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HONG KONG–Hello and welcome from a phone line at the Deli Lamma! Contact here via internet is sketchy, but my mobile is happening at +852-9174-4096. Today’s Mental Note: don’t trust using your air miles to get somewhere fast. Luckily my overtaxed NAB credit card came forth with a badly-needed AU$250, or Taipei wouldn’t see me again for a while :( Still set for Wedn night at Peso, pending the visa dance. Grrr.

TAIPEI–A new staff in the bar, a nice new vibe. Peso playlists for the previous two Fridays follow. Hectic week juggling multilingual website for PaceBlade. The foundations are down, but it’s still a little AOL-fat-fingered for my liking. Aliang’s Huashan bar opens next Friday July 19.

Peso playlist Friday July 12, 2002

Grandaddy – So You’ll Aim Toward the Sky

Morcheeba – Dead Calm

St Germain – Sure Thing (Todd Edwards mix)

Red Snapper – Crusoe Takes a Trip

Gorillaz – Re-Hash

Blur – Bad Day

Yo La Tengo – Cherry Chapstick

Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup

That Dog – Minneapolis

Catatonia – You’ve Got a Lot to Answer For

Propellorheads – Take California

Transglobal Underground – Temple Head

St Germain – So Flute

Nicolette – No Government

Sounds of the Underground – Track 14

Groove Armada – Superstylin

Basement Jaxx – Samba Magic

Adorable – Homeboy

Teenage Fanclub – Take the Long Way Round

Ride – Twisterella

Jebediah – Benedict

Regurgitator – Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am

Shonen Knife – On Top of the World

Nina Gordon – Number One Camera

Sticky Rice – A Lu Ba

Beastie Boys – Bodhisattva Vow

Primal Scream – Jailbird (Dust Bros mix)

Kylie – Can’t Get You Out of My Head

[These next two perfect tempo]

Blur – Girls and Boys

Ladytron – Discotraxx

Stereolab – Lo Boob Oscillator

Swervedriver – Duel

The Stone Roses – I Am the Resurrection

Air – Kelly Watch the Stars

Pizzicato 5 – Track 5 from TYO

Astrid Gilberto – Goodbye Sadness

Sheena Ringo – Track 3

Chen Ming-chang – The One I’m Missing

Super Furry Animals – Ymaelodi A’r Ymylon

Yatsura – First Day on a Brand New Planet

Nirvana – Breed

Bentley Rhythm Ace – On Her Majesty’s Secret Whistle

Death in Vegas – Rocco (dub)

Keira’s Compilation – Track 8

Keira’s Compilation – Track 2

Bjork – The Hunter

Lush and Jarvis Cocker – Ciao!

Pulp – Do You Remember the First Time?

Turn On – Ru Tenone

Smudge – Divan

Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb (mixed with a latter track of Leftfield, it was palettable. A request. Eek!)

Coldplay – Yellow

Grant Lee Buffalo – We’ve Only Just Begun

[Friday night’s police raid. Ho hum. This time the new bar staff were chill that I just finished for the night. Fine by me – had friends in the bar heh heh.]

Peso playlist Friday July 5, 2002

Coldplay – Yellow

Teenage Fanclub – I Can’t Find My Way Home

Ride – Leave Them All Behind

The Charlatans – I Never Want an Easy Life If Me and He Were Ever to Get There

Turn On – Ru Tenone

Sheena Ringo – Track 1

Basement Jaxx – Samba Magic

Primal Scream – Jailbird (Dust Bros mix. Soon changed their name to Chemical Bros. But you knew that)

Handsome Boy Modeling School – Metaphysical

Sticky Rice – Disco Night

Kylie – Come Into My World

Blur – Boys and Girls

The Pastels – Nothing to Be Done

The Lemonheads – Confetti

Yatsura – First Day on a Brand New Planet

That Dog – He’s Kissing Christian

Faye Wong – Track 1

Sounds of the Underground – Track 1

A whole bunch of shit that sorta fell apart!

Primal Scream – Swastika Eyes (David Holmes mix)

Ladytron – Playgirl

Clinic – Second Foot Stomp

Elastica – Line Up

Capital City – Jackhammer Swing

Boss Hog – Wynn Coma

The Pixies – Alec Eiffel

Fugazi – Do You Like Me?

Primal Scream (AGAIN! Fuck, have I run out of ideas or what?!) – Trip Inside This House

Midfield General – Devil in Sports Casual

Kid Koala and Money Mark – Carpel Tunnel Syndrome

Bassbin Twins – Vol 1 Side 2 Track 2

And more from the Fatboy Slim Big Beat Boutique CD, cigarette run across the road, then…

Propellorheads – Echo and Bounce

Leftfield – Phat Planet

Pizzicato 5 – It’s a Beautiful Day

[Police raid! Yadda yadda.. Crippled Dick Hot Wax label to the rescue!]

Swervedriver – Duel

Regurgitator – Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am

Spiderbait – Buy Me a Pony

Weezer – Tired of Sex

Super Furry Animals – Ymaelodi A’r Ymylon

Altered Images – Happy Birthday

Stone Roses – Fools Gold

My Bloody Valentine – Soon (Andy Weatherall mix. Which I read this week is as rare as hell and one of the 10 most vital singles to own)

Stereolab – Analogue Rock

Chen Ming-chang – The One I’m Missing

Kings of Convenience – Toxic Girl

Smoke City – Mr Gorgeous

Sticky Rice – Paris Strawberry

Pizzicato 5 – The Earth Goes Round

Baaba Maal – I Will Follow You

Sheena Ringo – Track 3

Stereolab – Lo Boob Oscillator

St Germain – Rose Rouge (Spiller mix)

Beastie Boys – Hey Ladies

The Herbaliser – It’s Just For You

Morcheeba – Trigger Hippy (Diabolical Bros mix)

Polvo – Fast Canoe

Deus – Instant Street

The Pixies – Nimrod’s Son

Weezer – Don’t Let Go

The Divine Comedy – Tonight We Fly

Outside – To Forgive But Not Forget

Faye Wong – Track 13

Herbert – Track 14

Regurgitator – Kung Foo Sing [By request!]

Butthole Surfers – The Annoying Song

Sticky Rice – A Lu Ba

Suicidal Tendencies – Institutionalized

Nirvana – Breed

Smashing Pumpkins – Quiet

Sheena Ringo – Track 7

Archers of Loaf – Harnessed in Slums (Live)

The Pixies – Jose Jones ;) (Live)

Grandaddy – So You’ll Aim Toward the Sky

[Home!]

TAIPEI–Sheesh, it’s July! The following is a story penned by David about the Huashan incident, bunch of blown-up media sensationalism baloney that it was. Me? Well, back into int’l site development, this time with Germany for PaceBlade. Workin’ workin’ workin’. Shake that money maker. Yadda yadda yadda :)

A-Liang & friends,

Hi gang! Here is the story I wrote. It printed on Taiwan International Community Page (page 8) in Taiwan News on Saturday, June 29 “‘Slanderous’ accusations anger artists, expatriates” and in Macroview Weekly on Thursday July 4 “‘Ludicras’ ‘fiasco’ angers Huashan artists, expatriates”. Macroview Weekly is a weekly newspaper for “overseas Chinese youth” and it is distributed as part of a Chinese-language publication in Chinatowns across the U.S.

Viva La Huashan!

By David Schnell

Staff Reporter

Last week sudden and unexpected announcement at a press conference by DPP councilors Wang Shih-chien and Yan Sheng-guan that foreigners had “invaded” Huashan Arts District had members of both the international community and arts circles reeling in anger and disbelief.

At a small, but very vocal gathering of persons from the international community and local artists circles, the issue was discussed and it was concluded that statements made at the press conference and subsequent reports on Power News television and the “China Times Evening Post” were gushing with falsehoods, exaggerated claims and outrageous implications.

One person at the gathering, Tim Chang, who was at the “Huashan On Fire: Drum Party” said of the council member’s claims that “nothing could be further from the truth.” When asked to compare the Power News report of the party with his recollection, he related that the event was not a “drug paradise” as the report had claimed.

To the contrary, the activity was focused on communal music-making and dancing. He stated with certainty that the number of participants was less than 200, rather than the reported 300 to 400 people. There were no more than 50 foreigners present at the event, he added.

“When I got home, I thought to myself ‘that was exactly the kind of scene I had been looking since coming to Taiwan.’ It wasn’t at all how (the council members) described,” Chang said.

“This is just horrible!” exclaimed one of artists at the gathering. Asked why, he explained that some male participants had removed their shirts, not to be indecent as reported, but to gain some relief from the bonfire on a particularly hot night. He went on to say that the report intentionally did not mention the gender of the “topless” foreigners involved to imply overt sexual expression, rather than personal artistic expression.

The group later viewed the Power News report recorded from televisions and pointed out the editorial intent of Power News. One experienced reporter of a well-known international news magazine, Adam Connors, found no coincidence in Power News following the report with a police raid on a local pub.

“They are trying to further reinforce the association of Huashan with drugs with this line-up,” Connors said.

On a popular Web site for “Taiwan’s global community,” over 50 internet postings described the event as “tame” and decried the claims made by Wan and Yan as a “disturbing,” “ludicrous” “fiasco.”

The general consensus at the meeting and on the Internet was that there were no more than half of the number of people at the event that the council members claimed and that the proportion of foreigners was vastly exaggerated.

Now the foreign community and organizers at Huashan Arts District are not just asking for second opinion articles in the English-language press, they are demanding a retraction — in Chinese — by their detractors.

TAIPEI–Friday Peso come and gone, playlist follows. I’m going to stop taking the laptop to the bar as I’m frightened that it’s internals may be getting damaged by the smoke there. So, only Friday lists will be published here-on in. Also on watch: I’ve been quoted for a Taiwan News article by David about the hubbub over the Huahsin Arts District affair last weekend. More on that soon.

Peso playlist Friday June 28, 2002

Thermos Cardy – Motorhome

Teenage Fanclub – I Can’t Find My Way Home

Ween – Falling Out

Built to Spill – Alarmed

Yo La Tengo – Tears are in Your Eyes

Grandaddy – Go Progress Chrome

Underground Lovers – On and On and On

Baaba Maal – I Will Follow You

Red Snapper – Snapper

Rob D – Clubbed

Smoke City – Underwater Love

Turn On – Ru Tenone

T-Rex – Hot Love

Clinic – Second Foot Stomp

Stereolab – Analogue Rock

Nuyorican Soul – I’m The Back Gold Of The Sun

Squarepusher – 1

Nicolette – No Government

Kruder and Dorfmeister – Track 3

Fatboy Slim – Everybody Loves a Filter

The Herbaliser – It’s Just For You

Beastie Boys – Root Down

Propellorheads and Shirley Bassey – History Repeating

Super Furry Animals – Ymaelodi A’r Ymylon

Blur – People in Europe

Ride – Magical Spring

The Charlatans – I Never Want an Easy Life If Me and He Were Ever to Get There

My Bloody Valentine – When You Wake You’re Still in a Dream

Swervedriver – For Seeking Heat

Silver Sun – Julia

Drop City – Setting Sun

Jebediah – Spoil the Show

Fugazi – Do You Like Like Me

Adam Said Galore – Hiawatha

Sisters and Mary Chain – Tumbledown

Yo La Tengo – Little Honda

Deus – The Ideal Crash

Ladytron – Discotraxx

Kylie – Can’t Get You Out of My Head

The Breeders – No Aloha

Compulsion – Mail Monarchy

The Pixies – Tame

Primal Scream – Swastika Eyes

Leftfield – Phat Planet

[Next 3 by request, Nanji and Oah]

The Breeders – Grunggae

The Pixies – Subculture

Jebediah – Leaving Home (Live at the Wireless)

Q-Burns Abstract Message – Mess of Afros

Stereolab- Parsec

Lamb – Cotton Wool

Sounds of the Underground – Track 1

Groove Armada – Superstylin’

Squarepusher – 6 mixed with Sigor Ros – Avalon

St Germain – Rose Rouge (Spiller mix)

St Etienne – Pale Movie

Blondie – Call Me

Lush – Single Girl

That Dog – Never Say Never

Stone Roses – I Am the Resurrection

Blur – There’s No Other Way

The Charlatans – Jesus Hairdo

Sticky Rice – A Lu Ba

Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood (blah blah mix from album)

Kid Koala and Money Mark – Carpel Tunnel Syndrome

Primal Scream and Dust Bros – Jailbird

Faye Wong – Track 1 from Ai comp.

Curve – Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus

Sheena Ringo – Track 3

Morcheeba – Trigger Hippy

Air – Sexy Boy

Radiohead- Idioteque

Spiderbait – When Fusion Ruled the Earth

Lamb – Sweet

Friendly- It’s There in Your Eyes

Blur – Coffee and Cigarettes

Pulp – Do You Remember the First Time?

Beauty 4 – Bang Bang Boom

Pizzicato 5 – It’s a Beautiful Day

Chen Ming-chang – The Last Train to SuAo

[Home, through frustration with the bar staff more than anything else]

TAIPEI–Ah yes, back in the sane house. Spent a lovely w’end in HK on Lamma with freakishly-good sunrises and sunsets. Got back to Taipei in time for DJ action – Peso playlist Sunday follows. Just sealed work with PaceBlade, alongside housemate Martinique and casual co-conspirator Bronwyn. Currently doing creative project work for Nu United for 3 days. More on this soon in MC&A channel.

Peso playlist Sunday June 23, 2002

Funki Porcini – Burge

Squarepusher – Tundra

Pulp – This is Hardcore

The Boo Radleys – Barney and Me

Teenage Fanclub – Star Sign

United Futures Organization – Good Luck Shore

Smoke City – Mr Gorgeous

Super Furry Animals – Ymaelodi A’r Ymylon

Kings of Convenience – Toxic Girl

Nina Gordon – Got Me Down

Smashing Pumpkins – Spaceboy

Coldplay – Yellow

Swervedriver – Son of Jaguar E

My Bloody Valentine – Lose My Breath

Medicine – Time Baby 3

The Charlatans – My Beautiful Friend

Kruder and Dorfmeister – Track 3

Duji – Be Careful What You Say

Basco – The Beat is Over

Cirrus – Break In

Psychodeliasmith – Give Me My Anger Back

Cut La Roc – Post Rock Progression

Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank

Kid Koala and Money Mark – Carpel Tunnel Syndrome

Clinic – Second Foot Stomp

Stereolab – Analogue Rock

Uilab – St Elmo’s Fire (Spatio-dynamic)

Sounds of the Underground – Track 14

St Germain – Sure Thing (Todd Edwards mix)

Lamb – Sweet

Tricky – Excess

Bjork – Violently Happy (Massey mix)

Hooverphonic – Strange Effect

Belle and Sebastian – Slow Graffiti

Beta Band – Dry the Rain

Built to Spill – The Host

Dinosaur Jr – Never Bought It

[Homeward bound. Yay. Tired after HK flight.]