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Have you ever heard the city is a living organism with distinct character, taste, smell, sound. Its thriving music scene offers a special kind of storytelling about the city’s personality quirks and cultural passions — an auditory window into the soul of the city. CitySounds.fm opens a dozen such fascinating windows by delivering the latest music from all the world’s most interesting cities, from Sydney to Stockholm even to New York.

Jazz rap is a fusion of hip hop and jazz, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The lyrics are often based on political consciousness, afrocentricity, and general positivism. It’s popular in Japan recently, just like house music, but in Taiwan, never see any great singer or rapper bring back that smooth and relaxation music for TW auditors. Until Soft Lipa aka “DanBao”(Egg Benedict in Chinese) shows up from “Kao hip pop music crew” that make me feel tranquil from his music. Glad to see he drops out his first album in Taiwan. Congratulations, Soft Lipa!

Taiwanese mineral water brand-Morewater, created a superhero who called Waterman helps people and protects the environment. The advertisement series now makes a theme song for Waterman, if you also yearn for saving the world, just drink more water then you could be another Waterman! Actually, bottle water doesn’t fit for environmental protection.

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TOWA TEI has released his original album BIG FUN which becomes his fifth in total on February 4th 2009. BUG FUN is out now along with a visual book entited "Book Fun", and also showed a TOWA TEI edition sunglasses that crossovered with Less Than Humen.Check out the video above and expect more to come.