| July 2008 |
Eugene completes Haier, and plays gigs at South Bridge Jazz Club in Singapore, Peel Fresco Music Lounge, Visage and Classic Rock at Backstage |
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| June 2008 |
Eddie completes part 2 of a Pepsi campaign, a Mary Kay ad, a Lipton ad and a Cathay Pacific in-house video, and also finishes a new song for Jan Lamb, plus 24 Herbs perform for Let's Fight Round 3. Eugene completes Pizza Hut Sausage Bite and plays gigs at Prive, Backstage, the Fringe Club with Japanese Trumpeter Shinzo Ono and at Spencer's Midsummer Jazz Festival in England. |
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| June 2008 |
The heaviest rain-storm ever recorded in Hong Kong, on June 7th, in which 145mm fell during one hour, and over 300mm during the morning, left the Drum Music building flooded to a depth of half a metre, and took out all the elevators. Fortunately as all our studios are on the 30th Floor, we are still fully operational! |
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| May 2008 |
Eddie completes Pocari, Watson's, Disney and Pepsi ads, plus another three 24 Herbs concerts, in KL for the "What's Good" party, at Club Sugar in Central, and an anniversary for alivenotdead.com at Cliq. Pete completes ads for Mastercard and Acuvue and goes on holiday. Eugene completes a film score for the HK movie "City Without Baseball 無野之城" (poster>, trailer>) and plays gigs at Peel Fesco Music Lounge, Rolling Stones "Shine The Light" Premier party, Classic rock at Grappa's, and at Shenzhen Concert Hall with his quartet and at Philia. |
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| April 2008 |
Eddie complete's Coke "Red Carpet", Sun Hung Kai Finance, Lucozade, and Watson's ads, plus two 24 herbs gigs, one for Poly Muso at Hi Tech Star Hall, and another at Club PP. Eugene completes Comfort and Stayfree ads, plus gigs at Visage,Peel Fresco Music Lounge, Sevva, Backstage, and now.com moov live with Jun Kung and KEF demo in Beijing. |
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| March 2008 |
Eddie completes Manulife, McDonald's Big & Tasty, Enwei, Magnum ice Cream with Shu Qi, and some World Gold Council Ads, also 24 Herbs perform for Chinese Uni at Hi Tech Star Hall. Pete completes three regional campaigns for Sony, including onef for Handycam featuring kids making a mess, the music of which acheives cult status on YouTube - see here>. Eugene completes KFC "Fishing", Crest, Magnum (inc. live violin), Chang You Yoghurt, and gigs with the Eugene Pao Band at California Club, Peel Fresco Music Lounge and with the legendary Georgie Fame at Grappa's. |
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| February 2008 |
Lots
of interviews following the 24 Herbs album release. Cable TV,
Milk Mag gives us about 6 pages, Respect Mag gives us a feature
and cover, radio interviews with Sum Mei, Siu Yee, Inti, GC
Goobie, Mini etc. Our song Respect Chou OK makes top15 on CR2.
HMV lists as top 5 in Asian CD chart for about 2 weeks. 24Herbs
now reheasing for upcoming Diesel/Adidas show Feb 27th, Josie
Ho's show on March 2nd at Hi Tech Center, and Poly U and Chinese
Uni shows also in March. |
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| February 2008 |
Pete completed a international campaign for Abu Dhabi airline, Etihad Airways back in December, and now he has written a lot of new music to add to the 90s spot, to make a total of 30 minutes, for use as Etihad's boarding music. Check it out on any Etihad Airbus. |
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| February 2008 |
24Herbs Debut Album
is launched into orbit on the 24th Feb. Delay No Mall hosts
a great party for the album launch. Albums for sale at all
major records shops, please support and buy a copy. This project
has taken much blood, sweat and beers... oops I mean "tears".
See videos here>, here> and here>. |
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| January 2008 | Ponds,
Reebok, Magnum, Mcd 24Hours with Eason, SKII, Manulife, Palmolive,
Acuvue, Hazeline, Standard Charter and lots of rehearsals makes
January a super busy month. |
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| December 2007 |
24Herbs
plays to their largest audience ever of over 10,000 people
at San Miguel's Wild Day Out. See the video here>. |
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| December 2007 |
Eddie
Finishes a series of 5 TVCs for Johnny Walker shot by David
Tsui featuring Conroy Chan and Andrew Lin, whilst Pete completes
an international campaign for Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways. |
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| November 2007 |
It is with much sadness that we mark
the passing of Stoney Mudd: Hong Kong advertising legend, inspiration,
guru, wordsmith, man of ideas, raconteur, tower of strength,
confidante, father-figure, brother, and above all, friend.
Rest In Peace, Stones. |
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| September 2007 |
Oh dear. Somebody has uploaded
two videos of Pete shot in 1982 to YouTube... |
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| June 2007 |
Celestial's
fourth album, entitled “Electric Road 電器道”, is completed and
available now. Check it out here>. |
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| June 2007 |
Eddie completes a 16min
film art project with Simon Birch for “Azhanti High Lightning”,
a show to be presented at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
(NAFA) - for details see: www.simonbirch.com |
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| May 2007 |
Eddie completes a series
of Pepsi TVCs featuring Louis Koo. |
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| May 2007 |
24 Herbs are featured in
Milk Magazine |
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| May 2007 |
24 Herbs perform at the
“Let's Fight” concert |
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| April 2007 |
Eddie completes TVCs for
7-Up, MTR, Nutralite, Pocari; Pete complete's TVCs for Sony,
Colgate, Fedex, Ford and Philips. |
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| April 2007 |
24 Herbs perform at the
HK Film Awards |
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| March 2007 |
Kam Kwok Leung interviews
Eugene for his new project, see here> and photo>. |
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| March 2007 |
Eugene plays to two full
houses at City Hall, as part of the Asian Super Guitar Project
(JPG1, JPG2, JPG3). |
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| February 2007 |
Eddie completes Johnny
Walker Chinese New Year TVC |
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January 2007 |
The music video for Celestial's
"Pounding
Waves" (created by AtomicSushi)
wins a first prize
at the IShotHongKong
Film Festival |
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| December 2006 |
24 Herbs plays at HK convention center
for Asia Game Expo. |
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| December 2006 |
24 herbs debut concert in
Taiwan Ministry Of Sound with Zhang Zhen Yue張震嶽, hot Taiwanese
rapper MC Hotdog, Josie Ho and Alive. |
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| November 2006 |
Eddie produces for 24 Herbs,
a new hip hop super group soon to be launched - currently in rehearsal.
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| November 2006 |
Eddie completes new Jay
Chou Pepsi TVC. |
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| October 2006 |
Pete complete's the music
for the new Sony "Robots" TVC which garners rave reviews
all across Asia. |
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| October 2006 |
Eugene's new project (a
collaoration with 2 other top Asian guitarists, kazumi Watanabe
from Japan and Jack Lee from Korea, and is called "Asian
Super Guitar Project") tours Asia (see
picture >>) and releases the an album entitled "Sam Guk
Ji". See
sleeve >> |
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| September 2006 |
Clement orchestrates for
Peter Kam on a Disney China Film; "Secret Of The Magic Gourd". |
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| September 2006 |
Eddie completes new Intel
Core 2 Duo launch TVC. |
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| August 2006 |
The new CD release from
Drum is ready to go, "Songs For Suicidal Lovers" by
Shamus Dark. See: www.shamusdark.com |
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| August 2006 |
Eugene completes a tour
of Japan and Korea with ASGP (see below). |
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| July 2006 |
Eddie completes China versions
of Microsoft "White Lines" TVC and Sony's launch of
DSLR camera |
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| July 2006 |
Clement orchestrates for
Peter Kam on new Taiwan horror film "Silk", showing
at a theatre near you from November. |
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| July 2006 |
Eugene records a new album
project featuring two other guitarists from Japan and Korea, called
Asian Super Guitar Project ASGP.See
sleeve >> |
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| June 2006 |
Eugene Pao Special Quintet
playing concert at Hong Kong City Hall, June 7th.
See
poster >> |
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| May 2006 |
Eddie contributes a hip-hop
track to soon to be released Canadian TV film, "Dragon Boys" |
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| May 2006 |
Eugene completes a session
for Danny Summer's new album, playing on five tracks. |
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| May 2006 |
Clement orchestrates and
conducts for the Peter Kam score for "Silk", a new Taiwanese
horror film, |
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| April 2006 |
Eugene completes the music
for Stephen Fung's latest hit comedy series, (loosely translated
as) "Stephen's Diary" which is broadcast every Saturday
at 9.30pm on TVB Jade.
See
newspaper article>> |
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| April 2006 |
Drum act as sponsors for
the IFPI Asia Pacific Music Forum "Music Matters", and
supply the music and sound design for the TV spot. See
TV spot>> |
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| March 2006 |
In a futile attempt to win
an Oscar, Pete "stars" in a Hong Kong Jockey Club TVC,
as second-runner-up in a Grand Prix.... Behind a horse. See
picture >> |
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| February 2006 |
Eugene Pao has just completed
a run of three sold out nights at Singapore's South Bridge Jazz
Club. |
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| January 2006 |
Drum complete the Chinese
New Year TVC for Johnny Walker Black Label, the Asia-wide launch
campaigh for the new xBox 360, a new series of Coke ads for HK
and Taiwan, plus a new campaign for China Business News. |
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| December 2005 |
Nike "Bicycle",
"Basketball", and "Foot Race" sweep the 4As
awards, with "Bicycle" also winning the Kam Fan and,
of course, Best Sound: http://www.aaaa.com.hk/awards/creativeAwardsMain.shtml. |
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| December 2005 |
Drum have sponsored the
project "Medialogue: 7.05cm", which is the graduation
show for the School Of Creative Media, of City University Of Hong
Kong, for 2004. For more information contact Sandy Poon at sandy101@gmail.com |
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| November 2005 |
Eugene Pao high definition
DVD project is featured on www.hktrader.net
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| August 2005 |
A boxed set of Celestial's
first three CDs, Hong
Kong Dub Station, Happy Valley, and Spirit House, is released,
available in all good record shops in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia
and Thailand. |
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| July 2005 |
A top ten of albums available
at the British label Shopsonic
found it's way into the British newspaper The Independent (10th
July 2005) and features Celestial's
Hong
Kong Dub Station at #9 |
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| Feburary 2005 |
Celestial's
new album Hong Kong Dub Station receives yet another rave review,
from www.ambientmusicguide.com |
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| Feburary 2005 |
Projects recently completed
by Drum include;– cues for China's first fully digital animation
movie, "Thru The Mœbius Strip"; music, sound design
and mixing for MTV Asia's cutting edge (banned in China already!)
comedy series, Aiya; a series of huge Pepsi commercials for China
and Thailand, featuring a whole range of regional stars; and a
song for animal charity Doctor Dog, to be sung by children across
Hong Kong and China. We have also given another lecture at City
University in Hong Kong which was followed up with a day for students
at our new studio. |
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| December 2004 |
Eugene has just released
his latest project, in DVD and SACD formats. It was recorded live
at the Academy For Performing Arts, shot in Hi-Definition TV and
mixed in full 5.1 surround sound. |
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| November 2004 |
Celestial's
just released new album Hong
Kong Dub Station receives three more rave reviews,
from HK
Magazine, BC
Magazine, and the infamous Robot Magazine. See them all here. |
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| November 2004 |
Celestial's just released
new album Hong Kong Dub Station is featured on HK Cable TV's Chi
Chung's Choice. |
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| October 2004 |
Hong
Kong Dub Station receives 4 out of 5 stars from David Watkins
in Hong Kong's Sunday
Morning Post. |
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| October 2004 |
Just in time for the launch
party of Hong
Kong Dub Station (at Yumla
on October 21st) Celestial's
albums become available at Apple's iTunes
Store and HMV in Hong Kong. |
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| October 2004 |
Celestial
receive airplay on reknowned independent radio show: "The
Upper Room with Joe Kelley" |
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| September 2004 |
Celestial's
new album Hong Kong Dub Station receives a rave review from the
Evolution
Of Media website, a site devoted to the best of independent
music. |
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| September 2004 |
All three Celestial
albums are now on sale through the leading US independepent music
specialists; cdbaby.com,
and also digitally from dance specialists; Nufonix.com. |
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| August 2004 |
All three Celestial
albums are now on sale through the Singapore based Digital Download
site; SoundBuzz.com,
including the brand new release: Hong
Kong Dub Station. |
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| July 2004 |
Drum composer Eugene Pao's
new album "Naked Time" receives a rave review in the
South China Morning Post. Click here to view. |
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| June 2004 |
Drum composer Eugene Pao
has a new album released through EMI, and records a new project
involving Hi-Def TV and 5.1 Sound. Click here for more of Eugene's
news. |
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| May 2004 |
The Celestial
albums, "Spirit House"
and "Happy Valley"
go on sale in the international boutique "Shanghai
Tang", initially in Hong Kong, but later all around the
world. |
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| April 2004 |
Drum move to their new studio
on the 30th floor of Catic Plaza, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. |
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| Sept 2003 |
Eason Chan comes to Drum
to record a Rap for McDonalds.
See "the making of" here:
Quicktime
| WMV |
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| Sept 2003 |
Pete finishes the third
Celestial
album, entitled "Hong
Kong Dub Station".
Listen to some of it here |
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| July 2003 |
The Singapore movie "City
Sharks" which features music from Celestial,
garners rave reviews and wins three awards to date. Negotiations
are underway for a pan-Asian release. |
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| March 2003 |
The Drum team expands
again with the addition of Eugene Pao. Eugene is an old friend
and also probably the best known jazz guitarist in Asia. |
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| Feburary 2003 |
The Drum team expands
with the addition of Clement Fung. Hong Kong born Clement is
a composer with education and experience from the US and the
UK. |
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| October 2002 |
JWT win the Kam Fan at
the Hong Kong 4A's award show for their Kit Kat campaign. The
music, which was composed by Drum, also won the Gold in the
Broadcast Crafts section for sound.
See the whole campaign on our showcase
pages. |
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| September 2002 |
Drum completes the new
regional campaign for Dragonair - shot in countries all over
the region. The ad employs the different styles of Dragon Dancing
found in the region, and the accompanying drums, singing and
percussion, are all featured in the dramatic score.
See the 90 second spot. |
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| January 2002 |
A new remix of Celestial's
"Plum Crazy"(by Black
Dragon) is featured on the Universal CD release Eastern
Sunrise - a compilation of Asian Chill Out sounds - now being
released throughout the region. |
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| October 2001 |
Celestial's "Happy
Valley" is released by ToCo International in Singapore
- with Hong Kong shortly to follow. It has already entered the
World Music Chart in the Singapore HMV |
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| 25th May 2001 |
The SE Asian version
"Café Del Mar Volumen Ocho" (number eight in
the popular compilation series of chill out music) features
a track from Drum. "Plum Crazy (Version)" is a track
from forthcoming Celestial
album "Happy Valley"
- we are hoping to have some news about the asian release of
this album shortly. |
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| 23 March 2001 |
Peter married Tomoko:
congratulations! |
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