Love (Songs) in the air

Hi! We took part in a love song writing competition at canteen A today, yes Valentine's Day, organised by NTU CAC. We won first prize with "It's Only You"! Leroy performed the lovely duet with Gina and the rest of the band supporting on drums, bass and acoustic guitar. Its a pity Ivan cldn't make it due to his Industrial Attachment (IA), else we could have the violin effects and strings to make it sound fuller. I'll post pics once i get them, and prob upload the video soon. Ross' bandmates, Rahmat and Kenneth, from Sponge won 2nd place with their acoustic original. Congrats to you guys!

Kelvin

Recording @ SAE Institute

Hi boys and girls! We'll be recording our new song "Easier" @ SAE Institute in the coming week. Big thanks to my good friend, Jun Han, from stentorian for the kind contacts. It's gonna be a busy week and hopefully we can stick to schedule and lay the tracks fast and error-free.

We'll also be having a photographer, Jasmine, who will be shooting our practise sessions and gigs this semester. She is a student from the Art Design Media School, the funky new arts school in NTU with the uber cool grass patch extending all the way towards the top of the building. Its hard to describe - you gotta see it to believe it.

Thank God for student projects :)

Kelvin

Less is more

Hello world, I have decided to revamp our little blog which has been inactive for way too long. i realised the previous background made it rather difficult to view the blog entries. Ok simplicity is the keyword now. Meanwhile, pls put up with the under construction sites and do pop by our myspace site and add us @ www.myspace.com/smashinc


Updates!
We have just written 2 songs recently. There's one which I love to call "Funky Chicken", dun ask me why but it just came to my mind for the title. The other's called "Easier" - a slower melancholic tune. We'll showcase the new songs pretty soon, so look out for it yeah?

Kelvin

Everyone's back in town

ok semester has begun and our jet setting members are all back in spore once again. Its funny how we are so busy jamming during the semester but once the holidays come, we hardly jam cos some of us are overseas. Jeff brought his new bass, a beautiful black musicman stingray with gold hardware - limited edition from HK. A lovely bass to look at, let alone play with. Lawrence has quite a number of new material to work with, he has been very hardworking despite his busy attachment schedules. It's now Ivan's turn to go on attachment this semester. Soon all of us will be working, time really flies by in uni, sigh.

Kel

MySpace

Hey guys, we've got a MySpace account now. Check it out @ http://www.myspace.com/smashinc

Vinnie Colaiuta, Steve Gadd and Dave Weckl

Check out this video of the three legendary drummers taking turns to play their drum solos followed by all three of them joining in. Their techniques are amazing, see how Vinnie Colaiuta creates a solo with just the snare, hi hat and bass drum. Woohoo! Go Vinnie!



Exams are almost over for me and I'm eagerly looking forward to our jam sessions again.

Kel

Mooncake Festival @ Hall 7

Hey, some pics from the mooncake festival @ Hall 7. We played "Better Days" and invited Gina to perform the duet "It's only you". Both originals were featured in the recent Prometheus production. Check out our purevolume site for samples.

H7 Mooncake Festival 2006

Kel

PowerJam 2006

A big thanks to all who came to support us. Well, we did not advance but it was a great learning experience for all of us; this being our very first competition. Congrats to the other bands who got thru.

Power Jam 2006 auditions

We made it to the semi finals! Its gonna be held this sat 30 Sep 06 @ Timbre 2pm. There will be 12 bands including us that will be competing for a spot in the top 5 at the grand finals. Some pics from our practice session @ fourtones prior to the auditions and the auditions itself :

Power Jam 2006 auditions

Sep 23, 2006 - 23 Photos

Check out the video posted by the kind folks at soft.com.sg on youtube.

PowerJam 2006

Smash Inc is taking part in this year's Power Jam competition. Auditions will be held at Timbre (behind Substation, Armenian St) on 16th and 23rd Sep 06. We'll be playing on the 23rd Sep 06, auditions start at 2pm. We would like to invite all of you, yes every single one of you, to come down and support us or just hang out and enjoy the music. The local music scene in Singapore is definitely growing and we need your continued support to keep it alive. Hope to see you there!

Kel

Recording Session

Hey all, this is long overdue with all the work piling up. The recording sessions went smoothly without much glitches I would say, but it was a mad rush as usual with a tight schedule to adhere to. We took 2 days for the instruments and 2 days for the vocals for both "Better Days" and "It's only you". Many thanks to Adrian and Chan, the friendly recording engineers at Backbeats Studios, who did a great job in making us sound nicer. Both songs received positive feedback after being played in the Prometheus production. Here's some pics from the recording session.

Smash Inc - Live It Up DVD & Tees

Our "Live It Up" DVD is finally here! It features the music video shot by our lovely MOXXIE crew and friends from SCI as well as some of the live footage of the Launch of YDC @ Heerens and not forgetting the 'behind the scenes' recording process. We also received a present from MOXXIE which was our band tee shirts beautifully designed by Leroy and post edited by the team.

We shall take this opportunity to thank Fiona, Yu Zheng, Diana & the rest of MOXXIE as well as the support crew from SCI for making our music video shoot process a professional yet enjoyable one. It was great working with all of you despite the mad rush of having to change locations and setting up at each new location. We truly appreciate the effort.

National Day 06 Gig @ Yew Tee

We injected energy to the lovely Yew Tee neighbourhood on an early National Day morning. There was quite a large crowd who were all decked proudly in red and doing their part for the nation by participating in the annual walk around the constituency. It was quite a sight to see so many red shirts walking, so much so that if you wore some other colour you stood out like a sore thumb.




Well, we were not in red and white, but we had fun on stage nonetheless. It was interesting to see a drastically different demographics in the crowd, something we were not quite used to. The emcee even surprised us with a request for a chinese song.



The Guest of Honour for the event was Mr Yeo Chow Tong, our former transport minister. He was very vibrant and enthusiastic about having us around. Seems like we are the 1st live band to ever play for their event in their 41 years of National Day Observance Ceremony. Yeah, it's about time the local music scene opened up.

This Love - live @ Mirage 06

Hey all, here's another video from Mirage 06. Hope you guys enjoy it.



"This Love (cover)"
Performed by Smash Inc

Kel

Shinin' - live @ Mirage 06

Hey, for those who missed out on our performance @ Mirage 06 on monday night, here's a preview of the action. Video quality is compromised and may seem laggy, ill try to upload a better quality version soon.

ill also upload some video snippets of our National Day gig. Writeup and more details on that gig coming soon.



"Shinin' "©
Written and performed by Smash Inc.


Kel

Mirage 2006

Mirage 06 is an inaugural welcome dinner for NTU Hall Freshmen. A gig with the largest attendance so far, with about 1500 NTU freshies eager to start their semester. What a way to mark their 1st day of school. To us, it was more of a reunion gig since jeff and ivan had just come back from US and Indonesia and we had barely enough time to practise.



Despite the lack of practise, we put up a tight set with 'Shinin' and recently revamped 'She's the One'. We had changed the outro to a Indo/Java-ish kinda rhythm to suit Ivan's chimes solo. It was just a refreshing way to end the song. Besides, that's where the fun of music-making is; to infuse your own creativity and talents into the song to make it unique.



We were right about 'This Love'; It was a definite crowd pleaser and many were singing along. The best part was people were body surfing to it! Never thought I wld see that in NTU, but well, life's full of surprises.

National Day 06

Hey guys, we are gonna fulfil our patriotic duties by playing at a National Day Event on 9th Aug. Details are as below.


Event : Yew Tee 41st National Day Observance Ceremony cum Walk-a-Jog
Date : 9 August 2006, Wed
Time : 9am
Venue: Hardcourt beside Yew Tee MRT, in front of Block 627 Choa Chu Kang St
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Dress code for the day is red and white, stars and crescent motiffs strongly encouraged. Turn up in this attire and speak to any of the band members, and you will receive a limited edition greeting card autographed by each of the band members.

Whilst stocks last!


Kel

JASH 06 Mirage

Hey, we'll be playing @ JASH 06 Mirage, an inaugural welcome dinner for NTU Hall Residents on 7th August 06 Nanyang Auditorium. Unfortunately, its only extended to hall residents at a fee. Honestly, I dun even know why they are holding this event. But we have been invited to play, so we're gonna reorganise ourselves now that jeff and ivan are back in town and jam our hearts out onstage. Dbl O is one of the event sponsors i believe, and alcohol will be served in NY Auditorium. Cant imagine that in 16 weeks time we will be sitting for exams in that same venue. Gives me the chills ... Pls pls pls take care of yourselves and dun get all wasted and end up lying on the floor at Quad. Its an ugly scene.

Kel

100% Praise and Worship

Hey! my church is having a praise night - 100% on the 19th August 2006 at Bible Church 7pm. It is organised by the Young Adults Fellowship Band. It is meant for both Christians and non believers alike who are interested in finding out more about the faith or simply want to experience the true joy of worshipping God. For more details pls visit the website or contact me personally (kszw83@yahoo.com)

Kel

New purevolume site + Updates

Hey all, we've posted some songs on our new purevolume site. it's more user friendly i figured. We are in the midst of coming up with new material, hopefully by end Aug or so. Hope you will enjoy them. cheers.

Kel