Feeling down? We got just the right thing to make you feel SUPER. Crossover is giving away SUPER Basic Palmas worth RM899.90 to one lucky winner. A collaborative effort between the brand and the talented artist Ana Kras, the shades is representative of the concept SUPER had introduced in the past – hand-designed prints. With creamy interior, glossy tortoise exterior and palm tree print, SUPER Basic is retro chic.

To win this badboy, answer the question below;

What’s your favourite SUPER design and why?

Send your answer by the end of Friday 11 November 2011 to contest@juiceonline.com along with your full name, IC and handphone number. Remember to type in ‘SUPER Basic Palma’ as your e-mail subject.

The winner will be notified by Monday 14 November 2011. Standard T&C apply.

You think you have the charm, raw talent and confidence to rock the house? Get ready, Pioneer Digital DJ Battle 2011 is coming to you this December! Spin your way to RM60,000 worth of amazing prizes. It’s easy, just send in your demo CD with the completed entry form to Pioneer no later than 31 October 2011.

Pioneer Digital DJ Battle has been seeking for new talents all over the world since 2003. This DJ Battle has been one of the country’s most anticipated showdowns for 9 consecutive years. Not to forget the most interesting part, prizes worth thousands and fame that you can’t put a price on. This is what makes it scream-worthy!

This year, the competition is tighter and the prizes are worth up to RM60,000. With the same categories of “Mega Mix Battle” and “Long Mix Battle”, only 5 aspiring contestants from each categories are selected to dish it out in the Grand Final, which will be held on 9 December 2011 at Zouk Club, Kuala Lumpur. Still remember last year’s Pioneer Digital DJ Battle Champion? Yes, DJ ET will battle out again this year to defend his honour, against this year’s finalists. There’s more, the best will have his doors open wide to enter the Pioneer Asian Pacific Digital DJ Battle in 2012, the biggest regional competition between champions from countries across Asia.

So, wait no more and enroll now at www.pioneer.my or www.facebook.com/pioneer.my and send in your demo CD, no later than 31 October 2011. May the best DJ win!

Gigantic killer robots from outer space! Shape-shifting seductress assassins from the infernal nether regions! Gripping international suspense and intrigue! Explosions! Michael Bay loves explosions! Okay, kinda sorta but not quite. The Malaysian leg of the 13th TBS DigiCon6 digital video festival has wrapped up, and all the good submissions told the bad ones to suck it, and then they had a food fight, and the absolute best one is going to Tokyo next month. To have a food fight with raw fish.

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Organised by the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), DigiCon6 has been a proving ground for digital filmmakers in the Asian region looking to get their name out and cut their teeth in the creative industry. For the past 13 years, would-be auteurs and CGI wizards from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, India, China, South Korea, Taiwan, The Philippines and, well, Japan, have been duking it out for the 500,000 yen cheque, a nifty trophy, industry connections and the ability to say you’ve teabagged filmmakers from 9 other countries.

The Multimedia Development Corporation, or MDeC, who’s been holding down organising duties for DigiCon6’s Malaysian front for the past several years, roped in a massive 43 submissions for this year’s local heats, and having been there at the judging screening, we’ll say this: choosing a winner was hard. (Sorting through the detritus was a little harsh on the senses, too: y’all need to stop sending in maudlin 45 minute single-angle video monologues, guys.) The best Malaysia had to offer brought with them plenty of technical panache, narrative nuance, and more often than not a healthy dose of contextual and visual humour. You know what, let’s just show you, in ascending order:

That Guy With The Pizza, by That Group With The Pizza (5th Place)

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A pizza delivery dude gets into it hot and heavy with a flock of parmesan-fiending pigeons. They must be Italian pigeons. Lots of speed lines and Matrix-y flying kicks, and there’s a bird-based tornado in there somewhere.

Hoverhogs Animated, by Action Tintoy (4th Place)

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An aerial dogfight! Between, like, a wolf. And a plucky pig pilot. It’s complicated. The shots are dynamic, the clouds are rendered beautifully, and in under two minutes, Action Tintoy will have you rooting for their non-halal hero as he dodges chain gun bullets in the stratosphere.

Altitude Alto, by Mushroomhead (3rd Place)

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So kids hate to eat their vegetables, right? And the only way they’d consider swallowing shucked peas and pok choy is if they imagine themselves as daring fighter pilots out to shoot down vaguely carrot-shaped airships (into their bellies), right? This is something like that. The voice acting is a little meh, but it’s visually solid, and we’re suckers for propaganda telling people to consume more green stuff.

Bawang Putih Bawang Merah, by Glue Studios (2nd Place)

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Glue Studios is a competitive little CGI-churning outfit; so competitive, in fact, that for DigiCon6 Malaysia, it ended up going head-to-head with itself. (Put a pin on that, though; we’ll get back to it.) An adaptation of a piece of regional folklore, Bawang Putih is a kickass blend of dynamic hyper-reality and storybook 2D sidescrolling, all wrapped in an engaging character design. You will believe a girl can eat her own mother.

Timun Mas, by Glue Studios (1st Place)

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So yeah, this year’s winners are so on their game they wouldn’t even let anyone else stand next to them on the podium. Again culling from our local well of folklore, Glue Studios adapts the Indonesian legend of Timun Mas, to fantastic visual results. Traditional design motifs permeate the entire film (think the smoke clouds in Disney’s Mulan) and the character acting lends a sense of urgency and actual tension to the story. And we love lava pit-related deaths.

We’d like to take a minute to tip our snapbacks to the guys over at Glue Studios for their impressive one-two punch at DigiCon6 Malaysia this year; and we’ll be following them to Tokyo next month! (To make sure they actually attend the 13th TBS DigiCon6 Award Ceremony, and not out in the streets of Shibuya jacking up used panty machines.) Watch this space.

More info and background of MSC Malaysia – TBS DigiCon6 here.

Fans of Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand and all other artists under the Domino Records, this one’s for you! Now, Domino Records is in your pockets and just one touch away! The record label is embracing the evolution of technology by launching their own application. This new Domino Records app features radio shows, exclusive bonus materials, and more. Will it live up the label’s hipster reputation?

Domino Records Company provides ear comfort since 1993 and is home to amazing artists such as Twin Sister, Villagers, The Kills, Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Clinic, Four Tet, Owen Pallett, and many more.

The idea was born from the success of Domino Radio, the one week transmission loaded with non-stop music, conversations and good times. The station brought together some of the best known figures from the label (including Matt Helders of Artic Monkeys, Colin Greenwood of Radiohead, Kieran Hebden and Robert Wyatt), along with friends and a selection of admirers from the worldwide independent music community.

This free download Domino Records app gives you all you need. It features exclusive weekly selection of Domino Radio materials (with a total of 168 hours of archived radio shows), a mix of over 200 stream-able tracks from the Domino catalogue, Domino’s entire music archive and not to forget, news feeds focusing on Domino’s roster.

Hurry, download the Domino app here and sign up to the mailing list before 1 November, to win a year’s supply of free Domino Digital tracks! Check out www.dominorecordco.com, for more.

You don’t have to be smart to be a smarta** just like you don’t have to be a DJ to own a pair of cool headphones.

Nixon’s Master Blaster is a high quality sleek set of headphones. Both its over-ear cushion and headband is made of leather.

The best part we think about this headphones is you don’t have to fiddle around or digging through your bag for your iPod/mp3 to turn up or down the volume because it comes equipped with a full-size volume knob.

More of Nixon products click here.

Street fashion doesn’t always have to be about aggressiveness or flashiness. Sometimes all you need is a pair of kicks that say “I own these streets, so I don’t have to show it.” Do you dig? We’re talking about loafers here, man…

Stussy x Ransom by Adidas Originals ‘Plaid CS Stussy’

The Ransom by adidas Originals collection continues to expand with the new Plain CS Stussy. In collaboration with iconic street brand Stussy, the Plain CS Stussy takes its name from its minimalist approach. Available in 3 suede colourways with a perforated forefoot, crepe outsoles and multi-brand icons adding subtle touches. Retails for RM629.

Don’t call yourself a hip hop head if you missed out on this event. Grandmaster Flash was here in Kuala Lumpur at Sultan Lounge and we saw a total of, what, less than 5 actual hip hoppers there. Admittedly this wasn’t anyone’s fault, there was barely any hype to the Grandmaster’s arrival here. Like mythical kung fu archetypes, it was almost like he came out of nowhere, kicked some *ss, and left just like that – with only a few truly appreciative of his brief presence.

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Corny analogy aside, the night was surreal to those with an appreciation for music history. Sure Malaysia has seen music legends performing here, but never one from the hip hop genre. Imagine what it was like for hardcore fans of the genre.

As the resident DJ played and the crowd massed, the build-up was equal to our excitement. The rumours of Flash tinkering with the sound system backstage due to his dissatisfaction with the decibel level of the speakers didn’t help to contain our anticipation – anything less than an epic night would be a disappointment. And yes, the night delivered.

Despite the generation Flash came from, he didn’t purely spin stone age hip hop. His playlist was a non-linear hip hop history that jumped around from his own crew’s (Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five) ‘The Message’, House of Pain’s ‘Jump Around’, Tupac’s ‘California Love’, hits by the late r’n’b royalty Aaliyah to Jay-Z’s NY ode. What really got the crowd wild out though, well the crowd we hung out with at least, was when Flash dropped Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s ‘Shimmy Shimmy Ya’, marking that the only time an ODB track has ever been played at a local club night.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t all urban music. Flash channelled his inner Twilight Actiongirl and spun Eurythmics’ ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)’ among other indie-friendly 80s tunes. This might sound blasphemous to purists, but take solace in knowing that Flash kept his non-hip hop tunes era-relevant. Has-been hip hop DJs would have traded hip hop for bros-friendly wobblecore in an attempt to stay fresh, refreshingly enough Flash wasn’t having any of that.

We weren’t sure how many peeps there had actual knowledge of Flash, but we breathed a sigh of relief when there was considerable enthusiasm when he got behind the decks. While getting sloshed was probably still the main priority of the crowd of tourists, expats and old dudes, it was nice to see that they still acknowledged the presence of a legend.

Even when the crowd subsided (in numbers and excitement), Flash was the very definition of a master of ceremony – for great DJs are their own MCs – when he got more people to get on the dancefloor. Unfortunately the response and energy weren’t sufficient enough, there was visible frustration on his expression. Maybe it was disappointment or maybe it was just his style, but Flash left the decks without a proper goodbye.

Nevertheless, fleeting as it was, Grandmaster Flash spinning in KL was something to remember by. We just wish the proper crowd for such an event had more exposure to it.

The Original Series – Grandmaster Flash was on 23 September at Sultan Lounge, Kuala Lumpur. Never heard of Grandmaster Flash? Google and get yourself edumacated, son.

With Dude & the Duchess, prepare your passports, because this season they are taking us to London, baby!

We are loving their very inspired ‘FALLing for the Union Jack’ theme. The local fashion brand presents rough-meets-the-refined shirts for the Dudes and classy posh dresses for Duchesses, and many more. These will definitely spice up your wardrobe to casual royalty chic.

Plus, if you’re a Dude & the Duchess member card holder, you can get 10% discount at Dude & the Duchess online and stores, Borders bookstores, Ben’s, T forty two, MS. READ, and Plan b.

Go to Bangsar Village 2, Empire Shopping Gallery, Tangs Pavilion, or log on to www.dudeandtheduchess.com to shop!

Get your swag on, because Vans is ready to thrill you, with a kick-ass collaboration with the legendary grunge group Pearl Jam. Limited edition Vans Pearl Jam Sk8-Hi is what we call these new fancy sneaks.

Pearl Jam had worn Vans amazing kicks since forever! In celebration of their 20th anniversary, this Vans X Pearl Jam collection is one of Vans’ coolest music projects to date. Jeff Ament, the skate-lover bassist even shared that he was pretty excited in doing this collaboration.

The Vans Pearl Jam Sk8-Hi will be coming into Malaysia’s market in 2 different styles. One of the designs comes in classic black and the iconic grunge flannel on the side of the shoes. The other design will come with bright green and yellow colours, this design was made as a tribute to now defunct NBA basketball team of the States.

The prices for these perky shoes are RM299 for Vans Sk8-Hi Black/Flannel and RM329 for Vans Sk8-Hi Kelly Green/Golden Yellow.

If you’re mad over these shoes, go get it at all Studio R, Stadium and Vans boutiques in Malaysia. Check out www.vans.com for more info.