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A launch party for a collab shirt that got stuck in Hong Kong; Scythe and NSBQ have a lot to answer for. Fortunately, even in the face of a lackluster turnout, the enthusiam of MC Yan, DJ Frankie and the whole Singapore crew never dropped for a second.
Those that turned up were treated to a graffiti installation by Yan, The Killer Gerbil, Antz and Zero; a New Balance season preview courtesy of Sole Obession; as well as a 4-way scratch/mix performance from Frankie, DJ KoFlow, DJ Rattle and DJ Tang - all ex-DMC Champs.
An aspect we think would have worked better if conducted in a smaller environment, are the workshops from Yan and KoFlow. Yan, as always, has a lot to talk about, be it what he is doing, discussing art/music techniques, or what is going on around the world - pity it didn’t go over too well on an sparsely populated dancefloor at dinner time.
Thankfully, things picked up when it was time for Yan to rock the mic, belting out some new remixes of classic tracks from his Lazy Mutha Fucka days. The mainly mandarin-speaking Singaporean crowd swamped the podium and joined Yan to sing along to some of his infamous Canto-rap chants.
After that, the ubiquitous prize giveaways kept the interaction levels up; unfortunately, when momentum was building, event time was over and the regular Ministry of Sound party crowd spilled in for their usual fix. We hear Scythe is looking to bring Yan back to Singapore sometime in the future, here’s hoping the next event will do justice to the line-up.
The Scythe x NSBQ military shirt will be made available in two weeks time at selected stockists around South East Asia and is limited to 88 pieces; Log on to Fucking Music, Yan’s music label, for free mixtape/music downloads; also check out ChinaMan Taggin’ to see more of Yan’s art.
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June 18th, 2008 at 1:23 am
it was one helluva night!