inevitable.

Another Mixtape: Anticipation 2012

Matthew Fong — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:55:46 +0000

I can’t wait for festival season to start. Right now, it looks like I’m doing 1 festival a month. I’ve already started 2012 with the maiden voyage of Holy Ship and this month I’m attending Noise Pop for the first time. March is my typical trip to Austin for SXSW and then I’m heading down to Coachella in April. This will be my third time in a row for each of those festivals. I will probably find myself back at Lightning in a Bottle in May and Las Vegas for EDC in June. July is the big boy month. I’m planning on heading to Boom, Belgium for Tomorrowland! The mecca of electronic festival goers right now. August is up in the air but September will be my first time going to Burningman.

There is just something about festivals. The atmosphere, the environment, the people. It’s surreal and powerful. It only leaves you with Anticipation for the next rendezvous with the feeling. This mixtape is a collection of all the tracks that I can’t wait to sing, dance and wail to on grassy fields, dusty deserts and intergalactic space stations.

Download Anticipation 2012

Tracklist:
Inpetto – No More Serious Faces
Knife Party – Tourniquet
Tommy Trash – Future Folk
Mord Fustang – We Are Now Connected
J Flash – Swag
Aaron Smith Ft. Luvli – Dancin (Laidback Luke Remix)
Skrillex – Breakn’ A Sweat (Zedd Remix)
Hardwell – Spaceman
Porter Robinson – Unison (Mikkas Remix)
Michael Calfan vs Dirty South & Those Usual Suspects feat. Erik Hecht – Resurrection Alone (Proxy Figura Bootleg)
Michael Brun – Dawn (Hardwell Edit)
Ian Carey & Rosette feat. Timbaland & Brasco – Amnesia (CAZZETTE Another Sugar Hunt Mix)
Chris Lake – Sundown (Laidback Luke Remix)
Sean Paul – She Doesn’t Mind (Dutch Primez Bootleg)
Avicii & Nicky Romero vs. Bjornberg vs. Justice – Fuck Absolut D.A.N.C.E. (Pixel Cheese Bootleg)
Sebastian Ingrosso ft. Alesso – Calling
Kaskade with Rebecca & Fiona – Turn It Down
Afrojack & Shermanology – Can’t Stop Me Now (Club Mix)
Ivan Gough & Feenixpawl feat. Georgi Kay – In My Mind (Axwell Mix)
Jack Back ft. David Guetta, Nicky Romero & Sia – Wild One Two

New Mixtape: VOCAL

Matthew Fong — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:36:32 +0000

Hello again. This is my little tribute to the amazing women who lend their voices to EDM. When they hit those high notes or lull you with their sweet tones, you can’t help but sing and dance along!

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?a39a2w7acwbrb3x

Tracklist:

Wynter Gordon – Til Death
Studio Killers – Ode To The Bouncer
deadmau5 feat. Greta Svabo Bach – Raise Your Weapon (Madeon Remix)
Morgan Page, Sultan & Ned Shepard, BT feat Angela McCluskey – In the Air (Hardwell Remix)
Lykke Li – I Follow Rivers (The Oos & Ahhs Remix)
Skylar Grey – Dance Without You (Monsta Mix)
Nadia Ali – Rapture (Avicii New Generation Extended Mix)
NERVO feat. Afrojack & Steve Aoki – We’re All No One
Adrian Lux Feat Rebecca & Fiona (Beataucue Remix)
Afrojack & Steve Aoki Feat. Miss Palmer – No Beef
David Guetta Feat. Sia – Titanium
Leona Lewis – Collide (Afrojack Festival Remix)

Enjoy!

Electric Daisy Memories – Songs from the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas 2011

Matthew Fong — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:44:05 +0000

Last weekend I was in Vegas for the Electric Daisy Carnival. This was my first time but it most certainly won’t be my last…I had a blast! The lineup was sick, the stages were massive and the whole experience as a whole was bliss. This mixtape is a collection of the top tracks that I remember hearing at EDC (minus the brand new tracks that haven’t been released yet). It’s a great collection of house and I think I did a pretty good job putting it together if I may pat myself on the back. I hope you enjoy it.

Electric Daisy Memories – Matthew Fong

Tracklisting:
Songs from Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas 2011
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Coming Home (Dirty South Club Mix) – Diddy-Dirty Money (feat. Skylar Grey)
Awooga – Calvin Harris
My Feelings For You – Avicii & Sebastian Drums
Hey Boy Hey Girl – Chemical Brothers
Sweet Dreams (Avicii Sweeder Dreams Mix) – Avicii
Crush on You (Nero Remix) – The Jets
Reasons (Doctor P Remix) – 12th Planet & Juakali
Cinmea (Skrillex Remix) – Benny Benassi feat. Gary Go
All I Ask of You (with Penny) – Skrillex
The End – Tommy Trash
Move It 2 The Drum – Chuckie & Hardwell
Flash (Nicky Romero Remix) – Green Velvet
Koko Prutataaa (First State Bashup) – Sander Van Doorn vs Afrojack & R3hab
Sweet Disposition (Axwell & Dirty South Remix) – Temper Traps
Pressure (Alesso Remix) – Nadia Ali, Starkillers & Alex Kenji
Sun & Moon (Club Mix) – Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford
The Island (Steve Angello, AN21 & Max Vangeli Remix) – Pendulum
Save The World – Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin

Download Link
Let me know what you think! -@matthewfong

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Matthew Fong — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:04:46 +0000

So I wanted to hit every major music festival in the US this year. Doesn’t look like that’ll be happening but I’m still going to most. I started off with South By Southwest in Austin, TX then went straight to Ultra Music Festival in Miami, FL and this upcoming weekend I’ll be going down to Indio, CA for Coachella. After that, Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, NV, Outside Lands in San Francisco, CA and Treasure Island Music Festival on Treasure Island off the coast of San Fran are on my list. Depending on the lineup, I might go to Lollapalooza in Chicago, IL as well but I doubt I’ll be heading to Manchester, TN for Bonnaroo…the lineup just didn’t do it for me…maybe next year

Anyway, I’m between festivals right now before a pretty lengthy break so I’m in full music hype mode. Here’s a mixtape of some of the best tracks played at Ultra mixed with what I’m looking forward to hearing at Coachella.

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?9hg07vauwya5bwx

Tracklisting:

Martin Solveig & Dragonette – Hello (LIVE From Ultra 2011)
Laidback Luke & Jonathan Mendelsohn – Till Tonight
Laidback Luke & Steve Aoki Ft. Lil Jon – Turbulence
Wolfgang Gartner – Space Junk
Swedish House Mafia – Gangsta
Benny Benassi Ft. Gary Go – Cinema (Skrillex Remix)
Green Velvet – Flash (Nicky Romero Remix)
Robyn – Dancing On My Own
Cee-Lo Green Ft. Wiz Khalifa – Bright Lights, Bigger City (Remix)
Magnetic Man Ft. Angela Hunte – I Need Air
Martin Solveig Ft. Kele – Ready 2 Go
Wolfgang Gartner Ft. Will.I.Am – Forever
David Guetta Ft. Flo Rida & Nicki Minaj – Where Dem Girls At
Robyn – Call Your Girlfriend (Feed Me Remix)
Tiesto & Mark Knight Ft. Dino – Beautiful World

Will You Be My Valentine? No? Well here’s a mixtape anyway

Matthew Fong — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:31:02 +0000

Happy Valentine’s Day <3

There were so many good songs on my iPod that I decided to make a new mixtape in celebration of the day of love. It’s a mix of Hip Hop Pop House R&B and a lil bit of Reggae…hope you enjoy.

Tracklisting:

David Guetta ft. Kelly Rowland – When Love Takes Over
David Correy – My Queen
Bruno Marks ft. Lil Wayne – Grenade (Remix)
DJ BC – Could You Be Love Gamed? (Bob Marley vs Lady Gaga)
Benny Benassi ft. Chris Brown – Beautiful People
T-Pain ft. Chris Brown – Best Love Song
Pitbull ft. T-Pain – Hey Baby (Afrojack Fire Remix)
Akon & Clinton Sparks – Unless We F#*?in
City High ft. Eve – Caramel
Blackstreet & Mya ft. Mase – Take Me There
Keri Hilson – Make Love
Boyz II Men – I’ll Make Love To You
The Lonely Island ft. Akon – I Just Had Sex
Alex Gaudino – I’m In Love I Wanna Do It
Taio Cruz ft. Kylie Minogue & Travis McCoy – Higher
Far East Movement ft. Ryan Tedder – Rocketeer
David Guetta ft. RaVaughn Brown – Love Machine

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?qrbdp9jj26992qh

What I’ve Been Listening To….Volume 1

Matthew Fong — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:51:18 +0000

I decided to make a mixtape. I don’t think I’ve made one since high school so pardon the crapiness…especially in the beginning. After stopping trying to do fancy stuff, the tape actually doesn’t sound that bad. It goes from pop to hip hop to dubstep and house and then you get lost Here it is: http://www.mediafire.com/?bsohmyodzkkg109

And here’s the tracklisting:

Just The Way You Are – Bruno Mars
Yeah 3x – Chris Brown
Mr. Right Now – Pitbull Ft. Akon
Last Night – Ian Carey Ft. Bobby Anthony & Snoop Dogg
Little Bad Girl – David Guetta Ft. Taio Cruz
Ghosts Without Hands – Waka Flocka Ft Roscoe Dash & Wale vs deadmau5 (Young Slade and Disko Drew Bootleg)
Black & Yellow – T-Pain w/ Wiz Khalifa (T-Mix)
Whip My Hair – Nicki Minaj w/ Willow Smith (Remix)
Kick Us Out – Hyper Crush Ft. Clinton Sparks (Get Familiar Remix)
DJ Got Us Fallin in Love Again – Usher Ft. Pitbull & Hyper Crush (Hyper Crush Remix)
Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites – Skrillex
Bromance – Tim Berg (Avicii’s Arina Mix)
Me & You – Nero
With Your Friends (Long Drive) – Skrillex
Space Junk – Wolfgang Gartner (Original Mix)

BigScreenTweets.com – See Which Movie Stars, Cast, and Crew Members Have Twitter!

Matthew Fong — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:10:42 +0000

With my holiday tradition (I launched advancescreenings.com redesign on Thanksgiving and what2see.com on Christmas), I was planning to launch this site on New Years Day but everyone was out getting drunk so nobody would’ve seen it anyway. My newest site is called BigScreenTweets. A few months ago I made TwIMDb and this is the companion site.

To refresh your memory, TwIMDb is a browser extension which shows you twitter links on IMDb. I’ve updated the extensions to also show an IMDb link on user’s #newtwitter pages. I didn’t bother coding for the old layout since it’s supposed to be history in a couple of days or so. You can get the Google Chrome or Mozilla FireFox here.

BigScreenTweets.com is the companion site which is basically a mashup of IMDb and Twitter. You can search through upcoming movies and see which cast and crew members on twitter. There’s a stream at the bottom of the latest tweets and you can see which movies have the most twitter users (in my words, the most social movies). If this site gets traffic and has wings, I’ll build more on to it to see relevant movie tweets like twitpics from set or calls for extras, screenings, and whatnot.

BigScreenTweets.com Screenshot

By following actors, directors, writers, producers, and crew members, you can get a new look into films while they’re being made, thought of, or promoted. True fans can follow along on set while the movie is being made without having to travel to Hollywood, Toronto, or wherever else their making movies these days. Movies are already starting to get their own twitter accounts like Scream 4 (@Scream4) and Faster Five (@FastFurious) but most have horrible follow counts like Season of the Witch (@SOTWthemovie) which is the new Nicolas Cage movie that comes out this weekend with only 125 followers at the time of this post. This site will help those PR accounts out and get more interaction with fans hopefully tying up a loose knot in the movie/fan connection.

Hope you guys enjoy and please feel free to give me any feedback on any of my sites…more to come.

What’s holiday next? Martin Luther King Day? Maybe I’ll actually code http://whatholidayistoday.com/ …

My Top 10 Movies of 2010

Matthew Fong — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:05:55 +0000

I posted this on my movie site, advancescreenings.com: http://advancescreenings.com/2010/12/2010-top-10-movies/ but I’ll add a little more here…

Comedies were lacking this year but I liked Dinner for Schmucks, Love and Other Drugs, The Virginity Hit, She’s out of my League, Going the Distance, and City Island but feel like I have to watch them again to see if I still liked them…they didn’t blow me away the first time.

Intellectually, other than Inception and Splice, I really liked Creation, The Kids Are Alright, and The Joneses. Creation stared one of my favorite actors, Paul Bettany with his real life wife as his on screen wife, and told the story of early Darwin. The Kids Are Alright should win some awards for its story and acting…it’s today’s crazy family comedic drama but ran too dull in the end. The Joneses was a nice social commentary on capitalism and social marketing…wish they would’ve done more with it though. Same with The Kids Are Alright, the ending didn’t do it justice.

On the animation side of things, How to Train Your Dragon, Toy Story 3, and Tangled were all wonderful…I couldn’t make up my mind on which was better than the others so I couldn’t figure out if that was just the norm of a great animation film or if they’re all stand out.

Action! was pretty on point in 2010…more of the same but still pleased. From Paris With Love was a nice surprise as well as Harry Brown…very gritty. Iron Man 2 was Iron Man 2.

The surprises for me this year were Step Up 3D and Flipped. Yeah, I know. Step Up 3D’s 3D was awesomesauce. I hear the UK 3D dance film is even better but I don’t live in the uk, so too bad. Flipped was a wonderful family movie I think every mother should watch with their daughter…it’s like precious film making man, shed a tear.

I still need to see:

The Secret in Their Eyes
Winter’s Bone
I Am Love
Waiting for Superman
Enter the Void
Inside Job
Monsters
127 Hours
The King’s Speech
The Illusionist
Mother

2010 was eh for films. Anything that will blow your mind? No, just cuts and edits of the same stories…maybe I just saw too many and they all ran together. Hoe well, here’s what I put on advance screenings:

Black Swan. This is an obvious. Darren Aronofsky gave us another glimpse into his creative mind. Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, and Vincent Cassel gave us amazing performances that took us on a roller coaster of emotions. This is probably the best “film” of the year…and when I say film, I mean pure quality and a true example of what the medium can do.

The Fighter. This movie offered a powerful punch in the form of a compelling true life story about family and determination. The movie sneaks up on you and is quite gripping by the end. It’s not just another rise to the top sports film, it’s more about the trials and tribulations that this fighter’s family had to endure and overcome…or get through.

The Social Network. I think everyone can agree that this was a fantastic movie. Based on the story of Mark Zuckerberg and his eventual rise to Time’s Person of the Year via Facebook. Everyone is already on the site so everybody wanted to see how the story unravelled. Surprisingly though, David Fincher signed on to the Aaron Sorkin script and magic was made. It starred Jesse Eisenberg who we won’t hear the last of. He might be the most underrated actor this year and had a slew of great films including Solitary Man and Holy Rollers.

Kick-Ass. Comic book movies are not done and they’re not all for kids…even if they star a kid. This was a great movie showing the shift in times with our generation. Are we desensitized from violence? Does it matter? THIS MOVIE KICKED ASS.

Exit Through The Gift Shop. My jaw was on the floor throughout this whole film…it was amazing. This is the Banksy film which exposed us to the underground culture of street art and Banksy himself. Told in a documentary style, it was hilarious and entertaining. I’m a fan of Banksy, but even if you aren’t, you should definitely check this one out.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. This is the most fun I had in a movie theater all year long. Out of all the movies on this list and of this year, I think this is the one that will have the most influence on film making. It’s a breathe of fresh air that was spot on for the next generation of filmmakers. I think in a decade or two we’re going to see a lot of movies that use this as inspiration.

Splice. You might be surprised to see this on the list as it had a huge divide in acceptance. I enjoyed it tremendously and thought it was a beautiful interpretation of old monster movies told for the current audience. It had a formula and stuck to it while expanding on different undertones like family and the supernatural.

Inception. Now you know this has to be on the list. Just like The Social Network, almost everyone can agree that this was one of the most amazing movies of the year. It had people talking for days, weeks, and months after. With the DVD just coming out, people are still trying to figure out every bit of the story. I thank Christopher Nolan for creating a story and vision that broke from the common Hollywood stereotypes and tell an intelligent story that people could still enjoy. Again, ask yourself…who was the villain?

Pelada. You might have never heard of this film…but now you have and now you need to go find it. It’s the story of two American soccer players who never made it passed college games. They travel the world playing pick up games with different cultures learning the stories of how important the game is to people while answering the one question that has a million answers: “Why do you play?”.

Now, with every top there has to be a bottom. Here are my flops of 2010: Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans, Babies, Charlie St. Cloud, Eat Pray Love, Never Let Me Go, My Soul to Take, Skyline, and TRON: Legacy.

Happy New Post 2011!

Matthew Fong — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:01:53 +0000

So last year I made a post on January 1st 2010 planning out what I’d do in 2010 called Happy New Post! but didn’t really update my blog regularly…I blame twitter for that.

Anyway, let’s look back at what I actually did…surprisingly, I pretty much did what I said I would and then some! I got to meet so many amazing people and do such ridiculous things…I’m truly gracious and glad to still be alive

January

BCS Orange Bowl
Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
NFL Pro Bowl

February

Cirque Du Soleil’s OVO

March

South By Southwest Conferences and Festivals
WonderCon

April

Coachella Music Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival

May

Web 2.0 Conference
Bay 2 Breakers

June

The Goonies 25th Anniversary in Astoria, OR
FIFA World Cup in South Africa

July

Comic-Con

August

Random 2 Weeks in Southeast Asia
Cirque du Soleil’s Zaia

September

JetBlue’s All You Can Jet
Cirque Du Soleil’s Alegria
Fantastic Fest

October

Cirque du Soleil’s Believe
Treasure Island Music Festival

November

Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza

December

Cirque du Soleil’s Cirque Week
Cirque du Soleil’s Viva Elvis
Grand Canyon
DanceGiving Music Festival

Basically I did everything I planned out to do except Outside Lands, Burning Man, and the inevitable but never happening moving to San Francisco . Outside Lands lineup terribly upset me and my roommate had a wedding the weekend of Burning Man (he learned to fly so we were going to take a small plane and camp out under the wing…maybe this year).

Added to the list were a bunch of randoms: I changed my flight a day for the NFL Pro Bowl that was in town for a year instead of the traditional Hawaii venue. My friend is a huge Goonie fan (bigger than I am) so we went to the 25th anniversary in Astoria, OR…it was so remote. It was an eerie feeling thinking I went from a smaller than small town on the coast of Oregon to the biggest spectacle of 2010: The World Cup in South Africa. My company was sold and all employees laid off. On my birthday, I asked if anyone wanted to go to China so a co-worker and I went on a random trip to southeast Asia…it was amazing. If you haven’t noticed…I’m addicted to Cirque du Soleil…I got to see 7 shows this year. (3 new, 2 I had already seen, and 1 I saw twice). AND Cirque announced their first ever Cirque Week with behind the scene access in Vegas so I just had to go….and did while using the opportunity to take a trip with my mom and see the Grand Canyon which is pretty epic.

I had all intentions to make 2010 an amazing year. I wasn’t able to travel for a while before so I dusted off my passport and made sure to fly as much as I could. I flew every single month of the year…something I doubt I’d ever be able to accomplish again. I spent 251h and 53m going 108,868 miles…that’s around the world 4 times over 10 1/2 days.

So what about 2011? I’m actually not looking forward to 2011. I don’t know why…but I have an uneasy feeling about it. I need to get back to work and make money again lol so this might be a “working” year. This isn’t totally a bad thing…I wouldn’t want to get stuck in a rut into going to the same things and seeing the same people. I know I won’t be going to as many conferences this year but I may try and go to more music festivals. Here’s what I’m thinking…

January: Wobbleland in SF
February: Noise Pop in SF
March: SXSW in Austin, Ultra in Miami, WonderCon in SF (this is going to be the most ridiculous month ever)
April: Coachella in Indio
May: San Francisco International Film Festival in SF
June: Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN? (I really want to make this happen)
July: Comic-Con in San Diego?
August: Lollapalooza in Chicago? Outside Lands in SF
September: Electric Zoo in NY? Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert? If JetBlue offers it again, All You Can Jet!
October: Treasure Island in SF
November: ?
December: ?

Merry Christmas…your present? what2see.com

Matthew Fong — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:52:07 +0000

what2see.com was actually the first domain name I ever bought back in 2003 (I was in high school). Even since then, I have been obsessed with movies. I wanted to create a simple see it or skip it type review site. I must have designed and coded it a million times but I was a perfectionist. what2see.com turned into a sandbox for me with random ideas. It actually became one of the most visited sites a couple times when I posted that infamous three way lesbian kiss between Madonna, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera from the MTV Video Muisc Awards and then the leaked images from Valve Software’s Half Life 2 video game. I got some emails from angry lawyers for that one =/. But basically, what2see.com never became anything. I had the idea for a website that would list advance screenings and while developing that stumbled on the domain name advancescreenings.com (where the site lives now).

Now with advance screenings up and running, I go to A LOT of movies…and I mean a lot. A couple of my friends are also hooked so I wanted to create a review site for us all to compare what we thought (even before the movies were released in theaters). You’d be surprised how hard it is to talk about a movie when nobody else has seen it! I’ve always loved the way EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly), a video game magazine, did their reviews back in the day. They had their reviewers each say what they thought about the movie so you could compare different opinions. They also had Sushi-X! I took that inspiration of compare and contrast with alter egos and combined it with set structured questions so you can get the gist on any movie.

The result is the new movie review site: what2see.com. Throughout 2011, we’ll be reviewing almost every movie that comes out and giving unbiased straight-forward opinions of them. It’s interesting…most movie critics out there are the the same and leech off each other’s input and studios’ hype to formulate their reviews. In my opinion, most people just want to know if they would enjoy a movie or not and get the opinion of someone they can relate to. The movie could be terrible but be really fun to watch…people want to know that. With the review crew of what2see.com, you have 2 guys and 2 girls from all corners of the United States. This way, you get a wide variety of opinions.

I built the site in a couple days so there isn’t too much fancy stuff going on. It’s a simple grid layout to easily compare and contrast ideas. I’m going to add a voting mechanism so the reviews will be ordered in the way that the public wants them. There are a set of structured questions as well as a few custom questions for each movie. I hope the tone is light and fun so the reviews will be as entertaining (or more) than the actual movie. In my holiday release obsession, I’m launching this for Christmas (I launched the advancescreenings.com redesign on Turkey Day). This is probably a stupid move since no movies come out between now and a week into the New Year but hey, gives me some time to work out the kinks, right?

Happy Holidays.