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I love finding new music, especially when it’s Chinese music because I don’t have a lot of opportunities to be exposed to good Chinese music where I live. It’s not the most culturally diverse place on earth. The other day I found a great album by a Hong Kong-based group called inLove. The album is called “冒險 Realm”（in English “Risk Realm”).

The tracks are all pretty mellow and soothing, but none are boring. The group makes good use of horns, bongo drums, violins, and other instruments for effect. There are also some pleasant vocal harmonies (although nothing spectacularly different from anything else I’ve heard) and a couple of instrumental tracks. Over all, it’s a great album. And there’s a plus for you language geeks and sinophiles out there: the album’s vocals are in both Mandarin and Cantonese, so you don’t have to pick one or the other to enjoy good music. You can have them both on one album.

Listen to the album on Last.fm here. 　Once you fall in love with it, you can buy it on YesAsia.com (link goes to product page).

Mankind has used his intellectual might to come up with some amazing things:  airplanes, automobiles, microwaves, telephones, plastics, the ability to travel into space.

Of course, mankind has also come up with all kinds of things that were probably better left un-created:  guns, nuclear bombs, USB computer-humping dogs…

Still no cure for cancer…

Do the Japanese have some kind of blood flow problem? Are they all anemic or something that makes them all cold-natured? Is Japan a much colder country than I think it is? There’s something funky going on cos they’ve got this obsession with warming EVERY part of your body. They’ve invented USB-everything-warmers. Some things I can understand, like USB hand-warmers and maybe even USB foot warmers. But the newest product is the USB eye warmer! What the heck?! When was the last time you said, “Man, my eyes are FREEZING!”??? Probably NEVER, right? Yeah, that’s cos it just doesn’t happen. So what could be going on? Is there some kind of strange Japanese conspiracy going on that’s just too far above my little mind’s ability to figure out? I’m intrigued…

Products here.