Sunday, December 20, 2009

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

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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

Monday, December 7, 2009

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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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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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