamp or VLC media player during the broadcast time.

Live playlist:
(Reload this page during the "live" broadcast to see the playlist being generated!)

1. Mux/Iskandar - Our Prompter is Spiked (4:21)
2. Izaak Stern - Magical Half Dozen (3:44)
3. Kiat & Cherry - Samurai Waltz (4:12)
4. 3Goddess - OK When You're Not (4:04)
5. Max Lane - Preamble (3:29)
6. Darkstar - Need You (6:10)
7. Ikuma - Jealous (dub) (3:23)
8. Club Ecstasy - Morning Glory (4:45)
9. DIR - Techincolor Rubbish (4:41)
10. iRa - Pubi (6:17)
11. Circadian - Perhaps (5:31)
12. Kulturkampf - Metal and Steel Make the Heart Real (6:05)
13. Floating Points - K&G Beat (6:34)
14. Four Tet - Love Cry (9:00)

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suck on this

Sorry folks, this week's FMN! will be on THURSDAY...

Why?

Blame Leslie et al...



For more info: http://www.lioncitydiy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2020

FMN006

Free Music Now! Vol. 6
Original broadcast: December 09, 2009 (Wed), 2230-0000h (GMT +8)

Presented by Mark Wong

Broadcast "live" from a cluttered bedroom on Balestier Road, Singapore, FMN! is an internet radio programme hosted on unpopular.radio. We pay special focus to music developments in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

"Free music" refers as much to the ideas of information flow and cultural dissemination as it does to musical forms which refuse to be shackled to genre orthodoxy. Inevitably, "Free Music NOW!" becomes clarion call for open ears and unfettered minds.

To tune in "live" to the show, please click on either of the following:

http://unpopularradio.b2netsolutions.com:8000/listen.pls

http://unpopularradio.unionpost.org:8000/listen.pls

Open the listen.pls file in your iTunes, Winamp or VLC media player during the broadcast time.

Live playlist:
(Reload this page during the "live" broadcast to see the playlist being generated!)

1. Muxu - Let's Walk on the Frozen Sea (4:03)
2. Aspidistrafly - Endless Dreamless (3:05)
3. Hearing Hill - cs (11:46)
4. Damn Dirty Apes - Death of Optimus Prime (6:34)
5. Arthur Doyle Plus Four - November 8th or 9th - I Can't Remember When (4:03)
6. The Observatory - Waste Your Life (live) (9:59)
7. Yasmin Ahmad - How Do You Spell Dinosaur? (0:44)
8. Sharesprings - Unclouded (4:54)
9. Nice Stupid Playground - Beautiful Life (3:56)
10. Xuan - Twilight Rain (2:08)
11. Sonicbrat - Morning People (4:58)
12. Mark Wong/Jumari - Jumari the Masseuse Plays Guitar in an Imaginary Field (7:28)
13. Yeoh Yin Pin - Funeral (26:03)

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FMN005

Free Music Now! Vol. 5
Original broadcast: December 02, 2009 (Wed), 2230-0000h (GMT +8)

Presented by Mark Wong

Broadcast "live" from a cluttered bedroom on Balestier Road, Singapore, FMN! is an internet radio programme hosted on unpopular.radio. We pay special focus to music developments in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

"Free music" refers as much to the ideas of information flow and cultural dissemination as it does to musical forms which refuse to be shackled to genre orthodoxy. Inevitably, "Free Music NOW!" becomes clarion call for open ears and unfettered minds.

In Vol. 5 this week:

* Eswandy Sarip/Muliana (SGP): Journey through Cityscapes
* The noise and noise of Stellarium (SGP)
* Concave Scream (SGP): Ride the gaze
* MellonYellow (IDN): Jakarta fuzz
* Alan Butler (IRL): The Butler did it

And more!


To tune in "live" to the show, please click on either of the following:

http://unpopularradio.b2netsolutions.com:8000/listen.pls

http://unpopularradio.unionpost.org:8000/listen.pls

Open the listen.pls file in your iTunes, Winamp or VLC media player during the broadcast time.

Live playlist:
(Reload this page during the "live" broadcast to see the playlist being generated!)

1. The Death of Cinema - Lies in the Numerals (live) (6:03)
2. Eswandy Sarip/Muliana - Darkness in Our Light (10:23)
3. Sparklehorse & Fennesz - Goodnight Sweetheart (5:24)
4. Burial - Fostercare (5:32)
5. Chris & Chris - Save Sex (5:43)
6. Miau Miau Foom - Stylish Furniture and Cheesesticks (0:13)
7. Animal Collective - Graze (5:22)
8. Electric Penguin - Ontario State Highway (3:50)
9. Self Conscious Acronym(ed) Man - Asian Slave White Master (5:06)
10. Alan Butler - Watashi Wa Lorem Ipsum Motherfucker (5:29)
11. Feng Hao - Pleasure (0:59)
12. 3Goddess - Flight of the Butterfly (5:05)
13. bigred.moment - After Her Call To 'Live' @ Beat Merchants (3:18)
14. MellonYellow - The Longest Yard (2:29)
15. Concave Scream - Decay (live cover of Ride) (3:58)
16. Stellarium - Dead Nebula (live) (10:28)

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FMN004

Free Music Now! Vol. 4
Original broadcast: November 25, 2009 (Wed), 2230-0000h (GMT +8)

Presented by Mark Wong

Broadcast "live" from a cluttered bedroom on Balestier Road, Singapore, FMN! is an internet radio programme hosted on unpopular.radio. We pay special focus to music developments in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

"Free music" refers as much to the ideas of information flow and cultural dissemination as it does to musical forms which refuse to be shackled to genre orthodoxy. Inevitably, "Free Music NOW!" becomes clarion call for open ears and unfettered minds.

In Vol. 4 this week:

* Meddle (SGP): Members of the Observatory in a secret side project!
* Double Infant (SGP): Dialectical movements between Bataille's prick & Nietzsche's ass!
* Klangmutationen (MYS): Uncompromising Klang Valley out-jazz!
* Elemento (PHL): Sonic brutalism!
* Ronez (CHN): Guilin's noise warrior!

And more!


To tune in "live" to the show, please click on either of the following:

http://unpopularradio.b2netsolutions.com:8000/listen.pls

http://unpopularradio.unionpost.org:8000/listen.pls

Open the listen.pls file in your iTunes, Winamp or VLC media player during the broadcast time.

Live playlist:
(Reload this page during the "live" broadcast to see the playlist being generated!)

1. Love Live Life + One - Runnin Free (3:40)
2. Klangmutationen - In the Beginning... (17:00)
3. Buzzcocks - I Believe (7:09)
4. Amberhaze - A Certain Affinity (4:23)
5. Boards of Canada - Seven Forty Seven (5:01)
6. Ronez - Fan #2 (Don't Eat Ultraman, Monkey King, Pig Monk, Tang Monk Remix) (7:17)
7. Double Infant - Dream of Tomato Curry Rice (5:18)
8. Elemento - Excerpt from Liquid Angel (9:33)
9. Meddle - The Murder of JH: The Deed (9:29)
10. J - Apotropaic (6:10)
11. Mayhem - Freezing Moon (6:22)
12: Klangmutationen - Coda (Gently Weeping...) (11:44)

Singapore Design Festival 2009: Cityscapes

Here is an event I am involved in. Do check out the exhibition at City Hall Building Level 4, which will run from Nov 27 to Dec 1, 2009. Better still, come for the opening on Nov 26 from 6-10pm.

(Click image for a better view)

FMN003: So long, Maryanne

Free Music Now! Vol. 3: So long, Maryanne
Original broadcast: November 18, 2009 (Wed), 2230-0000h (GMT +8)

Presented by Mark Wong

Broadcast "live" from a cluttered bedroom on Balestier Road, Singapore, FMN! is an internet radio programme hosted on unpopular.radio. We pay special focus to music developments in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

"Free music" refers as much to the ideas of information flow and cultural dissemination as it does to musical forms which refuse to be shackled to genre orthodoxy. Inevitably, "Free Music NOW!" becomes clarion call for open ears and unfettered minds.

In Vol. 3, we remember composer and installation artist Maryanne Amacher, who suffered a stroke and passed away on October 22 at the age of 71. Deeply committed to her site-specific performances and installations, she was rarely represented on record, leading to a lifetime spent in (even greater) obscurity compared to her new music peers. Also: Indian classical experiments with Singapore's Lunar Node, new vocal adventures with Taiwan's Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, experimental eschatology by EAT TAE of the Philippines, Kurt Cobain's noise for the masses, and more.

To tune in "live" to the show, please click on the following:

http://unpopularradio.b2netsolutions.com:8000/listen.pls

Open the listen.pls file in your iTunes, Winamp or VLC media player during the broadcast time.

Live playlist:
(Reload this page during the "live" broadcast to see the playlist being generated!)

1. Antony and the Johnsons - Free at Last (1:36)
2. Maryanne Amacher - Head Rhythm 1 and Plaything 2 (10:13)
3. EAT TAE - Godhead (6:24)
4. Maryanne Amacher - Chorale 1 (5:54)
5. Elegant Bachelor - Dancing Faggots (4:32)
6. Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin (3:37)
7. Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (Radio Edit) (3:32) [download mp3]
8. Maryanne Amacher - A Step Into It, Imagining 1001 Years (13:34)
9. Lunar Node - Live at Esplanade Concourse (Nov 16, 2009) (6:04)
10. Alice Hui-Sheng Chang - There She is, No More Tubes or Pump Attached Anymore (8:22)
11. Nirvana - Lithium (live) (8:51)
12. Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster (2:11)
13. Maryanne Amacher - PLAYTHING Sound Character (6:22)

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FMN002: Viva la Voz!

Free Music Now! Vol. 2: Viva la Voz!
Original broadcast: October 07, 2009 (Wed), 2230-0000h (GMT +8)

Presented by Mark Wong

Broadcast "live" from a cluttered bedroom on Balestier Road, Singapore, FMN! is an internet radio programme hosted on unpopular.radio. We pay special focus to music developments in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

"Free music" refers as much to the ideas of information flow and cultural dissemination as it does to musical forms which refuse to be shackled to genre orthodoxy. Inevitably, "Free Music NOW!" becomes clarion call for open ears and unfettered minds.

Vol. 2 puts the larynx, or voicebox, under the microscope. We've scanned the island (and its vicinity) for distinctive vocalists - persons who've devoted themselves in some degree to stretching their vocal cords to extend the expressive limits of their voices. While not all may be the most technical of "singers", our selection focuses on artists who've managed to stamp a corporeality on to their music, turning words into palpable flesh, and communicating nothing less than the physicality of presence.

To tune in "live" to the show, please download any one of the following:
Link 1 | Link 2| Link 3
Then open the listen.pls file in your iTunes, Winamp or VLC media player during the broadcast time.

Live playlist:
(Reload this page during the "live" broadcast to see the playlist being generated!)

1. B-Quartet - Kleptomania (6:38)
2. The Lard Brothers feat. Inch Chua - Shoebox (5:04)
3. Kelvin Tan - Joy (4:28)
4. Scott Walker - Cossacks Are (4:34)
5. Zai Kuning - Nightingale of the Tropic 3 (6:29)
6. Fushitsusha - Magic V (5:33)
7. Humpback Oak - Christ in Black (6:03)
8. Lunarin - Coralline (live) (2:50)
9. Meredith Monk - Gotham Lullaby (4:19)
10. Cyril Wong - Lovers' Spit (4:43)
11. Allen Ginsberg - America (4:50)
12. X'Ho - Singapore O Singapore (2:06)
13. Reflex Reactions - Live at Findars (May 28, 2009) #1 (8:31)
14. My Precious - Thy Lord is She

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FMN001: Observing the Observatory

Picture acknowledgement: The Pond

Free Music Now! Vol. 1: Observing the Observatory
Original broadcast: September 23, 2009 (Wed), 2230-0000h (GMT +8)

Presented by Mark Wong

Broadcast "live" from a cluttered bedroom on Balestier Road, Singapore, FMN! is an internet radio programme hosted on unpopular.radio. We pay special focus to music developments in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

"Free music" refers as much to the ideas of information flow and cultural dissemination as it does to musical forms which refuse to be shackled to genre orthodoxy. Inevitably, "Free Music NOW!" becomes clarion call for open ears and unfettered minds.

Vol. 1 features the music of The Observatory, a much lauded band from Singapore which has forged new musical pathways with every one of their releases - not to mention band members' solo works and side projects. Besides showcasing the diverse musical footholds they tread, references will also be made to their diverse influences from prog-rock, pastoral folk, electro-acoustic improvisation, experimental electronica and jazz. FMN! pays tribute to a band that has been absolutely instrumental in widening sonic palettes in Singapore.

To tune in "live" to the show, please download any one of the following:
Link 1 | Link 2| Link 3
Then open the listen.pls file in your iTunes, Winamp or VLC media player during the broadcast time.

Live playlist:
(Reload this page during the "live" broadcast to see the playlist being generated!)

1. The Observatory - Ephemeron
2. Red House Painters - Grace Cathedral Park
3. Leslie Low - All Things New
4. Vashti Bunyan - Diamond Day
5. The Observatory - Blood Rising
6. Carla Bozulich - Prince of the World
7. Can - Future Days
8. Throb - Paraphunkernalia
9. Tortoise - Ten-day Interval (live)
10. The Observatory - Omicron
11. The Observatory - Deadheat
12. This Heat - Horizontal Hold
13. Shining - In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster
14. Burning Witch - Sacred Predictions
15. The Observatory - Decarn
16. The Observatory - The Last Grand Fallible Plan
17. Leslie Low - Prodigal Son (live)

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