MP3 Monday: Just Raking It In: 5 Years of Split
By Morgan Short, Nov 28th, 2011 | In Nightlife
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Couple of good ones on this weekend, should you thirst for the rock, hunger for the roll. Alas, we’re giving it a miss, though, to pimp out this other thing happening after this weekend, starting next Wednesday: Split Works’ 5-Year Anniversary concert series.
Actually before we get into that, this one at Yuyintang on Saturday looks real good. If you follow this sort of thing, these names will be familiar to you. They’ve never played all together on one bill, though, so it could be a provocative night of blipage and bleepage. On stage at YYT for Saturday is Duck Fight Goose, *LLND, ROM, iamalamb, and The X Clan. That’s a cross-genre pollination sort of deal with general “electronica” being the shared end-point. Starting points, however, are fairly disparate: hip hop, rock, jazz, noise art, misc. The whole shebang is being promoted by Layabozi.com, a Shanghai music website, as a means to bring together different sorts of electronic musicians under one bill. Seems like Shanghai’s music communities don’t overlap as much as they used to, and it should be interesting to see what sort of show this turns out to be; a YYT mainstay – Duck Fight Goose – shares a bill with two acts that are frequently at The Shelter -- ROM and *LLND -- along with two new wildcards, The X Clan and iamalamb, which, if I’m not mistaken, are projects from a few well-traveled Shanghai jazz musicians. Cool beans.
Anyways, so you should check that out. It’s called “Dakou” -- “people making music with machines”, this Saturday at YYT. Starts 9pm. Cover: 60rmb.
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So next week, local promoters Split Works celebrate five years of music activities with five shows running from next Wednesday through to Saturday. This is what’s on. Click on each of those for specific event information.
Wednesday, December 7: Iron Mic Shanghai Semifinals @ Shanghai
Wednesday, December 7: Trippple Nippples @ Yuyintang
Thursday, December 8: Wooozy Session # 4: Eat Alien's Brain @ Yuyintang
Friday, December 9: Chad Valley with X is Y @ Live Bar
Saturday, December 10: Chad Valley with Hamacide and Jay.Soul
It’s been a pretty active five years with many, many ups and downs (a few downs maybe? Naaaah.) for the promoters. Pretty crazy looking back on it all. Since their first show five years ago (Maximo Park @ 4 Live, remember?), they’ve had in Sonic Youth, Battles, Caribou, Dandi Wind, Handsome Furs, Jens Lekman, The Field, World’s End Girlfriend, Olafur Arnalds, Jose Gonzales, and Andrew Bird, and more, in addition to China’s best bands, tons of local Shanghai bands, and their own multi-stage festivals: Yue, three Jue Festivals, and Black Rabbit.
So congrats to them. Congrats to you, concert goer. Congrats to everybody. Here’s some songs.
Don’t miss this Wooozy Session a week from this Thursday: Eat Alien's Brain. Day-glo electro spazz-head music from Chengdu. Panda crunk-step. Get into it.
And here’s the main course, as it were: Chad Valley playing two sun-drenched electro pop shows, joined by some can’t miss locals: X is Y at Live Bar Friday, December 9, and producers, Hamacide and Jay.Soul the next night at LOgO. Real coolio.
For a more in-depth retrospective of Split Works’ five years in China, have a click on this link. “IT HAS BEEN A PRIVILEGE.”
Sure dudes. Book GWAR already.
Couple of good ones on this weekend, should you thirst for the rock, hunger for the roll. Alas, we’re giving it a miss, though, to pimp out this other thing happening after this weekend, starting next Wednesday: Split Works’ 5-Year Anniversary concert series.
Actually before we get into that, this one at Yuyintang on Saturday looks real good. If you follow this sort of thing, these names will be familiar to you. They’ve never played all together on one bill, though, so it could be a provocative night of blipage and bleepage. On stage at YYT for Saturday is Duck Fight Goose, *LLND, ROM, iamalamb, and The X Clan. That’s a cross-genre pollination sort of deal with general “electronica” being the shared end-point. Starting points, however, are fairly disparate: hip hop, rock, jazz, noise art, misc. The whole shebang is being promoted by Layabozi.com, a Shanghai music website, as a means to bring together different sorts of electronic musicians under one bill. Seems like Shanghai’s music communities don’t overlap as much as they used to, and it should be interesting to see what sort of show this turns out to be; a YYT mainstay – Duck Fight Goose – shares a bill with two acts that are frequently at The Shelter -- ROM and *LLND -- along with two new wildcards, The X Clan and iamalamb, which, if I’m not mistaken, are projects from a few well-traveled Shanghai jazz musicians. Cool beans.
Anyways, so you should check that out. It’s called “Dakou” -- “people making music with machines”, this Saturday at YYT. Starts 9pm. Cover: 60rmb.
***
So next week, local promoters Split Works celebrate five years of music activities with five shows running from next Wednesday through to Saturday. This is what’s on. Click on each of those for specific event information.
Wednesday, December 7: Iron Mic Shanghai Semifinals @ Shanghai
Wednesday, December 7: Trippple Nippples @ Yuyintang
Thursday, December 8: Wooozy Session # 4: Eat Alien's Brain @ Yuyintang
Friday, December 9: Chad Valley with X is Y @ Live Bar
Saturday, December 10: Chad Valley with Hamacide and Jay.Soul
It’s been a pretty active five years with many, many ups and downs (a few downs maybe? Naaaah.) for the promoters. Pretty crazy looking back on it all. Since their first show five years ago (Maximo Park @ 4 Live, remember?), they’ve had in Sonic Youth, Battles, Caribou, Dandi Wind, Handsome Furs, Jens Lekman, The Field, World’s End Girlfriend, Olafur Arnalds, Jose Gonzales, and Andrew Bird, and more, in addition to China’s best bands, tons of local Shanghai bands, and their own multi-stage festivals: Yue, three Jue Festivals, and Black Rabbit.
So congrats to them. Congrats to you, concert goer. Congrats to everybody. Here’s some songs.
Don’t miss this Wooozy Session a week from this Thursday: Eat Alien's Brain. Day-glo electro spazz-head music from Chengdu. Panda crunk-step. Get into it.
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And here’s the main course, as it were: Chad Valley playing two sun-drenched electro pop shows, joined by some can’t miss locals: X is Y at Live Bar Friday, December 9, and producers, Hamacide and Jay.Soul the next night at LOgO. Real coolio.
For a more in-depth retrospective of Split Works’ five years in China, have a click on this link. “IT HAS BEEN A PRIVILEGE.”
Sure dudes. Book GWAR already.
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robjamdj, Nov 29th, 2011
Chav Valley sounds like a good outfit, nice electro, certainly worth a pop!Pinball Lizard, Nov 29th, 2011
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