Described as "a love letter to Beijing - and all its struggles, challenges, and unexpected beauty," the following song was written and performed by Jason Chu, an American hip-hop artist that has been living in Beijing for the last several years.
He explains:
Later this month, I'm finally returning home. As many expats know, leaving this country brings with it a mixture of emotions - everything from relief t…
Courtesy of Study More Chinese:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EfHuGMrNxc8#!
What do you all think? I'll say this: I like the track. It's easy to follow. The rhymes (at least to me) make sense, which already puts him ahead of the pack in rap music. In fact, you could say I'm 非常满意 with his effort.
With music being a great supplement for language learning, and with me liking rap, it…
From the always amazing photostream of Michael Steverson. In his words: "Sugar Rush performs at The Terrace in Shenzhen, China. First image of a photo documentary on rock music in China. I've been working on the project for a while now and I'm hoping to wrap it up by the fall. I'll be dropping some of these onto Flickr over time."
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One of my favourite Chinese sites, Neocha, has teamed up with the very talented producer Dave Liang, of The Shanghai Restoration Project, and created eXpo, a 10-track collection of Chinese electronic music that goes on sale today.
I generally accredit Neocha as the source of reversing my opinion about creativity in China. The site is a SNS for Chinese creatives of all disciplines, and while it's all in Chinese, it…
Back in May, I made a post entitled "A Laowai's Soundtrack", where I listed 20 songs that helped define my China Experience. As the New Year ring's in, I figure it's as good of a time as any to revisit that. Just as before, the purpose of this is to share a bit of music with people who may not get too much new pumping through their knock-off iPod. Also, to hopefully try to catalog my journey, and hopefully all of…
I am one of those people who associate music with times and places in my life. As the academic year in China comes to a close, a few songs stick out to define the highs and lows of the rookie year of my China experience. If you are about to start your own trip to the Middle Kingdom, or would like to reflect on some old times, be sure to acquire these songs to guide your thoughts.
(QUICK NOTE: I tried to…
Neocha, the net's premier source of Chinese indie music, has just released the newest version of their NEXT player. We spoke to Neocha founder Sean Leow about the first version NEXT player and Neocha nearly a year ago, and have been using it rather faithfully since. Despite its awesomeness, everything evolves and NEXT 2.0 has done just that.
From 56minus1:
What’s new in NEXT 2.0:
Genres - Only want to listen …
You may have heard that the planned Oasis shows in Beijing and Shanghai next month have been canceled. Apparently 12 years isn't enough time to separate a musician and his ties to a certain autonomous region's freedom concert.
Though no "official" reason has been given for the cancellation, the concert's promoters said it was due to the government discovery that Noel Gallagher played the Free [*tib*] benefit conce…
I love music. Don't well all? Music is awesome. But I hate pre-fab pop. Don't we all? Pre-fab pop is crap.
That China's mainstream music scene is near completely made up of boy bands and girl groups is a sad fact. But mainstream music scenes usually are (sad facts). So, when after digging around a bit I couldn't find even the remotest signs of an independent music scene to offset the crud cracking out of cheap sho…
I was just chatting with a friend in Canada and she suggested a check out the new Foo Fighters single - The Pretender. Being the suavy Chinese Internet surfer I am, I jumped over to Baidu's handy mp3 search and immediately brought it up.
Impressed with my slick mp3 finding prowess, my friend asked how I found it so fast. I copy and pasted the search results link for her and nothing but confusion insued.
After f…
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