Mixtape for the office party

Asian songs galore!

魚罐頭 - 自然捲
おしゃべり!おしゃべり! - 小島麻由美
消失 - 野孩子
Kasanova - The Times
I wanna be your dog - Futon
梭羅河 - 楊小琳
The Girl From Katong - Serenaide
浪漫九龍塘 - my little airport
Stay awake - Astreal
想那多 - Freeman
Tell ya - The photo sticker machine
Tentang kita - Couple
Lost at sea - Highrise
Twiggy twiggy - Pizzicato 5
Zoe tay - Boredfucks
Goodil - Stoned revivals

My Favourite Song #2 - Brand - New - Life - Young Marble Giants

Young Marble Giants is truly original and Brand - New - Life is one bleak song about break-ups.

And so, I've spent the day reading Haruki Murakami's South of the Border, West of The Sun:

"...ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt someone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal."

I don't think anyone is above such cruelty, including myself.

Hear the song here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn5NlS7KD6g

My Favourite Song #1 - 浪漫九龍塘 (A Certain Romance in Kowloon Tong) - my little airport

Another catchy song from Hong Kong's my little airport. It's short but it makes me happy when I hear it and think a little about younger days.

Sex. You worry when you have it, and you worry when you don't have it.

"We have to be very strong, if we want to do something very wrong."

Hear the song here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTpwETrBqIM&eurl=http://mylittleairport.com/mlaproduction.htm

p.s. my little airport performs in Malaysia on 30 Aug: http://mylittleairport.com/news.htm and 31 Aug in Singapore: http://www.baybeats.com.sg. Hurrah!

my little airport x Chet Lam = bliss

I love it when my favourite artistes collaborate. This time round, Chet Lam and my little airport worked together on a new album. It's nice when the dots are joined. Chet Lam has produced an album with The Pancakes and Ketchup on Freeplay several years ago, and that's one of my favourites, with them singing each others' songs and throwing in a few new songs too.

I can't attend the dream combo of my little airport performing with Chet Lam and The Pancakes in Hong Kong over the weekend, but I've ordered the new album 'Hum Ching For You'. And after hearing the news for many, many months, it's finally confirmed that my little airport is performing at Baybeats in Singapore! Hurrah!

P.S.: The Lucksmiths also performs at Baybeats!

News about the concert and album details: http://www.mylittleairport.com/news.htm

Schedule for Baybeats: http://www.baybeats.com.sg

farewell to forever @ blu jaz (sat 24 may 08)

We had a Cosmo Nite at Blu Jaz last Sat, and it was a lot of fun. It's been more than a year since we last had an indie pop night and, all the usual folks plus new friends were there to have a great time, listen to good music and of cos, lim jiu!

Here's the flyer which I think was designed by Papa Cosmo. The nite was called Farewell To Forever. Popgeeks would recognize it as a great Trembling Blue Stars song.

At the end of the evening, everyone agreed that we should do it again soon and not one year later. We're keeping our fingers crossed.

Here are the songs which I played on Sat.

The list is poppy! Don't stop bopping!

聖誕半裸派對 - too long without sex
take ecstasy with me - the magnetic fields
st elmo's fire - cloetta paris
i always love the one who doesn't love me - the marshmallow kisses
since yesterday - strawberry switchblade
cat heaven - girlfrendo
kasanova - the times
はやくキス・ミー - rocket sisters
doremi (台語版) - 旺福
she's playing with your heart - the electric pop group
little things (that tear us apart) - irene
l.o.v.e love - orange juice
i've underestimated my charm (again) - black kids
โรคจิต - slur
we're from barcelona - i'm from barcelona

馬田的心事 - my little airport
death to los campersions! - los campesinos
clouds - the pancakes