#gtalksradio present: No stranger to the regional music scene, Shelhiel has toured across Southeast Asia, playing festivals and shows including Good Vibes Festival and Urbanscapes, while also opening for acts such as Hyukoh, FKJ & Crystal Castles. He’s been lauded on publications including i-D, JUICE, Mulazine and Buro, and recently won the Malaysia PWH Music Award 馬來西亞娛協獎 (Yu Xie Jiang) award for best arrangement for one of his productions – Shio’s ‘Extrication’, which was also picked up by Netflix as a theme song for ‘The Ghost Bride. Another one of his collaborative works – ‘AAA’ with NYK, for which he co-wrote and co-produced has also garnered over 40 million streams on Chinese music platforms to date since its release in March. His latest debut EP “SUPERSTROBE” is selected as NME’s “The 25 Best Asian Albums of 2020.”
“I’m Shelhiel, Malaysian artist, songwriter, producer. Growing up playing old PC games like Street Of Rage, raving as a kid to hardcore/techno/house VGM by Yuzo Koshiro. I started out my production by combining my piano lessons, gospel & electronic music. After touring Southeast Asia, playing shows including Mixcloud x W Hotel’s Future Rising, also opening acts for Hyukoh, FKJ, I finally released my debut EP 2020 consisting of English, Malay, Mandarin songs which represents the multilingual & multicultural community of how I grew up with in Malaysia. I just released my latest MV “Star”, a Y4K fantasy of Malaysian sinofuturism, which I self-creative directed.
I always felt that Southeast Asia is the last part of the earth that haven’t been fully explored by the world for their music. I wanna be part of the opening chapter, to bridge the different cultures+languages bringing SEA to the world.”
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