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PRESS RELEASE
20, February 2013 : Kuala Lumpur
TheVoice Independent Music Awards Night (VIMA) 2013, released its list of early awards winners last week. VIMA, now in its 5th year since its inception, has grown from a Malaysian based awards platform to include participation and recognition of independent and unsigned music acts from Indonesia, Singapore and Brunei.
The early favourite was Singapore’s female hip-hopper, Masia One who bagged two awards, with the Thank You For Existing Award and for Best collaboration, for which she shared honours with 2 Grammy winners, Pharell and producer Che Vicious for the song “Errrybody”.
The winners were selected based on tabulated scores from global judges, international celebrities, music experts, public voting and social media presence.
10 main categories will be announced in the upcoming VIMA MUSIC AWARDS NIGHT to be held at The View G Tower, Kuala Lumpur on Feb 24th,2013.The event will be held from 6.30pm to 11.30pm.
VIMA has also collaborated with Sony Music Malaysia of which the Song Of The Year winner will stand to be signed up for a 2 song release with the label. Sony Music Malaysia will also work with VIMA to release a special Indie CD album that will feature 18 of the best tracks from VIMA 2013.

The List of early winners
Thank You For Existing Award : Homogenic (Indonesia) & Masia One (Singapore)
The Galaxtar Award for Best Digital Tech Album – Bunkface’s Augmented Reality ‘Bunk Not Dead” (First AR album in Asia)
Best Producer : Roshan Jamrock (Malaysia)
Best Overall Female Act : Amirah Ali (Malaysia)
Best Overall Male Act : Emir, Blackstar (Indonesia)
Best Collaboration : Masia One (Singapore) featuring Pharell, The Game & Isis Salam
Best College Act : SOG (Sekumpulan Orang Gila)
Best Genre-Bender : Psycho.Unit – Ghetto Disco (Malaysia)
Best Music Video : G.L.A (Malaysia) – Ubah (Malaysia)
Best Chinese Song : SLaP (Sarawak, Malaysia)- “壞習慣”
Best Punjabi Song : Raina Arvinder : Hai Ni Teri Yaad
Best Indian Song : Thyivya feat Shane X’treme,Mista Carey & D7 of S.L.Y SQUAD for “Inni Vendham”
Best Instrumental/World Song : Iwanouz (Indonesia) – Islands of Papua
Social Media Champion of Southeast Asia : Lady Kash & Krissy (Singapore)
VIMA 2013 also announced the list of inductees into the VIMA HALL OF FAME.
Paul Ponnudorai (posthumous), Alda Evan Tan (posthumous), Poetic Ammo, Azmyl Yunor and Jeff Siah.VIMA 2013, is co-organised by Saintz & Sinnerz and Bite Media Sdn Bhd (www. bitemymusic.com ).
Winners say:
Roshan Jamrock (Producer of The Year): My dream is to break the stigma that you cannot survive doing music in Malaysia. My dream is that me and my brothers, our names are never forgotten and we make an impact in peoples lives. My dream is to make my countrymen JUMP as high and SCREAM as loud for us as they would for any “international” act. My dream is to help those in need. My dream is to make a difference. This award right here gives me the drive to go harder and strive to make these dreams come true.

Masia One (Best Collaboration) : “To receive it from a South East Asian based awards is a blessing as I begin my journey now to take all that I have learned from my life in the West and return to my roots in the East, spreading a universal message of independence, freedom and creativity. I hope through my example as an artist, ERRRYBODY can feel brave to pursue a dream no matter how unlikely or absurd. This award truly illustrates that in life, anything is possible”

Homogenic (Thank You For Existing): We feel greatly honored to receive this, and we will make sure that this will be major catalyst for us to produce better, finer works in the future. We took pieces of our friend’s gloomy love stories, a pinch of our joyous experiences, bits of idealistic speech from our tutors, a handful of our feelings; our views of how an ideal world should be, and mixed it with catchy synth riffs to create our version of an ideal form of electronic music
Motion City Soundtrack: Heaven Rawk Tour 2013
Balai Sartika Convention Hall
Jl Suryalaya Indah 1-3, Cijagra, Lengkong
Kota Bandung Kode pos 40265
6 Maret 2013
19.30 WIB – selesai
HTM :
Presale I : 29 Januari 2013 – 15 Februari 2013 : Rp. 165.000,-
Presale II : 16 Februari 2013 – 5 Maret 2013 : Rp. 200.000,-
On The Spot :Rp. 300.000,-Presale Tiket tersedia di Omuniuum yaks! :D
Motion City Soundtrack live in Bandung
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Well unfortunately until someone develops teleportation we are pretty much stuck to viewing sizing charts and look books. Look Books provide a great way for a potential customer to see how a companies tees look out “in the wild“.
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Below are 10 ten links to great examples of Look Books that really bring a brands clothing line to life! More…
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