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Green Plastic Kisses 绿色塑胶亲嘴
Tuesday, Aug 12, 2008 12:26AM / Standard Entry / Members only
205 unanswered email messages
30 hours of standing (okay not exactly just standing)
15 miles traveled on foot
7 big bowls of ramen noodles
3 gallons of Pocari
1 blood stained shirt......
http://www.summersonic.com/08/lineup/tokyo09.html
http://www.summersonic.com/08/lineup/tokyo10.htmlWhat would be your choices?
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Green Plastic Kisses 绿色塑胶亲嘴
Sunday, Aug 3, 2008 6:43PM / Standard Entry / Members only
Lately all my friends have been asking, what exactly do you do when you say you're a producer?
Apparently that means many many different things to different people.
To the middle aged guy who grew up listening to old school cantopop - producer is the dude who picked popular Japanese pop songs for the 四大天王s. He's the ultimate middle man.
To the dance DJS - producer is the guy who actually knows some music theories and makes the records that they spin.
To most of my friends - producer is the guy who sits behind the mixing desk and nods when he approves. He's that fat dude who needs a haircut badly but curiously gets to chill with the band and sit in the back of the limousine.
To many indie musicians - producer is the same guy who happens to own the studio, sit behind the mixing desk, nod in approval, and tell the mixing desk guy what to do.
To me - producer is the guy who makes conscious decisions. The guy who really pays attention, who has an independent strategic vision for the project, and who's job, when done properly, leaves nothing in the process to chance.
The producer is more than just the guy who knows something about mixing. Musicians have a tendency to play what they feel like, play as much as they feel like, and play in ways that they damn well feel like. The producer provides the opportunity to step away from that self-indulgence, makes concious choices, put things in proper perspectives, and ensure that all is coherent in the end.
Following that logic, a lot of self-produced indie works were therefore NOT even PRODUCED at all.
Get what I'm saying?
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Green Plastic Kisses 绿色塑胶亲嘴
Wednesday, Jun 11, 2008 12:23AM / Standard Entry / Members only
Been meeting more and more guitar players here on AnD. Thought it'd be fun to share some Canto-rock crafted a while back for you to laugh at.
At least D'in will give it a listen...
Patty Ng wrote the lyrics.
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Green Plastic Kisses 绿色塑胶亲嘴
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:44AM / Standard Entry / Members only
So I sucked. I got sick on the day of the AnD party and couldn't attend. I hadn't updated my blog for ages. I haven't even yet sent money to the Sichuan relief efforts (but i will tomorrow, and YOU SHOULD TOO)... but I've been painstakingly working on a little song, and it goes something like this:
ExpandDo you know what it is I am after
Do you know I wanna take you to a safe place
Do you know all this time you rocked my world
Do you know what it is I am after
Do you know what it means to be precious
Do you know why you are everything
Do you know what it means to be precious
Do you know what it is
I guess its all because of our laughters
Or something else I just wouldn’t say
There’s so much more to you than I was told
Do you know what it is I am after
Ding ding ding….
Do you know what it means to be precious
Do you know why you are everything
Do you know what it means to be precious
Do you know what it is
SEND MONEY TO THE CHARITIES!
SEND MONEY!!
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Green Plastic Kisses 绿色塑胶亲嘴
Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008 7:55PM / Standard Entry / Members only
I can only assume that, since you're reading my blog, you give a rat's ass about music. If that is the case, you've gotta check out Guthrie Govan. Here's a couple of links:
You know how some great musicians inspire you to practise more and to learn more and, hopefully, one day you can play more like them? Mr Govan is NOT one of those. Technical brilliance aside, his mental ability to process so much, so fast, and with such deadpan accuracy, and then deliver music so tastefully done that everytime I listen to him I feel I have little choice but to put down my own guitar and cry foul. I call this my Antonio Salieri syndrome.
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- Originally from New York city producing indie rock acts, Anton is also a composer and guitar/keyboard player. Lately Anton's has been focusing on making video/visual projects based around his own mus...
- Occupation: Composer , Music Producer
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