“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” – Andre Gide
Underground Baby, Liz Tung, World of Chinese, Live Beijing Music, Jia Huizhen, XP, Split Works, Chui Wan, Deadly Cradle Death, Yan Jun, Raying Temple, Soviet Pop, Torturing Nurse, Li Jianhong, Joshua Frank, Hot and Cold, Howling Into Harmony, Jingweir, Hot Cat Club, Xiao Rong, Brain Failure, Cocktail 78, Sikhara, Perpetual Motion Machine, Xiao He, Layabozi, Beijing Daze, David O’Dell, Inseparable, Old What Bar, Misandao, Red Rock, Yaogun, Jon Campbell, Artspace China, Rainbow Danger Club
Cat #: 103TZM
Life is hard for Hira Hira and they certainly let you know about it on their debut record Now Here Nowhere. Written over the past twelve months, the album touches on themes of cats stuck in trees and probably other things as well.
During the summer they spent 10 days out in the middle of the cheese capital of Australia to swim in waterholes, get sucked on by leeches and record the album. What they came away with was a raw and loud affair. An honest reflection of what the band is.
It should be mentioned that you can listen to the tracks, maybe show them to other people on your website/radio/home stereo and that maybe, if you’re around come to a show and buy heaps of merchandise.
All songs written by Hira Hira
Recorded by Mike Morgan
Mastered by Andrew Edgson @ Studios 301
Cat #: 102TZM
Written and performed by Katrina Byrne, Flyn Mckinnirey and Amy Wilson.
Recorded by Tim Carr at Studio 301.
Mastered by Andrew Edgson.
Cat #: 097TZM
Sports is the first full-length from widely touted Shanghai artists Duck Fight Goose, fresh from their invite to SXSW and History 7” release earlier this year.
The eleven-track album combines elements of ambient post-rock and math-rock, with heavily textured songs that build layers upon layers before blooming into complex psychedelic mosaics.
Sports represents a creative leap from Duck Fight Goose’s first release, the straightforward math-rock EP, Flow, and has been roundly acclaimed in the Chinese press as one of the best albums of 2012.
Cat # 109TZM
New Zealand band produced their own CD which I imported and sold under the tenzenmen banner.
Cat #: 105TZM
These six tracks on Little Shadows debut release, Possessions, evoke memories of later Hopesfall, Cursive, and at their more dischordant and punishing, a more melodic Nation Blue. All of this is coupled with vocalist Cam Gillard’s stories being told with a balance of layered analogies, and brutal honesty, whilst delivered in a more angelic and balanced tone than his previous work. It’s a fine moment for a relatively fresh band when they can set the benchmark for their peers in such a seemingly effortless manner.
Maybe Mars, Snapline, Lolly Fan, Michael Pettis, Carsick Cars, Shanghai 24/7, Yugong Yishan, Hedgehog, Space Bitch, Live Beijing Music, Pacalolo, Baijng Daze, Badr, Andrew Field, Subs, Down, Residence A, D-22, Uptown Records, Sacco, Genjing, Rainbow Danger Club, Duck Fight Goose, The Song Dynasty
Cat #: 078TZM
Hacks exist for brief moments in time on the Sydney underground landscape and during one of of those moments they managed to record these 4 tracks and play a few shows that suitably impressed tenzenmen with their drunken swagger of improvised rock.
Tape and/or CD versions coming sometime when Hacks have been located in the vicinity again.
Gou Ri De, Genjing, Yunnan, Down, Subs, Andrew Field, Jud Willmont, Pangbianr, City Weekend, Chui Wan, Josh Feola, Live Beijing Music, Brain Failure, David O’Dell, Hejorama, Beijing Punk, Shaun Jefford, Jingweir, Beijing Daze, Core In China, Rock In China, King Ly Chee, Wooozy, Nevin Domer, 1724 Records, Zoomin’ Night, D-22
Snapline, Tiny Mix Tapes, Josh Feola, Mao Livehouse, Deadly Cradle Death, Live Music Beijing, Skip Skip Ben Ben, Birdstriking, Chui Wan, White+, Matthew Niederhauser, MDNPhoto, Backyard Surgeons, Shanghai 24/7, Layabozi, Hedgehog, Meat Sucks, Rock In China, Cool Hunting, Xiao He, Yan Jun, Li Daiguo, Tea Rockers Quintet, Torturing Nurse, Deaf Sparrow, Duck Fight Goose, World Of Chinese, King Ly Chee, Shanghaiist, Mr Fossy, Rustic, Pitchfork, Red Rock, Beijing Daze, Jon Campbell, Post Rock, Time Out, Pairs, Foxy Digitalis, UndergroundHK, Bomb Shop, Genjing, SXSW, Core In China
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