If music has a future, where and what is it?
By Hans Ebert Visit: www.fasttrack.hk You start out making music for fun. Some give this up and get a real job, well, as real as any job...
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Dec 3, 20186 min read
HAPPY WEDNESDAY: WHAT A STRANGE TRIP IT’S BEEN GETTING HERE
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It used to be only about the Beer Garden. It was actually a friend in horse racing from Melbourne who...
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Apr 29, 20173 min read
JULIA WU, TAIWAN AND TERRY LEE
By Hans Ebert Once in a while you hear someone new and you just have to hear more from where that came. And in this world of clutter and...
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Apr 6, 20177 min read
STEVE LILLYWHITE AND KFC AND PET SOUNDS
By Hans Ebert We have to first switch it all off, take a deep breath, exhale and switch it back on. Switch off that television. Switch...
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Nov 5, 20168 min read
MUSIC AND THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
By Hans Ebert It’s reached a point where it’s not even a case of Them versus Us. It’s finally come around to how to get around legalese...
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Oct 14, 20162 min read
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB CREATES A NEW TYPE OF RECORD
In an age where the success of anything is based largely on Views and Likes, reach, awareness, and the immediacy of the message through...
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Jul 12, 20166 min read
WHY DO MUSIC COMPANIES IN THIS REGION HIRE SO MANY TOOLS?
By Hans Ebert Of course, every music company is different, and some actually veer towards the positive side of being good. But, good...
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Apr 7, 20164 min read
STORYTELLERS AND WHY THE MUSIC INDUSTRY DESPERATELY NEEDS A DAMN GOOD AD AGENCY
By Hans Ebert Maybe it was listening to Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited album after all these years, and hearing his stories put to music-...
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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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Dec 16, 20157 min read
Mainland China is potentially the biggest music market in the world? Still? Oh, please.
By Hans Ebert A friend in horse racing recently asked who I thought was the best music executive in Asia. The answer was easy: No one. If...
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Oct 22, 20156 min read
MAX HOLE
By Hans Ebert There are music guys who become music executives, there are music executives who should never have been allowed into the...
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Dec 10, 20133 min read
HONG KONG AND JUST DOING IT – BADLY
Monkey-see, monkey-do. It’s what most of Hong Kong is afflicted with and if, somehow, someone, somewhere, either in Hong Kong or The Pied...
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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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Dec 3, 20125 min read
MISS NORAH JONES, JE T’ADORE.
We hear a lot about “career development” when it comes to artists, and, these days, apart from Carrie Underwood, there is a laundry list...
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Dec 16, 20111 min read
GUY HANDS, “CRUST” AND MAKING TOAST OF EMI
Before he and his Terra Firma Terrarists stomped in with their bovver boots and tried to fix EMI just as they had fixed the toilets on...
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Sep 20, 20112 min read
“SUPER GIRL” TV SHOW NOT SO SUPER IN CHINA ANYMORE?
We read the piece below and had to have a long, hard think. And then we laughed: China’s ‘Super Girl’ TV Show Is Pulled For Household...
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