This Thursday Karma-Koma -- the experimental hip hop night at The Shelter -- turns one and hosts KBN, from Taiwan. Line Up: KBN (live), LON (live), R3 (live), Drunk Monk. Hosted by ChaCha Tickets: 30rmb. More infor after the jump.

"Karma-Koma was born in December 2007. Organized and hosted by Uprooted Sunshine's ChaCha and Drunk Monk, over the past year Karma-Koma has provided a monthly journey into the sounds of trip-hop, downbeat and abstract hiphop and has welcomed guests such as Shanghai's own Zhong Chi and collaborated with Free The Wax to bring Australia's Hermitude. To celebrate one year of Karma-Koma, we are very proud to welcome special guests KBN from Taiwan. KBN formed almost 10 years ago in Taipei and have been exploring experimental electronic music and performing in Taiwan ever since. While the band's first album/documentary, "Before 2005," may perhaps most easily be described as downbeat or trip-hop, they're more recent work builds upon that platform and extends further into the realm of experimental electronica."