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Some Selected Works 1991~2004
Songs/Arrangements/Remixes/Projects before 2005

Intro

Was planning to do a show-reel type page, and/or to keep some kind of track record of the songs I have worked on in the past. It'll probably take a long time to do that. 
However I realised I need a page of some sort of selected works, so at least people around the world can find out what works I have done (or what I am capable of doing!)
So here's a quick selection of some songs I was involved in during 1991 to 2004.

 

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NAVIGATION:

| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |

| 2000 | 2001| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |

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2004

Well... release-wise, 2004 was a lazy year, most things I did in 2004 weren't released.

 

Artist: Miriam Yeung 楊千嬅
Track: 吵我 (Original Working Title: ''Shout'')

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CD Title: Electric Girl 電光幻影

Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Wyman Wong 黃偉文 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
This was the only song that was released in 2004.
Basically an electronic/synth dance track, using quite a few of my hardware analogue synths.
Also did some vocoder tracks but they didn't use much of them in the final mix.

 

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NAVIGATION:

| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |

| 2000 | 2001| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |

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2003

2003 was the year that I spent nearly all my time in London, there was SARS outbreak in Hong Kong, and also, Mr Leslie Cheung committed suicide on April 1st.

 

Artist: Leslie Cheung 張國榮
Track: 千嬌百美 Thousand Ways of Beauty
(Original Working Title: ''Approach'')

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Original Demo

CD Title: Follow the Wind 一切隨風

Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Released 2003/07.
This was written/arranged and handed in back in March 2002. I think he would have recorded this earlier in 2002, but Lin Xi hadn't delivered the lyrics yet.
The vocals were probably taken in early 2003 when he was already '"sick", around a month or two before the suicide...
I remembered in Summer 2002, I was walking in Covent Garden one day and I received a call - apparently back in Hong Kong, Miriam bumped into him at the coffee shop in Mandarin Hotel, and they called me - he was chasing me for more songs - it was a nice phone conversation, but that was the last time I ever talked to him :(
 

Artist: Joey Yung 容袓兒
Track: 派對機器 Party Machine
(Original Working Title: ''On Stage Off Stage'')

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CD Title: Show Up

Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Wyman Wong 黃偉文 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Released 2003/09
Written around May/June 2003.
Basically a follow up to the previous dance track done for Joey Yung.
 

Artist: Josie Ho 何超儀
Track: 窩廢囊 War Fai Long

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CD Title: Sickid

Music: Yota Yamamoto | Lyrics: Yan Kwai 因葵 |
Arrangement:
Yota Yamamoto

Comments:
Released 2003/12
Written around 1997/1998.  The song was recorded in 1999.
Credited with my other alias Yota Yamamoto.

 

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| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |

| 2000 | 2001| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |

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2002

Wrote many demos in 2002, but not too many were released in this year, as most of 2002 I was traveling, other than in London, went to California (SF), Vancouver, and Tokyo.

 

Artist: Miriam Yeung 楊千嬅
Track: 一個人的童話 One's Fairy Tale
(Original Working Title: ''Feather'')

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CD Title: Music Box

Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Wyman Wong 黃偉文 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Released in Autumn 2002.
Wrote a bunch of songs in the summer of 2002. Miriam picked 3 songs (only two were released tho - one later in compilation). Also arranged another track on this album.
I quitted being a full ''Producer'' after this track - because there seemed to be too many politics going on...

 

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| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |

| 2000 | 2001| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |

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2001
 

Artist: Eason Chan 陳奕迅
Track: 2001 太空漫游 (OdyCY Mix)

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CD Title: (Promo Remix)
Also available in EEG Compilation CD (
英皇盛世 Vol.5)

Music Keith Fai-Young Chan 陳輝陽 | Lyrics: Wyman Wong 黃偉文 |
Remix Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Remix done for Eason & Fai-Young, Spring 2001
Basically they have done this 2001 song, for 2001. I did a 7 minute remix, plus an edited 4 min radio version, basically working around the 2001 theme, plus bits of that portamento sound as in "The Eve of the War". I had great fun doing this ;)
Some Tech Details:
Can't believe it these days now - this was all done in Cubase VST5, vocals were time-stretched with Acid. Hardware synths include the Access Virus and Syntecno TeeBee MkIII. Drums were basically me abusing the JoMoX AiRBase99, playing around the tuning on the Kick and filter/snappy on the 909-ish Snare.
 

Artist: Leslie Cheung 張國榮
Track: 夢到內河 Rivers Of Dreams
(Original Working Title: ''Rose Spikes'')

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CD Title: Forever

Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Leslie requested a piano song. Piano was played by Anthony Sun.
Done in Winter 2000, released Spring 2001.
 

Artist: Miriam Yeung 楊千嬅
Track: 姊妹 Sister
(Original Working Title: ''Kokoro (WeddingSong)'')

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CD Title: Miriam Yeung 楊千嬅 2001

Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Miriam switched record companies this year. I did a cartoon theme song (released elsewhere) and another arrangement on this album.
Written in June 2001, released 2001/09.
This was basically a wedding song.
It was also designed to be an ''intermediate / move into the next phase" song for her.
 

Artist: Joey Yung 容袓兒
Track: 隆重登場 Special Arrival

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CD Title: 隆重登場 Special Arrival

Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Wyman Wong 黃偉文 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Written around spring 2001. Released 2001/10
Concert opening theme song for Joey Yung.
They had to changed the title from "Bomber Queen" to "Special Arrival" due to the 9/11 incident.
Basically a pop/dance track around the DJ Sammy type euro-dance flavour. 

 

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NAVIGATION:

| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |

| 2000 | 2001| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |

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2000
 

Artist: Edmond Leung 梁漢文
Track: 我的命運 Squall (Remix)

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CD Title: PG家長指引

Music: Masaharu Fukuyama 福山雅治 | Lyrics: Wyman Wong 黃偉文 |
Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Produced a few tracks for Edmond, I actually suggested him to do a cover version of this Japanese song by Masaharu Fukuyama, which I thought actually quite suited him.
This is the remix version.
 

Artist: Eason Chan 陳奕迅
Track: 低等動物 Low Animal

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CD Title: 打得火熱 Heat of Fire

Music: Jean Chien | Lyrics: Wyman Wong 黃偉文 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Released in late October 2000. This was recorded in August 2000.
A strange alternative rock ballad, I suppose?
 

Artist: Faye Wong 王菲
Track: 給自己的情書 A Letter To Myself
(Original Working Title: ''Piano Song'')

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CD Title: 寓言 Fable

Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Faye and Ya-Dung were doing their 5 song mini concept, and I remembered saying to producer Alvin (Leong), since there weren't any mellow/slower ballad on the album, maybe we should do a piano song.
Was a good experience helping out at some post production stage of the album - it was mixed at Real World Studios and mastered at Metropolis Studio, had quite a good time with Ya-Dung!
 

Artist: None
Track: Distort TV

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Music: C. Y. Kong | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong | Strings Arr: San Bao 三寶

Comments:
The Faye Wong Piano Song (above) was used as a theme song to a TV Drama.
I was asked to provide some variation mood music for this.
Usually for TV in Hong Kong, they just do some cheesy "Can"/Library music, in different styles like happy mood, sad mood, dramatic mood and so on.
When I was doing the dramatic mood music, I took the string session of another Faye Wong song ("Distort" - see 1999) and played the variation of the melody of the Piano Song on top...
It's fun and works quite "dramatic", thanks to the excellent strings by San Bao (Beijing).

 

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NAVIGATION:

| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |

| 2000 | 2001| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |

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1999
 

Artist: Faye Wong 王菲
Track: 開到荼靡 The Last Blossom
(Original Working Title: ''Distort'')

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CD Title: 只愛陌生人 Only Love Strangers

Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
The opener to Faye Wong's 1999 album.
It was called Distort because actually Faye didn't have songs with true distortion in them before - well, except the odd Guitar Solo or ballad power chords, but never really heavy distortion.
The actual demo was done within like 6 hours in one night...
 

Artist: Faye Wong 王菲
Track: 守望麥田 Watch Over The Wheat Fields

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CD Title: 只愛陌生人 Only Love Strangers

Music: C. Y. Kong & Adrian Chan | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Another song with heavy distortion...
San Bao (Beijing) arranged the strings and did some really Mongolian/Russian-ish strings!!
 

Artist: Sammi Cheng 鄭秀文
Track: 插曲 I Wanna Fly

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CD Title: 很愛很愛鄭秀文 Very Love Sammi

Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Yan Kwai 因葵 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
This song was written back in 1995/1996, revised in 1998/1999.
 

Artist: Tarcy So 蘇慧倫
Track: 我的眼淚在顫抖 My Tears Are Shaking
(Original Working Title: ''Snow'')

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CD Title: 懶人日記 Lazy Diary

Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: 許常德 | Arrangement: 安棟

Comments:
I don't actually have many songs released in Taiwan. This being one of them.
I didn't do the arrangement on this - although the basic structure followed the arrangement in the demo.
I still think Tarcy (yes, it's Tarcy) has that sweet emotional girl voice : )
 

Artist: Adam Cheng 鄭少秋
Track: 香港料理 Hong Kong Cuisine

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CD Title: 最佳友情人 Best Friends

Music: C. Y. Kong & Alex San | Lyrics: Yan Kwai 因葵 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Demo was originally done around 1994/1995,
Basically a comedy rap-ish raggae beat song with Chinese instrument samples.
Then one day Alex San called me and said he's looking for something fun for Adam Cheng & Lisa Wong's album production. Adam & Lisa are famous TV actors/singers in Hong Kong, kinda like legendary 70s/80s TV stars (and singers).
Alex took this song and put together melodies in the chorus. We all had loads of fun doing this, although it's more like a Comedy/Comic Relief fun song!

 

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NAVIGATION:

| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |

| 2000 | 2001| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |

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1998
 

Artist: Andy Hui 許志安
Track: 一家一減你 One Home Minus You [REMIX]

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Music: Joey Tang | Lyrics: Canny Leung | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Resumed working ;)
Started helping out Joey Tang in doing some productions in Jan/Feb 1998, also took up the programmer job in his "Music Is Live" gigs (backing band to gigs hosted by radio station).
Joey Tang started write a song for Andy Hui, I did the arrangement. Then they needed some sort of remix version - so we got the Music is Live band doing a 70s laid back ballad style backing.
 

Artist: Joey Tang 鄧建明
Track: 無聊才愛我吧 Love Me If You've Nothing To Do

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CD Title: 一千個吻 One Thousand Kisses

Music: Joey Tang | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
I helped Joey Tang back in Summer 1996 to record his solo album, in London.
He finished the production later on in Hong Kong and it was eventually released in 1998.
This was one of a few tracks that I actually helped kicked his butt writing it.
It was kinda a difficult situation, he got studios & musicians in London booked, but he didn't know what song to write. I remembered I had to program this at nights, after the daytime studio recordings, and only using the (was then newly released) MC-303!
 

Artist: Eason Chan 陳奕迅
Track: 超人的主題曲 Ultraman Tiga Theme

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CD Title: Ultraman Tiga

Music: Yota Yamamoto 山本洋太
Lyrics:
田中小百合 (Wyman Wong 黃偉文)
Arrangement:
Yota Yamamoto / C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Wyman & I both used our alias names for credits on this one.
I always wanted to do a kid song - as I feel that the kids songs these days are always like cheap / general midi sound productions.
I grew up watching Japanese Anime, and their anime / tokusatsu (sci-fi/superman) theme songs are always very high quality, sometimes, the productions are even better than pop singles!
These music I heard when I was young actually affects my musical knowledge as I grew up, and I realised that, record companies treating all these kid songs as cheap low budget productions was not a good thing - hey, kids growing up listening to crappy productions is not good.
So I dealt with the record company and requested that I want to treat this as a proper serious production, and yes, it was properly done, with full live band and so on.
Luckily it did become a big hit, even in Karaokes(!) and even without any radio play (hey, this is the power of TV).
I suppose it was cool because it was retro, has Eason and also Wyman's lyrics helped!
Well, at least, it influenced record companies to rethink about the production quality for kid songs.

 

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NAVIGATION:

| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |

| 2000 | 2001| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |

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1997

1997 was my year off. Decided to take a break after working (too) heavily in the past 4 years!

 

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| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |

| 2000 | 2001| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |

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1996

Did a lot of remixes in 1996, but it was also the year I decided to slow down a bit.
Remixes included works for the Japanese group TRF, Japanese artist Hina, and also many remixes for Alex To. Also helped Joey Tang to record his solo album, and we recorded in London.

 

Artist: Zota
Track: Intimacy

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CD Title: Dream Moods

Music: Yota Yamamoto | Arrangement: Yota Yamamoto

Comments:
I was asked by Avex Trax (after doing remixes for their Japanese group TRF) if I have any dream music tracks (ala Robert Miles).
Avex was doing lots of compilations, and after the Robert Miles "Children" and also "X-Files" theme songs, they wanted to release a compilation of these "dream" music.
So i submitted this track, basically a pop/euro/dance/dream track, and it was released in this compilation that was sold in Asia.
Use my alias as credits, but they asked me to change the artist name to Zota instead of Yota, they never told me why tho.
 

Artist: Hina (Akiko Hinagata) 雛形あきこ
Track: Six Colors Boy (Remix for Tata-chan by C. Y.)

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CD Title: Hina Collection 2 ヒナ・コレ 2

Music: Daisuke Asakura 浅倉大介 | Lyrics: 麻倉真琴 | Remix Arr.: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Wow, a real Japanese release!
I did 3 remixes for Hina (actress/singer in Japan), who was produced by Daisuke Asakura.
This was one of them, basically giving them a dance remix in place of the original very Japanese pop style arrangement.
 

Artist: Leslie Cheung 張國榮
Track: 紅 Red

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CD Title: 紅 Red

Music: Leslie Cheung 張國榮 | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arr: C.Y. Kong

Comments:
This was Leslie's return to Canto-Pop album.
He's heard the works I did in 1995 for Faye Wong and so on. I wrote two songs on this album and also arranged this song which was his own composition.
It's basically trip-hop beats with strings...

 

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NAVIGATION:

| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |

| 2000 | 2001| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |

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1995

1995 was one of the busiest years...

 

Artist: Stephanie Che 車沅沅
Track: 其實你可以 Actually You Can (and REMIX)

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Excerpt of Remix

Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Strange breed... 
She did sing it well to match the mood.
The remix was done in early drum'n'bass style, with the vocals time-stretched from 115bpm to 160bpm!
 

Artist: Faye Wong 王菲
Track: 迷路 Lost Track

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Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: Di-Dar

Comments:
This was maybe some pioneer work I did.
At that time, I suppose no one would do such song in Hong Kong (or Asia). I dunno, I was insane, I suppose. Fusing bits of Trip-Hop / Lo-Fi with string session and also a little ethnic flavour, add to that the ego of Faye Wong...
 

Artist: Andy Hui 許志安
Track: 迷糊 情慾 對象 Internet Desire
Featuring Coco Lee

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CD Title: 男人最痛 Man's Pain

Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Yiu-Fai Chow 周耀輝 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Originally this song was done in 1994.
Sandy Lam asked me to do a song in this style, plus blending some Chinese instruments into modern beats, but in the end she didn't use it.
Come 1995, and Andy Hui was looking for songs, they picked this one (and another few) and asked me to produce half the album.
They even asked Coco Lee to sing something on this. This was way before Coco became famous in USA. She said it's good that she could try something out like what she's done here, cos her mum wouldn't let her sing like this (and wanted her to concentrate on her R'n'B voice which led to her success later).
The track also featured tape reverse vocals effects : )
 

Artist: Leon Lai 黎明
Track: 十字天使 Cross Angel (REMIX)

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Music:  C. Y. Kong / Lyrics: Jolland Chan 向雪懷 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Leon Lai was filming the Wong Ka Wai movie "Fallen Angel" and he wanted to do a song with this theme to it.  So I did a really weird trippy dramatic remix of it.
 

Artist: Anthony Wong 黃耀明
Track: 春光乍泄 Happy Together (Eurotrash Mix)

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Music: Anthony Wong 黃耀明 & Jason Choi 蔡德才
Lyrics:
Lin Xi 林夕
Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

Comments:
Anthony Wong's 1995 song, which was named after Wong Ka Wai's movie of the same title.
The original was a mid tempo song, Anthony Wong came to me and asked me to do a faster tempo track - knowing that I can time-stretch on my Akai samplers!
He wanted it like how Pulp did a remix and turned things into a euro synth / dance track.
So I time-stretched the vocals from 118-ish bpm to 136 bpm, and laid down turned on my 909 and laid octave bassline and so on with my synths!
 

Artist: Anna Tai 戴恩玲
Track: 查你的天使 Charlie's Angel

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Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Wyman Wong 黃偉文 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: 不經意 Unintended

Comments:
Some of my friends and I really liked Anna, cos she's got really slit eyes and she's kinda cute.
I wrote 2 songs for her 1995 EP, this being one of them, a kinda happy teen girly song : )
 

Artist: Leon Lai 黎明
Track: 醉溫馨 Dinner Jazz

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Music:  C. Y. Kong |  Lyrics: C. Y. Kong | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: 天地豪情 Secret of Heart

Comments:
Another odd breed.
This is like those pop dinner jazz lounge things... I was probably dossing around with these chords and so on and came up with this. I ain't no jazz musician and know bugger all about jazz chords (!)
The words just came with the music...
Strangely, this song was all programmed - with Jazz drum kit samples and brush loops, acoustic bass samples and so on. No live musicians... just me faking it(!)

 

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NAVIGATION:

| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |

| 2000 | 2001| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |

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1994

1994 was another one of the busiest years...

 

Artist: Linda Wong 王馨平
Track: 寒冰 Cold Ice

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Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: C. Y. Kong | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: 愛一生也不夠 Loving For One Life Is Not Enough

Comments:
This was written some time around 1991-1993.
Lyrics idea was something like Jealousy by Pet Shop Boys - like you waited 'til like 4 am in the morning, but you didn't receive any call, and you started to wonder if he/she was actually with someone else...
 

Artist: Sandy Lam 林憶蓮
Track: 沉淪 Doomed

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Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Calvin Poon 潘源良 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: Love Sandy '94

Comments:
Did some arrangements and also wrote this song for Sandy in Spring 1994.
They then took the backing and recorded vocals and did mixing in USA.
Apparently, this was the last song mixed, and their session would end at midnight after finishing this. But the automation broke down near the end of the mixing, and they had very limited time to redo the mix, and in the end the mix was kinda messed up. Sandy felt really sorry about this, but I didn't really mind.
Even tho the mix wasn't complete, this was probably slightly too ahead of its time for the canto-pop market at the time :)
 

Artist: Sandy Lam 林憶蓮
Track: 決心 Determination (REMIX)

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Music: 山田直毅 | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 | Remix Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: Love Sandy '94

Comments:
This was a Japanese song that Sandy released.
When she did the Cantonese version, she asked me to do a remix and this was the result.
 

Artist: Tai-Chi 太極
Track: 獻給 Pauline  For Pauline (Scissors' Mix)

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Music: Joey Tang & Adrian Chan
Lyrics: Richard Lam 林振強
Remix Arrangement: C. Y. Kong & Adrian Chan

Comments:
Tai-Chi asked me to test out some of my synths/loops/samples/filters on them!
So a remix was done (along with Adrian Chan).
I suppose they needed some synth person to put in something new to their sound.
Loops and drums made with a Korg MS-20, plus a Juno-60 analogue synth were used...
 

Artist: Sammi Cheng 鄭秀文
Track: 熱愛島 Love Island

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Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: 十誡 Ten Commandments

Comments:
Back in 1993/1994 there was this big Japanese acid jazz / Brazilian / Latin movement in Tokyo.
Also around the same time, there were these percussion sample libraries that became available. So I decided to put together a track with lots of percussions and so on.
This song always makes me smile :)

 

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NAVIGATION:

| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |

| 2000 | 2001| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |

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1993

 

 

Artist: Soft Hard 軟硬
Track: 中國製造Made in China

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Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Soft Hard 軟硬 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: 廣播道FANS殺人事件 Broadcast Drive Fans Killer Incident

Comments:
By late 1992, I was working on SoftHard's 2nd album.  At the time I think we were all still kinda raw, really, there weren't any rules, I was just trying to piece things together.
This one was yet another odd breed - a rave backing and loops fused with all sorts of stuff like reverse loops, Chinese samples,  plus they asked various people to record imitations of old Chinese radio-type voices... was a good laugh!
 

Artist: Soft Hard 軟硬
Track: 請勿客氣 Just Do It
(Feat. Faye Wong 王菲)

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Music: Ferrell Sanders / R. Gallagher / C. Robinson
Lyrics: Richard Lam 林振強

Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: 廣播道FANS殺人事件 Broadcast Drive Fans Killer Incident

Comments:
It was kinda brave to do a cover version of a Galliano track, especially doing something like this in Hong Kong. I actually suggested to them that they covered this song - since they were thinking of finding a song to do a collaboration with Faye Wong.
Everything was done using programming and samples and sample loops.
 

Artist: The Party
Track: 下雨了 Rainy Dream

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Music: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: 何启弘 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: 七個HAPPY PARTY  Seven Happy Party

Comments:
This was my first ever track that was released in Taiwan.
I did this back in 1992, it was probably one of the demos handed in to the Soft Hard project.
But in the Soft Hard project, I was asked to use parts of the arrangement and fused it with another song.
After Soft Hard's album was released, I was asked by a company in Taiwan to submit a track for "The Party", they specifically requested something like this, and I thought maybe I could just give them the very original!
 

Artist: Faye Wong 王菲
Track: 流非飛 Flow Not Fly

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Music: C. Y. Kong
Lyrics:
莫可欣/郭可盈 (軟硬 Soft Hard)
Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: 十萬個為什麼 Hundred Thousand Why's

Comments:
Something fun and cheerful :) It was nice to see even some 3 year old kids were humming the melody!
 

Artist: Andy Hui 許志安
Track: 反正經 Reverse

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Music: C. Y. Kong  | Lyrics: Thomas Chow 周禮茂 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: 雨後陽光 Sunshine After The Rain

Comments:
Summer 1993. They requested a different fast tempo song, they asked for something as far out as Prince. This was the result.
 

Artist: Cass Phang 彭羚
Track: 如果得不到愛情 If One Can't Get Love

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Music: C. Y. Kong  | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: 有著你...多麼美 So Beautiful to Have You

Comments:
November/December 1993...
This was probably the results of many experiments, and things began to sit together properly.
With programmed beats mixed with sample drum loops, rhythmic gated synths, plus Adrian Chan's Gibson 335 guitar fill-ins... Oh and there was also the reversed vocal track in the verses...
 

Artist: William So 蘇永康
Track: 落葉 Fallen Leaves

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Music: C. Y. Kong  | Lyrics: C. Y. Kong | Arrangement: Anthony Sun & C. Y. Kong

CD Title: OH GAL

Comments:
William picked this song, and I was thinking of the words and asked him what picture he had in mind, a bit like, what vision did the music give him. He said he saw a tree, with leaves falling / fallen - he was there but the girl was gone. So I kinda turned that into matching words.

 

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1992

Release-wise, 1992 was a little quiet. Just one or two odd songs and arrangements. Most works in 1992 were released in the following years.

 

Artist: Vivian Chow 周慧敏
Track: 怎可以沒有感情 How Could I Live Without You

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Original: Lisa Nilsson
Lyrics: C. Y. Kong
Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: Endless Dream

Comments:
This was a cover version of the Lisa Nilsson song that Vivian picked herself.
I was asked to do the arrangement, basically updating the late 80s euro sound to a more 90s PSB rhythm. Some words came up while I was doing it, and I asked them if I could do the cantonese words - was quite delighted cos n the end Vivian likes the words too :)

 

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1991

1991 ... so raw... no idea what I was doing - heheh, I as only like ten years old then!!! :)

 

Artist: Cherry Tsoi 蔡立兒
Track: 沙漠的我 Me in the Dessert

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Original: Anna Banana
Lyrics: Thomas Chow 周禮茂
Arrangement: C. Y. Kong

CD Title: Say U Love Me

Comments:
This was probably one 1st ever works that was published - I mean 1st arrangement works anyway. (1st song was Sammi Cheng's "Friends")
This was a cover version of a song by the Japanese artist Anna Banana.
I was supposed to do percussion and drum programming on this song, but I programed the rest since I need to audition what I was doing anyway. In the end they used the whole thing and so I got my first arrangement credit.
Everything was done using budget equipments, like a Roland D110, Kawai K4r, Yamaha TX81z...

 

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