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pat101

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Chinese Music
« on: 09 Oct 2006, 02:22 »
I'm not sure if any of you know (I can't see how you would) but I recently started a teaching job in Weihai China. The thing is that for the most part the Chinese music that I have been exposed to (i.e. whatever shitty music video is on the t.v.) is fairly terrible. I'm wondering if there's anyone out there with a knowledge of music in China and could perhaps point me in the right direction.

P.S. The only good song I've heard yet was in the Bejing airport on a TV there and I totally forgot to catch the name of the band.
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Re: Chinese Music
« Reply #1 on: 09 Oct 2006, 03:15 »
Hang On The Box are pretty good. They have a myspace. I can't be arsed to find it for you at the moment.
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Re: Chinese Music
« Reply #2 on: 10 Oct 2006, 00:44 »
thanks man, when I'm not at work I'll check them out.

Oh how was thanksgiving? AND have you been to any shows in the lovely city of Winnipeg recently? I'd love reviews of all the decent stuff I'm missing.
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Re: Chinese Music
« Reply #3 on: 10 Oct 2006, 16:01 »
Check out wrecktheplacefantastic.com. They have a downloadable mixtape of Chinese punk bands.

Also similar tapes for Brazil, Russia, and Turkey.
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Re: Chinese Music
« Reply #4 on: 13 Oct 2006, 22:36 »
If you can read chinese...

www.baidu.com

It has a whole mp3 section, with top 100 new songs, top 500, artists, etc.
It is basically popular music that young people listen to. I was in China over the summer and I heard some pretty good songs on the radio and on tv.
 
If you want to hear some more classical chinese music with a younger, newer blend, there are many concerts on tv, on the CCTV channels that randomly pop up once in a while. Also some shows on tv where people preform (not to mention chinese idol). Music stores on the street have the newest and hottest CDs. Just asking the employee which ones are hot would do the trick.
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Re: Chinese Music
« Reply #5 on: 14 Oct 2006, 01:35 »
I can't read a word of Chinese. Plus it's not exactly the popular music I'm attempting to find, I've heard a lot of it and most of it is pure shit. I'm looking for good music.
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Re: Chinese Music
« Reply #6 on: 14 Oct 2006, 14:10 »
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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Re: Chinese Music
« Reply #7 on: 14 Oct 2006, 21:32 »
Quote from: pat101 on 10 Oct 2006, 00:44
Oh how was thanksgiving? AND have you been to any shows in the lovely city of Winnipeg recently? I'd love reviews of all the decent stuff I'm missing.

Thanksgiving was great. And I wish I'd been to Winnipeg lately, but Wilco's been my only jaunt out that way. A friend of mine went to the Weakerthans homecoming show though and it was apparently transcendent.
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Re: Chinese Music
« Reply #8 on: 14 Oct 2006, 21:40 »
I need to get back to Winnipeg... there was one record store there on the northish side of towntown (I don't remember the name) that I fell in love with. They had Forever Changes by Love on vinyl, cd AND cassette. The last show I went to there was the Pixies in 2004. It was excellent.
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Re: Chinese Music
« Reply #9 on: 24 Oct 2006, 12:43 »
Quote from: BrittanyMarie on 14 Oct 2006, 21:40
I need to get back to Winnipeg... there was one record store there on the northish side of towntown (I don't remember the name) that I fell in love with. They had Forever Changes by Love on vinyl, cd AND cassette. The last show I went to there was the Pixies in 2004. It was excellent.

damn totally meant to respond to this earlier, I'm going to guess the music store you are thinking of is "Into The Music" and you're right it is a delightful place, the last time I was there was the day they had a poster/album cover artist who had designed a TON of really cool stuff including



I feel terrible for not being able to think of his name
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