Music label offers boost to Asia's EDM artists

Norwegian DJ and record producer Alan Walker and Hong Kong singer-actor Nicholas Tse are working on a new collaboration, which will fuse elements of electronic music with Tse's rock background, and will be released later this year.

The two announced this during the annual Music Matters conference in Singapore on Sept 19. Their collaboration is being done under a label called Liquid State, a collaboration between Tencent Music Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment. The label is the new home for electronic artists from Asia and beyond, which was launched 18 months ago in Hong Kong.

"Nicholas and I have been talking about a collaboration for nearly a year now, so we are delighted to announce that we are close to completing something magical that brings together our different music styles and cultures," says Walker, the ambassador for Liquid State. He is best known for his 2015 single, Faded. The single has so far sold more than 9.4 million copies worldwide in addition to being streamed more than 1.6 billion times on digital platforms.