20Hz Deep: Heavy beats and tripping visuals

It'll be a purpose-built venue for the Heineken Green Room that's supposedly a "visual and sonic blitzkrieg with customized light projections and visualizations of the music soundscape" to be launched on May 22 at 2 Orchard Link. The "20Hz Deep" themed location, named after the lowest sound that the human ear can register, will kick off with two international artistes -- Kode9 from the United Kingdom and Kyle Hall from Detroit in the United States.

The Heineken Green Room is a program to showcase up-coming musicians and relative unknowns before they become mainstream fads. It's a by-invite only music 'club' for members and has been kicking around since 2002. In the local music scene, the Heineken Green Room has been responsible for bringing artistes like The Cuban Brothers, The Rakes, Moderat, and most recently The Gaslamp Killer to these shores. 

International line-up

20Hz Deep is no different, with South London-based musician Kode9 and 18-year-old music producer Kyle Hall headlining the opening events. Kode9's music is known for being difficult to define, but always with a heavy sub bass. Currently, Kode9's DJ sets span across a selection of dancehall influenced bass heavy skank, grime and dubstep. He last performed in Singapore in the Heineken Music Club at Esplanade’s 2008 Mosaic Music Festival in 2008. 

Kyle Hall is particularly interested as a musical talent -- he's been actively involved in Detroit’s house music scene since the age of 11, when local legend DJ Raybone Jones taught him how to spin records. He released his debut record at 16, introducing his music to a wider audience for the first time. Hall's also in heavy demand for his deejaying skills, with gigs scheduled at world-class clubs including London’s Fabric and Berlin’s Panorama Bar.

If you want to head along you'll need to go to the website (see below) and sign up.

Camp Pong

The Heineken Green Room's not all about deejays and underground music. They're also behind Camp Pong, Singapore’s first ever pop-up ping pong bar. Yes you read it right -- ping pong, as in table tennis, played by people in short shorts with wooden paddles. It's a just-for-fun amateur league that emphasizes style over substance and involves teams made up of Singapore's creative community, lifestyle movers and shakers, as well as by the public. Heineken Green Room Sound Council member Tracy Phillips will give a preview of Camp Pong at the Heineken Green Room on May 29th, where it will operate daily for six weeks till July 11. It's a precursor to a new lifestyle concept store-café that opens in August 2010 at the same address.

getting there

Heineken Green Room -- 20Hz Deep
2 Orchard Link
May 22, 2010
www.heineken.com.sg/greenroom