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[Culture Bureau]: Soulspeak
Talking with the left-field beat maestro about the skittering influences on his new album Flux, LA vs Beijing beat scene comparisons, his abiding love of funk guitar, and why his next solo album will come out in the format of a plastic toy rabbit... Read more...
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[Music Monday]: Globalization One
Another worldly week in Beijing, with Algerian gnawa, Kingston dub, Russian electro-jazz, Danish afro-jazz, Xinjiang Latin jazz, Classical piano from Taiwan, and more. Insert globalization observation here... Read more...
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[Music Thursday]: Back and Gone
Clearing out the holiday cobwebs, here's a smorgasbord of live music offerings on for the next few days, from Chengdu pysch to Shanghai punk, from cilia to sheng, from Sweden to Senegal. Gone and back again... Read more...
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[Music Monday]: Ba Gua
Enter the octahedron... Eight worthwhile gigs to enjoy over the October holiday break. Hardcore, post-punk, post-rock, gugong ghosting, Kazakh steppe tunes, and more... Read more...
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Chinese Music and The World: Inside D Force Records
Behind the curtain of social media platform Douban.com's new D Force record label. Why is a Chinese tech company putting out vinyl in the Internet Age? Read more...
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[Music Monday]: Mid-Autumn Breaks
Bona fide Americana, Dutch street punk, Cali disco house, and a double LP release from Douban's new D Force label to propel us through the Moon Cake holiday... Read more...
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Notes from the Underpass
Going rogue with Beijing's young crop of itinerant experimental musicians at a public underpass near Sanyuanqiao. Guerilla noise... Read more...
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[Music Monday]: Echo Chamber
Australian post-punk, New Zealand lo-fi dance, UK future-dub, and one act coming all the way from Hades to be with us in Beijing this week... Read more...
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[Undercurrents]: RAN Music
A close look at one of Beijing's several new record labels looking to boost our local underground far and wide throughout China and the rest of the world... Read more...
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[Music Monday]: Modulations
Fall has fallen! Lots brewing on the music front in September and October. Here's what to get into over the next few days... Read more...
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