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Komuzika this Friday + don't forget to vote!

Tuesday, Nov 4, 2008 3:01PM / Standard Entry

Just a friendly reminder: I'll be performing this Friday night at the Blue Dahlia, along with Karin Anna Cheung, Big Phony and Tatum Jones. The night will once again be hosted by director/badass NaRhee Ahn.

If you're planning on coming out, you might wanna consider getting there early for dinner and grabbing yourselves some seats (I'll be doing that). From the looks of the Facebook invite, it's gonna be pretty crowded. In fact... yeah, if anyone gets there early and wants to save me a seat, that would be awesome... :/

Here's all the info:

Komuzika
8pm, Friday, Nov. 7, 2008
All Ages, FREE

Blue Dahlia
738 E. 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013

www.bluedahliacafe.com

And don't forget, tomorrow is Nov. 4, which means if you haven't already voted by mail (like I did last week), you need to get yer ass out to your local polling place and exercise your right to be heard. You've heard it every-freaking-where, so I cannot fathom why anyone would not vote tomorrow, unless you are (a) so unbelievably dumb that you think one more vote won't affect your future or your kids' futures or your kids' kids' futures or (b) you are moving out of the country next week for good. Please. If we elect a president that likes using the word "gook," doesn't know how to use the internet or what a condom does, we will continue to be the political laughing-stock/whipping boy of the world.

Hopefully, we'll all have something to celebrate on Friday. See you then.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot... I'll be playing songs from all three albums - "Late Night Drives," "Radiant" and my upcoming third.

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NEXT SHOW November 7

Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008 3:10PM / Standard Entry

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music video and production news

Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008 6:22AM / Standard Entry

Some more music video news: "Sublingual" has been accepted into both the 9th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival and the 28th Annual Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival. Both are happening in October.

Here's a screengrab from the Hawaii International Film Festival website... jam out w/ your clams out, Hawaii.

Also, I've finished arranging the instrumental parts for the next album. Please send good thoughts towards my old-ass computer so I can finish the album without it crashing and dying.

Up next: vocal recording...

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I Am Robot And Proud

Friday, Sep 19, 2008 7:50AM / Standard Entry

A couple days ago, one of my favorite artists, I Am Robot And Proud, released his new album. This guy's music is amazing. It's all over my iPod. Needless to say, I've been waiting for his new album to drop like forever.

When I saw that the CD was only available by mail-order, I myspaced Shaw-Han, the man behind I Am Robot And Proud, and asked him whether it would ever be on iTunes. Well today, he actually replied.

Whoa.

Apparently, the album is gonna be out on iTunes in a week or so. And he ended by saying, "listened to your stuff, great songs."

Holy SHIET.

I didn't ask him to listen to them, but I guess it being MySpace and all, my songs were right there. And I guess he could just be being polite... of course, if that's the case, that's an awesome lie.

I wonder if I should tell him I've had his song as my ringtone since like the beginning of this year.

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Blog: Tuesday, Sep 16

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008 10:30AM / Standard Entry

What's up people. Alright, it's been a long time since I posted something about music. I had a really busy summer. But despite my neglecting to post any updates, I've actually been working like crazy on my third album for the past month and a half.

Here's proof:

See, 6.14 GB of new music so far. OK, not all of it's the actual album, a lot of it is just my sketches of the new album - experimenting, playing with new sounds and ideas, etc. This is actually gonna be kind of a departure for me in terms of sound and production. I know that some people will hear it and go, "what the hell is this?" But it's what's been turning me on artistically, so I know what I'm doing is right. Whether or not I'm creating something that people are actually going to enjoy, of course, is still up in the air.

Something that's been slowing me down, unfortunately, is my old-ass computer. I've had this thing for about five years now, and I bought it used, so it's about seven years old. Plus those first two years of its life were hard livin: it belonged to an aspiring porn producer who smoked a lot of weed while working on it. I know cause when I got it, all the dust and dirt that was stuck up in the fans reeked of it. Seven years is like a hundred in computer years, OK? It's even worse than dog years. In fact, if my computer were a dog, it'd be that dog that won the world's ugliest dog contest all those times. It'd be this guy:

And unlike the dog above, my computer isn't even winning any contests. The only thing I won for getting rid of all the porn and marijuana byproduct that my computer initially came with was a sense of relief.

At any rate, I thought I could get away with doing one more album on this computer and besides, I couldn't afford a new one. So I'm trying to make it last as long as I can. But it's been hard.

Here's a screenshot of the mixing window on my sequencer:

Those meters move like every five seconds. For all you non-music folks out there: that's not what's supposed to happen.

Anyway, I just wanted to post something to let you guys know that I'm working hard on my third record, and even though the sound is gonna be a little different, I think my songwriting is getting better than ever. So hopefully that'll balance out whatever makes you think "world's ugliest dog" about the production.

If not, well, you can kiss my ass. haha, just kidding (kind of).

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Scott Tang's Music

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Scott Tang is a composer and pianist singer-songwriter whose journey has spanned many musical genres and taken him to the other side of the world...
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Scott Tang is a composer and pianist singer-songwriter whose journey has spanned many musical genres and taken him to the other side of the world. After copyrighting his first work at age 9 and working feverishly at the piano through his teenage years, Scott went on to major in music at U.C. Berkeley. He was one of the most involved and popular composers of the school's Undergraduate Composers group, due to a body of neo-romantic work that included string quartets, piano rhapsodies and choral pieces, one of which was premiered by Grammy award-winning Chanticleer director, Joseph Jennings.

Upon earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in music with distinction, Scott traveled to Hong Kong, living in a Buddhist nunnery and learning about the Chinese music industry. He went on to write the theme song for the opening ceremony of the largest Buddhist temple in Hong Kong. The song was recorded by Jacky Cheung and Alan Tam and quickly sped to the Top Ten on the local radio charts, earning well over a million HK dollars for charity. It was eventually incorporated into the daily routine of the school at the temple, so the children would gather each morning to sing the song together. Scott's experience at the Buddhist temple led to a stint writing songs for Polygram Records at their Tsimshatsui publishing department.

Since relocating to Los Angeles, Scott has been forcefully involved with both established and emerging Asian-American entertainment groups such as KSCI TV, MTV Chi, ImaginAsian TV/Radio, Visual Communications, the Tuesday Night Project, Sushi & Tofu, Rafu Shimpo, Aziatic Empire, Cold Tofu and more. He has co-organized a variety of shows in the Los Angeles area, such as the Komuzika showcase in downtown Los Angeles, ChopRock in Los Feliz, the 3rd Annual Asian Hip Hop Summit in Koreatown, YellowHouse in Silver Lake, and FuseBox, a night of music and video, in collaboration with MTV World and the VC FilmFest. Local venues he has played include The Gig, Tangier, Room 5, The Derby and Zen Sushi, as well as various festivals in Chinatown, the San Gabriel Valley and Little Tokyo. TV appearances have included KSCI's Chinese talk show "L.A. Living," the popular Pinoy TV show "Kababayan" and guest hosting the Top Ten Chi Countdown on MTV Chi.

Scott's debut solo album, "Late Night Drives," was released independently in July 2005. ChopBlock.com gave it four stars, recognizing that "there's something overtly genuine about these songs, emanating the kind of enduring soul that many pop artists wish for just a small fraction of. Late Night Drives is sparkling contemporary pop music with a rare kind of purity and verve." The album is full-fledged piano pop, and features Vietnamese pop sensation Trish Trang on background vocals, as well as a production team that has collectively worked with such artists as Fiona Apple, Black Eyed Peas, Rod Stewart, Madonna and Chaka Khan.

The music video for "Freeway" premiered on MTV Chi's Top Ten Chi Countdown, and has appeared on local and national TV and various Asian film festivals.

Scott's second solo album, "Radiant," was released in fall 2007. The music video for “Sublingual” premiered by closing out the music video program at the 24th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, held at the Director's Guild of America. The music video was also screened at the San Diego Asian Film Festival and the Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival and has appeared on KSCI Channel 18 in Los Angeles and ImaginAsian TV in New York.

In February 2009, Scott released his third full-length album, "T-Shirts For Tourists," which is available online from iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody, Amazon MP3, Napster and Lala.
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Occupation: Singer , Musician , Composer
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