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Aug 10, 20205 min read

WHAT THE HELL HAS HAPPENED?

By Hans Ebert Visit: www.fasttrack.hk When and how did it all become so confusing? So complicated? So difficult? When looking for what’s...

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Dec 20, 20184 min read

GETTING TO KNOW THE WORLD OF MUSIC ALL OVER AGAIN

By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com Yesterday, popular record store HMV announced that it’s closing its doors in Hong Kong after being...

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Aug 30, 20185 min read

LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN…

By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It’s stating the obvious to say that the Beatles were special. But to someone who decided to drop a...

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Jul 22, 20187 min read

WHY THE HONG KONG MUSIC SCENE REMAINS STUNTED

By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com “We’re not pushing the envelope. We’re licking the envelope.” I said that to a musician friend of...

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Mar 26, 20179 min read

SINGAPORE HAS TABITHA NAUSER. HONG KONG HAS???

By Hans Ebert It takes a lot to laugh, and a train to cry, and, sometimes, it takes someone or everyone to plant a seed for inspiration...

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Aug 21, 20167 min read

GET OFF THE MERRY GO ROUND AND MAKE YOUR MUSIC TRAVEL

By Hans Ebert To those musicians who think that performing covers is beneath them- and most who think like this are those still to make...

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Aug 5, 20163 min read

JOHN LENNON AND LIFE LESSONS

By Hans Ebert We don’t know it, but we’re letting things get away from us. Like being stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues...

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May 2, 20165 min read

AND THEN CAME LUKAS GRAHAM

By Hans Ebert There’s a track out called “7 Years” by Danish band Lukas Graham that’s been on Repeat at home and in my head for the past...

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Apr 30, 201610 min read

CAN HONG KONG GET ITS MOJO BACK? AND HOW ARE YOU GOING TO HELP?

By Hans Ebert FOR STARTERS Before one moves forward, there’s a need to revisit the past. It humbles you. Speaking recently with...

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Mar 11, 20163 min read

GEORGE MARTIN AND HIS MAGICAL MYSTERY TOURS

By Hans Ebert It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry, and it too often takes a death to bring everything into perspective. When...

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Dec 28, 20156 min read

Keeping things as simple as a #JustinBieber and #SelenaGomez song

By Hans Ebert It’s good to get away from daily routines. It clears the head, let’s in some much-needed fresh air to make the fog and...

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Dec 22, 20157 min read

What’s holding back Asian artists singing in English? Is The Force not with them?

By Hans Ebert While Hong Kong’s so-called English “music scene” meanders along with the usual suspects “jizzing” away imagining that...

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Nov 21, 20154 min read

The Cult Of Adele: Is it all it’s cracked up to be? Or just cracked?‏

By Hans Ebert There’s an awful lot written about “25”, the new record by Adele that’s been four years in the making. Most of everything...

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Nov 16, 20156 min read

The A&R process and is it lost in translation?

By Hans Ebert There’s been a great deal of chatter recently about this term known as “A&R” (Artists and Repertoire), its importance,...

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Nov 5, 20155 min read

Suffering from Adeleosiphilitis and looking for Honesty In Music

By Hans Ebert Suffering from Adeleosiphilitis? Tired to watch one more spoof of the dear lady’s “Hello”, the uniquely titled first track...

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Dec 11, 20133 min read

THE STAYING POWER OF THE BEATLES

Say what you will- and even though I heard a track by Clash being played on an online horse racing channel today- the Beatles HAVE to be...

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Oct 11, 20134 min read

CAN TIM COOK AN APPLE STRUDEL?

I’m like a dog with a bone when I truly believe in and what I TRULY believe in is that Apple provides a platform or a showcase for all...

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Jan 7, 20133 min read

To copyright or copy wrong?

Sometimes you start writing and you have no idea where it will lead and how it will end and which is why words and linking them with...

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Dec 13, 20124 min read

STILL LOUNGING AROUND

The last Bitchback post of what are usually fobbed off as “lounge singers” versus those who have cred ‘cos they play clubs has been...

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Nov 19, 20124 min read

WE HAD GREAT F***ING TEACHERS- BUT HAVE WE PASSED ON WHAT WE HAVE LEARNT?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gwLQAuHJv8 One can have music conferences until the sacred cows come home, but what none of these tribal...

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