1. Culture Shot aka La La Li La Tam Pong, Penang
With a name that takes from a children’s game, this Penang band sure is playful in their approach to music. Old Hokkien songs are given a remake using a combination of instruments from different cultures: sounds of Chinese erhu, cymbals and lang tin tang (a banjo popular in the ’50s and ’60s) fuse with the melodic rhythms of Malay rebana, gong and gendang.