Didn't know TEAC is still making turntables! This one looks really good, and the price seems reasonable, hope to audition one in HK or Singapore soon...
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Teac's New Turntable
Didn't know TEAC is still making turntables! This one looks really good, and the price seems reasonable, hope to audition one in HK or Singapore soon...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Come Away with ESG
Can't believe it took me so long to discover this group... Highly recommended, funky head nodding music!
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Monday, May 28, 2007
Yellow Music - Decadent and Pornographic Music in China
[Rant Alert] - I felt so sad for the Chinese, being one myself, I just don't understand what went wrong... How can such a large population produces such low brow music? May be I got the whole thing backwards, could it be because of the large population, the music must cater to the mass thus resulting in total shit?! Whatever the causes may be, I think as a culture, the Chinese probably has the worst type of music in the world, this encompasses "traditional", "folk" music to modern day crap that we have to put up with all day long. For those that do not know China, for some odd reason, many people here love to sing, karaoke may be invented by the Japanese-devils, but it has been taken to a whole new level here in China, sigh... god/buddha have mercy on us!
I picked up an interesting book called "Yellow Music" while the wife and I were at the Mardi Gras this year (now New Orleans got the right idea about making music!) The book is published by Duke University Press and was pretty dry reading. Anyway, so it seems that for a short period in the 20s and 30s, Shanghai was quite cosmopolitan and the population (well at least the ones with the means) can enjoy some great jazz music on par with all the great cities of the world, let's hope Shanghai can regain its formal glory soon.
I picked up an interesting book called "Yellow Music" while the wife and I were at the Mardi Gras this year (now New Orleans got the right idea about making music!) The book is published by Duke University Press and was pretty dry reading. Anyway, so it seems that for a short period in the 20s and 30s, Shanghai was quite cosmopolitan and the population (well at least the ones with the means) can enjoy some great jazz music on par with all the great cities of the world, let's hope Shanghai can regain its formal glory soon.
Intro
My first post! I will try and post something on a regular basis on the stuff that interest me, particularly, music, technology and architecture (why did I study engineering instead of architecture? Like George Costanza said: "why couldn't you have made me an architect? You know I always wanted to pretend that I was an architect."
Music, what can I say - I have been a music nut since high school, and have a pretty large record collection (love those vinyl donuts!) I spend a lot of time listening, downloading (thank god for the Internet), and learning about music - all kinds of music as long as it is not "pop", although like everyone else, I too have my guilty pleasures - Madonna, B-52s and of course Deep Purple, a tribute to my longhair, heavy metal days!
There are so many genres of music that I like, many think I must be a schizoid - here is a quick run down on my genre: [coming soon...]
Lately, I listen to quite a bit of Post Punk, Tech House and Dub. The kick with Post Punk started recently with a link on Optimo's wonderful website, I began to download the Optimo No Wave Mix, and while waiting for it to finish - why is it when you want something, the network always craps out! Anyway, it took days for the download to complete, well it is China, what can you expect... But while doing some research on the whole NY No Wave scene, I came across quite a few artists and tracks that I vaguely remember from the early 80s, I may even have the original album in my collection, gotta dig through them one of these days.
Take for example, Bush Tetras, hey I bought the record just for the band's name alone! (I think it was at Aron's on Melrose, man that was a long time ago, for those of you lived or from LA, the shop was across the street from Fairfax High School, and Melrose was considered the "up-and-coming" street back in the days. Anyhow, when I heard "You Can't Be Funky" from the Boom in the Night album, it just brought chuckles to my face. This short, catchy song has more "meat" to it than all of the Mandarin-pop, Canton-Pop that they listen to here in China. I will post more of my hate-and-hate relationship with Chinese music later...
Music, what can I say - I have been a music nut since high school, and have a pretty large record collection (love those vinyl donuts!) I spend a lot of time listening, downloading (thank god for the Internet), and learning about music - all kinds of music as long as it is not "pop", although like everyone else, I too have my guilty pleasures - Madonna, B-52s and of course Deep Purple, a tribute to my longhair, heavy metal days!
There are so many genres of music that I like, many think I must be a schizoid - here is a quick run down on my genre: [coming soon...]
Lately, I listen to quite a bit of Post Punk, Tech House and Dub. The kick with Post Punk started recently with a link on Optimo's wonderful website, I began to download the Optimo No Wave Mix, and while waiting for it to finish - why is it when you want something, the network always craps out! Anyway, it took days for the download to complete, well it is China, what can you expect... But while doing some research on the whole NY No Wave scene, I came across quite a few artists and tracks that I vaguely remember from the early 80s, I may even have the original album in my collection, gotta dig through them one of these days.
Take for example, Bush Tetras, hey I bought the record just for the band's name alone! (I think it was at Aron's on Melrose, man that was a long time ago, for those of you lived or from LA, the shop was across the street from Fairfax High School, and Melrose was considered the "up-and-coming" street back in the days. Anyhow, when I heard "You Can't Be Funky" from the Boom in the Night album, it just brought chuckles to my face. This short, catchy song has more "meat" to it than all of the Mandarin-pop, Canton-Pop that they listen to here in China. I will post more of my hate-and-hate relationship with Chinese music later...
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