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Time for some house music with STANZSA!

Here we dig & rewind to vocal trance, the genre we’ve always loved.

Introducing STANZSA!

For musicians like us, we know pain, we know loneliness, we write, we express. This is mine, ours.

Last X’mas 2020

We miss George Michael.. We’ll also miss the craziness 2020 brought upon us..

Nonetheless, here’s our version of the cute, sad & happy Last X’mas..

Project The Dance of the Flaming Arseholes

Works-in-progress

We’ve always been intrigued by subcultures existent in Singapore’s history but yet, we have never really gone out of our way to take these references as fodder for our art-making.

Of course there will be a gamut of exciting stories in Singapore’s past that could provide us salient points of departure for our future works but...how can a place like Bugis Street become such a banal attraction/bazaar after it's super-glitzy past?!

We found some images from National Archives that confirmed our mental perception of Bugis Street as “the” place to be in pre-progress-driven Singapore right from the 50s to the early 80s.

Oral history interviews stated Bugis Street as “well-known for services from transvestites, and the various Chinese foods, such as frogs, snakes, and so on were the favourites among the visitors.”

This will be a works-in-progress where we will be exploring accounts of people who lived through that interesting phase of excess, debauchery and celebration.

We will name this project The Dance of the Flaming Arseholes.

A few days ago we received a call from JB, a shogaze band, Forgotten Wish had heard about us from past clients & decided to send over their soon-to-be-released track to be mixed & engineered. This was a whole new approach to the conventional Pop Music style of mixing that we always do. This time it was noise-based. It was a peculiar approach to this mixing technique, as we have to get the mix wide & big. Several layers of guitars was necessary, a mixture of guitar effects on the rig was also important namely the metal zone & heavy distortion. Equalisation also played a vital part here as the guitars need to be of high-frequency & sharp but not deafening. This is definitely a challenge to replicate the wall of sound for the shoegaze genre.