Resources for musicians and music educators affected by COVID-19

We compiled this list of lists in an effort to offer positive and useful information for many of our musician friends in Singapore and around the world who have been affected suddenly and severely by the lockdowns, shutdowns, cancellations of events, and other emergency measures arising from COVID-19. We’ll be updating this list of lists every time we receive more helpful info.

For musicians and music educators in Singapore, find out the latest government and other support for us by joining this Facebook group SG COVID-19 Creative/Cultural Professionals & Freelancers Support Group

Ableton – Best Practices for Collaborating Remotely

• General Advice
• Method 1: Syncing via Splice Studio
• Method 2: Sending Files Back and Forth
• Method 3: Sending/Syncing Files via Cloud Storage
• Method 4: Collaborating via Screen Share

Splice – A curated list of resources for musicians affected by COVID-19

• Emergency funding and other financial resources (US)
• Mental health resources
• Alternative avenues for music performance
• Tutorials and events:
• What you can do to help
• Other lists that highlight resources

Soundcloud – YOUR COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF ARTIST RESOURCES DURING THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS (UPDATED REGULARLY

• 7 ways to stay connected with your fans during COVID-19
• Find out how to get paid for your SoundCloud plays with SC101
• Have a few minutes? Set your profile up for success
• See how that new track is doing with real-time stats
• Learn how to DJ with SoundCloud tracks
• Looking for collab inspo? Check out Studio Sessions: The Bridge

Soundcloud is also offering live consultation sessions

Output – How To Make Money From Home If You’re A Musician in 2020

• Selling Beats
• Production music libraries
• Sync catalog
• Patreon
• Bandcamp
• Merchandise

Reverb – Basics of home recording and setting up your home studio

 

Happy Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day from us! Sharing with you our music video for VALENTINE, which we made with help from Marcus Leong , Hui Lin Toh , Red String Video Corp. , and Why Keen Tham

Black Friday Sales 2019

Buy your friends Cosmic Armchair gifts at our Black Friday sale for 50% discount on all our t-shirts, tote bags, Keychain etc, (link in bio) – use the code BLACKFRIDAY on https://cosmicarmchair.bandcamp.com for your 50% discount. Valid till 2 Dec or while stocks last.

One week to get our songs (and lots of other good music from Alfa Matrix artists) at 50% off! Use the code BLACK2019 on https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com or at https://alfa-matrix-store.com and you’ll get a 50% discount on your order.
There is no minimum order required for Bandcamp – buy as little or as much as you want – but be aware that the offer is limited in time!
– For CDs, vinyls and DVDs the discount kicks in once you have € 25 in your basket. It applies on all releases older than 6 months
– This offer is valid until 2 December included or until end of stock

 

Grey (Black and White Mix) Official Audio music video

Since more and more people find and listen to music on YouTube, we’re reaching out by releasing official audio music videos of more of our songs (complete songs with static images) over the next months, while we work on our new songs. First up – Grey (Black and White Mix) from our CONTACT album, which is the third time we released this song, this version being breakbeat / drum and bass influenced.

GREY is a song from CONTACT, our first full length album, available for download or streaming at: http://smarturl.it/zb7lev

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Cosmic Jane (singer / songwriter) and Cosmic Ben (producer / arranger) have continued expanding their sonic conquest to the world through numerous live performances across Asia, several radio and TV shows and more and more international collaborations (remixes and features) as well as contributions to high-profile compilations (with among others tribute cover versions of THE CURE and FRONT 242), including the international success of their latest club hit “I Don’t Belong Here”.

Fresh from their recent performances in Tokyo, Chiba, and Singapore, COSMIC ARMCHAIR are finally ready with their much anticipated first full length album “Contact”, revealing the band’s unique blend of synth-pop / electro dance / EDM / New Wave with sensual catchy female vocals.

Evoking comparisons with artistes like PET SHOP BOYS, GOLDFRAPP, but also GRIMES, LA ROUX and SAINT ETIENNE, COSMIC ARMCHAIR brilliantly mix less-is-more moody synth pop tunes with ethereal vocals and other more aggressive modern electro house dance floor tracks. They deliver compelling relentless catchy tunes revealing the band’s self-assured club determination at its best like “I Don’t Belong Here”, “Conversations”, “Just One Look”, as well as the euphoric “Higher” or the more frontal and hammering EBM/future pop cuts “When Will You Learn” and the almost destructive “Cannonballs”.

But COSMIC ARMCHAIR can also reveal the band’s intriguing fragile and lighter side with slower 80’s ethereal synth pop songs like the sweet and moody “Valentine”, the retro e-pop “Impossible”, the break beat “Grey” which was recorded for the launch of the Asian card game MegaCorp or some stunning tunes (“After The Rain”) reflecting the band’s deep Asian musical influences through guest performances on Pipa and Erhu by veteran Chinese chamber musicians.

“Contact” is an original melting-pot of influences ranging from the band’s Asian lifestyle and cultural roots, from their human “contacts” with different people on planet Earth and from their “cosmic” dreams of the future… COSMIC ARMCHAIR offer us here a unique sonic experience through an exciting combination of melodic synth pop wave music with house-dance beats made in Asia! This is alternative electro pop music with an edgy commercial appeal.

 

Cosmic Armchair at Dream Lab

DREAM LAB was an interactive installation where the audience participates in the creative process, contributing words and ideas that are transformed into digital graphics, video, and electronic music, interspersed with evocative sounds and visuals, to draw out the dreams that lie inside all of us.

DREAM LAB was presented at the NUS Arts Festival 2018 at the National University of Singapore University Cultural Centre (NUS UCC) by LAB RATS featuring COSMIC ARMCHAIR (www.cosmicarmchair.com) OCEANS CHILDREN, JAY LIM and LIZ GOH.

LAB RATS is a collective of electronic musicians and artists who are alumni of the Electronic Music Lab at NUS Centre For the Arts, including Cosmic Armchair and Ocean’s Children. LabRats’ projects span the range of electronic music from accessible to experimental, synthesizing the diverse talents of collective members. Visit www.labratsmusic.com for more info, music and video.

 

Cosmic Armchair new releases 2018

Returning to more dancefloor oriented sounds with our new electro dance EP CANNONBALLS, including our full-frontal Club Mix, and an echoing industrial body pop mix by labelmate Avarice In Audio. Last but not least, hard trance Singapore producer Axiam produces an extended hammering mix of “Fly Away”.
Stream it or buy it at http://smarturl.it/cosmiccannonballs

 

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VALENTINE is our moody synthpop EP featuring ultrapop/kawaii remix by Yoshino Yoshikawa (Tokyo) and future bass remix by Brannlum (Singapore) and the acoustic piano version of FALLING with acclaimed arranger Bang Wenfu. You can buy or stream VALENTINE on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music, BandCamp, Amazon, and more, with this link smarturl.it/cosmicvalentine

And here’s the full music video featuring the dance talents of MarLin (Marcus Leong: http://instagram.com/monkcus_ and Toh Hui Lin: http://instagram.com/huilinception) and produced by Producer: Cosmic Armchair & Red String Video http://redstringvideo.co/; Director/Editor: Why Keen http://instagram.com/whykeen; with Hair, Makeup and Wardrobe by Norehan Fong https://www.instagram.com/mamafong/ and filmed at the historic Beaulieu House http://www.beaulieuhouse.com.sg/

Our FALLING EP features the original synthpop version, dark electronica remixes by 【 btcprox 】 and a future bass remix by Jeff Hue.  You can buy or stream FALLING on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music, BandCamp, Amazon, and more, with this link: http://smarturl.it/c0z135

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Our New Album: CONTACT

Our new album CONTACT has launched! Featuring brand new songs – some that you’ve heard ‘live’ at our shows, some that have never been performed – Contact is available on CD and as a download.

• Visit http://alfa-matrix-store.com/comsic-armchair-contact-CD to order the CD at the Alfa-Matrix store
• Visit http://smarturl.it/zb7lev to hear (stream) or buy (download) the album on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, BandCamp, everywhere
• Visit https://cosmicarmchair.bandcamp.com/merch to buy album merch (special CD+keychain bundle, T-shirts)

Sight of Sound – ‘Live’ at Esplanade Concourse

We’ll be playing ‘live’ at Esplanade Concourse 6 & 7 Jun 2018 (Wed & Thu)
6.45pm & 7.45pm (30 min shows)
At this performance, we’re introducing new original electronic songs while generating live animated images from different characteristics of their music. We then invites the audience to participate in the creative process by creating collaborative artworks inspired by the music!

We’re glad to be back at The Esplanade Concourse, one of our favourite places to perform

Bloodlit Radio features CANNONBALLS (Avarice in Audio Mix)

Many thanks to Bloodlit Radio for featuring our song CANNONBALLS (Avarice in Audio Mix) on their live radio broadcast and placing it on heavy rotation at Bloodlit Radio!

The show featuring the song is available on Youtube:

And also on Mixcloud

www.BloodlitRadio.com plays latest underground club tracks from the Industrial, Gothic, EBM, Dark Electro, Synthpop and Darkwave realms – listen to the LIVE! 2 hour broadcast which is entitled “In The Bloodlit Dark” every Sunday at (12pm Toronto / 6pm Germany) with Dj Father CoVen.

The full track list for this broadcast:

BAND – TRACK – ALBUM

01. Binary Park – Your Own Great Nation – Life On Lines
02. Vore Aurora – Hollow Point – Eidolon
03. Plastic Autumn – No More Lies – No More Lies EP
04. Cosmic Armchair – Cannonballs (Avarice In Audio Mix) – Cannonballs EP
05. Cryo – Control (Iambia Mix) – Control EP
06. Deflexity – Moth Cemetary – Ghosts
07. Dicepeople – Control (Feat. The Brooklyn Foundation) (Trump 45 Mix) – Control EP
08. Finkseye – Shut It Down – Under A Godless Sky
09. Monochrome – Freiheit (Thermical Mix) – Freiheit EP
10. Selofan – Ist Die Liebe Tot – Vitrioli
11. Biogenetik – Unholy – The New Plague
12. Formato Negativo – Who Are You? – Who Are You? EP
13. Wolfchild – Lone Wolf – Lone Wolf EP
14. Cold Drive – Against It – Reborn As Demon
15. Entropia Psicotica – Dulce Angel – Painting The New World
16. 3Teeth & HO99O9 – Lights Out – Lights Out EP
17. Crematory – Salvation – Oblivion
18. Schattenmann – Licht An – Licht An
19. Matt Hart – Systematic Regression – Chaos Rising 2 EP
20. T-Error Machinez – Biological Pharmacode – The War Of The Valkyries (Reworked)
21. NINA – 80’s Girl – Sleepwalking
22. Rose McGowan – Sirene – Planet 9
23. Nightrun87 – The Light Of Your Heart – The Destroyers Are Coming
24. Liste Noire – For What It’s Worth – For What It’s Worth EP
25. Xenia Beliayeva – Because – Riss

Web http://www.Bloodlitradio.com
Email Contact@bloodlitradio.com
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/Bloodlitradiodotcom
Mixcloud http://www.mixcloud.com/wwwbloodlitradiocom

 

Goths in Singapore

The Goth community in Singapore has always been very supportive of our music, and Ben is now resident DJ of the Back in Black event series (next event Saturday 21 October 2017 at Chimichanga, 36 Dunlop Street) organized by the Singapore Dark Alternative Movement.

The opening DJ is MNRV who plays post punk, dark wave, EBM (Wulfband), and industrial (3Teeth and Youth Code)

Prime time is helmed by DJ RED, a consummate professional multi-genre DJ who plays EBM and industrial when she’s at Back in Black

And Ben rounds off the night with darkwave, synthwave, and new wave classic remixes, including some Cosmic Armchair remixes and live mashups.

The first Back in Black of the series succeeded in reuniting the Goth Community in Singapore after a hiatus of a few years.

We’re very glad to be welcomed by the Gothic Community in Singapore, as far back as Outbreed, the first ever large-scale alternative party in Singapore, at the unconventional remote location of Mandai Orchid Garden. Gathered in one mind blowing live gig were the biggest alternative musical talents in the local scene as well as resident Goth DJs. The Goth and alternative communities came in full force to enjoy genres of music spanning the entire spectrum of dark-alternative, all in one wild night.

Since then Ben has DJ-ed at various Goth events, and after a short hiatus, we’re glad to be back. Join us at Back in Black (Facebook Event Link here https://www.facebook.com/events/774685876036769) on Saturday 21 October.

Get our CONTACT album now

Our new album CONTACT has launched! Featuring brand new songs – some that you’ve heard ‘live’ at our shows, some that have never been performed – Contact is available on CD and as a download.

You can order the CD at the Alfa-Matrix store http://alfa-matrix-store.com/comsic-armchair-contact-CD

or you can hear (stream) or buy (download) the album on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, BandCamp, everywhere, with this link http://smarturl.it/zb7lev

Album merch (special CD+keychain bundle, T-shirts) available at https://cosmicarmchair.bandcamp.com/merch