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Edmund Gin  
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 More options Jul 1 1996, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong.entertainment
From: Edmund Gin <e...@unixg.ubc.ca>
Date: 1996/07/01
Subject: [Beyond] The invasion

Through their signing with Amuse and Fun House, Beyond had opened up
another territory that was initially impervious to most HK singers: Japan.
Very few people had successfully broken into the Japan market, whereas many
Japanese singers and songwriters had had their game day with HK (at the
time, most "hits" were covers of Japanese songs).  I guess Beyond thought
that "tit for tat" was fair.  Though one of their primary objectives was
the expansion into the Japanese market, they never left their main
objective out of sight, which was to produce quality music.  It was in
Japan that Beyond finally forged a music that people can call "Chinese
rock", something that was being simultaneously made on the mainland, under
different objectives and scenario (resulting in two equally strong versions
of Chinese rock and roll).  The dance wave was just starting up with most
western musicians, and this started a similar occurance in HK.  Unbothered,
and true to their rock background, Beyond forged onwards, releasing their
smash hit CD "Gai Juk Gap Ming/Continue the Revolution" at the end of July
in 1992.  This was heavily "Chinese folk"-influenced rock music, with a
dash of "good ol' rock" and a pinch of the "Beyond sound".  "The
Wall/Cheung Sing", "Noong Mun/Farmers", and "Wun Neun dik Ga Heung/Warm
Hometown" are classic examples of the former, the tracks "Bye-bye" and "But
Ho Yat Sai/Bad Attitude" examples of the second, and "Yiu Mong", "Mo Yue
Mun Chong Teen", and "Gai Juk Chum Jui" the latter.

At the end of the same year, they released a Mandarin CD under Rock
Records.  This would prove to be their opening to another dimension: a
semi-indy label with the potential to get them back to HK.

While they were signed to Amuse, they frequently flew back and forth
between HK and Japan.  This was partially due to promoting their release,
and partially due to their accepting invitations to perform at concerts.
At the beginning of 1993, though, things had calmed down, and they were
preparing to record another release; their last release with Warner in
Japan.


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