Yellow
Since the official launch of their first EP Urban Diseases at the end of 2018, YELLOW has taken fans by storm for their intensely unique style and unruly stage performances. The band of top musicians is fronted and recruited by producer/singer-songwriter Huang Hsuan, aka Yellow. He is now accompanied by Devlin Chen (drums), Marcus Tsao (bass), Tim Lin (guitar), CJ Wu (keys). Their music contains a blend of modernity and retro vibes with strong grooves. A mix of jazz, neo-soul, funk, rock, and experimental electro-acoustic sounds, YELLOW received the 31st Golden Melody Award for Best Single Producer - Vocal Category. They were nominated two consecutive years (10th & 11th) for the Golden Indie Music Awards for Best Live Performance for their highly infectious live performances. As of date, YELLOW has issued two EPs: "Urban Disease" and "Circus Fever". Their first and latest album, "Yellow Fiction", was issued in October 2020.
Ryu Matsuyama
Ryu Matsuyama is a piano three-piece band that transcends genres and national borders. Ryu (piano vocal), born and raised in Italy, started music in 2012 as “Ryu Matsuyama”. Following Tsuru (bass), who has been a member since the formation in 2014, Jackson (drums) has joined and continues up to today. They made a debut with a major label in 2018 and released the album "Between Night and Day". Radio stations all over Japan were intoxicated by their rich sound. In April 2020, the album "Borderland" was released with Mabanua as the producer. In April 2021, the first digital single “Under the sea feat. Max Jenmana” release. Max Jenmana is a very popular singer-songwriter in Thailand. The arranger of "Collaboration across the Sea" by Ryu Matsuyama and Max Jenmana is Shingo Sekiguchi (from Ovall).
They have evolved even further by creating new sounds. The sound of Ryu Matsuyama is an emotional soundscape that transcendsgenres such as R&B, Neo-Soul, City Pop, and Chill. They have evolved even further by creating new sounds.
Please enjoy the emotional soundscape.
Your Woman Sleep With Others
"Your Woman Sleep With Others" is a five-member indie-folk rock band from Taipei, Taiwan formed in 2015. The members are Chang (Lead vocal and guitar), Tung (Guitar), Feng (Drum), Shao (Cello) and Liao (Bass). In 2017, Your Woman Sleep With Others released an EP titled "Wu Shi Yo Wu Er Zhi Yu Xue". The band's EP ranked first in Taiwanese indie music streaming service StreetVoice and Spotify charts, and rapidly soared up to 2 million views on YouTube within three months. The band then released their Debut album "Examine Myself Three Times a Day"at 2019, and has gone on several tours throughout the years. Mainly focusing on telling stories as a more narrative character, the band has made people think deep about lives, and its concise and comprehensive lyrics has deeply rooted into listeners' minds.
"Your Woman Sleep With Others" is also a young, award-winning band, that reminds you of The Waterboys and Arcade Fire. Through their lyrics, they share a bloody and ironic truth about education system in Taiwan and graduates in despair.
Namelle
Born in Sweden, Namelle, now 24, has already performed hundreds of gigs and traveled to several countries to write, record and perform. Her music is best described as confident and sassy electro pop. Namelle is able to captures her audience’s attention with catchy songs and a unique voice. Her single "Girl in the Car" and "Got No Time" was featured at New Music Friday in Germany, South
Africa, and Switzerland. An ambitious artist, Namelle is constantly
looking for new influences and collaborations to develop her sound and artistry to produce a more vibrant, interesting, and current sound.
Namelle was named an Ines Talent in 2018 and went on to perform at
different showcase festivals such as Live at Heart, Midem, Westway LAB, and The
Alternative Escape in 2019. She recently completed her studies at Songwriting for the International Market in Örnsköldsvik, one of the best songwriting schools in Europe.
Namelle is now releasing her debut EP with the singles "Nothing Makes Sense".
Amazing Show
Amazing Show, a Tai-Ke rock band from Chiayi City in Taiwan, features a unique local Taiwanese gaudy (garish and vulgar) culture. With a mixture of rock music and self-made experimental musical instruments, they endeavor to bring the audience a visual and auditory feast. Representing the voice of youth, they blend Tai-Ke style rock music, interactive installation art and experimental instruments altogether to create songs that convey their attitude towards the past generations.
To them, conflicts between generations are a spur to imagination and creativity. They extract unique, vibrant local culture elements and symbols to seek a new kind of aesthetic that belongs to their own motherland. It is a versatile entertainment project offering music, installation, design, images and live performance.
Shi Shi Sun
Shi Shi Sun, born in 1990, is a part of the third generation of Chinese born in South Korea. By the age of 20, she left her hometown to pursue her dream in the music industry in Taiwan. Since her debut, she has released five self-composed albums, and has been nominated for the Golden Melody Awards (GMA) several times. She was nominated for Best New Artist award for her first album "GIRLS" in 2015, and won Best Mandarin Album award in the 30th Golden Melody Awards in 2019.
Her new album "Where is SHI? " in 2021, has been nominated in the 32nd Golden Melody Awards for Album of the Year, Best Mandarin Album, Best Album Producer, Best Female Singer(Mandarin), and Best Vocal Album Recording.
As an influence for those growing up under different background and cultures, Shi Shi has created a genre of music so diverse and unique to her. Soothing in her smooth R&B vocals, and heavy in her lyricism and production, Shi Shi would describe her music to be "tender and tough at the same time".
With every new album, she always tries to outdo herself as singer, composer, and producer. Not only does her album music occupy major digital charts, but her music sang for popular dramas have taken charts by storm as well. Among them, "Someday or One Day" won the Asian Television Award for Best Theme Song, having over 10 million plays.
FUNKorporation
FUNKorporation is a band from Romania, Cluj Napoca founded in 2011. With funky grooves, heavy low ends, exceptional vocals, spicy wind instruments, FUNKorporation also mixed with some jazz, soul, blues, Balkan and positive attitude in their music!
In 2012, FUNKorporation was the winner of the Transylvania International Art and Music Festival's Award. In 2015, the band won the Jazz in The Park's contest a second prize and became third at the Street Music Festival in Satu Mare. In 2018, they played at MMB Bucharest Showcase and released two official videos for the songs "Purple Love" and "Hold On Through".In 2019, they played at Romania's largest festivals like Electric Castle, Untold, Afterhills Festival. The band also did two tours in Hungary, Austria and in the Baltic states.
FUNKorporation has released a new song "Set Me Free" and the album "Kronikl" which is a fusion of funk, pop and disco with a splash of soul and blues. In 2021, the band became an INES talent and was nominated for 2021 HEMI Music Awards.
Vast & Hazy
Vast & Hazy(VH) is one of the most unique and promising vocal collaborations in Taiwan. Vocalist Ka Ka has a wide-ranging, powerful and remarkable voice. Guitarist LNiCH, equipped with masterful guitar and arranging skills, can create lush soundscapes flexibly. In 2018, they released the debut album "I'm Not OK" which has been nominated for Best Vocal Collaboration at the 30th Golden Melody Awards.
In recent years, Vast & Hazy(VH) challenged themselves to transcend music genre boundaries. They hope that their songs are not merely entertainment, but they can also lead the audience to go deep inside themselves, think differently, and play a key role in their lives.
Colours of Bubbles
Born in Šiauliai, a city labelled Lithuanian Manchester, Colours of Bubbles gives listeners that special blend of modern indie sound with a darker and deeper reflection of the Northern European indie rock. With 5 albums in band’s discography and 2 Rock Band of the Year awards, Colours of Bubbles is praised both by fans and critics and remains one of the most acclaimed modern Lithuanian rock bands.
Colours of Bubbles has played more than 300 concerts at all corners of Europe, made appearances on major European rock and indie music festivals, and toured throughout Asia.
In 2019, the band released their latest studio album 9 mm – an authentic British rock and guitar sound inspired LP that explores such themes as the current world order, war, love, fast-paced life, and rebellion.
Last year, Colours of Bubbles once again joined forces with St. Christopher orchestra presenting a sequel to their highly anticipated Untold Story series. Released digitally, on CD, and double LP Untold Story: Chapter 2 is a monument to group’s fresh and innovative sound.
Drive-In Ozas Live, played by Colours of Bubbles on the rooftop of Ozas building in May 2020 is the first drive-in concert in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, as well as the first live concert performed here since the beginning of Covid-19 quarantine in March 2020.
Accusefive
Accusefive gained popularity with their internet-famous song, Miss You Day and Night. The band followed up with the Let Go EP in 2017 and received the Best New Artist award in the 9th Golden Indie Music Awards in 2018. Accusefive is comprised of vocalist and guitarist Pan Yun An, vocalist Chuan Ching, and drummer Richard Lin. Their musical style is diverse, with male/female vocalists Pan Yun An and Chuan Ching's interweaving voices creating mesmerizing vocals for an infectious therapeutic effect and strong attraction to the audience. Armed with Pan Yun An's knack for creating and their deftness in various music styles, Accusefive has churned out many songs in recent years. In 2019, they issued their first album Somewhere in Time, I Love You and sold out its first release. In 2020, they were nominated for the following four awards at the 31st GMA: Best New Artist, Best Music Group, Best Music Video, and Best Album Design. Accusefive has launched their second album, Easy Come, Easy Go, at the end of 2020, and it was nominated the 32nd GMA Song of the Year, Best Composer, Best Band and Best Vocal Album Recording.
Chick en Chicks
CNCS, a Taipei-based electro synth pop duo formed in 2015, features vocalist Kartina and producer Mr.G.
Kartina has been in Taiwan since she graduated from the Academy of Contemporary Music UK. Having grown up in the UK and Hong Kong, her mixed cultural experience has brought something unique into her musical ideas and vocal performance. Mr. G is a producer who spent three years on designing just one synth sound, epitome of scrupulousness.
The group experiments and integrates field recordings and samples into their music, which forms a refreshing yet distinctive, solid base for Kartina's powerful vocals, and expensive sounds that may penetrate your ears.
Starting at the end of 2016, CNCS has attended numerous music events across Taiwan and overseas, including Asia Rolling Music Festival, LongHuMen, Simple Life Music Festival and many other live house performances.
Following their positive reviews from the critics, such as the first single 'Camel Toe' from Spinnin' Records, their first album "Beat Maker" debuted on 25th July, 2019. The album gained the group's first success- winning "Best Vocal Group" from the 31st Golden Melody Awards and nomination of "Best Album of the Year" and "Best Electronic Album" by Goldin Indie Melody Awards 2021.
UZA&SHANE
UZA&SHANE debuted in December 2017 with their EP ""UZA&SHANE"". They are an electronic singer-producer duo, performing in various platforms throughout Asia's cultural capital, Seoul.
UZA&SHANE present their own unique music that spans genres such as Synth pop, House and Electronica. They are a team which is widely known for their songwriting skills and vibrant performances that throwback to the days of Synth Pop.
They have a soft but strong beat, a rich synthesizer sound, and they top it off with a sensuous melody. UZA&SHANE create with two sharply different producers. UZA brings the dreamy emotions and Shane comes in with a sensibility based on house & pop music.
They create music that flows perfectly together. Their musical strengths intertwine with each other. Their lyrics contain metaphors on the movements of positive instruments. The music that they create, keeps their audiences intrigued throughout. This is the charm of UZA&SHANE.
JADE
JADE, a two-man band from Taiwan, formed in 2018. With their sophisticated music style and strong musical personality, JADE was nominated for "Best New Artist" and "Best Musical Group" at the 30th Golden Melody Awards 2019 for their debut album "NEMO". Being one of the few two-man bands in Taiwan, JADE's distinguished stage presence and their professional music production, make them impossible to be classified into any music genre. In fact JADE is about to create a new music genre of their own.
While the audience is immersed in their breathtaking stage performances, JADE will keep on inspire and excite as many people as possible with their creativity and passion.
Beny Esguerra and New Tradition Music
Beny Esguerra and New Tradition Music fuses bilingual socially-conscious spoken word, beatboxing, Indigenous kuisi bunsi flute (aka Colombian gaita), turntablism, and Bronx-style 70s salsa, alongside Afro-Cuban and Colombian secular and religious drumming.
Led by Juno-nominated multi-instrumentalist, educator and activist Beny Esguerra, New Tradition Music delivers an interactive multidisciplinary performance which fuses ancient and contemporary instruments and incorporates dance, live painting and hip hop to explore themes of justice, environmental healing and respect for ancestors and land treaties.
Northside Kuisi, the group's third LP is a carefully-woven song cycle of 12 compositions chronicling an archeological dig in the distant future where traditional instruments from North and South America, alongside a vinyl disc containing encrypted information from the year 2021 are unearthed.
OSN
OSN, a rapper from Taipei.
OSN went to the U.S. for college after high school, but the unfamiliar environment and lack of friends made this the loneliest time of OSN’s life. He expressed himself through song-writing during that time and it became the start of his foray into music. By the end of 2018, OSN started dropping songs online sporadically which generated buzz and garnered a reputation for the young rapper.
In 2019, OSN dropped his first album, "#osnrap", and created a shock wave across the Chinese-language music scene. It became an instant hit and could be found playing in all the streets and shops of Taiwan. His smooth rap and catchy verses propelled his album to unexpected heights and OSN became a major player in the Chinese-language music scene.
"#osnrap" won the Best New Asian Artist Mandarin Award at the 2019 Mnet Asian Music Awards, 2019 Spotify Album of the Year, 17th Hito Best New Artist Award, and 15th KKBOX Top 10 Hot Singers of the Year. The album was also nominated for the Best Hip Hop Album at the 10th Golden Indie Music Awards and secured OSN a nomination as Best New Artist at the 31st GMAs. The catchiest hit, “Without You”, took the Chinese-language music scene by storm. The song has stayed on top of the daily list of most-streamed Chinese-language songs on KKBOX for over five months and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 31st Golden Melody Awards.