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Triple 6 Poser - 'No Woman Blues' at ROTTW Road to Soundstage

Right click on the pic above and select 'save as...' to check out the vid from our performance at the Road to ROTTW soundstage of one of our new songs that uber-guitarist Henry Tan wrote, 'No Woman Blues'.
I still haven't written a damn solo for this song. The key of B is a bitch.

20.12.06 08:33
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Y2k launch vids 1 & 2 of 4

Finally. I've uploaded two of the four videos that were shown at the Y2k launch. Which video? Well, the first one and the longest out of the four:
1. SOME KIND OF SALSA.
Just like 'Some Kind Of Monster', the 10 minute short shows the trials and tribulations of recording our album, to the point that FYI Entertainment hires a psychiatrist to sort out the problems.
Some Kind of Salsa - RIGHT CLICK HERE and choose 'save target as...' to download. File's about 70MB in wmv format.
Then, after that you can discover the secret origins of Y2k's guitarist in:
2. THE CURSE OF HERMANO GRANDE.
A tale of Mexican tenacity and Japanese courage, complete with training montage.
The Curse of Hermano Grande - RIGHT CLICK HERE and choose 'save target as...' to download. File's about 30MB in wmv format.
Enjoi.

12.9.06 07:58
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FREE DOWNLOAD - Triple 6 Poser - Don't Say Goodbye

Did a couple more tests over the weekend, including Triple 6 Poser's "Don't Say Goodbye" which you can download by clicking here.

Recorded with the whole band playing together but in seperate rooms so that there wasn't any bleed. Henry was on the Hughes & Kettner whilst I was in the mixing room with the Mesa Boogie Rectifier recording pre-amp. Jay was lined in through a Behringer MIC100 and the vocals were overdubbed.

I like.

19.4.06 06:48
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Y2k - Lara Music Video FREE DOWNLOAD

Y2k - Lara (40MB approx)
Right click and choose 'Save Target As...'
The Hermano Grande himself has seen it and he approves. Since you put up with my rants, you get to see the vid before it's aired. Comments and queries, you know where to click. Enjoi, g's n' hustlaz.

21.9.05 05:38
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Free Download - Some Like It White

Some Like It White (109MB mpeg file).
Right click on the link and choose 'Save Target As...'.
Finally. I've bloody uploaded it. Here's the short film I've been blabbering on about.
I bought a whole bunch of pirated software at Low Yat and kept trying till I found a program that would convert the damn avi file without the weird stroby effects I've been getting in the past.
Download it and enjoy.

17.9.05 11:57
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"Lara - Y2k" Sneak Preview Download!

Haven't added a download in a while, so since I'm in the midst of mixing the Y2k album, here's a sneak preview of what may or may not be our first single.

The mix isn't complete yet, so lemme know comments and suggestions and what nots.

By the way, it's in Malay & English, so some bits some people may not get. Ah, well...

Oh! Also, Y2k's now on MySpace! So add them and stream some of the other tracks at www.myspace.com/yes2kapitalism!

Y2k - Lara (Sneak Preview)

24.7.05 07:11
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Free download - Triple 6 Poser live at Paul's Place

Triple 6 Poser - Don't Say Goodbye live at Pauls Place (WMV 5MB)
Right click and choose 'Save target as...' to download.

Still no idea whether we'll be changing the name, but I thought I'd upload this because a) we don't have any actual recordings of Eddy on vocals yet, b) Jay's been feeling sentimental in Australia so I thought he might like this and c) I wanna show off my telecaster. Her name is Sheila and she's a beauty. Enjoi.

16.4.05 15:52
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Nicotine free download

Nicotine (8MB WMV file)

Right click and choose 'save target as...' to download.

So yeah. Since I've got the space I'm putting my short film up for download. Be warned, though, 'cos I used windows movie maker to turn it into a smaller file so the picture's a bit pixelated and the sounds a bit dodge. Was trying to upload the mpeg version but it's 170 MB's. Enjoi.

15.4.05 16:14
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SecTopClass - Yeah Yeah! Free Download

Security, Top Secret & Classified - Yeah Yeah!
To download, right click on the link and choose 'Save As'.

A lot of bands, hell, any creative endeavour for that matter, usually form due to a collective love for 'something'.

For Security, Top Secret & Classified, it was the Beastie Boys.

It all started when Goz (Top Secret) gave me a call and said he was visiting from Singapore with his friend Wilson (Security). They wanted to do a Beastie Boys-style song and required my recording abilities.

Before, in England, we had started a band called 'Toadspit' and recorded a demo of Goz on guitar and me on vocals. It wasn't that good, recorded with a hi-fi and a microphone.

I'd come a long way since then.

When they arrived I spent two days doing up a mass of beats a la 'Shake Your Rump' from the Paul's Boutique album to complement their lyrics on a friend of theirs who decided to not masturbate for 30 days. After that, they came up again to recorded another song.

'Yeah Yeah!' is that song.

Clocking in at about 6 minutes, this one stuck to a simple funky breakbeat and bass loop as the mental lyrics came a-spewing, with lines such as,

I'm not white like Van Damme or Vanilla Ice / I'm like Big Bird all yellow and nice / Don't give me foie gras gimme fried rice / Like Yen Can Cook I slice and dice

Or one of my favourites,

When I play Street Fighter I choose Guile / Got the re-dizzy move so wild / You think you can beat me with your sonic boom style / You must be in Egypt 'cos you're in de-nial!

If we ever have time, we might do an album. Or not. No one knows.

6.4.05 14:03
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Cannot Get It Up - Free Download

Khaimano - Can't Get It Up (411C Demo Version)
Khaimano - Can't Get It Up (full band version)
So yeah. I'd been thinking about putting up a download page for awhile now, letting all you few readers that actually visit this site a taste of what supposedly creative endeavours I've worked on or are currently working on. And what better way to start of the section than with a song that, for some odd reason, a lot of people seem to like.

Or so I've been told.

(If you never read about Khaimano, you can click here to read my post about it in the Recollections section.)

Back when I was writing songs that would end up on my demo tape when I was looking for members for a band, I had an... incident with a young Russian lady that was, in retrospect, too hillarious to not write about. In fact, out of the demo tape, this is the only song that ended up on the full band playlist.

I could tell you about the events that led to this song, but it's all there in the lyrics. All I can say is I was tired, I was intoxicated, and on other (more sober) occasions I have been known to be harder than Superman's schlong. It's the only time it happened, and the fact that it happened twice with the same girl is funny. Very funny. Even though it's embarressing, it's funny.

The song didn't just come about from the event, however. At the time, Shaggy's "It wasn't me" was a huge hit. I thought the song was alright, but very mysoginistic. This is a song about playa's (or at least, wannabe playa's) and it made me wonder if you could do a flipside to it, an Anti-Shaggy.

Which is why the 411C demo version is very poppy in its production style. This was the one I recorded in London in my room by myself (My room number was 411C, you see). It even has a little intro to the song but the vocals in general were too... restrained. I still wasn't comfortable singing at the time and singing alone in my room is actually worse for me. I don't have an audience to play off. I'm not really that good a singer, not by a long stretch. But I'd like to think I know how to perform.

That's what makes the band version so different. Stripped down of the waves of chorus-infected guitars, it's a bare three piece band and the vocals are a lot closer to my actual speeaking voice, although this was before 30 cigarettes a day.

This song also got us Peter Brown's attention. We were playing at the Acoustic Jam at the Commonwealth Club as one of the open mic guys. We took ages setting up, I couldn't tune my guitar, everything went to hell. Then we sang the song and the crowd lapped it up with laughter. Thank God.

This was also a curse in disguise. It made us as a band believe, at least for awhile, that it didn't matter how shit we played, if the song and the lyrics came through and everyone laughed, we'd be safe. But that wouldn't work for a non-literate audience, would it?

Anyway, enjoy the downloads, forgive the amateurishness of it all (it was quite a few years ago) and ladies, I can get it up. Seriously, I can. I have no need for Tongkat Ali Gold.

Honest.

30.3.05 06:44
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