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。

翻译：张水尔 （多谢你！）

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Featuring bands such as Second-Hand Rose, Re-TROS, Ans-jump, Hopscotch, Wang Wen, New Pants and Cosmic Shengy, this week’s show presented by Paul Kendall and Wang Weilin mulls over the subject of Chinese bands going abroad, a relatively new phenomenon, but a trend definitely set to grow in the future as Chinese bands make their presence felt on the world stage…

本期中国新声代隆重推出二手玫瑰，Re-TROS，Ans-jumps, Hopscotch, 王文，新裤子以及Cosmic Shengy几支乐队。主持人Paul Kendall和玮林将带大家一起去了解多支从国内向海外发展的中国乐队。中国乐队向海外发展目前还是一个比较新的现象，但随着越来越多的中国乐队在国际舞台亮相，中国乐队和他们的音乐必将引来更多世界的注目。

… well, that is if they can get visas！Co-presenter Weilin catches up with Wang Wen, and you can listen to their conversation, where Wang Wen explains the difficulties he had getting into Denmark. A bilingual programme recorded in English and Mandarin Chinese.

不过出国办签证可能是一个大问题，在玮林对王文的采访中王文将和大家分享他办签证去丹麦的艰难经历。欢迎收听本期中英文双语广播的中国新声代！

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海南虽为一个海岛，孤悬海外，中原的文化自然会淡一些，不过，每年的端午节，海南除了与内地过端午节一样,吃粽子、赛龙舟、挂艾草外,海南人还保留着洗龙水和草药水的奇特民俗。

海南民间向来有端午节”洗龙水”的习俗。”洗龙水”的涵义是与龙神同浴，仪式郑重讲究，一定要在正午时分的十二点整，早也不行、晚也不行，老人们说，洗早了，龙神还没洗过你就洗，表示对龙神的不敬；洗晚了，洗的就不是龙水。传统认为正午十二点是龙神入水开始洗浴的时刻，那才是真正的龙水,这时下水正好与龙同浴，能在沐浴中沾得龙神恩泽，在接下来的一年之中无病无灾、一帆风顺。人们希望通过”洗龙水”洗去一年的霉气，祈福平安吉祥。特别是小孩年年都要洗龙水，以祈求健康成长。他们相信，经过”龙水”洗浴的孩子会得到龙神的保护，不长热疮热痱，身体健健康康，一年平平安安。

也许这里的百姓们根本不知道屈原 是何人,就说他是神通广大的龙神；所以当地人相信,经过”龙水”洗浴会得到龙神的保护,身体健康。每到这天早上,大人们会去采来各类香叶，香花特别是野菠萝花；到了中午12点钟,大人们把花瓣泡在温水中给小孩洗澡,靠近海边的则带着孩子到海边洗,不同的是,他们将花瓣抛入海中。洗草药澡几乎是和洗龙水同时进行的，一些不方便到海边或是河边洗澡的人，便也早早准备了由五种清热、消炎的草药和水一起煮成草药水，让家中的人都一一去洗澡、沐浴，这五种草药一般是鸡屎藤、百日红、艾草、菖蒲、灯笼草，据说洗这种草药水具有清热、消炎、驱风作用，可以健体强身。如果你感兴趣的话，不妨明年端午到海南来洗洗‘龙水’！

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.

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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, Sichuan PRC

Today is June 1st, International Children’s Day. Today would normally be a holiday in China, with children going on camping trips or all sorts of other fun events. However this year is different, because of the earthquake, with many families gathering around the sites of former schools to mourn the loss of their children.

We would like to offer our sincerest condolances to all affected by this terrible disaster, and ask all people to spare a moment and a prayer for these families and lost loved ones. Thank you.

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!

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一方有难，四方支援。四川地震触动英国华人各界。

伦敦华语志愿者和澳大利亚电台连线，介绍英国华人如何声援国内的抗震救灾，英国媒体在报道此事的角度和观点。