Aging Youth

Aging Youth Productions is a group of music lovers who began a production team to showcase music from Singapore. It was mainly born out of frustration amongst a group of friends, finding the chance to play at concerts to be extremely elusive. Thus, we decided to take the bull by its horns to organise our own gigs rather than to wait for someone’s handout.EventsIt all started with this event we organised. We invited our friends to play in the gig Spread The Love on Sunday 21 March 2004 at Soul Entertainment Pub, off Muhd Sultan Road. Held on a quiet night for the pub, we managed to make it a success, pulling in 80% of its maximum capacity.The concept of the event was to showcase different genres of rock music, running the gamut from indie rock to 80’s hard rock to an acoustic folk set. And we have been doing this event as our annual flagship event.These days, we still do organise gigs. However, we choose to focus on quality than quantity so the frequencies of our events are lower than our peers as well.The Aging YouthAfter a failed attempt to hold regular event nights in May 2004, we decided to re-invent ourselves to stand out among our contemporaries. We developed an online web-zine that is dedicated to both Singapore and foreign music. It is a conscious decision to feature artists of a global scale as well, emphasizing the fact that Singaporean musicians are no way inferior to their foreign counterparts. Artists who stand out for their innovativeness and the ability to creative emotive music have been featured in past issues. The Observatory, furniture, Electrico, the American Analog Set are just some of the acts which have appeared in our web-zine previously.Launched in July 2004, the web-zine targets the discerning music lover, aiming to deliver an entertaining and intellectual read. Every issue is updated monthly with weekly updates on news about Singapore bands/ artists. Artist interviews and album reviews in the web-zine serve to inform the public about our own artists, allowing their fan-base to delve into the minds of their favourite acts.In June 2007, we've revamped the site once more. In this current layout, we've gotten rid of the web-zine format. However, we are still retaining our interviews and reviews. All these articles will be updated on an as-and-when basis. So keep checking out our websiteRecord LabelIn May 2005, we help our good friends B-Quartet out by releasing their debut EP The Smitten Bard under our fledging indie record label, Aging Youth Records.The EP garnered rave reviews in our national paper, The Straits Times and secured airplay on radio stations such as POWER 98FM and Perfect 10 98.7FM. Singapore DJ legend X'Ho has played them on his morning show on Lush 99.5FM as well.B-Quartet - The Smitten Bard (Aging Youth)In 2006, we have released a compilation album, featuring Singapore's hottest and most popular acts in partnership with Music For Good, a charity organisation helping disadvantaged children. For Good contains contributions by Electrico, The Observatory, B-Quartet, Stoned Revivals, Documentary In Amber, Lunarin and many more. All proceeds of the album goes to fund Music For Good's activities.For Good compilation (Aging Youth)In April 2007, fledging post-rock quartet, Documentary In Amber has joined us to be under our stable of artistes. They released a 5 track self-titled EP, featuring a collaboration with Bani Haykal of B-Quartet.Documentary In Amber - Documentary In Amber (Aging Youth)In 2007, we are expecting to release more new albums by our current acts and new acts joining us as well. Progressive rock act Zero Sequence will be releasing their sophomore album Flight Of Transcendence in the 4th quarter of the year. Do keep a lookout for that too. It's going to be an exciting year.