PANGBIANR: Beijing’s Electro/Experimental Underground

SOURCE: http://pangbianr.com/electro-underground/

In a recent City Weekend blurb, Blake Stone-Banks — the magazine’s former nightlife editor — articulates a phenomenon that has been flitting around my brain for about a year now. That’s Beijing’s “electro underground,” and its aesthetic overlap with experimental music.

[Let me first state for the record that I acknowledge there are no genre labels less precise than “electronic music” and “experimental music.” For the sake of this article let’s say electronic music is anything that has a beat not produced by a live drummer and experimental music is… fuck it, that phrase is meaningless.]

In exploring the connection between electro and experimental, Blake name-checks the Shanshui crew (Sulumi, Dead J, ME:MO, et al) and identifies some younger heads on the scene, such as Noise & Noise:

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LIVEBEIJINGMUSIC.COM On The Scene: Xiaoping May 16th

I’ve been itching to check out the ‘new D-22’, XP in all its glory since the Sally Can’t Dance Festival, and though I wanted to hold off till one of their Sunday parties, which seem like a great addition to the weekly lineup, but I just couldn’t resist. So against the efforts of my friends to keep me away and get over to Temple (which I eventually did anyway), I trucked over to the XP (or XiaoPing) to check out electronic artist thruoutin and the one-man band Low Bow.

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