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Recent posts

Chinese Record Store Day releases + a punk Eason Chan cover

+ China's finest experimentalists x an iconic poet + a new Carsick Cars video

Apr 30 •

"Asian Horror + Electronic Music" + lots of bedroom pop

+ "guitar antihero" Li Jianhong + ‘To Discuss Music is to Discuss Bomb’

Apr 16 •

Yangzhou fried beats + Brutal Girl Delusion

+ ecological ambient from rural Zhejiang + new Wang Wen

Apr 2 •

Inner Mongolian grassland psych + extreme metal

+ an Audrey Hepburn song like you've never heard it before + reimagined Kazakh folk

Mar 19 •

Playlists

Here’s ~5 hours of Chinese ambient music

Chilled out tunes to soothe in tumultuous times

Mar 5 •

1:35:41

A mix of some of the stand-out tracks from China in the last 11-and-a-bit months

Dec 18, 2024 •

A beginner's guide to Chinese shoegaze

What if My Bloody Valentine were from Beijing? Or the Jesus & Mary Chain from Zhejiang?

Feb 21, 2024 •

Down the rabbit hole: an alternative Spring Festival soundtrack

+ what was China listening to in 2022?

Jan 20, 2023 •

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