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Dada is closing its Shanghai club this Saturday for good and no one could be happier about that than Michael Ohlsson. The owner, perpetually beset by nightlife randomness and slaughtered by hangovers, needs some rest. Kidding! Just kidding Michael! We’re... Read more...
Talking about post-club, anti-nostalgia and the kids at ALL. Read more...
The people's club, Dada , turns 10 this weekend with a big old party . Of course they do. It's what they've been doing for a decade. But, surprisingly, owner Michael Ohlsson still has a shred of his memory left which he delicately extracted, taped onto a... Read more...
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In case you hadn't noticed, some things have been happening in the nightlife world in the last few months. Bureaucratic things. Pee-in-this-for-me-and-I'll-show-you-your-future things. And now some more clubs are closing , this time for the rest of June:
Snapping around town with the party promoter's main man, Mr. Davenport. Read more...
We've got an extra special installment of Mixtape this week with immanent Dada guest NET GALA, representing queer collective Shade Seoul . NET GALA put together a great in-roads package into what the underground scene in the Korean capital is into these days. If you're... Read more...
Kicking a few links your way if you're interesting in local producers releasing original dance / hip hop / electronic music. Here's a round-up of three new ones from Shanghai sources. China Pavilion Records (the digital label from The Mansion ) have released their first compilation EP, long-time Shanghai deep disco... Read more...
Shanghai's dedicated reggae, dancehall, world sounds -- talking about that global underground -- celebrates six years in the books this Saturday at Dada bar . Always a good party with Sal (AKA Skinny Brown) and guests, trading in unique sounds you won't find anywhere else in the city. Ahead of the anniversary event, SmSh... Read more...
Ahead of local DJ night / creative project of no discernible limits Love Bang's seven year anniversary this Saturday night at Dada bar , SmSh got their mascot / wechat-based art, fashion, culture, and dining critic Xu Dongmei to send us over what's good these days for music to listen to. Hey, it's Friday. We'll play along. Fire up... Read more...
Thankfully, less upheaval this week, but still plenty of buzz from the nightlifier side of the news, as well as a surprise early reveal of Eduardo Vargas' new place Colca . Hot scoops after the jump. Read more...
The LA beat-scene maverick discusses his esoteric productions, composing for video games, and Victorian Dandy flair... Read more...
Muuuaaah! From dinners on the Bund to warehouse raves to cheap piss-ups -- here's what's on the menu for Halloween Shanghai, 2016. Read more...
Dive bar Dada is a Shanghai nightlife institution and they're turning seven this Friday night. Round of applause on that. On DJ duty all night long is writer, cook, and music nerd Chris St. Cavish, a.k.a. Read more...
We're finally slowing down a bit with all the DJ bookings, settling into that deep summer come-down. There's still some good music on this week though, including the release party for a fresh new EP from Shanghai-based producer Downstate . Here's five songs by artists playing Shanghai this weekend. Tunes are on Soundcloud, so light up that... Read more...
Today in Bund Beat news, word on the streets is that cocktails-with-a-view lounge Shen is no more. Alas. In its current incarnation at least. A dazzling gem in the Dada bar empire crown, the venue has switched managerial hands to the concerns behind... Read more...
Here's five songs by producers or DJs playing the city over the weekend that we thought you'd like to hear. Tunes are on Soundcloud, so you'll need a VPN. Read more...
Sadly, Prince never played Shanghai (he came to Hong Kong in 2003, just after SARS). Who knows, maybe he'd have come here eventually, like Metallica and Iron Maiden. Maybe not. It's hard to process the fact that Prince is gone. It's... Read more...
Shanghai loves ze house music, so here's some house music from Shanghai on the Co:Motion label, which is run by veteran Shanghai DJs Mau Mau, Laura Ingalls, MIIIA, and Raz. Following MIIIA's Amber Lounge -core
Hey, you did it! Gold stars for you! We got five Shanghai institutions throwing anniversary parties this weekend. Friday night at Arkham , SHFT / 1LVSH celebrate three years of trap music and doing that no-vowels thing that everyone did in 2005. Their guest DJ is Hucci, who recently got his driver's license. More about 1LVSH in... Read more...
Dada's founder on where he's been, how he got into a fight with Oasis, the virtues and vices of Shanghai vs. Beijing, and where he's taking his event label Antidote as it exceeds the decade mark this weekend... Read more...
Just a reminder, Dada's night market returns tonight with a new organizer, Sophia from Uptown Records . Whole lotta' shit for sale, from clothes and accessories to toys and records. Kinda like every other market in town except this one happens in a dark bar instead... Read more...
Ahead of Dada Bar's Five-Year anniversary party this Saturday, we asked seven old-school/low-key Shanghai DJs to drop some stories and trax. Read more...
Wednesday night sees the return of Tim Franco's Photography Night at Dada . These used to go down a couple of years ago and proved to be some of the busiest and most enlightening evenings Dada's ever seen. Four or five established photographers -- either Chinese or snappers who've been based in China for a good amount of time... Read more...
Couple interesting film events on at Dada this week and you should get hip to it. Check it: Tonight is the finale of Sub-Cinema's month-long Giallo films month -- Hitchcockian slasher crime dramas from the... Read more...
Popular-ish-during-week Shanghai lounge, Dada will be shuttered during this week for holidays. Yeah, I don't know. They're taking them now for some reason. So they're opening up on Friday night but the Monday abstract beats night, the Tuesday cinema night, the Wednesday festival of bad decisions, and the Thursday... Read more...
For the first time in a long time, your Wednesday night entertainment down at Dada bar won't solely consist of two sad, old Peter Pan complexes playing soul CDs. Yes, there's stuff in addition to that! The night market 2nd hand clothing bazaar returns to the lounge, with some fresh blood and fresher clothes. Racks of vintage... Read more...
Club/ lounge / dive / whatever, Dada bar turns two years beautiful this Saturday night. Special guest DJ in is DJ Tadi, erstwhile of dkd (lower case dkd that is) from forever ago. He's joined by Steven Lorenz, Blaise Deville, and Pat Mai, another dkd alum.... Read more...
Drinking wine with the beautiful corpses... Read more...
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