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Last Saturday at 12am, Leftfoot Entrepot launched the long awaited New Balance China Mask 576 pack to a crowd of hungry sneakerheads. For those who haven’t been following Streething regularly for the past few months, the China Mask pack is the biggest project to come out of New Balance Asia Pacific this year. After the initial three kicks were announced, New Balance held a massive media event in Shanghai to unveil the Wu Shuang editions. Employing a rather flamboyant “ying-yang” sort of colour scheme and being limited to just 576 pairs, it’s unsurprising that the Wu Shuangs were most peoples choice at the midnight launch.

Before the kicks were up for sale, New Balance Singapore had a set of China Mask 576s to divide between the three best mask designs of the night. Apart from that, DJ Rough and DJ Ritz kept the beats tight whilst everyone just mingled and tried their best to finish off the generous allocation of booze courtesy of Jim Beam. The night ended earlier and more quieter than usual parties due to Leftfoot founder Anthony Ho emerging from the storeroom with five bottles of tequila, which managed to almost instantly scare off everyone in the store. Lesson learned - next time break out the hard liquor one by one instead of going the “shock and awe” route.

For a chance to win a pair of Wu Shuangs, check out the New Balance 576 China Mask giveaway we’re running.

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As Malaysia’s launch for Nike Sportswear has come and gone, Thailand still has a few more days left, whilst Indonesia’s celebrations will kick-off tomorrow. Much like our Malaysian launch, expect to see the eight icons of NSW to be represented thought eight installations created by local artists. Details all on the flyers.

After launching their Nike Sportswear (NSW) range to invited media and guests last Wednesday, Nike granted Streething use of their pop-up space outside Pavilion KL for The Eight, a one-night event to introduce the eight icons of NSW to our friends and family.

Apart from the installations by Vincent Leong, Ultraboy, Lisa Foo, Hugo Gardens, Saiful Razman, Findars, Bright Lights at Midnight and us, there were some mini-performances by several sports enthusiasts. Lastly, Arabyrd came out of her nest to rap for a while, then Blink took to the decks to keep people moving.

After the generous supply of booze was almost depleted, everyone made their way down to Cloth & Clef for a secret after party. Blink met up with his old mate Ah Xu, where they joined forces and transformed into 5ft and Mr Puah, their Lapsap alter egos.

The night ended more laid back than usual, no crazy stories to bitch about, just good times and good people. We would like to thank Nike Malaysia for giving us the chance host our own event. For those that weren’t able to make it, you can still check out the pop-up space from 4pm - 8pm, 14th - 16th August 2008.

For more information on NSW, head over to the Nike Sportswear website over here.

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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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