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Daito Manabe. Photo courtesy of Sonar Hong Kong
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Daito Manabe On Creativity As A Digital Artist

Calling Daito Manabe a DJ may just be one of the most modest things we could ever describe a digital artists. Hailed as the world’s most renowned contemporary digital artists of our time, Daito Manabe’s recent performance with nosaj thing at Sónar in Hong Kong has not only captured the abstract beats and emotive melodies of the two performers, but also showcased how virtual and augmented reality are incorporated visually; for the first time, it was not just about the sound, it was a visual experience so far ahead in…

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Drunken Tiger & Yoon Mi Rae from Seoul, South Korea
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Asian Artists to Perform at SXSW

SXSW has released its Music Bloggers Guide to SXSW 2017 exploring over 100+ exciting up-and-coming SXSW Showcasing Artists. On news closer to home, we’ve decided to filter this selection to artists from Asia and explores reasons why their music deserves to be on this Bloggers Guide. Korean Music at SXSW 2017 is taking precedence with an even larger list than…

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Sonar Hong Kong is Magnetic Asia's very first eletronic music festival
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5 Must-See Gigs at Sonar, Hong Kong (2/2)

Click here to return to the first page Heavily focused on tech, Sonar will be providing a platform not only for research centres but also tech companies, creative studios and labs around the world to showcase new products, prototypes, apps, tools and devices to interactive installations, musical instruments in ‘Expo’, Sónar+D, a fresh take on the traditional trade expo format. The…

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Sonar Hong Kong is Magnetic Asia's very first eletronic music festival
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5 Must-See at Sonar Hong Kong

In about two weeks, Hong Kong will see its first ever electronic music festival, conference, installations event organised by Magnetic Asia, the Hong Kong-based. One of Hong Kong’s most vital electronic artists, Choi Sai-ho will be performing at Magnetic Asia’s very first electronic music festival, Sonar. Already with a vast repertoire performing at local and international music festivals including Perform…

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Alleycats to perform at Rockaway organised by Livescape Group.
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Butterfingers Shares Stage with Alleycats at Rockaway

Rockaway – The Saga Continues… The tone has already been set for the second part of the festival to take place at the Extreme Park Bukit Jalil. Come 19 November, the rock festival will feature some of the strongest Rockaway line up yet including the long awaited Butterfingers, Third Eye Blind, Alleycats, Zainal Abidin, and more. Slated as one of…

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Jennie Sager to speak at Mumbrella's Entertainment Marketing Summit
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Head of Music Entertainment Twitter to Speak at Mumbrella Summit

Come November 10, Mumbrella’s Marketing Summit will play host to marketers from the industries including music, television, radio, film, publishing and the wider entertainment world together at The Chauvel in Sydney, Australia. Local and international brand owners including marketing experts will use this opportunity to connect and gain key insights to the trends and issues surrounding the region. Some of…

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Exclusive Stream: STORM Festival Founder Eric Zho’s Full Interview with Pete Tong
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STORM Festival Founder Eric Zho Interview with Pete Tong

In a recent executive interview with Eric Zho, the veteran entertainment executive of A2LiVE and influencer of the electronic music and Chinese entertainment industry discussed with Pete Tong similar topics surrounding the brand; its strategy and relation with other commercial brands to attract fans; the influence of electronic music as a sub-genre; its target audiences; challenges ahead and its plan within the next…

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Maximizing Music Marketing Strategies in the Digital Age

SF Music Tech Summit, in its 18th edition this year, could not be more exciting than any of its previous events. With talks on algorithm-based curation, Blockchain’s practicality, streaming and the startups that are offering all kinds of tools from organising, marketing and distributing music, the music business has gotten just a tad complicated manifested in the form of vast…

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Don M remain as one of the only few that has a break into the music industry in South Korea.
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Why Music Producers Should Attend Mu:con?

Discover Mu:con from Don M’s perspective; the challenges and sustainability of being a music producer in Asia, being part of the Korean pop culture, and trends that the West are seemingly trying to break into. Recently held in Seoul, Mu:con – a music conference – is an annual event aimed at connecting labels, artists and music professionals worldwide. It has…

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Tencent reveals QQ Music's total number of users in China at Music Matters.
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Tencent Reveals QQ Music’s Influence in China

Music Matters first day wraps up with some of the biggest names from the Chinese music industry discussing topics that are affecting regionally and at a global scale. The subject of streaming and China popped up at every opportuned-discussion pulling and tugging at each other like an engaged couple; a rather new, anticipated and predictably accurate union which got people…

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