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Tul writes his own songs and heads
a rock band called Araija (which means "What Is That?"
in Thai). The four-member group was founded five years
ago. I wrote most of the songs when I was in high
school and they centred on politics, loneliness and
life in the city. I am concerned about the serious
issues in life.
Tul was born in 1976. He spent all his childhood in
Bangkok until 1994 that he got a chance to become
an exchange student and went to finish his high school
diploma in California. In his high school year, his
first love of music started from listening to bands
like Skid Row, Guns n' Roses and Metallica. Then after
finishing high school in America Tul came back and
was stunned when he heard Thai artists like Pathomporn,
Crub and Modern Dog. He formed his rock band called
Araija and started making demo tapes to record companies;
In
1995 he realized that the market was not ready for
his ideas yet. So he decided to stop thinking about
the band and went to study in New Zealand, and that's
how he met Dj Joke for the first time. However, New
Zealand did not have a scene that Tul wanted to explore.
After staying there for 6 months he moved to San Diego
State University in California to study economics.
At San Diego State University library while Tul is
reading Rolling Stones interview of the Fugees, he
got his first knowledge about a small music school
in New York Called Five Towns College that offered
a degree program on audio recording. A few months
after that he found himself walking around in the
capital of the world.
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It is NYC downtown scene that got Tul to fall in love with
an art of DJing. He started to collect records he usually
bought from the flea market and some of the alternative
downtown record shops. In 1999 after his graduation Tul
spent a few months interning for and underground music/film
company call Caipirinha and also volunteered for Gen Art
(a non profit organization that promote arts, indy films
and fashions) to create file festivals and fashion shows
and parties.
He got his very first DJ gigs at small fashion shows, which
he would spin, a mixture of everything from Jazz to trip-hop
to punk rock. When Tul came back to Bangkok he started his
DJ career at Red Bar, then Taurus (he host an Experimental
Global Pop night to Tapaz, a restaurant in Taurus) One night
at Red Bar he met up with his old friend from New Zealand,
Joeki, who told him aobut a new place called Q Bar.
His band Araija is back on the run, they have an album on
Hualampong Riddim, one of a few avant-garde labels in Thailand,
whose artists include Photo Sticker Machine, T-Bone, Day
Tripper and Skalaxy. Besides making and playing music, Tul
is also working as a sound editor for a an alternative art
magazine called VER which is a combination of sight and
sound (the magazine comes with 2 audio CDs) Tul is also
working on his first compilation album for Q Bar, which
will feature Thai underground music; it's due to be out
before Q Bar anniversary party this year. He has his dream
of pushing Thai artists forward in the world of music.
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