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Interview by: Elmo Chong

In today’s episode we have the privilege of diving into the creative world of Bipolar Sunshine, a prolific artist whose musical journey is as intriguing and vibrant as his stage name suggests.

Emerging from the vibrant city of Manchester, Bipolar Sunshine has captivated audiences worldwide with his unique blend of indie pop and electronic music, a sound that defies the conventional boundaries of genre. 

His discography, including the critically acclaimed tracks "Daydreamer," "Deckchairs on the Moon," and the massive collaboration "Middle" with DJ Snake, speaks volumes of his versatility and ability to connect with listeners across the globe.

Beyond the music, commitment to authenticity and his journey of self-discovery and expression make him a fascinating figure in the music industry. Today, we’ll peel back the layers of the artist known as Bipolar Sunshine, exploring the stories behind the songs, the inspirations that fuel his creativity, and the future aspirations of this remarkable musician.

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Punk, pop, pomp, and a whole lotta poise – these are the ingredients that make up the arena-threatening French electro-rock outfit The Blackmordia. With a singular vision and bags of attitude, they tread that curious line between not giving a f**k and wanting to mean everything to everyone. Since their creation in 2014 by drummer Sofianne Seddiki, the band has toured across Europe with rock legends KISS, metalcore pioneers Bring Me The Horizon, and new-age alt band Nothing But Thieves. Now, the quintet has set their sights on being a band like no other, blending the goth pop influences of The Cure with their native French Touch origins in an amalgam of sexy rockstar moxie. That same independent spirit drives The Blackmordia engine, having formed their own record label Throne Music to prevent any outsider A&R interference. This is all being done on their terms. They’re not a band that does things by half measures.

In addition to Seddiki, the band consists of bassist Luke Hastoas, guitarist/singer Enzo Munari, and guitarist/synth player Max Kurtz, and vocalist/frontman Peter Moisan. A DIY band at heart, The Blackmordia has been making waves internationally supporting legendary acts like KISS, Bring Me The Horizon, Nothing But Thieves on their European arena tours, and are gearing up for the release of their debut album later this year. 

Listen to Hold on Here: https://open.spotify.com/track/7ksRYN...

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In this video super producer Chaz Mishan shows us how he approaches creating different genres of music and uses K-pop and Latin styles as examples.

CHAZ MISHAN is an RIAA certified multi-platinum American record producer and songwriter, based in Los Angeles. Originally from Miami, FL Chaz began as a classically trained guitar player and quickly realized his passion for production.  Over the course of his career, he has produced for Jason Derulo, Anitta, Rita Ora, James Arthur, Jhay Cortez, Sofia Reyes, Gente De Zona, Lil Wayne, The Backstreet Boys, Big Bang, and many more.  Chaz has earned several Billboard #1’s in Pop, K-Pop, and Latin, as well as multiple BMI Awards. Chaz’s sound crosses genres and blends cultures. 

His work has also been featured in global Film/TV ads and movies, including the Golden Globe-winning film Missing Link, Hulu, Nickelodeon, The Super Bowl, Netflix, WWE, Viacom, Peloton among others.

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In this episode G.NA and Elmo interview the talented producer J.Reid.  He discuses his rise to producer stardom and gives advice to up and coming music creators, telling them how they can leverage their skills to make money from their music.

Who is J.Reid?

As a skilled percussionist, pianist, guitarist, vocalist & writer, Reid has spent the last 13 years perfecting his craft while working with music talents such as Lloyd, Zonnique, Webbie, Rick Ross, Jack Harlow, City Girls, Salma Slims, Lil Baby, Pap Chanel & Lil Wayne. He has also worked with Atlanta artists; Joe Green, Bloody J, Bahja Rodriguez, Little Donald, YFN Lucci, F.L.Y (Swag Surfin) and countless others.

In August 2018, Reid produced his most successful production to date. He co-wrote, arranged and produced five songs for Nicki Minaj’s fourth platinum album, “Queen”, which included the platinum hit single, “Chun-Li”. Reid also produced gold record, “Barbie Tingz”, “Ganja Burn”, “Rich Sex” and “Though You Knew”.

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Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician and sound designer. He is recognized for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from glitch music to old and modern electronic music. Devine largely records for the Miami-based Schematic Records, which was founded by Josh Kay of Phoenecia. He has also done extensive recording and sample work with Josh Kay under the name DEVSND. As a result of praise of his music from Autechre as well as a remix of Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy", Devine recorded an album for Warp Records which was jointly released by Schematic and Warp.

Devine first started using computers for composition around 1993. Don Hassler, an instructor at the Atlanta College of Art, got him interested in computer synthesis, introducing Devine to Csound and other powerful computer-based applications. Devine coded his own FFT applications in SuperCollider, an environment and programming language for real-time audio synthesis. “It’s interesting, because you’re doing things to sound that just aren’t physically possible.”

Devine also uses Native Instruments (NI) software and has used Propellerhead ReBirth RB-338 and Reason.  His favorite NI applications are Reaktor and Absynth. Devine has designed sound patches for Propellerhead's Reason, NI’s Absynth, Reaktor, Battery and Massive, along with providing sound patches to Moog Music's award-winning Animoog app. As a sound designer, he collaborated with electronic musician BT in the film Look. He has also scored commercials for Nike, Touchstone Pictures and engineered and performed his own music worldwide.

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Dobrawa Czocher is a Polish cellist born into a musical family who started playing at the age of 7. She soon became inseparable from the cello and from there, it was a natural decision to dedicate her life to music. 

Crochet is a graduate of two prestigious music universities: the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw as a student of Professor Piotr Hausenplas’s class, and Hochschule für Musik in Detmold in Germany under Professor Alexander Gebert. She is also the winner of several solo and chamber music competitions. She has participated in numerous international master classes and music festivals.

Between 2008 and 2010, Czocher was a scholar of the National Fund for Children. In 2017 Czocher became a member of Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and in September the same year she became principal cellist of the Neue Philharmonie Berlin . In 2018 she joined the Szczecin Symphony Orchestra as a solo cellist. Czocher has also performed in many prestigious concert halls in Poland and abroad including in Germany, Lebanon, Serbia, Austria, Turkey, Portugal, United Kingdom and many more.

As a musician Czocher loves to expand spectrum of cello sound, oscillating between classical and contemporary music. Her long career as an award-winning chamber and orchestra musician means she feels comfortable mixing philharmonic music with more alternative approaches. Her major talent is to combine perfect cello technique with limitless imagination and expression. For many years she has been collaborating with her good friend, pianist Hania Rani. In 2015, they released album Biala Flaga, featuring their arrangements of Polish rockstar Grzegorz Ciechowski’s music, giving them a taste of recording success and leading to the yet more ambitious Inner Symphonies released by the Deutsche Grammophon. She has also collaborated with friend Hior Chronik playing among others at the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen, Nederlands. Czocher’s motto is to never stop growing and in the last year she lived up to this once again as she started composing her own music. One of her pieces entitled “Timelines” was included in “Project XII” created and released by the legendary Deutsche Grammophon. Her debut solo album “Dreamscapes” was released in 27th January by BMG / Modern Recordings.

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Isaiah Faber (born March 31, 1999), known professionally as Powfu, is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is the son of Dave Faber from the band Faber Drive. He amassed popularity following the release of his first charting single, "Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)", featuring Beabadoobee, which peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Career

In February 2020, he released the song "Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)", which featured a sample of Beabadoobee's debut single "Coffee". The single has received over 1 billion streams on Spotify as of June 2021, and peaked at number 23 on the BillboardHot 100 after amassing popularity through the video-sharing app TikTok. After re-releasing the single a year after, Powfu signed with Columbia Records in the US, in conjunction with Robots + Humans in the United Kingdom. The song appeared on the EP Poems of the Past, which was released on May 29, 2020. 

Powfu has released a special new song with fellow lo-fi artists Ouse and Snøw. The song arrives alongside an official video directed by longtime collaborator Aze. The song will be featured on the upcoming Flooding the Gates EP -a full collection of songs written and recorded by the 3 artists on the road during Powfu’s Flooding the GatesTour in June 2022.

After making his North American touring debut last year, Powfu is embarking on his debut European run this fall on his Gathered by the Lantern Tour, joined by recently announced support artists Cody Lawless and Ouse. Powfu will begin with a SOLD-OUT show in Amsterdam on September 23, play 10 total shows including the SOLD-OUT stop in Munich, and will conclude in Dublin on October 7. Remaining tickets are on sale now at https://www.powfuofficial.com/#tour. See full list of dates below.

Tour Dates
Date Country City Venue
Sat 23 Sep 2023 Netherlands Amsterdam Lovelee
Sun 24 Sep 2023 Germany Berlin Frannz Club
Tue 26 Sep 2023 Italy Milan Biko Club
Thu 28 Sep 2023 Spain Barcelona Razzmatazz Room 3
Sat 30 Sep 2023 Germany Munich Kranhalle
Sun 1 Oct 2023 France Paris Les Etoiles Theatre
Tue 3 Oct 2023 United Kingdom London O2 Academy Islington
Wed 4 Oct 2023 United Kingdom Birmingham O2 Institute 2
Fri 6 Oct 2023 United Kingdom Manchester Gorilla
Sat 7 Oct 2023 Ireland Dublin The Academy Green Room

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Interview by: Elmo Chong and Gina Choi (G.NA)

John Kim’s career has taken him across a diverse range of operating and investing environments from early-stage startups to fortune 500 companies. John is the founder of the cross-border venture capital firm Amasia, that helps technology companies get global. Amasia primarily invests in US tech companies from the pre-Series A to Series B stage and is open to investing at a later stage and in other geographies.

Before Amasia, John focused in finance, serving as Senior Vice President at Mercuria Energy Group, Executive Director at Goldman Sachs and Portfolio Manager at Korean National Investments. While in these roles he managed trading and investment strategies across a diverse set of asset classes including commodities, public and private equity, fixed income and derivatives.

John started his career as an entrepreneur, founding music internet and e-consulting businesses before joining Merck & Co as a System Specialist. He left Merck to start his third company, a Delaware incorporated rock band called The Ally. John toured across America and recorded with top artists most notably receiving a platinum record for his album contribution with Grammy award-winner Brandy.

More on John's VC Firm: https://amasia.vc

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Kelvin Wooten is a Grammy Award Winning producer who is currently based in Athens, Alabama. 

He plays multiple instruments and has arranged, written, and produced some of the top artists in the music industry. Some of the artists he has worked with are: J.Cole, Jasmine Sullivan, H.E.R., Kiana Lede, Anthony Hamilton, Earth, Wind & Fire, Mary J. Blige, Al Green, The Bee Gees, Nappy Roots, Jill Scott, Raphael Saadiq, Macy Gray, The Isley Brothers, Tony! Toni! Toné!, Eric Clapton and TLC. Mr. Wooten operates a studio and label called Woodaworx in Athens and one of the artists signed to his label is the rising star Deqn Sue. Her music has been played on the Netflix Series Orange is the New Black and she has been featured on NPR’s acclaimed Tiny Desk Concert series. He also wrote and produced the song “Freedom” for the Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained.

For more on Wu 10: https://www.woodaworx.com

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Andrew Choi (Hangul: 앤드류 최; Korean name: Choi Sung-hyun; Hangul: 최승주) is a South Korean singer and composer signed under SM Entertainment. He was known as third place of SBS's K-pop Star Season 2.

Discography:

2022  | Sugar | Young-Jae | Vocals (Background)
2021  | Ten Songs of Worship & Praise for Our Tumultuous Times | St. Lenox | Vocals, Guitar, Instrumentation, Composer
2021  | Doughnut | Twice | Composer
2020  | Universe: The Black Hall | Pentagon | Composer
2020  | Super One: The 1st Album | SuperM | Vocals (Background)
2020  | Neo Zone: The Final Round | NCT 127 | Composer
2020  | Neo Zone: The 2nd Album | NCT 127 | Vocals (Background)
2020  | Monster | Irene & Seulgi | Composer
2019  | SuperM: The 1st Mini Album | SuperM | Vocals (Background)
2019  | SSFW | Chanyeol | Composer
2019  | Obsession | EXO | Vocals (Background)
2019  | Neo City Seoul: The Origin | NCT 127 | Composer
2019  | Follow-Find You | Monsta X | Composer, Writer
2019  | Famous | Taemin | Composer


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