SIXX is launching their new single Supersonic at Tweet Jams – a Social Media Week event – on 16 February 2012, and SYNDICATE will be supporting them at the party.

Darren Dubwise will be on deck duties to warm up the evening, while Brandon Tay will be remixing original SIXX album artwork into his visual showcase. Art crew Hit & Run will also be live screen-printing on-site with limited edition artwork from Kiat, Eric Foenander, Kristal Melon and SIXX.

In line with Social Media Week, SIXX will be debuting an additional new track using a selection of tweets crowdsourced from fans and friends via the hashtag #tweetjams.

Entry is free and complimentary cocktails from Smirnoff will be served. Head over to www.socialmediaweek.org/singapore to register and learn more about Social Media Week.

Thursday 16 February 2012
8PM – 11PM
Lucky 13, #01-02 TripleOne Somerset

After traveling to various corners of the world and playing to a sold-out show at the Esplanade few months back, we celebrate our anniversary where it all began 2 years ago: Home Club.

With the club as a canvas, resident visual artist Brandon Tay, collaborates with internationally acclaimed design collective, Phunk Studio, to transform the space into a visual playground.

The traditional SYNDICATE visual wall will be filled with collaborative content from the 2 artists as they reinterpret, remix and revisualize each other’s work. A special installation that charts out the SYNDICATE journey so far will also be unveiled to commemorate the anniversary. There is a third surprise piece which they have been working on and are tight-lipped about. You’ll just have to be there to find out more.

Music is not taking a back seat as the line-up features both seasoned players and fresh names from the local scene. The luminaries which need no introduction are Funk Bast*rd, MC Masterpiece and KoFlow with a special live set. It will also be a homecoming gig for Singapore’s own bass general, Vortex, who has been away for sometime. Kiat represents the SYNDICATE stable with his staple beats and bass.

Meanwhile, making their SYNDICATE debut will be Diphasic, who was featured in the first ever Beat Invitational, and recent FFF Girl DJ Bootcamp graduate, Saigon Kat.

Proving that Singapore still has an inexhaustible list of budding bedroom producers, the fifth Beat Invitational is set to unearth another round of beatific gems. Butterfly Imprint, ILOH:SHIX, LoopTape, The Architek and Darren Dubwise will be unleashing works that cut across all genres.

Event details are after the cut. See you this Saturday!

SYNDICATE: The Second Anniversary

Phunk Studio x Brandon Tay
Koflow (live)
MC Masterpiece (live)
Diphasic (live)
Funk Bast*rd
Saigon Kat
Vortex
Kiat

The Beat Invitational Showcase hosted by Rozak MC

Butterfly Imprint
ILOH:SHIX
LoopTape
The Architek
Darren Dubwise

Event Details

4 February 2012, Saturday
10PM – 4AM
Home Club, 20 Upp Circular Road, The Riverwalk, Singapore
$15 (with 1 drink)

In conjunction with Mosaic Music Festival 2012, the Esplanade will be running a series of Mosaic Music Maker workshops designed for beginners or music enthusiasts!

Kiat and Max Lane will be running a workshop called Beats ‘n’ Bleeps: Digital Beats Production for Absolute Beginners.

During the 2-hour session, you will learn about the brief history and different styles of electronic music production techniques such as beatmaking looping, and get a chance to make a simple digital beats sequence from scratch.

Workshop Details

25 February 2012, Saturday
3:30pm and 6pm
Esplanade Rehearsal Studio
$20 – purchase your tickets for Beats ‘n’ Bleeps with Kiat and Max Lane via SISTIC

Check out other Mosaic Music Makers workshops by seasoned local musicians!

Come 13 January 2012, SKREAM & BENGA – two-thirds of electronic supergroup Magnetic Man, dubstep pioneers and kingpins of the UK bass scene – will make their debut performance in Singapore at ZIRCA.

Individually, the duo have both enjoyed incredible success. Benga & Coki’s ‘Night’ was undeniably the first dubstep ‘anthem’ and Skream’s remix of La Roux’s ‘In For The Kill’ has become one of the tracks of the decade – earning a 2011 Grammy nomination for ‘Best Dance Record’ and earning Skream a platinum disc for sales of over half a million copies. The track was also featured prominently in top US TV show ‘Entourage’.

Joining the spectacle of this landmark night are two of Singapore’s forward individuals representing the subliminal collective SYNDICATE – local bass purveyor KIAT and visual stalwart BRANDON TAY on live visuals.

Event Details:

13 January 2012, Friday
Zirca, Block 3C The Cannery, River Valley Road, Clarke Quay, #01-02 to 05 & #02-01 to 08
Before 11pm – $20 (incl 2 drinks)
After 11pm – $32 (incl 2 drinks)

RSVP for SKREAM & BENGA “Live” at Zirca on Facebook

It’s Christmas! And we’re giving away 1 x SPECIAL SYNDICATE 2012 ALL GIG PASS to one winner.

Yes, this special gig pass puts you on our personal guestlist for ALL our gigs next year, from Home Club to special audio-visual concert sessions to international gigs (flights/accommodation/personal expenses on your own).

To score this sweet prize, here’s what you’ll have to do:

1. Watch the video and look out for this glyph
2. Take a screen capture or photo of the video
3. Circle/point out the area where the glyph appears
4. Email the image to info@syndicate.sg

Entries close 25 December 2011 at 23:59:59.

Good luck!
Merry Xmas from the SYNDICATE crew.

Special Thanks To Simon Harsent for the photography and Blue Daisy for the track The End.

At the request of graphic design guru Neville Brody, artiste Ben Eine had done a piece called ANTI ANTI ANTI on the opposite wall of Mother London’s office. Mother liked the piece so much that they asked Ben to paint on their side of the alley wall and PRO PRO PRO was made.

We found out from Jacob, our friend in Mother, that this piece will actually be painted over soon. So while in London after our Worldwide Festival Sète 2011 performance, we decided to do a little projection bomb on it, under the drizzly London weather in the middle of the night, just for fun…much to the interest of random passing cars with booming systems.

Special Thanks to Mother UK (especially the very helpful studio man who helped us print our gig poster and the runner with the ladder on this rainy sunday night) as well as Jacob Wright and Supashen for their assistance and good vibes!

We wrap the year at Home Club with Blue Daisy for our final installment for 2011.

Kwesi Darko aka Blue Daisy has been a name fluttering about for a while. Finding his first breakthrough via bass heroine, Mary-Anne Hobbs, his music influences stem from everything such as hip hop to gospel, grime to dubstep, psyche rock to drone and many more. This wide spectrum of sounds can be heard in his recent debut LP release “The Sunday Gift”.

Residents Max Lane, Darren Dubwise and Trytoplay will keep the SYNDICATE program going with Kiat presenting a special live set with the collective’s songstress, Vandetta. The fourth Beat Invitational is also set to unearth more musical nuggets and gems all freshly made in Singapore with special guests from across the border.

Check event details after the jump.

Home Club presents SYNDICATE: World Without Humanity feat Blue Daisy

Blue Daisy (Black Acre, UK)
Max Lane
Kiat ft Vandetta
Trytoplay
Darren Dubwise

Visuals by Brandon Tay

The Beat Invitational Showcase hosted by Trytoplay

Rough
ETA
denjïnhadokèn
Pradana
Mushroom Buttons
Cherry Chan

Event Details

3 December 2011, Saturday
10PM – 4AM
Home Club, 20 Upp Circular Road, The Riverwalk, Singapore
$15 admission with 1 drink

Fresh from our visual vault for SYNDICATE SESSIONS at The Esplanade tomorrow! Buy your tickets online from Sistic today!