Flux Us Record Shop SG Recent Mentions...

More than thirteen years ago, the impulsive author of this blog set up a hole-in-a-wall record shop in Singapore with his partner-in-crime, Harold Seah. Situated on the top floor of the still-standing Peninsula Shopping Centre in town, it was supposed to be a hole-in-the-wall operation. We wanted to sell stuff which were not carried by all, if not most other local record shops here (yes,there were quite a lot back then; and we stocked quite a fair bit of vinyl too, before the mini-renaissance of vinyl in the recent decade).

Then we started hosting in-store gigs for musician friends and friends of friends on the suggestions of our friends who helped much in the set-up of the shop (who chipped in in terms of design work, paint job, manning the store behind the counter, running the in-store gigs and so forth). Jazkamer, Lucas Abela, Zai Kunning, Kevin Guoh, Leslie Low, Goh Lee Kwang, Lawrence English (I might have misremembered some and left out some here...).

We also did a gig at the Victoria Theatre thanks to our friend who was a manager there which hosted the NZ musicians Antony Milton and Birchville Cat Motel.

We made many new friends and deepened existing friendships. It was, as the cliche goes, a trip...

Recently there were two mentions of this modest operation of us in two quite different contexts. The first was related to the death of Jóhann Jóhannsson's death. Our friend, musician Ricks Ang paying a tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson which he started off with where he first heard the music of this musician. 

The second mention is part of the liner notes to the recent release of another two of our friends, musicians Lasse Marhaug and Yuen Chee Wai.  Support them and buy a copy... good stuff there. Yuen, by the way, was the designer behind our store logo, flyers, posters and visuals. 

Brings back some memories...