The Price Of Being Unconventional

Just gotten back from Tower Records and bagged two music CDs on the way back.

• Sasha - Fundacion
• Bliss - Quiet Letters

While on the way back on listening to my iPod on my Vol 20, Revolukion. My IM communication with Elaine flashes across my mind when she exclaimed that i am more Ang Moh than her even when she staying in Seattle.

Hmm..maybe i would to like spread my thoughts a little bit more on this topic.

Actually, i dun think i am more westernised as you said. I am not sure what the rest think about me. But i think being westernised is no big deal either, my point is. Even if you are white, you could still be a "Beng" or "Lian" or what ever it fits. As for me, i'm a little unconventional which i think i am much of bloke who think way ahead of anybody else. I assured you that it is not Kiasu-ism which i detested so much. I think somehow i born with a touch of aesthetic, an appreciation for good taste and good design. This unique features is surely not from ang moh's virtue, i am sure. Appreciation of design is something that you cannot attain by reading or learning, i think it has to do with how you interact with the physic and scuplture of the product.

Likes couple of week, Lily showed me a fabric of photos taken at different shots and placed one over another like a fabric clothes. My immediate response was, "wah rau, so 'Darling' type of photo presentation, freaking "Beng" manz. Then Lily said the fabric of photo was done by her close friend's British Boyfriend. Yucks, so you see the point? British music and fashion is almost the pinnacle of the world, yet you find such ang moh beng also exists...so conclusion is not what or who you are, it is what you think?

Now winding back to the mandarin music topic, although i have not been keeping track of mandarin music, but my argument is, listening to mandarin music does it really made you more chinese? You think so? Let's picture Jay Chou, what kind of music he play? Mandarin Hip hop..right? Where does Hip Hop came from? Junkie America, right? Does his music bearing has anything to do with chinese culture? No right?

Therefore my preference to Electronic music borrow the same argument. :) Just for your information, Electronic music has been around since the 60s, Tangerine Dream was one of the pioneer in electronic music, early works were very rudimental but spur the growth of electronic music movement. Japan also has been one of the forth coming nation to embrace electronica music in the 70s. To date, Electronic music has branch into many different sub-genres ranging from Progressive, Drum and Bass, Trance, Ambient, Acid Jazz, Techno, World Music and so on...

DJs in the likes of Paul Oakenfold, Sasha, Dave Seaman, Paul Van Dyk, Sven Vath, Danny Tengalia, Steve Lawler, Tiesto, Ferry Crosten, Dave Warren and LTJ Bukem were simply catalyst to electronica music.

:)