Italian selector and Dancity Festival co-curator, Filippo aka EFFE, plays deep, hypnotic, and genre-blurring electronic tunes at this chill lounge/club where you can lay down.
EXIT CLUB returns with a night dedicated to 140 BPM sounds, as SUMGII and PATRICE make their Shanghai debut. Expect a bass-heavy mix of dub, bass, and UK garage, alongside a lineup of local DJs bringing deep low-end energy from start to finish.
The New Writing Supermarket are back at it. This month, they're throwing a two night event in an actual abandoned hospital at the intersection of Jing'an, Putuo, and Changning. They say the place is set to be demolished, and for two nights only, its 20 consultation rooms and one operating theatre will be transformed as more than twenty artists from different disciplines take on the roles of "specialist doctors," each presenting their own form of "treatment" within their assigned space. A full lineup of DJs will provide the sound therapy. Happens 8pm-midnight on Friday and Saturday. There's a good FAQ and more about all this on their WeChat account: 新写作超市. Note: this is in the OFFICE BUILDING next to the mall. Address is 1111 Changshou Lu. There's a Moofin by the entrance. They say to take the elevator to the 6th floor, and only to that floor. Ticket is 108rmb each day for just the event, and they also have a ticket + two hours of free flow drinks for 198rmb.
Berghain resident and one of the few women in the modular synthasizer space, JakoJako, plays a set. Friends tell us she's "quite wizardish with modular but makes nice dancing techno, a bit dubby." Should sound good on the soundsytem here, which is one of the best in in town.
"Five female knights. Five spell books. No swords—only frequencies. No victors—only whoever can pull the dance floor furthest under their spell. Cold Wave and Dark Wave summon restless tides. Gothic melancholy becomes ritual. EBM and industrial rhythms loosen the body from itself, until every restraint gives way to movement." Yes.
Jing'an lounge + small club Roam is back after a lil revamp, with a fresh new first floor. Friday they’ve got house, deep techno, and minimal all night up on the third floor, from DJ Sunyoung from ccpark club in Chongqing and Shanghai-based DJs Jeff Chong and Stefano DVT.
The newly minted Cedar Land and ILLUM in the underground music labyrinth that is C-Park host the third volume of WAVES CROSS - a two-day, three-night programme of live performances, workshops, and then some. Basically - a festival highlighting the most cutting-edge electronic music, ’bringing together artists, musicians, designers, and producers from diverse creative backgrounds…fostering cross-disciplinary encounters through sound, image, movement, and perception.’ It’s a lot to take in: one night showcasing A/V live performance, another hosting an immersive electroacoustic theatre experience, and full-on live electronic music sets, synthesizer-driven performances exploring ambient, noise, and audio-visual practices. Plus, workshop and sharing sessions for the true nerds out there - delving into ‘interactive art, synthesizer and instrument design, electroacoustic music, and theatrical creation’. Hell yeah - dig into all that content on their WeChat account. ID: Cedar Kitchen.
