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Some of my colleagues will know that I make electronic music outside of work and school. A stark contrast from the impression I give off (several people throughout my teenage years told me I seemed more like a classical guy). Truth be told, I wasn’t always into music. Growing up in an average Singaporean Chinese household, my main sources were either the sporadic exposure to radio stations, or more frequently the theme songs of whatever was playing on KidsCentral/Okto (RIP free-to-air kids channels). I still remember and occasionally listen to songs from that period, but for some reason none really compelled me to listen to music more back then. Perhaps it was the fact that I only got to access the Internet at home around 2009, when I was in Primary 4, so I never thought I could try looking those songs up. In addition, my brother and I apparently refused our mum’s offer to take piano lessons as kids, so there was no interest built up to begin with. THEN IN 2010, MY LIFE CHANGED. I vaguely remember heading to the school hall with my class for some PE lesson - only this time instead of playing sports, we were doing some kind of dance routine. I don’t quite remember now. But what I do remember is that as my class was forming up in two rows to head back to class, a music video came up on the projector screen. The girls squealed, the boys groaned. I couldn’t look away even as we walked out of the hall, my mind enchanted by the chorus going: “Baby, baby, baby, oh”. Some older folks might already have traumatic memories returning. A major discovery as I was researching - this was composed in E flat Major, a key signature that I've made some of my favourite compositions in recent years in. Yes, absurd as it sounds, Justin Bieber changed my life. Literally. For the rest of my primary school life, I got so obsessed that not only did I get CDs of both his debut album (which includes Baby) and his Christmas album, my maternal aunts even got me his biography (which, like most of my books, now collects dust amidst my bookshelves). Thou shall bow before my credentials! As I started getting access to the Internet during this period, I was exposed to a whole new world that was music. In addition, two events would mark my ventures into genres outside of pop. In 2006, hip-hop producer Dr. Dre and record label executive Jimmy Iovine founded the audio company Beats Electronics (Beats by Dre in common parlance). I came to know of the brand as it started seeing use in devices like HTC smartphones, and of course seeing ads for the audio gear. Upon hearing that the company was founded by a hip-hop musician, I went to satisfy my curiosity on YouTube, and I left as a fan. During the late 2000’s and early 2010’s, electronic dance music was rising in popularity, to the point that it was dominating the radio waves. If you weren’t hearing songs from the likes of Avicii and Swedish House Mafia, you heard pop songs with electronic influences, occasionally provided by producers like David Guetta and Zedd. I stumbled upon this wave and have kept my finger on its pulse since. By this point in 2013, I had discovered GarageBand on my school-mandated MacBook, and had been messing around for a while. All it took was one song on Hot FM 91.3 (now One FM 91.3) to get me taking music production seriously. Part of my (delusional) long-term goals as a 15-year-old was to move to the Netherlands so that I could work with Dutch DJ/producers like Hardwell given the prevalence of electronic dance music. I’m not sure why this was the song that did the trick, but by early 2014 I had put in enough work to decide that I wanted to make music for a living. This would be far from the end of my musical journey, of course. TIME SKIP - IT IS 2016. Entering a new phase of schooling is anything but boring - meeting new people, getting used to the whims of different lecturers, and for many students, choosing a CCA. I already knew that I wanted to join my polytechnic’s Song Composing Club. Some people asked, and I had to explain, that while there was a DJing club that was pretty established, I felt that learning composition would be more beneficial if I was to stay on the path to making music for a living, especially if I could also try my hand at other genres. I wasn’t ready for what came though. With any first sessions in a school setting, there are ice breaking activities. But in the case of this club at the time, it ended off with members grouping up to cover a song of their choice. I happened to be in a group with members who were in bands. Naturally, we covered Metallica’s For Whom the Bell Tolls. Not having any experience playing instruments, I was relegated to sharing the mic with two other members. That could have made me go over to the DJ club, but I guess young, obstinate me was so hung up on wanting to get better at music composition that I stayed. As part of Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s Arts Fiesta, the club holds annual shows featuring performers from the club. This was from NP Amplify Showcase 2017, where I took photos of the bands playing for a news writing assignment. The lineup that year was made up mostly of existing bands with followings, like Fader and Hollow Threat (pictured here). With performances being a core part of the club (and composition lessons ironically not as much), I got exposed to a lot more rock and metal than I’d ever heard before (though pop performances were equally abundant), and while they’re still not my absolute favourite genres today, I now listen to and draw inspiration from bands as diverse as Starset, No Party For Cao Dong and Unlucky Morpheus. At this juncture, I should also bring up the fact that the media plays a big role in how we listen to music, and in a sense I was no different. THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT IN ACTION The life-size RX-78-2 statue outside DiverCity in Odaiba, Tokyo during my last visit to Japan. It has since been taken down and replaced with the Unicorn Gundam. A 2016 trip to Japan resurrected my interest in Japanese media (I finished the 50 episodes and 1 movie that make up Mobile Suit Gundam 00 during the 13-day trip). Coupled with getting into video games like the Final Fantasy and Persona franchises, by Q1 2018, I had gone full weeb. Just like the anime and tokusatsu series from my childhood, the music from these media was at the very least memorable, if not magical. With every series cleared from my ever-expanding backlog, new songs were added to my music library. Naturally, I started spending less time listening to the artists of my early teenage years. But as with many things in life, I eventually found myself diving into more rabbit holes. ~ Wei Feng Images: Myself

https://www.reuters.com/world/singer-tina-turner-dies-aged-83-2023-05-24/ 'Queen of rock 'n' roll' Tina Turner dies at 83 May 24 (Reuters) - Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a hardscrabble farming community and abusive relationship to become one of the top recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday at the age of 83. She died peacefully after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, her representative said. Turner began her career in the 1950s during the early years of rock and roll and evolved into an MTV phenomenon. In the video for her chart-topping song "What's Love Got to Do with It," in which she called love a "second-hand emotion," Turner epitomized 1980s style as she strutted through New York City streets with her spiky blond hair, wearing a cropped jean jacket, mini skirt, and stiletto heels. With her taste for musical experimentation and bluntly-worded ballads, Turner gelled perfectly with a 1980s pop landscape in which music fans valued electronically-produced sounds and scorned hippie-era idealism. Sometimes nicknamed the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll," Turner won six of her eight Grammy Awards in the 1980s. The decade saw her land a dozen songs on the Top 40, including "Typical Male," "The Best," "Private Dancer" and "Better Be Good to Me." Her 1988 show in Rio de Janeiro drew 180,000 people, which remains one of the largest concert audiences for any single performer. By then, Turner had been free from her marriage to guitarist Ike Turner for a decade. The superstar was forthcoming about the abuse she suffered from her former husband during their marital and musical partnership in the 1960s and 1970s. She described bruised eyes, busted lips, a broken jaw and other injuries that repeatedly sent her to the emergency room. "Tina's story is not one of victimhood but one of incredible triumph," singer Janet Jackson wrote about Turner, in a Rolling Stone issue that placed Turner at No. 63 on a list of the top 100 artists of all time. "She's transformed herself into an international sensation - an elegant powerhouse," Jackson said. In 1985, Turner gave a fictional turn to her reputation as a survivor. She played the ruthless leader of an outpost in a nuclear wasteland, acting opposite Mel Gibson in the third installment in the Mad Max franchise, "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome." Most of Turner's hit songs were written by others, but she enlivened them with a voice that New York Times music critic Jon Pareles called "one of the more peculiar instruments in pop." "It's three-tiered, with a nasal low register, a yowling, cutting middle range and a high register so startlingly clear it sounds like a falsetto," Pareles wrote in a 1987 concert review. Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones said he was saddened by Turner's death, calling her "enormously talented." "She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous," Jagger wrote on Twitter. "She helped me so much when I was young and I will never forget her." Canadian singer Bryan Adams, who paired with Turner on the 1985 single "It's Only Love," said "the world just lost one hell of a powerhouse of a woman." "Thank you for being the inspiration to millions of people around the world, for speaking your truth and giving us the gift of your voice," Adams said on Twitter. At the White House, spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre called Turner's death "a massive loss to the communities that loved her and certainly the music industry. Her music will continue to live on." 'ONE-HORSE TOWN' Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939, in the rural Tennessee community of Nutbush, which she described in her 1973 song "Nutbush City Limits" as a "quiet little old community, a one-horse town." Her father worked as an overseer on a farm and her mother left the family when the singer was 11 years old, according to the singer's 2018 memoir "My Love Story." As a teenager, she moved to St. Louis to rejoin her mom. Ike Turner, whose 1951 song "Rocket 88" has often been called the first rock and roll record, discovered her at age 17 when she grabbed the mic to sing at his club show in St. Louis in 1957. The band leader later recorded a hit song, "A Fool In Love," with his protégé and gave her the stage name Tina Turner, before the two married in Tijuana, Mexico. Tina employed her strong voice and strenuously rehearsed dance routines as lead vocalist in an ensemble called the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. She collaborated with members of rock royalty, including The Who and Phil Spector, in the 1960s and 1970s and appeared on the cover of issue two of Rolling Stone magazine in 1967. Ike and Tina Turner bounced between record labels, owing much of their commercial success to a relentless touring schedule. Their biggest hit was a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary." Turner left her husband one night in 1976 on a tour stop in Dallas, after he pummeled her during a car ride and she struck back, according to her memoir. Their divorce was finalized in 1978. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted Ike and Tina Turner in 1991, calling them "one of the most formidable live acts in history." Ike Turner died in 2007. EUROPE BOUND After leaving her husband, Turner spent years struggling to regain the limelight, releasing solo albums and singles that flopped and gigging at corporate conferences. In 1980, she met new manager Roger Davies, an Australian music executive who went on to manage her for three decades. That led to a solo no.1 - "What's Love Got to Do With It" - and then in 1984 her album "Private Dancer" landed her at the top of the charts. "Private Dancer" went on to become Turner's biggest album, the capstone of a career that saw her sell more than 200 million records in total. In 1985 Turner met German music executive Erwin Bach, who became her long-term partner, and in 1988 she moved to London, beginning a decades-long residency in Europe. She released two studio albums in the 1990s that sold well, especially in Europe, recorded the theme song for 1995 Bond movie "GoldenEye," and staged a successful world tour in 2008 and 2009. After that, she retired from show business. She married Bach, relinquishing her U.S. citizenship and becoming a citizen of Switzerland. She battled a number of health problems after retiring and in 2018 she faced a family tragedy, when her oldest son, Craig, took his life at age 59 in Los Angeles. Her younger son Ronnie died in December 2022. Her name continues to draw audiences years after her retirement. Musical stage show "TINA: The Tina Turner Musical," with Adrienne Warren initially acting and singing the star's life story, was a hit first in London's West End in 2018, and later on Broadway, and is still running. And in 2021 HBO released a documentary about her life, "Tina." She is survived by Bach and two sons of Ike's that she adopted. Reporting by Mike Davidson, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien

For all rock music fans : Slash (rock guitarist) playing in Sunway Lagoon, Malaysia on 14 February 2015. This concert will feature rocker Myles Kennedy who some say sing better than All Rose. Details : http://galaxy.com.my/index.php?view=event&ref=194&lang=en The difficulty will be on how to convince the wife/gf to let you go on Valentine's Day.

Galapagos rock formation Darwin's Arch has collapsed (CNN) — One of the most famous rock formations in the Galapagos Islands has collapsed into the sea. The top of Darwin's Arch, located in the northern part of the archipelago, fell as "a consequence of natural erosion," according to the Ministry of Environment for Ecuador. Images of the structure, which now consists of just two pillars, were posted on the social media accounts for the ministry on Monday alongside a statement confirming the news. Before: After: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/galapagos-darwins-arch-collapses/index.html

Hi Pple.. I am looking for a place for dining, with Live Jazz or English rock music, to organize for a group of friends. Pls share with me some ideas.. Thank you so much. =)

Cancer 😢 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.tmz.com/2020/10/06/eddie-van-halen-dead-dies-cancer-65/ He's so famous, ST also got report. https://www.straitstimes.com/life/rock-legend-eddie-van-halen-dies-after-long-battle-with-cancer @Mustank and other metalheads, fall in for support group. 😔

Hi Bros, Recently discovered some excellent Soft99 products that I had to recommend after trying them out! 1st Product used was the 3M Swirl Mark Remover: http://www.properautocare.com/3mperswirmar.html This really give the paint a deep shine. Managed to hide many swirls but still not perfect as I did it using my hands. Overall still excellent results for an amatur like me. 2nd Product used was the Soft99 Fusso Coat 9 Months Protection: This product really amazes me as it is the easiest sealant I have ever used! The box contains a microfiber towel and all you have to do is pour some of the polish on the cloth and spread it on the car. It dries clear so you do not need to buff of any residue! So basically all you do is wipe ur car with the Sealant and its finished! Best is that it boasts 9 months of protection but I would take that with a big pinch of salt. Beats everything else in the market and is excellent for beginners. I suspect this product can be layered like Zaino for a deeper shine. 3rd product used was the Soft99 Authentic Premium Wax: A Pure Carnuba Wax, it really gave the car a 3D very wet glow. The paint actually looks like those of higher end cars such as the Benzs and BMWs! Very easy to apply, I simply used a foam applicator and applied the polish, waited about 15 seconds and wiped it off. Did panel by panel so as to not allow the wax to totally dry and become almost impossible to buff off. Can be layered so cant wait to apply my second coat! Sorry if I got too carried away but its the first time I managed to achive such excellent results by hand. Other Products I have used include Zaino, Glare and Autoglym and this probably beats them all! I have attached pics to see the finished article! Cheers!

All time greats:- how would you name the greatest 5 or 10 for each of these categories: Hard, Soft, Metal?? (or they overlap?)

I'm not usually a fan of the mitsuoka design. But i have to say this car looks very nice. Like one of the classic british convertibles of the 60s or 70s. (i dunno what the old corvette looks like though this is a homage to the corvette) http://www.mycarforum.com/blog/12/entry-5518-mitsuokas-new-roadster-is-based-on-the-mazda-mx-5/ https://www.topgear.com/car-news/modified/mitsuoka-rock-star-mazda-mx-5-corvette-fancy-dress

WTF, KNN i bought and ate 2 whole melon from SS just last week. But I always wash them before I cut. Pls take note better dont buy any at the moment, even they claim recall completed, better be safe than sorry. Kiasu kiasi a bit. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/rockmelons-listeria-affected-source-australia-sold-in-singapore-10015508 SINGAPORE: Two consignments of rockmelons imported from a grower that has been implicated in a deadly outbreak of human listeriosis in Australia were sold in Singapore between Feb 12 and Mar 2, the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) said on Monday (Mar 5). The rockmelons from these consignments were sold at Sheng Siong supermarket outlets and wet markets. AVA has since worked with importers to remove the remaining unsold rockmelons from the affected consignments. Upon AVA’s notification, Sheng Siong voluntarily removed the affected rockmelons, it added. "The recall has been completed. There has been no further import of rockmelons from the affected grower since, and import has been suspended," AVA said in a press release. The rockmelons originated from a specific grower in New South Wales, Australia in February, AVA said, adding that it has also taken samples of locally sold rockmelons from other sources for food safety tests, including testing for listeria. AVA added that all rockmelons currently available for sale were not implicated in the recall. Advertisement AVA said in the press release that it worked with importers to remove the remaining unsold fruit after the Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) notified them of a recall in Australia of whole rockmelons. It is also following up with FSANZ for updates on the case. AVA advised consumers who suspect that they may have purchased the affected rockmelons within the affected time period not to consume it. Those who do not feel well after consumption should also seek medical attention. WHAT IS LISTERIA? Listeriosis is a bacterial infection caused by Listeria monocytogenes, which is found in the environment, such as soil, water, and faeces. The incubation period of listeria ranges from 3 to 70 days. A person with mild listeriosis usually has fever and muscle aches, preceded by diarrhoea or other gastrointestinal symptoms. Pregnant women, the elderly or individuals with a weakened immune system are at highest risk of serious disease, which could include brain and heart infections or complications in the foetus. Listeriosis is treatable with antibiotics if diagnosed early. The key to preventing listeria lies in safe handling, cooking and consumption of food, AVA said. "As rock melons are typically eaten raw, thorough washing of the raw fruits is advisable before consumption. Consumers should seek medical attention as early as possible if symptoms appear within 70 days after consuming Australian rockmelon," AVA said. Source: CNA/ad Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/rockmelons-listeria-affected-source-australia-sold-in-singapore-10015508

It's Official: Reunited GUNS N' ROSES To Play This Year's COACHELLA Read more at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/its-official-reunited-guns-n-roses-to-play-this-years-coachella/ Is this for real?! I had given up hope that they will ever reunite! My ultimate dream is to see them live in Singapore, but highly impossible.

hi people, anyone into rock climbing here? Can give some advice as i got no experience before. Thx

Would you have the balls to throw a rock at a car? The idiot was lucky the driver didn't get out and knock his head off! <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Ej9SnsxEBFA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

was going home along ECP yesterday when accident occurred at lane 1-fastest lane. 3 vehicle involved. first in front was a benz viano- stopped a distance in front of the xc90-looked normal. 2nd was xc90- back appeared undamaged!!! And 3rd, just at the xc90 backside was a honda stream-the front almost all smashed in!!! wow, just the honda's luck to ram into a volvo.

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Was driving around 50km/h on the CTE slip road to AMK Ave 1 around 7.40pm. My driver side wheel went over this big rock (Size of 3 fists). Couldn't avoid in time. The car went over quite loudly and with moderate force. Saw from the left side mirror - the rock exiting from the left side of the car. The tyres and rims look ok. Any advice on what else to check for? Thanks! Saw a Wish parked at the chevron markings with hazard lights on. Wonder if it kenna the rock?

Classic rock and/or jazz? Right now I'm listening to 995, its more suitable to me than 905 or 950, but still far from perfect

For good western food at reasonable prices, u shud try this outlet. It's located at a cofi shop at blk 681 Hougang Ave 8, facing blk 502. The meat dishes are tender and nicely cooked. All main dishes comes wif choice of 2 side dishes. For the side dishes, my fav is the glazed carrots. Don't miss the mushroom soup, it's pretty good.

Hi bros need some recommendations on this. Where is good quiet place to chill out? Not too many FTs vying for SPGs, just a relaxing non threatening non competitive atmosphere. For a bachelor on a lonesome holiday eve or lazy Fri night. Thanks in advance

Something to share with you guys. Warning : Not everyone age gracefully.... [laugh] http://www.nbcbayarea.com/entertainment/mu...w-97329329.html

Anyone heard of this brand? I am using it.... dun even noe the grade.... Also I am using honda oil filter for hyundai car, my mechanic say ok

Post clips of nice rock songs here. (Lau uncles still sing very well) Come Sail Away - Live (Not the Eric Cartman version )

Hi, Can some1 advise if my tyre hit on a stone and there is a hairline crack can it still be mend or I need to buy need tyres? Any recommendation where to repair tyre or change tyre? TIA