"This is the sound of China’s young and restless."
February 13, 2016 8:26 PM Subscribe
A mixtape featuring 20 young independent bands from China, curated by Wooozy, one of the country's leading indie music blogs. "From sunny Guangzhou and cyberpunk Chongqing to the frigid northeast grasslands beyond Beijing. From shoegaze to riot-weird." It can also be downloaded in full here.
From sunny Guangzhou and cyberpunk Chongqing to the frigid northeast grasslands beyond Beijing
What a time to be alive.
And China's skies will soon be the color of television, tuned to a dead channel, once they get that pollution under control.
Right, time to find out how punk is doing in China.
(And, personally, I just flicked through my first copy of Mojo for a decade, so I am ready to hear all about music I have never heard of before).
posted by Mezentian at 9:20 PM on February 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
What a time to be alive.
And China's skies will soon be the color of television, tuned to a dead channel, once they get that pollution under control.
Right, time to find out how punk is doing in China.
(And, personally, I just flicked through my first copy of Mojo for a decade, so I am ready to hear all about music I have never heard of before).
posted by Mezentian at 9:20 PM on February 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
It tickles me very deeply that one of the songs is called Jodorowsky's Dune.
(It helps that it's a pretty great song!)
posted by Itaxpica at 9:34 PM on February 13, 2016
(It helps that it's a pretty great song!)
posted by Itaxpica at 9:34 PM on February 13, 2016
(Seriously, "Chinese indie rock band making a song about the real-life saga of a Chilean avant-garde director trying and failing to make a 14-hour movie out of Dune" sounds like something from the coolest book Cory Doctorow never wrote).
posted by Itaxpica at 9:39 PM on February 13, 2016 [6 favorites]
posted by Itaxpica at 9:39 PM on February 13, 2016 [6 favorites]
@Itaxpica: Here are the lyrics! Schoolgirl Byebye's other songs are pretty great too, like 'No Romantics in China'.
posted by beijingbrown at 9:44 PM on February 13, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by beijingbrown at 9:44 PM on February 13, 2016 [2 favorites]
And China's skies will soon be the color of television, tuned to a dead channel, once they get that pollution under control.
Mezentian : You mean bright blue, don't you? I've been talking with my wife about that line recently. Did you mean that ironically or sarcastically, or did you genuinely read that line as "the sky was bright blue"? It's delicious if you meant it ironically but it's entirely possible you were sincere.
The reason I ask is because we are rapidly approaching a time where younger readers who take in Neuromancer don't understand the reference in that line and that's fascinating and wonderful. I just want to know when I actually see it in practice.
posted by radiosilents at 10:24 PM on February 13, 2016
Mezentian : You mean bright blue, don't you? I've been talking with my wife about that line recently. Did you mean that ironically or sarcastically, or did you genuinely read that line as "the sky was bright blue"? It's delicious if you meant it ironically but it's entirely possible you were sincere.
The reason I ask is because we are rapidly approaching a time where younger readers who take in Neuromancer don't understand the reference in that line and that's fascinating and wonderful. I just want to know when I actually see it in practice.
posted by radiosilents at 10:24 PM on February 13, 2016
Did you mean that ironically or sarcastically, or did you genuinely read that line as "the sky was bright blue"?
Sarcastically, I assure you. But also partially ironically.
The fact that one fine means so many different thinks to people based on place and time makes it one of the best and worst opening lines in print.
Right up there with wide-dark seas in that hack work.
posted by Mezentian at 10:41 PM on February 13, 2016
Sarcastically, I assure you. But also partially ironically.
The fact that one fine means so many different thinks to people based on place and time makes it one of the best and worst opening lines in print.
Right up there with wide-dark seas in that hack work.
posted by Mezentian at 10:41 PM on February 13, 2016
er... *wine* dark seas.
posted by Mezentian at 2:15 AM on February 14, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Mezentian at 2:15 AM on February 14, 2016 [2 favorites]
Thanks for posting this beijingbrown, I'm really enjoying listening to it.
Not sure wooozy's categories are quite correct - s/he likes to label things something punk it seems.
posted by wilful at 2:39 AM on February 14, 2016
Not sure wooozy's categories are quite correct - s/he likes to label things something punk it seems.
posted by wilful at 2:39 AM on February 14, 2016
Sweet!! Thanks a lot for this. A friend's girlfriend is from China and always asks me why I only ever listen to Korean (pop) music or Japanese bands and I never have a satisfying answer to that. Aside from me not knowing where to start.
So this is highly appreciated!
posted by bigendian at 3:42 AM on February 14, 2016
So this is highly appreciated!
posted by bigendian at 3:42 AM on February 14, 2016
For those looking for more Chinese music, Pangbianr's 2016 mixtape is also very good. (direct mixcloud links: a, b)
posted by bradf at 8:33 AM on February 14, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by bradf at 8:33 AM on February 14, 2016 [2 favorites]
Seriously digging Forsaken Autumn...
But then, I have always been a shoegazy sorta guy...
posted by PROD_TPSL at 10:06 AM on February 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
But then, I have always been a shoegazy sorta guy...
posted by PROD_TPSL at 10:06 AM on February 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
It tickles me very deeply that one of the songs is called Jodorowsky's Dune.
To be sure, if they started writing music a few years ago they may have been under the impression that there was no idea more important to the English-speaking world, according to the Internet.
posted by rhizome at 12:43 PM on February 14, 2016
To be sure, if they started writing music a few years ago they may have been under the impression that there was no idea more important to the English-speaking world, according to the Internet.
posted by rhizome at 12:43 PM on February 14, 2016
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