Singapore's wonderful annual indie music gathering: Baybeat's Feastival, is just around the corner.  WIth a whole host of new additions to this year's event, it is all set to be bigger and better than ever.  Amy Ho, producer of Baybeats let us in on some of the highlights to look out for this year, and some of the ins and outs of organising a festival. 

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Hong Kong's Snoblind have been making a name for themselves with their rock meets hip hop brand of electronica.  They've found an adopted musical home in Taiwan, gone record digging with DJ Shadow, and what's more, they're currently the most popular artists on AMP.  Let's learn a little more about Snoblind shall we?

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Multi-award winning, Malaysian metal kings Estranged, gave us the heads up on their favourite songs and artists on AMP.  Rock on.

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Winner of the Brunei Idol show in 2005, Zul F has continued to grow and develop as an artist in his own right.  He has appeared in the country's first international film 'Lihat Nada', won numerous awards and even performed for His Majesty The King during his 60th Birthday celebrations.  With the regional release of his debut album planned, he tells us how his parent's divorce helped give him the desire to succeed, his love for his fans, and his penchant for singing in the shower.

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Where does one begin with Dan F?  Veritable magician in the studio, working with everyone from U.N.K.L.E to Meat Katie to Lee Burridge to The Regurgitator, his artist/producer hat is just one of many classy chapeaus.  Label boss of dance imprint Disuye Records, founding partner of  Supermodified (Asia's premier DJ agency) and yep he also owns and runs Yumla - the legendary HK bar which has become the leading light of the local urban and electronic scene.  So basically we have no idea where to start with Dan F, though since this is AMP and we are music, we thought we'd find out more about his own personal music tastes...

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Hard rockers Queso are one of the highlights of this year's Summerslam in Manila.  We caught up with singer Ian Tanyao, to find out more about this multi-award winning seven piece.

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DJ J-Stylz, Sakthy, Ram-Z and Shahrayar are collectively better known as Phatnatrix - A hip hop crew based in Singapore.  Rapping in Malay as, well, that's their mother tongue, Phatnatrix are bringing an original Asian sound to the masses.  We Soundchecked the crew to find out more about their musical tastes...

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Electrico's keyboard player extrodinaire, Amanda, fills us in on her favourite music on AMP.

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Sandwich are: singer Raymond, bassist Myrene, guitarists Diego and Mong and drummer Mike.  Signed to EMI Philippines, the group already have four albums to their name, with a fifth being penned as we speak.  As the heat really starts to beat down on us all over Asia, the group's new single Sunburn looks to be the sure fire feel-good hit of the summer.  We donned our swimming trunks, and got to know the members of the band that much better...

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Alternative power popsters Electrico are the epitome of catchy indie guitar rock.  We caught up with singer/guitarist David Tan and bassist Desmond Goh to find out about their own personal music tastes.

 

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