The Venopian Solitude is a band from Selangor, Malaysia. Formed in middle 2009 by the founder Suiko Takahara (pseudonym), she has been producing and uploading over 150 songs on now-defunct thesixtyone page, followed by Bandcamp and Youtube. After signing to Kasi Gegar Entertainment(KGE) between 2013-2016, the one-woman line up expanded into a full-fledged band.
During their time with KGE, The Venopian Solitude released an 8-songed album, titled ‘Hikayat Perawan Majnun’(Tales of a Lunatic Damsel), in March 2014, which was nominated for three categories in the prestigious music awards in Malaysia, Anugerah Industri Muzik 2014(Best Engineered Album, Best Arrangement in Song, Best Music Video), and two of its members won Best Hip-Hop Song for the song 'Janji' with Altimet for AIM 2016(Kemat as the composer, Suiko as the singer and co-lyricist).
The Venopian Solitude has performed in various places domestically and internationally, having toured Malaysia and performed in Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, the Netherlands and Canada. They had a European Tour in 2018, named #TVStoEURO, where they toured 6 countries and performed 7 shows, and played festivals such as Sónar Barcelona as well as Fusion Festival in Germany. In 2018, three of their songs were featured in the Netflix documentary Shirkers, which garnered rave reviews from international press as well as was shortlisted for the 91st Oscars Documentary Feature category.
The band came in first place in the 2015 Spring Wave Competition, and was also nominated for Best Musical Group at the 29th Golden Melody Award! The band consists of five members: vocal – Benji Cheng, guitar – A-Ray Chen, guitar – Alan Huang, bass – Joe Lo, and drums – Roy Lin. Their songs are made for road trips; holding our heads up high, with the wind at our back, and the road stretches as far as the eye can see.
As one of the few bands playing in the original American rock style; their music exudes a sense of wild masculinity, while their fans are mesmerized by their radiating stage presence. The band got together in their student years, with Benji handling the vocal, A-Ray and Alan guitars, Joe at bass, and Roy at drums. Growing up together, the boys always had unexpected last-minute funny pranks on the stage. But the humor only adds to their charm. Bringing the true rebel spirit of Rock music to the stage, the band is a much anticipated rising star in Taiwan’s music scene.
Sang Mei-Chuan is of Paiwan origin, from Cavak tribe in Sandimen Townshio of Pingtung Country, Taiwan. Her tribal name, Seredew, was given to her by her mother, which means 'infection'.
This is the unique culture in Paiwan traditional songs and poetry.
As Mei-Chuan states: ‘Music is of great importance to the Taiwan Indigenous Peoples, especially to the Paiwan tribe, who love to sing. Music and songs not only record our daily lifestyles and express emotions, but also record our histories, beliefs and cultural identity. Tribal Music/ Songs are like “Roots” that absorb the nutrients from the Land in Taiwan, for those indigenous groups that do not have writing systems, music and songs are one of the most important mediums in passing down their cultural identity.”
She released a studio album in an effort to preserve ancient Paiwan tunes, album Infection, in 2018, winning the 29th Golden Melody award for Best Aboriginal Singer.
Getsunova the hottest and unique band from Thailand. Their first single “How far is near” won over one hundred million views on Youtube which was the first music video that reached over two hundred million views in Thailand and now their whole songs gained over thousand million views on Youtube.
Getsunova always nominates the most popular song award and the most popular band award from almost every music awards in Thailand and also among Asia, including 2016 Best Asian Artist award from Mnet Asian Music Award.
With the uniqueness character in lyric and confliction in song names keep their fan look forward for their new song and their next move.
Always places homeland over romance, and music over sustenance.
[The band] loves to sarcastically explore the freedom afford them by words and muse about things that seem to be yet not really there.
There’s really nothing that bad about life.
At least we’re still alive, and we still have music.
Established on 2012 in Taipei, the band released their first album “Cartoon Character” in July 2017, and won Best Album in Taiwanese and Best New Artist categories at the 29th Golden Melody Awards in 2018, while also nominated for Best Musical Group and Album of the Year categories.
EggPlantEgg was disbanded but relaunched in 2014 after some major changes. The band now consists of a three-member crew; Ng KiPan serve as vocal and keyboard player, Tsai Kai-jen and Ader Hsieh serving as backing vocals and guitarists. The band was never able agree on what styles they conform to. From Classic Rock, Blues, Fusion interlaced with street karaoke and popular classics, the band’s intention to create their own popular classic is quite clear. Conquering the audience with their work, the band vowed not to stop until the power and joy of their music flows through the veins of their audiences.
Since releasing the Music Video of ‘Back Here Again’ from their first 2017 album Cartoon Characters on YouTube, the video has received more than 60 million clicks.
The band released a new single ‘Waves Wandering’ in 2018, and its music video on YouTube received more than 30 million clicks in less than 6 months; the concurrent concert tour “Thinking of You on that Night” to be held in northern, middle, southern Taiwan and 9 other Chinese cities, as well as Southeast Asia have all sold out.
Taiwanese singer-songwriter Paige Su makes music that could only come from her. In Lieu of strumming a guitar, Paige’s instrument of choice is the electric harp, which she augments with effects pedals over a backdrop of her band’s intricate grooves, loops, and ambient textures. Her music, which features lyrics in both Mandarin and English, ranges in style from dreamy Björk-like tapestries to fuzz-laden riffs and electro-rock beats a la St.Vincent.
From a young age, Paige was a classical flautist and a pianist. Later, after a brief stint as a jazz singer, she realized that she had a lot more to say through her original music. A constantly-evolving artist, Paige’s songs show the influence of her extensive classical music training, as well as her love of everything from jazz to rock and EDM. Even elements of gamelan and Carnatic music show through in her songwriting, as a result of several musical sojourns to Indonesia and South India over the years.
A truly 21st-century artist, Paige Su conjures a musical realm that is unlike anything else you’ve heard before.
Born in 1991, Ann began learning to play piano when she was 6. Since her 13, she started to write songs and had it posted at streetvoice website which received big praise from the internet. At the age of 17, she performed at “Simple Life” festival and truly attracted many audiences to her voice like a virtual magnet. In 2012, she released the first album “Catcher in the Rye” which is a collection of her original work. The modern pop/rock style and the unique tone of her voice made the album receiving favorable reviews and quickly peaked at No 1 on many billboards. She was also nominated for Best New Artist for the 24th Golden Melody Awards. The music video of “What brings me to you” was amazingly viewed over 110 million times on YouTube. Released In 2014, her second album “What’s next” mixed with the folk and electronic tones and got very positive feedbacks. Her third album “1990s” was released in 2018, and continued to succeed and remain very popular in the market.
Ame no Parade is Kohei Fukunaga on lead vocal, Kosuke Yamasaki on guitar and synthesizer, and Mineho Osawa on drums. Formed in 2013, the band has been greatly influenced by modern electronic pop music ranging from indie R&B and electro-house to ambient and trap. It therefore comes as no surprise that they are not reluctant to use tools such as synthesizer and drum machine when expressing themselves through music and performing live as a band.
Their new single “Ahead Ahead”, co-produced by Koichi Tsutaya of Agehasprings, to launch this April is a big African-beat driven, dance-and-sing-along, feel-positive anthem that sings about the need to face new challenges without fear of failure or change in order to achieve one’s dream. It is very much a reflection of how dynamically Ame no Parade is evolving in their new three-piece formation.
Royal Prospect is an international rock band formed in Sweden Their unique bond and inherent talent for writing their own music brought them into the global spotlight by winning the Swedish competition of Emergenza which is the world’s leading festival for unsigned bands. The success at Emergenza led them to Croatia’s biggest international festival INmusic where they played a set between the bands Of Monsters and Men and Placebo. They were officially discovered at Scandinavia's biggest showcase festival Live at Heart and were signed on the spot to Rehn Music Group for the Scandinavian territory. Live at Heart lead to festivals like Mondo Festival in NYC, Canadian Music Week in Toronto, YouBloom in Dublin, TIMM in Tokyo and as an opening act for Usher. Their musical empire is continually expanding and this year includes playing at the world’s largest festival, Summerfest in Milwaukee.
Amuyi (Lu-Chiang) , born in 1994, Atayal aboriginal female singer. She had started performing R&B songs in the choir with her family as she was a kid, and she was deeply influenced by singers like Adele, Beyoncé, and Joss Stone. Indeed, this had led her to her journey on the musical path.
Amuyi discovered by music producer when she participated and won the third place in the local singing contest. This opportunity is making Amuyi released “We Do not Talk” album by indie label and nominated by 2013 Golden Music Award for the Best New Artist when she was only 18.
In 2017,After college graduation , Amuyi joined Avex Taiwan and started the professional singer training , Her first major label album “O_LOVE” released in Oct 2017, and the 1st Single ‘Passing-By’ music video reached 1 million Views on YouTube only in 3weeks also whole album had 3singles reach over 1 million views on YouTube and 4 singles reached the top 10 of the daily chart on Taiwan digital music platform. Amuyi nominated of Best Female Singer in 2018 “29th Golden Melody Awards” by this album, after this music ceremony, she immediately release her latest album “Dear Myself” in Nov 2018, and the hit Single ‘Do You Know What I Mean’ music video reached over 1.75 million Views on YouTube until now, and highly impressed from both media and audience also score her highest chart position NO.3 on Taiwan digital music platform. Amuyi has already become the next coming up Taiwanese “Pop Diva” in Mandarin World.
At the age of 24, she will prove that she have a bright future of music with her performance. This star is glowing and ready. Amuyi will deliver the greatest performance in the future.
“Let’s do a series songs that play on the party”
Flux is established in 2012 by lead vocal Qin Zhong, guitarist Ader and Andrew. They published their first EP ”Too Young To Die” in 2014. In 2016, they published their first album “Pluralism” ,immediately caught everyone eyes and nominated the Best Artist and the Best Musical Group by Golden Melody Award which is the biggest award of Taiwan and also nominated the Best Electronic Album by Golden indie Music Award.
Flux is a name with a meaning of flowing, indicating all the elements of their music. Flux combine the electronic dance music with rock music to make the audience addict to their “Party” smoothie electronic grooving and play their music as your own dance pool.
“Dance lively and light up the party time. The Flux’s electronic dance music is going to take you to the party wonderland.” By Apple Music
RICO is a R&B singer based on Slow-jam, extending the spectrum with his shining voice. He released his 1st studio album “The Slow Tape” in 2015. This highly acclaimed album got some reviews mentioning RICO's deep understanding of slow-jam, his successful works depicting sultry moments. The Slow Tape” was nominated as 'The Best R&B/Soul Album and Song of the Year' on the 13th Korean Music Award (KMA).
His highly acclaimed 2nd studio album “WHITE LIGHT PANORAMA” (2017) won 'The Best R&B/Soul Song of the Year' on the 15th KMA with ‘Paradise’. In this album, every tracks are shining differently like panorama without separation of genres, so RICO extended his spectrum successfully.
Astro Bunny is an electronic band formed by former Taiwanese Pop Rock band Cherry Boom vocal Lena Cha and Zayin guitarist Nu. Their unique style was formed with the songs’ pristine and clear electronic tempos, alongside lyrics that were close to our hearts. Combining popular electronic styles such as techno, tropical house, future bass, electro house, EDM with beautiful mandarin lyrics, Astro Bunny managed to create a contemporary Chinese-language electronic offering.
Astro Bunny excels in fusing the sounds from synthesizers with expressive lyrics and explosive visuals, and in the cold and crisp sounds that is electronic music, convey a degree of emotional expression; cataloguing the dreams and memories of real life, as well as the inevitable emotional conflict and dilemma, resonating with the ups and downs of everyone’s life experience.
Astro Bunny was nominated for Best Vocal Collaboration in two consecutive Golden Melody Awards with their albums “Loneliness Will Be Over, Away And Gone”, and “Loneliness, Sadness and a Thank You”. Three concerts for their latest album “On the Edge of the Universe”, each consisting of more than a thousand seats, have already been sold out. Such a great record has led to the band been labeled by many as the new king of Asian soothing-electronic music.
Ginjin is representing the coldest capital city in the world - Ulaanbaatar. Together with his group LOI4IXCOH consisting of Ginjin, Lil Thug-E and FLA are pioneering Mongolian Trap music. This group is also known as the Mongolian Migos. Mongolian public started to get to know Ginjin after the release of ‘Ugzug Saihan Bol Zus Saihan’ which could be translated as “as long as the ass is good everything is fine“. The song quickly became the summer anthem of Mongolia and reached over 3 million views in a country with a population of 3 million. This hit was recorded in Kaohsiung, Taiwan a place where Ginjin spend four years to get to know the Chinese Culture and preparing to take over the Mongolian rap scene.
In 2018 Ginjin released multiple Trap singles such as ‘Baiji’, ‘Pretty Girls like Trap Music’, ‘Some Trap Niggaz’ ,‘ Unuudur’and gained the title of Trap King in Mongolia. As part of LOITOUR with LOI4IXCOH they toured Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China as well as headlined the biggest hip hop festival XMF in Mongolia where they performed infront of 40 000 people. Ginjin is able to rap in different flows in both Mongolian and English language. His music is a mix of American Trap music with Asian Elements.
In early 2019 he released two singles ‘Ganbei’, meaning “cheers„ in Mandarin Chinese and ‘Arasso’ meaning Alright? or Understand? in Korean. The first mentioned was featured on the worldfamous youtube channel FCKTHEM alongside popular American artists like 6ix9ine, Gucci Mane, Trippie Red and French Montana. Ganbei is listed in the Asia playlist, which aims to promote new wave artist from Asia region. As you can see Ginjin follows latest fashion and music trends and therefore acts as a role model for the Mongolian youth. One interesting fact for the end is that his first tattoos was a burger, which caught Burger Kings attention and made him star in a Burger King 2015 Brazil commercial. Parts of the shooting took part in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and in Rio de Janeiro. So if you are curious how Mongolian Trap music sounds like check out Ginjin on YouTube.
LEO37 + SOSS came about from an impromptu jam at a random Taipei rehearsal space in 2014. Hailing from Taiwan, Canada and Brazil respectively, and having all been raised on different influences (Hip-Hop, Jazz, Funk, Soul, Reggae, Metal, Punk, Classical, etc.), there was never any initial intention to put out a record. They just knew they were all serious about their crafts and enjoyed playing together.
