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

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

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

Why?

Blame Leslie et al...



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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:
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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:
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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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