Informal Meeting with CC Artists from the Philippines - Drip

One of the presenter at the second Asia Pacific Creative Commons Conference, “The Commons Crossroads: Defining the Roadmap for Creative Commons in Asia and the Pacific”, Drip, will be performing in Hong Kong at the HK Live monthly event on Sat, 7 Mar 2009.

On the Sunday after the performance, the band would like to share how they made themselves famous and collaborated with other musicians worldwide through licensing their works under Creative Commons and distributing them using different online tools such as ccMixter.

Date: 8 Mar 2009 Sunday
Time: 2:30-4:30pm
Venue: Whiskey Priest - 1/F, 12 Lan Kwai Fong, Central

Kraftwerk Live in Hong Kong: Man and Machine in Perfect Harmony

KRAFTWERK
Live in Hong Kong
5th December, 2008
AsiaWorld-Expo Hall 9

One of the most influential bands in music history, the Godfathers and pioneers of electronic music – Kraftwerk - will be performing at AsiaWorld-Expo Hall 9 on December 5, 2008 for the first time ever in Hong Kong!
The electro pioneers Kraftwerk started their vision of the future nearly forty years ago. They created the masterplan for so many contemporary music styles such as electro – synth pop – trance and techno.

Now in 2008, Kraftwerk have programmed their robots for a multimedia show with computer animation and digital surround sound. Fans will see Kraftwerk performing not only their innumerable hits from the past 40 years but also a multimedia spectacular that promises to delight their loyal army of fans.

The line up for Kraftwerk 2008 Live in HK will be: Ralf Hütter / Fritz Hilpert / Henning Schmitz / Stefan Pfaffe.


The Kraftwerk Story…
Approximately 40 years ago, in the cold, clean recesses of one Kling Klang studio laboratory located in Düsseldorf, Germany, a collective that called itself Kraftwerk began churning out from an assortment of electronic equipment and their own secret inventions what they termed “machine music”, the likes of which had never been heard before. Cold, precise, minimal, repetitive and almost wholly electronically-processed, this new brand of stiff was released on an unsuspecting public in the 70s, and pop music was never the same again…
Beginning as a duo in Germany’s late 60s experimental music scene and evolving into a notoriously reclusive synth-pop quartet in the mid 70s, Kraftwerk is today both an institution and an enigma. The group that once expressed an intention to “make music that sounded like Germany” has had its distinctive sound – drum machine beats, synths, vocodered vocals – copied and sampled by musicians such as David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, New Order, Art of Noise and Afrika Bambaataa across genres from techno and new wave to rock and hip-hop.
Strikingly antiseptic and yet strangely compelling, Kraftwerk’s spare melodies, precise programming and curiously facile lyrics (“Radioactivity is in the air for you and me”) reveal a deadpan humour and an appreciation of the absurd. Experienced live, a Kraftwerk show is a perfectly synchronised visual spectacle with four besuited guys (and their robot doubles) standing quite still behind consoles onstage, against a backdrop of perfectly synchronized visual projection, lights, robotics and pure theatre.

Tickets: HK$680 (All Standing)
Tickets on sale at 10am – October 30 , 2008 at HK Ticketing and
Tom Lee Outlets
Booking Hotline: (852) 31-288-288
Online Booking: www.livenation.asia / www.hkticketing.com
General Enquiries: (852) 2989 9239

David Sylvian來港演出喎

今年香港的樂迷(尤其有咁上下年紀的)都好像有運行，從Roger Waters到The Cure到David Sylvian，這一眾曾伴隨我們成長、卻一直未曾想過可以在香港看到其音樂會的藝人，今年都不約而同地來了，實在叫我們感到老懷安慰，還得神落。

今次，也是Sylvain繼Japan的告別巡迴演出後，二十五年來再度來港表演。

這場David Sylvian的The World Is Everything Tour音樂會，目前得悉的情況如下：

1. 日期：10月27日，地點：九龍灣HITEC Hall B。

2. 這是Sylvian以個人名義的巡迴演出，而非Nine Horses，所以他該會玩回不少他的個人經典作。

3. 伴奏樂手包括有Steve Jansen。