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Lapsap officially turned 1 last night, and celebrated with the help of Has (Singapore), The Beens (Germany), and two floors of hot and sweaty people. If you’ve been to one of Lapsap’s invite-only parties at Palate Palete, probably the only complaint you would have is the crazy amount of people packed into the venue. This time, the guys managed to fit in around double the amount of human traffic. How? By just letting them pile up on one another, that’s how. Streething wishes the Lapsap crew happy birthday and hopes the movement matures well with age.

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The Oakley event, held at Leftfoot’s latest branch at The Cathay, Singapore, effectively killed three birds with one stone. Firstly, it launched the much anticipated Frank Kozik x Oakley Hijinx’; secondly, it was also the celebration party of Leftfoot opening at The Cathay; last but not least, it was Leftfoot founder Anthony Ho’s *cough* 21st *cough* birthday. It was also the first time that we ever witnessed a shop getting totally trashed just hours after officialy opening, and partying inside a shopping mall until 2am was quite a novelty in itself.

Yeah, you just know when Leftfoot drops an event that the reaction will be crazy. Although chilled drinks were stacked to the roof, the massive crowd in attendance made for an extremely stuffy environment. Which resulted in many popping outside sporadically to cool down, and whilst many left, people just kept coming in non-stop to either pay respects or see what all the commotion was about.

Oakley decked the store out in Kozik’s famed artworks, and even went as far as offering free customized t-shirts that were freshly silk screened on the spot - three cheers for sweatshop labour! However, the stars of the show were undeniably the Frogskins designed by local artists and personalities, such as Killer Gerbil, Ben Yeo, Mark Ong aka SBTG, and DJ Koflow. Guests were allowed to touch and feel, and didn’t hesitate in trying them on. A nice touch, since most of the times such items are considered to be “exhibits”.

To round the night off, champagne and cake were brought out for Anthony, and from then on it would be fair to say that mostly everyone has a hazy memory. Hopefully the pictures will refresh some memories. Again, congrats to the whole Leftfoot crew!

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Leftfoot will soon be hosting an event to launch the Frank Kozik x Oakley Hijinx sunglasses at their latest branch at The Cathay, Singapore. Details on how to get in and what to expect up on the flyer.

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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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As expected, from start to finish, the Ed Banger crew banged the hell out of everyone within Zouk Singapore’s Mainroom. Almost every tune the collective kicked out was greeted with the enthusiasm of a national anthem made for the primate kingdom: people went apeshit! We left at 4am, well before it ended, and still had to push to get out - that’s how crazy it was.

Definately one of the hottest electro gigs of 2008 in South East Asia; here’s hoping the success will lead to more parties-from-Paris in the region - did someone say Daft Punk? If they did, i hope someone up there was listening. As per usual, pics after the jump; those that couldn’t make it can console themselves with this downloadable mix, courtesy of Rightclicka, of the Ed Banger Crew live at Cinespace, Hollywood.

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Last call for this Saturday: French electronic music house, Ed Banger Records, will be bringing the party to Zouk Singapore from 10pm - 5am. Chances for electro-heads to experience such a stellar line-up are few and far between; Yeah, Justice is not playing, but thankfully almost everyone else on the roster is. See you all there.

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Over the weekend, a close-knit group of supporters and street art aficionados sacrificed a night of Singapore’s alluring nightlife and braved their way to a desolate stretch of automobile workshops for The Killer Gerbil’s first ever solo art exhibition. The collection of works, titled Family, showcased a series of portrait sketches, photographs, as well as tagged-art on canvas, license plates and even a Vespa scooter and car.

Held for less than 48 hours at Geseho Motor Works, the event was literally hot as hell, as most of the artworks were displayed inside the garage’s paint oven. Geseho is a newly established Singaporean streetwear brand, the name derives from founder Tony Tay’s - aka Lazy - father’s garage. Geseho will launch their new collection of apparel soon and are planning to hold more events to promote the local arts/creative scene within the region.

As per usual, the live graffiti installation by South East Asia’s most notorious rodent was entertaining, as was the obligatory pyromaniac celebrations that followed. Surprisingly, Sole Obsession managed to sell off all their hot dogs and buns, and unsurprising a few of us had stomach aches the day after. Only complaint of the night is that Asahi’s generous allocation of beer went almost untouched.

Tsk Tsk. That would never happen in Malaysia. So guys, when you bringing the event up here?

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Our man Luthfi Mustafah, aka The Killer Gerbil, will be holding Family - a solo art exhibition courtesy of Singaporean streetwear brand, Geseho. We all know Killer Gerbil as one of the premier street artists in the region. His rodent-inspired graf has been sprawled across countless surfaces, his live art installations never fail to entertain - yet this will actually be his first solo art exhibition in Singapore.

(Above: The Killer Gerbil in action at Streething’s All in the Family event)

Family will feature a mix of street art, portrait photographs as well as the ubiquitous live performance. Streething will be in town to mooch off the free beer, whilst Sole Obsession will be selling their hot dogs for SGD$1 a pop (We actually told them to charge more, but they want their devil dogs in many mouths as possible, so who are we to argue?).

Family will kick off at the Geseho Guerilla Store at 7pm on 26^th April 2008, for those that can’t make it there will be a repeat screening from 1-5pm the day after – minus the booze, usual mad antics and hot dogs.

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