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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