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Caption: Luxuries at Sri Panwa go hand in hand with sophisticated music selection from its top executive.

Impressive Music Curation Merges Tropical Luxuries At Sri Panwa

In his own words, Wan explains how specially-curated music hold the power to achieve impressive hospitality, at the same time, create authenticity. Q: When we hear that you curate music to fit the space of your hotel and beach club during the conceptual phase, we thought this guy can actually see taste in music. Understanding that you are also a DJ, how did your personal taste for electronic music began and evolved since the opening Sri Panwa, Baba Nest and The Beach Club? Actually I have been promoting parties as…

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Blackpink's Ddu-Du Ddu-Du has garnered over 450 million views. Photo courtesy of YG Entertainment.
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Universal Music, Interscope Records Now Serves YG Entertainment’s Blackpink

We are just beginning to see the tip of the iceberg: Blackpink’s latest music video Ddu-Du-Dhu-Dhu released just 4 months ago on YouTube has garnered overe 450 million views. The video has not only attracted scores of fans worldwide, but also strategic interest directly affecting YG Entertainment, a Korean artist management company famed for other chart-topping artists including PSY and…

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Electronic Music Is Changing The DJ Culture in Asia

For the last decade, DJs have been calling the shots. The mainstream music scene in Asia sees DJs taken under the wings of mother goose fertility – playing in some of Asia’s most exciting clubs and festivals. Surprisingly, Asian DJs are even venturing out of the continent headlining top festivals and clubs. Sensing a deep thirst to go global, promoters…

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Music Distribution: Power Handover to Streaming & Social Media?

Technology, on one hand has obviously boost marketer’s technique and allow content to thrive and be distributed at a scale quite unimaginable even just a decade ago; and on the other hand gave individual and corporation the freedom to a vast supply and demand chain for content production. Social media and streaming are new found and powerful digital service providers…

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Sound Of Crisis Portrayed by Ai Wei Wei

WHERE ITS BEST WITH NO MUSIC Why Music On Mute Isn’t So Bad After All “A Dedication to Klaus-Peter Beyer and the Sound Department at Human Flow, A German Documentary Film Directed by Ai Wei Wei, Music By Karsten Fundal” Editor’s personal hashtags: #recalibrating#unapologetic #whatcanwedo#humanmigration #change #notimetolose #fastforwardplease#nomusic Ai Wei Wei lives in an era where harsh visuals questions the power that runs the…

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Editor’s Headphone Review 2018

For those of you who love playing music on the go and uncompromising on how it’s going to sound, we hear you at Music Press Asia. While we kept getting the same question every time we talk about our favourite music, we think it’s best to answer, once and for all – What are some of the best headphones we…

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Woody Pornpitaksuk is a Grammy award winner for mastering and digitising Louis Armstrong full collection produced on vinyls
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Interview With Woody Pornpitaksuk Thailand’s Master Engineer

The Thailand Series: He talked about his life living in New York City, how he started his internship with Sony and went on to become the label’s leading music engineer, life back in Thailand, and the demand in Thailand that changed his perspective on what Thai music is in comparison to ‘American’ music. Woody Pornpitaksuk was awarded the 43rd Annual Grammy…

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Tech Feature: Must-Have Gadgets For 2018

The new year is here, which can only mean one thing: new gadgets! Cut through the music landfill with our guide to the newest gadgets that define your musical choices of 2018. It may or may not be related to how you would consume better music, but definitely going to make your life much easier to play and work with…

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