BIRTH OF ‘TRIBE’ – Year 2002 Joe Tribe, the founder of ‘TRIBE’ was a student of the Malaysian Institute of Arts (MIA). Thus, with his bold and unique creativity mind he realises his dream with his college final year project whereby he has established the TRIBE label by designing and producing his very own hand-printed T-Shirts for sale in he college. The responds was tremendous as his thrilling designs are uniquely one in a million and hence, gave him a solid market impact foundation that eventually impressed one of his lecturer, Mr. Vinod who then encouraged and supported him to launch TRIBE clothing line. With great enthusiasm and courageous positive attitude, Joe Tribe went all out to break into the streetwear industry of Malaysia. Initially, it was an intensive toil of him to run a one man show; including designing, producing and hand-delivering his products by taking bus rides to places like Sungai Wang complex to convince and sell his products. TRIBE CLOTHING – Year 2003 - 2009 The evolution year of TRIBE clothing as Joe met up with his partners Ice, a renowned musician and Yeoman, a budding interior designer to fully established TRIBE clothing by opening their own outlet bearing the name ‘KLAN’ in his hometown, Malacca. By then, TRIBE has been one of the major streetwear industry players of Malaysia with their products going into the market around Malaysia. In due course, KLAN began diversified their product lines ranging from clothing to footwear and accessories. What make TRIBE unique and special in the market is their creative guts to break the traditional clothing rules with their signature loud and large graphic printings on their collar polo T-shirts. Altogether with funky colours like pink and apple-green realised into their designs unlike most of the usual polo T-shirts with plain colours and small printings. TRIBE’s trademark was significantly embossed in the local market when they sponsored the wardrobe for the nation’s top rap-core band Pop Shuvit. To that, TRIBE has been the talk of the town, the state and even the nation with their superficially designed clothing. Furthermore, Joe Tribe was even invited to do a talk on the clothing and design industry to students of MIA in the year 2005, sharing his experience and thoughts in starting up successful design business. TRIBE GRAFFITI – Year 2004 Yet, another great effort of Joe Tribe to further expand his empire with the introduction of TRIBE GRAFFITI, that promotes the distinctive art of ‘murals’ painting. The idea came about when Joe Tribe met up with his crew, Laber whom together they have promote extensively on the art of graffiti. They are the pioneers to organised open graffiti competitions in Malaysia which draws big crowds that succumbed to their introduction and promotion of healthy graffiti arts. Besides event organising, TRIBE GRAFFITI also does a lot of graffiti painting services on shutter blinds, murals and advertising oriented arts for clients ranging from retail shops, restaurants, discotheques and also on events. For these services, TRIBE GRAFFITI’s prices are of RM300 and above depending on sizes and complexity of the designs. In addition, TRIBE GRAFFITI is the first to import spray can nozzles from Japan (in variety of sizes: fat, semi-fat, skinny & semi-skinny). To that, TRIBE GRAFFITI did a large sized mural at jonker street of Malacca, the most visited tourist spot that is better known as ‘Jonker Walk’. This was a collaboration work of TRIBE GRAFITTI and SWS (Sembur With Style) crew of Malacca. All this was approved and supported by Malacca’s YB Gan Tian Lok as a purpose to beautify and to add more flavourful vibes to the tourist area. This mural section of the street is something all tourist to Malacca will be able to catch a glimpse on their visit. TRIBE SOUND DJ ACADEMY– Year 2005 TRIBE SOUND DJ Academy – Year 2005 Sometime during this year, Joe was hooked up with a fellow Malaccan named Reeve and Def, who was working as a DJ in Malacca . With this, TRIBE SOUND was born, specialising in deejaying dance music , Hip Hop & turntable . They do many events and emceeing with their crew, namely DJ Reeve: who old schoold Hip Hop and scratching , DJ Def : who spin most popular R n B and Hip Hop song in the club , and finally DJ Joe Tribe, who spins Psychedelic Trance and house music . Together, they have played for many clubs around Malacca and some outbound venues too. TRIBE SOUND’s identity has been glorious lately with the crowning of DJ Reeve has won the DMC 2008 turntablerism 2nd runner up . Nevertheless, Tribe Sound also runs a DJ Academy that gives DJ classes to those who are interested to try out the turntables and CDJ , whereby Tribe Sound DJ will guide them to reach performance level. . TRIBE THE HOUZ – Year 2006 Finally, in the year 2006 came the latest addition to the TRIBE’s empire, Tribe the Houz chillout bar that is located in the heart of Malacca City. This bar has the first and only such concept of soothing chill out theme in Malacca with its great variety of music of different genres alike classic tunes from the 60’s to early 90’s, grovvy jazz, moving chillout music, variety of Jap musics; from J-Hop to J-Rock. Nevertheless, Tribe the Houz’s signature of House music arrays that gets the patrons grooving the whole night through. This bar is an exclusive member-based club whereby only registered members are allowed to enjoy their nights here with a low fee of only RM100 annually. Thus, it is a different case for ladies, whereby all ladies are welcomed unconditionally to this cosy and romantic bar; no membership required. Among the perks our members and ladies can expect are Ladies Nite every Friday and Members Nite on Sundays, where promotional beer prices are available to them and also invitation to events and parties organized by TRIBE THE HOUZ. Boutique Tribe – Year 2007 Boutique Tribe is located inside Dataran Pahlawan Mall in the heart of Melaka’s city centre. This particular premise is more oriented towards ladies fashion needs, we also have many other unisex fashion items made available as well. On the other hand, Boutique Tribe also supplies graffiti art’s materials and equipments. Essentially, the existence of Boutique Tribe has a purpose and vision of its own, it is actually a showroom that acts as a sample of Tribe’s franchise operation and system. Therefore, entrepreneurs who are interested of becoming franchisee for the hottest fashion brand of today…do not miss the opportunity, step right into Boutique Tribe! Yaksha Tribe - Year 2007 - 2010 Another addition to the Tribe Family! Yaksha Tribe is the latest branch out of Tribe’s diversified expansion, this time it is a tattoo parlor! Joe Tribe met with Yen, a tattoo artist some time ago and has become close buddies. Eventually, that brought them together as business partners and created another great moment in Tribe’s history. Yen has 8 years of tattooing experience with around 2,000 pieces of tattoos done to his credit. After completing his apprenticeship Yen has started doing tattoos for others actively, he even went to Beijing, China to carry out his work. Moreover, Yen is highly skilled in doing freehand tattoo designs, tattoo modifications and cover ups. He is able to furnish a wide variety of tattoo genres like tribal, celtic, fantasy, customized, old and new school designs, and many others. Yaksha Tribe provides a safe and hygienic environment for tattooing pleasure with reasonable pricing to all, as some people would say, “Good tattoo ain’t cheap, cheap tattoo ain’t good!” In addition, over here you can get tattoo merchandise like caps and t-shirts that are Yen’s personal freehand drawn artwork. Temporally one-day tattoos are also available here. VIE BODY PIRCING - Year 2008 Another artist from Tribe , Vievien – the resident piercing artist for Tribe . She offers standard piercing and others such as tongue, belly, eyebrow, neck , labret and even female genital and is extremely well qualified and experienced. Vievien is the only professional piercer in Malacca using up to date methods and materials with great results for surface and standard work. Drop in and have a chat on everything about piercings and jewelry.In working with clients, Vievien takes anatomy into consideration when determining placement. She gives the client complete information as to what will and won't work, involving them in the process. Her ultimate goal is complete customer satisfaction and quality care. Vievien is preferable by appointment for piercings and consultations . She can get fairly booked up so if you are interested in getting some work done, pop in for a consultation in Boutique Tribe sooner rather than later! For more info check out Vievien’s blog at http://vieviengan.blogspot.com/ Event that participate / invite / join : Year 2006 : - ING Insurans Annual Dinner : Live graffiti painting @ KL - Batu Pahat Grafiti Competition : Invited as a judge - Maxis Hotlink World Cup Street Party : Live graffiti painting @ KL - Astro AEC : Interview & live graffiti painting for a local TV show Year 2007 : - JUICE Magazine House Party : Giant puzzle design & printing @ KL - Astro AEC : Graffiti painting for a local TV show @ Astro Studio KL - Skudai Parade Graffiti Competition : Invitedas a judge Year 2008 : - Nike : Advertorial for Nike @ Juice Magazine - LEVI's 501 Unbutton : Jean's painting & graffiti painting @ KL - Pipit 2nd Anniversary : Screening graffiti painting @ ZOUK KL - Nike & Streething All In The Family : Bearbrick design & painting @ KL - Celcom UOX Bloc Party : Live graffiti painting & product designer @ KL - Hugo Boss Graffiti Competition : Invited as a Judge @ Zouk KL - AVIA Shoes : Shoes custumize & design @ KL - F&N : Huge F&N cans painting @ Malacca - Summit USJ Graffiti Challenge : Invited as a judge @ KL Year 2009 : - Rakan Muda Graffiti Competition : Invited as a judge @ Malacca - Tiger Beer : Advertorial for Tiger Beer @ Juice Magazine - Astro Vaanavil : Graffiti Painting for a local TV show @ Astro studio KL - Juice Magazine : Live graffiti painting and video shooting @ Pure Bar Malacca - KL Design Week ( KLDW ) : T-shirt design for Xteebition - Tuborg Sunbust : Stage Area DJ performance - Balai Seni Lukis Graff Jam 09 : Live graffiti painting @ Pavilion KL | |||||||||
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