Alok Leung was, in a way, unlucky to be born in Hong Kong. A multi-talented man with a visceral love of and total commitment to music that is off-beat, under the radar, sonically challenging and...
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23 Sep 2012
Selected Ambient Works Volume II is an album aliens might have made. Never has music sounded more like it was beamed in from another dimension by little green men, or possibly benign robots.
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13 May 2012
It's October 2004 and the Rockit Festival is in full swing in Victoria Park. Before headlining act The Cooper Temple Clause take to the main stage, a little-known Dutch DJ by the name of Joris...
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1 Apr 2012
Apart from the hovering black cloud - 1,000 metres worth of black electric cables all curled and tangled up - there's nothing to see in 'Cloud/Landscape', German sound artist Christina Kubisch's...
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22 Jan 2012
What I'm reading: The Grand Tour: A Traveler's Guide to the Solar System by Ron Miller and William K. Hartmann. It's an informative layman's guide to the planets and satellites, but with...
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8 Jan 2012
Five essential dubstep albums
Various Artists - The Roots of Dubstep (2006)
It may not actually have any 'traditional' dubstep tracks on it, but it does what it says...
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Band Name: 9 Maps
Band members: Sherin Siew (vocals, keyboard, guitar), Ciosa Houlihan (vocals, guitar, ukulele), Gabe Andre (drums)
Based in: Hong Kong
Sherin: We...
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Electronic artist Moby has released his 10th studio album, Destroyed, along with a companion book of his own photography. Both aim to capture the loneliness of life on tour and both do so...
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Tomorrow, 11pm, Kee Club
It was once written that the wicked get no rest, and that certainly seems the case when it comes to the life and times of Peter Kruder.
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Norman Cook headlined some of Hong Kong's biggest dance events of the 1990s, and for many it will feel like a return to those heady days of excess when he returns next month in his guise as...
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Hong Kong
Jean-Michel Jarre
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Live albums, often hurriedly thrown together to cash in on successful tours or limit the losses of unsuccessful ones, are not the best...
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