British Chinese-Vietnamese rapper Jianbo is back with a new track produced by Sly Diggers & Slimmoney entitled Chinatown Alley. The video below is meant to be part of a three-part thriller lead by Jianbo himself – in a story of vengeance, love, hate & redemption. His debut single S.H.A.O.L.I.N. explored his East Asian heritage while […]
Rolling & Rocking
After curating my 100 favourite Rap songs, I’ve made the decision of doing the same but with Rock music. I’ll admit that it is a bit all over the place in terms of styles but hey… That’s how I roll! As always you can love the playlist on Spotify if this is your thing. Have […]
Interviewing Naud
Being creative, I am always interested in learning about my peers’ process in creating as well as their influences and inspiration. There is no better way in learning about that than with an interview. Today I have a fellow bilingual: Naud. Naud is a French pop artist, who happens to sing in both French and […]
Interviewing Tyson Swindell
I started the blog to write about the things that I like, and the music that I listen to. I have always enjoyed sharing my discoveries with friends, families and people I just met. Blogging is a perfect way for me to do so. Another great thing about blogging is that I get to meet […]
A year of silence
Films documenting music – fictional or not – are my favourite, right after science-fiction and animation. After a couple of weeks, I started to feature some music films here. Void, One Year Of Silence is the latest one I have seen. At the end of March 2020, the UK entered its first lockdown of the […]
Book Club #01 : Art by Yasmina Reza
Reading is something that I struggled with for a long time. Not because I couldn’t read, but rather because I didn’t enjoy it. Reading came later when I was a teenager. Before that, the only thing I could read without feeling bored were comics and graphics novels. Even then I would still be bored after […]
Making Music: Back to the Bap
The last time I wrote about making music, I mentioned how I started thanks to rap. I started making music on my mom’s Windows Pentium 4 computer in the early 2000s with a loop arranger called Hip-Hop EJay. I loved making beats. Sure all the loops were in the software and all I needed to […]
Loving Covers #02
It has been a little while since I have talked about either album covers or typography, so here’s a shortlist of some covers that I love that feature exclusively typography. They have all been designed in the 2000s.
Spinning Mixes #01
In my last post, I wrote about Tammy Lakkis’new release and explained how I first heard of her thanks to a mix she did with Shigeto. Since then I thought it would be nice to share some of my favourite mixes. Jeff Garlin’s Blue Note special mix for NTS Radio L.A This is an only […]
Noticing Tammy Lakkis
Tammy Lakkis is the daughter of Lebanese immigrants. She grew up in Windsor, Ontario and Dearborn Heights, Michigan and is now based in Hamtramck. She is a singer, songwriter, producer, and DJ. Lakkis is also known for her all-hardware sets and singing bilingually in both English and Arabic. I first heard of her last summer […]