First album by Wu Tiao Ren.
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万能青年旅店 The Omnipotent Youth Society - The Omnipotent Youth Society [2010]
Critically acclaimed album from Chinese indie/folk rockers. OYS was formed in Shijiazhuang, Hebei in the late 90s.
Download the album here.
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Monday, May 20, 2019
Monday, September 3, 2012
Sunday, October 23, 2011
P.K.14 Play New Songs
So PK.14 played D22 in Beijing last weekend and some awesome person recorded the show. The sound quality is pretty decent and the band sounds awesome as usual. Download it. It's worth it.
Pairs - Summer Sweat [2011]
Shanghai shit-rock duo, Pairs are back with their first full length. Produced by Yang Hai Song of PK14. Enough said.Monday, June 20, 2011
X is Y - Never Sever [2011]
Shanghai Math Rockers X is Y are back with their new single and a new lineup. They will be releasing their new EP in a few months time. Please watch this space for further info.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Hedgehog - Honeyed and Killed [2011, Modern Sky]
Beijing indie poppers, Hedgehog (刺猬) are back with their 4th full length.
The album sounds different from what they have done in the past but sounds equally good. Definitely worth the download.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Duck Fight Goose - Flow EP (Miniless, 2010)
Duck Fight Goose is a Shanghai based experimental pop/rock outfit led by Miniless Records founder Hanhan. Dec 2010 saw their release of their most awaited EP, Flow.Click Here to download this gem.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Glamorous Pharmacy - Rumbling Footsteps [Re-Uploaded by request]
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Guai Li - Flight of Delusion (Maybe Mars, 2010)
Guai Li is a punk rock band which loves the beautiful music ardently. Band’s name comes from Chinese saying “guai li luan shen”. It refers to something that happens that can’t be explained by science.
Guai Li’s history can be dated back in the year of 2005. At that time, Wen Jun, He Yifan(bass), Liu Yue(guitar) and original drummer Yang Fan established the band The Dirty Ones, which was the former of Guai Li. Afterwards, Yang Fan left the band. In 2006, Wen Jun settled in Wuhan and established AV Okubo with Xu Sheng and Lu Yan. After a show, Wen Jun and Xu Sheng left Wuhan. They went to the north to Beijing and changed band’s name to Guai Li. Later, the experienced rocker Shi Xudong who has played music for several years joined Guai Li. Then, the lineup of the Guai Li was completed.
Every member in band has his own preference in music. Each one brings different elements to the songs. Wen Jun likes all the noisy and weird music. Liu Yue likes new indie rock. Xu Sheng likes traditional rock and pop music. He Yifan influenced by post punk deeply. While Shi Xudong prefer original punk music and hardcore. The band aren’t confused for the different likes between the music but try to blend everyone’s idea and feature in the music. Sometimes, the motive is from someone’s experience in daily life. In arranging part, others will try to break the original feeling of the motive, to create a new impression and add everyone’s thinking in. Sometimes, five persons play impromptu together and come cross a new song.
As their name, Guai Li people love all the mysterious and inexpressible things, like the ghost, witchcraft, universe, white noise and a little addiction. Guai Li’s music and playing style are just like their name, weird but full of inexpressible charm.
Guai Li and famous producer Fang Wuxing cooperated in the band’s debut album Flight of Delusion. The album has released in September, 2010. At the same time, the band toured in China for debut album release.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
X is Y - Self-Titled (Shanghai, 2010)
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Hualun (花伦) - Asian River [2010]
Wuhan, China is an industrial wasteland; crowded, dusty and forebodingly urban. Driving through the city, it is hard to miss the scenic views of cordoned off construction sites with their massive cranes and bulldozers, either erecting new high rise skyscrapers or destroying old buildings for the sake of better urban planning. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the country and also the hometown of Hualun, one of the few post-rock bands in China. Two years after their debut, Silver Daydream, they release their sophomore album Asian River, a more cohesive and polished effort.
Post-rock has always been interested in exploring the dichotomy between quiet build ups and controlled noisy chaos. Asian River explores this traditional concept with great care, featuring the classic post-rock template of clean and reverbed guitar melodies which coalesce into crescendos of distortion and delay, supported by clear cut drumming and solid bass lines. During the relatively silent sections, there is minimal interplay between the guitars, allowing for more appreciation of the individual trickling string melody.
The first half of the album evokes shades of Mono, with long and intricate passages (all songs are over six minutes long) and strikingly epic climaxes. Songs like ‘Echo’ and ‘The Pilot’ showcase disciplined driving bass lines around which the guitars faithfully build their melodies. The album ender, ‘Shanghai Tourists,’ takes a familiar Chinese string tune and reworks it into a beautiful modern day interpretation with a gentle duel between the rhythm and lead guitar. The band is careful in reeling in their indulgences; the songs never overstay their welcome.
The album is relatively short for a post-rock album, with seven songs barely crossing over the forty seven minute mark. The production is refreshingly traditional, in that there are no drum machines, synthesizers or any overt digital manipulation, allowing the instruments to shine in their rightful manner. Hualun doesn’t test the boundaries of the genre, but, it does an excellent job of working within its confines. The songs are forceful in evoking feelings of melancholy and nostalgia; perhaps longing for a simpler time in industrial Wuhan.
-Ashish LohaniDownload
Edit: I have been told that the 3rd song wasnt listed in the zip file I posted. My apologies. Here is the link for Track 3 (Songs of Maldoror: Six) which is probably the best track on the album.
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