For a while now, rock groups Astreal, Tiramisu and The Great Spy Experiment, and DJs Akien and Debbie Chia, have been wooing music lovers with good and loud music. We grabbed these Motorola Street Style Awards 2006’s music nominees for a quick banter and give you the lowdown on these acts.
Astreal
What’s the one song that says everything about your band?
Ginette Chittick: It would probably be “This is Dormant.” It’s got its quiet bits and its sonic assault, and that’s the epitome of our sound.
Who are your current music heroes?
Chittick: Enon, Cansei de ser Sexy, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Editors and Curve.
What is your secret weapon to winning the Motorola Street Style Awards?
Chittick: Good shows and an original sound!
Complete the sentence. “A good song is like…”
Chittick: Beautiful afternoons that never end.
Debbie Chia
What’s the one song that says everything about your band?
There isn’t one that exists currently. But I will make a song that says everything about me!
Who are your current music heroes?
DJ Soulja, Alex Smoke and Kerri Chandler.
What is your secret weapon to winning the Motorola Street Style Awards?
Putting my cards on the table.
Complete the sentence. “A good song is like…”
A living entity.
Tiramisu
What’s the one song that says everything about your band?
Rizman Putra: “Mr Fantesticles.” The song is about a man who loves to carry balls with his bare hands and feels proud of it at the same time.
Who are your current music heroes?
Putra: Stephanie Sun, Kit Chan, Dick Lee, Tanya Chua, Dreamz FM, Hardy Mirza and Rui En.
What is your secret weapon to winning the Motorola Street Style Awards?
Putra: Vote for yourself, just meddle around with different IP addresses, and you can get as many votes as you want!
Complete the sentence. “A good song is like…”
Putra: Doing the “running man” in reverse and giving yourself a sudden gyration from out of nowhere.
Akien
What’s the one song that says everything about your band?
Aldrin and Akien’s “Dig This (Original/Regrooved Mix).” It’s a big room sounding track and the vocal line is “I wanna see how you all dig this in.” This is precisely how I want to express my music.
Who are your current music heroes?
They are Trentemoller, BT, D Ramirez, Switch and not forgetting, our homegrown talent Electrico.
What is your secret weapon to winning the Motorola Street Style Awards?
Working hard and following my motto, which is, “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can also achieve.”
Complete the sentence. “A good song is like…”
A journey through life that has been compressed into a short span of time.
The Great Spy Experiment
What’s the one song that says everything about your band?
Fandy Razak: It would be “Dance With Me” because that’s exactly what we want to do to people. We want to make them dance like they’ve never danced before when they are at our gigs.
Saiful Idris: Errr.. On a personal note, “Late Night Request.”
Who are your current music heroes?
Razak: We are Scientists, Stellastar* and The Cure.
Khairyl Hashim: All hardworking musicians in the future, past and present.
Magdalene Han: Goldfrapp, Ladytron and Peaches, to name a few.
Song: Duran Duran, New Order, Depeche Mode and Camouflage. Yes, I’m on a ’80s synth-pop trip. Don’t you judge me now!
Idris: Chuck Schuldiner.
What is your secret weapon to winning the Motorola Street Style Awards?
Idris: Having computer expert friends.
Han: The only thing I can reveal is that we are true believers.
Song: The sexy bassist.
Complete the sentence. “A good song is like…”
Han: Recreating a bygone era. The song that the next few generations will play or remix and it will still get everyone dancing.
Razak: Good sex.
