This is the sixth edition of New Sounds of China, and this week we are looking at Beijing electronic music.
Featuring a wide range of bands (as we are really covering a mammoth topic this week), including Sulumi, Dead J, Me:Mo, Wang Lei, FM3, Supermarket and Feng Jiangzhou, and interviews with Dead J and FM3, we ask questions such as “who was the first electronic band in Beijing?” and “is it really important?”
欢迎来到第六期中国新声代，这周我们一起来了解一下北京的电子音乐。我们将和大家一起聊聊北京电子音乐这个不小的话题，并为大家介绍一系列乐队，包括 Sulumi, Dead J, Me:Mo, 王玮, 爱父爱母三, Supermarket 以及 丰江舟。另外，在本期节目中我们还难得地采访到 Dead J 和 爱父爱母三，我们问了她们很多有趣且有争议的问题，比如”谁是北京第一支电子乐队？” 或 “做第一支电子乐队有什么重要意思？”
As if such philosophical ponderings weren’t enough, we give you a listen-in on some of the sounds of the Buddha Machine, a device that is at once inherently desirable and useless, as well as a sneak preview from Dead J’s forthcoming album in September - possibly the first airplay in the world. (at least as far as we know)
如果你觉得单单了解音乐人对于音乐的哲学思考还不够，那我们就让你听听在电子音乐界让人爱不释手，但却没什么实际用处的菩萨机可以发出的声音。另外还提前领略 Dead J 今年9月将推出一张新专辑中的部分作品，据我们所知，这可是第一次在电台播放。
A lot of the links on our site are broken, so you won’t be able to listen to a lot of the programmes.
This is because we are moving the site to a new server. Hopefully everything will be back to normal by the end of the week.
Hong Kong, 7th June 2008. 145.5mm (5.73 inches) of rain fell in in one hour on Saturday morning. This was 15% of annual rainfall in Hong Kong, and 20% of annual rainfall on Lantau Island. The following video is from You Tube.
This week’s episode is focused on the city of Shanghai, which has a completely different kind of music scene to that of Beijing. Presenters Paul Kendall and Wang Weilin discuss the bands and music of Shanghai, listening to bands such as Thirty Three Islands, Top Floor Cirus, Cold Fairyland, B6, Banana Monkey, and SRC.
Top Floor Circus performing in Live Bar, Kunming (photo: Shanghaistreets)
While many a Beijinger would tell you that Shanghai doesn’t have any music scene at all, the breadth of genre brought together in this show really challenges that notion, and although a Beijinger would tell you that Shanghainese sounds awful, the rap music coming from Shanghai bands such SRC in our opinion is much better than Beijing rap bands such as Dragon Tongue Squad. A bilingual programme recorded in English and Mandarin Chinese.
Richard Morgan, a consultant working in Chengdu has been asked by CCPIT Sichuan to get in touch
with overseas organisations regarding the recent appeal for tents to house survivors.The Foreign Ministry has requested 3.3 million tents.
They are looking for large 20 person waterproof tents; the idea being that in the absence of family- people can be placed with neighbours from the same village.
Naturally, air freight brings an additional burden; however experience shows that freight forwarders have been able to offer discount rates.
Tents can be sent to below address, for those of you interested in other forms of support please email me and will be happy to refer you to the relevant Chinese or Foreign NGO.
email: richard.morgan “at” egalimited.com
Yi Yang/Richard Morgan
Quake Relief Effort-CCPIT Sichuan
Chamber of Commerce Assembly Hall
1-12 Floor of Sichuan International
No.36 of West Shuxing Street
Chengdu, SichuanPRC
Today’s episode of New Sounds of China is a special “Earthquake Edition” which is dedicated to the largely overlooked but nevertheless substantial fundraising effort by Chinese rock bands, organising concerts in Beijing Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other major cities around the country, bringing in major names on the China rock scene.
Presented by Paul Kendall and Wang Weilin, the programme featurs interviews with Niu Lei from Indiechina.com, Zhang Chu from Tree Music, He Yong, Kiki (from Milk@Coffee), Ding Taisheng, and three different benefit concert organisers, as well as music from Wan Xiaoli, Su Yang, Milk@Coffee, Cui Jian, Confucius Says, and Zhang Chu.
Today’s broadcast will be on Friday from 8-9pm on 104.4FM courtesy of Resonance FM and can be listened to live online from this link. Also please don’t forget to write in to the comments section with erm, your comments!
The Chinese Government has announced three days of national mourning from 19th to 21st of May, 2008. A Book of Condolence will be opened at the Chinese Embassy, 49-51 Portland Place, London, W1B 1JL, from 09:00 to 18:00 Monday 19th to Wednesday May 21st.
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The second in this series of live shows on Chinese contemporary music, today’s show is bringing you music from Snapline, Joyside, PK14, Car Sick Cars Nezha, and SMZB. Presenter Wang Weilin went on tour with Car Sick Cars and will have plenty to tell you about it, and there will be the usual informed commentary from Paul Kendall. This week also features interviews with Car Sick Cars.
