Well, I should introduce about the album itself as well.

First of all, the music CD contains different style of music such as dance music, hard core techno, trip pop, military song (?!) etc… It seems a bit puzzled but with listening one after another, you will get the theme of this album is ‘Chaos and Rebirth’. In a broad sense, it’s about the present time that is the transition time from the end of the 20-century to the 21-century. In a familiar case, it’s the current state of Hong Kong which has got mixed up after the collapse of the bubble economy. “Daai Lou Nei Seong Dim Ma?” (4 &5 in CD) is exactly the thing. In the following song (6 in CD) ‘Da Siu Yan(old women curse upon your request)’ is appeared, as if begging God to help. If you could understand Cantonese, you would be shocked.

For the visuals in CD-Extra, the chaos is stressed more and full of their own humors such as ‘the Auto-Da Siu Yan Machine’. ‘Da Siu Yan’ means old pray women who appear places like under overpasses on the certain days. ‘Da Siu Yan’ put a curse on the person whom the customer asks with writing name of the person to be cursed on a piece of paper and hit it with a shoes or a sandal.

It costs about 100-200HK$. It was already surprising enough to know such a primitive magic ritual still existed but I was even more astonished when I saw a long queue of women after their works waiting for their turns with Da Siu Yan under the overpass in Causeway Bay. In the world of Freaks Rendezvous, this curse ritual becomes much more convenient. With a coin, ‘the Auto-Da Siu Yan Machine’ curses for you.

A while ago, I asked them which artists they were interested in. Then they gave me names of Mishima Yukio, Terayama Syuji, Umezu Kazuo and so on. For the common sense in Hong Kong, grotesque and erotic worlds seen in these artists’ works are taboo. Members of Freaks Rendezvous show strong interest to express complex inner states of human beings, as if they challenge to the taboo. How they mix their dry sensibility as young generation today and erotic & grotesque will be the point worthy of note.

At the last, the music production team of Freaks Rendezvous bases at Toronto, Canada because James has his main studio in there. Therefore most of songs in this album ‘Everybody is a superstar’ were composed in Canada and also many of musicians worked together for this album lived in there. Since there are many immigrants from HK live in Canada, it seems that HK people don’t feel too much distance for there. In fact, James and DaDi completed music and MTV for “Daai Lou Nei Seong Dim Ma?” through talking on the phone. For the future, since Canada is a multiracial country, they are planing of collaboration works with artists not only overseas Chinese but also others. I’m looking forward to see what will be born from the mix of East and West.

Based on the common sense in Hong Kong, the word ‘unconventional’ fits Freaks Rendezvous pretty well. Again, Hong Kong, the whole society, is in its depression now. Music scene can’t find a way out of the dull business of idols. So, it’s going to be really fun, because of Freaks Rendezvous, younger talented people start expressing themselves and breathe new lives into not only music scene but also all art scenes. I look forward to see the future and further Freaks Rendezvous.