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Recorded at The Black Swan, Singapore Date: 14 May 2016 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ELECTRO BALL 2016 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to @sunshine-nation's ELECTRO BALL 2016 extravaganza! Immerse yourself into the vibrant ballrooms and cross-cultural confluence of Shanghai in its 20s/30s, the so-called “Paris of Asia”, which even surpassed its European counterpart with the sheer volume of sights and sounds offered to bold adventurers from far and wide. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– THEME: Shanghai in its roaring 20s/30s ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– For this year’s Electro Ball we pay homage to SHANGHAI in the 1920s and 30s tantalised the British, American, French and Chinese alike with its lawless streets and dens of sumptuous iniquity. Known as "the wickedest city in the world," artists, politicians, entrepreneurs, diplomats and the dispossessed roamed it's winding streets, chasing thrills at every turn. Strains of jazz mingled with Hollywood film music and Chinese folk melodies in the night air, while this heady sonic melange drew the ire of burgeoning leftist and Nationalist movements, who denounced these hypnotic new sounds as "opium for the masses.” ► THE BLACK SWAN • Electro-swing and live-music Floor hosted by AVNEESH (@electrocaine) supported live by: ASHLEY HOWARD & PABLO TANI Note: Filters are for the trumpet and saxophone which unfortunately are not on this recording. Pictures: http://bit.ly/2bzcdbg