“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” – Andre Gide
MIDI Festival, Strawberry Festival, Josh Feola, Smart Beijing, Gang of Four, Archie Hamilton, Split Works, JUE Festival, Slinkrat, Godspeed You Black Emporer, Nevin Comer, Fanzui Xiangfa, Genjing, D-22, Maybe Mars, Thruoutin, Zhengzhou, Ark Live House, Carsick Cars, SXSW
Jue Festival, Feima, Astrofuck, SVRO, Livinglovingmaid, Rainbow Danger Club, Wang Xu, The Gar, Zhang Shouwang, Michael Pettis, Danwei, Carsick Cars, The Agenda, White+, Alpine Decline, China Radio International, Ivan Belcic, Death To Giants, SMZB, Wuhan, Morgan Short, Beijing Cream, Fanzui Xiangfa, Nevin Domer, Chui Wan, Lin Xinyu, Yan Yulong, Club Niubi, Jonathan Campbell, Subs, Black Snakes, Bluoinartinfo, DS-13, Zhang Sian, Djang San, The Amazing Insurance Salesman, Time Out, Ricky Maymi, Slinkrat, My Bloody Valentine, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Yantiao, Colourful Z-bra, Belly Mountain, Islet, Chinese Football, The Fuzz, Round Eye, Cheesemind, Your Boyfriend Sucks, Naohai, Lowbow, Next Year’s Love, Thruoutin, LuXinPei, The Last Three Minutes, Splice Today
Cat #: 130TZM
Here it Comes, Tramontane! (a global joint release between 9 labels) featuring Minutemen/Stooges bassist Mike Watt, celebrates CRTVTR’s recent tour of China which was supported by crowd funding with a sizable donation from tenzenmen.
Cartaverto’s music is suspended between Washington post punk and a touch of diverted contemporary psychedelia. Splatters of post rock, sprays of math. Electro-acoustic feedbacks and vocal loops, remnants of Morricone. They are a power trio and they like to experiment with full range dynamics, surprise the audience, or at least try to. They go around in a van called Flauto. They are part of DisorderDrama, which is the association of reference to the international DIY scene, in Genoa. They support the co-release system, because they like it, because this is the DIY way .
Cat #: 129TZM
Skip Skip Ben Ben creates devastatingly gorgeous songs that float together to form an intimate meeting point between delicate folk songwriting, Eastern-tinged textures and ambient exploration.
Cat #: 131TZM
First in a trilogy of 7″s. (The other two never eventuated unfortunately.)
Recorded by Teemu Hietaniemi.
Mastered at Virtalähde.
Cat #: 126TZM
Soon after The Gar’s last album release, three years ago, their bass player Wen Jie left the band, which deeply affected the band members’ musical work and life as a whole. This period of time served as an inspiration for The Gar’s most recent work, namely “Love will lost your love”, “Train”, “Time cue” and “Black hole” but it wasn’t until Bo Xuan joined The Gar that the band was truly complete and back on track again. After nearly a year of picking their brains, digesting and starting to make music again, The Gar put together “The City of Burning Identities”, their new EP, for which they invited the drummer of Sober band and famous Chinese producer Guo Yihuan to help out.
Cat #: 128TZM
Chui Wan get their name from Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi’s “Qi Wu Lun”, a mystical work on the relationship between nature and human life. The spirit of Zhuangzi’s thought is reflected in the modern Chinese idiom “When the wind blows, every sound may be heard therein.”
Inspired by this concept of seeking the infinite from the mundane, the core of Chui Wan’s sound is formed by the improvisational compositions of multi-instrumentalist Yan Yulong and guitarist Liu Xinyu. Their lush arrangements of guitar, keyboard, viola, other assorted instruments and random sound samples often eschew reliable melodies and vocal harmonies in favour of occasional passages of minimal drone or maximal sonic layerings.
Sub Jam, Yan Jun, Jonathan Campbell, The Instigation, No Class, Smart Shanghai, Morgan Short, Howie, Guangzhou, Skip Skip Ben Ben, Blouinartinfo, Layabozi, Birdstriking, Far East Vibes, Pairs, Idiotec, Metal Postcard, Round Eye, Craig England, Dos Kolegas, Temple Bar, Jean-Sebastian Hery, Josh Feola, Muscidish, The Amazing Insurance Salesmen, Pangbianr, Modern Sky, Guo Cheng
Round Eye, GuiGuiSuiSui, Alpine Decline, John Carrol, Shanghaiist, Huan Qing, Smart Beijing, Josh Feola, Kaiser Kuo, We Are Shanghai, Top Floor Circus, Lu Chen, Chinafile, Pairs, Mono No Aware, Hangzhou, Cui Jian, Jonathan Campbell, Reflector, Scream Club, Boredom Brigade, Dann Gaymer, Death To Giants
Cat #: 080TZM
I imported and licensed the first 3 Hedgehog releases for Australia. I’d met them briefly in 2007 in Beijing and was keen to work with them.
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