new mixtape again! it’s one of my personal favourites. check out this article about betty harris - the only artist i’ve featured twice across all my mixtapes so far. she’s dynamite.

i’ve also added a few more photos and pet projects my portfolio. planning for a more complete overhaul soon…

judith seng

“Objects covered in wax, freezing usage and time, merging matter and surface.”

i am a huge fan of yosuke yamaguchi and i especially love the calligraphy of「森へ」on this album cover. the strokes remind me of twists and knots in the trees of the forest. maybe i will start writing my last name like that. i seldom write my chinese name, and it’s a shame that i don’t. 2012 shall be the start of this habit.

this year, i also vowed to pursue more ongoing personal projects, so as promised: one is in the works, one is in idea development stage, and one is already out! i’m really excited about this collaboration with brian. it’s something we’ve been doing for a while now – sending music back and forth to each other – but it feels great to present something in a concrete format.

hong kong by ward roberts

What is at issue is how an image of Hong Kong’s architecture and urban space is used to support a narrative that implicity attributes the colony’s success to the smooth combination of British administration and Chinese entrepreneurship. Such a narrative also mobilizes ethnic and psychologistic assumptions that cannot bear scrutiny: the dogma that Hong Kong people are by nature hardworking, that they have a high tolerance for crowded living conditions by genetic design, that they will do anything for money. Peeping out from under this narrative is a master discourse that, seeing only its own mirror reflections, inscribes the primacy of the economic everywhere in the most literal-minded fashion. This is a discourse that elsewhere I have called decadent. This discourse manages to make a complex space disappear into a one-dimensional image, structured on a facile binarism. Such a binarism not only tends to domesticate differences and restabilize change; it also avoids the spatial issues, to give us only a copulation of clichés.

Ackbar Abbas