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Ghostface Killah Preview
There are two massive hip-hop shows in Shanghai this week. For a preview of the chronological first, check out the Mobb Deep Preview on Layabozi. The second is an appearance by Ghostface Killah, who is well known in the hip-hop world from his work with Wu-Tang Clan and, more recently, his solo work, which includes the albums Ironman, Supreme Clientele, Bulletproof Wallets, Fishscale, and The Big Doe Rehab.
Mobb Deep Preview
Mobb Deep is coming to Shanghai. Um, what? I cannot fathom a group with a perspective more perpendicular to the pampered expatriate persuasion, but that’s what’s cool about it.
FloatingPoints Growing Through Music
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Sam Shepard, aka Floatingpoints (piano player, musician, producer, and DJ) has been making music since his early teenage years, and is now beginning to taste fame as Floatingpoints grows in popularity on the international music scene. One of his inspirations for music is the creative jazz musician Sun Ra, for whom he wrote the track “For [...]
Shanghai Music Chronicles: When Music is Rocking in Shanghai.
Last week our editor’s picks were in tune with my mood for music, and I followed the instructions provided by Mike “Big Duck” Brownell almost to the letter.
Ratatat Preview
演奏合成器的Evan Mast和吉他家Mike Stroud，也被称为Ratatat，是具有一个灿烂的未来的经典作曲家。 他们收集并用了一序列旧和新的工具来创作一种应在头脑的深处里演奏的分层、数字化改变的杰作。从些长发的人采集并点燃了几条树枝以后,我们没看到过这么全新的事情。他们让我们明白只要把自己的匠心潜力增加到最大限度音乐就会得到的效果。
Synthesizer driver Evan Mast and guitarist Mike Stroud, otherwise known as Ratatat, are classical composers for a brilliant new future. They have collected and utilized an array of old- and new-fangled tools to create layered, digitally altered masterpieces to play in the deep recesses of mind space.
Shanghai World Music Fest Lineup
This May holiday will be packed with events, the Midi Festival in Zhenjiang, Straight Oota Canada here in Shanghai, and also here in Shanghai is the World Music Festival, which is apparently some kind of proto-Expo thing. Here’s the line-up:
Midi Music Festival 2009 Zhejiang
The Midi Music Festival, the biggest rock show in China, is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and this year takes place in Zhejiang. The line up has recently been revealed and we have it here for you. We’ve got links to the bands you don’t know and want to know, and info on how to get yourself to Zhejiang. Also, if you are going on a road trip let us know!
On Jazz/关于爵士
Our friend Nicholas Bouloukos wrote this jazz rumination/introduction for Shanghai’s own Music Lover magazine. We are reprinting it here in English and Chinese with the gracious permission of the author and the publisher. Full disclosure: I also write for the magazine. // 这片文章是Nicholas Bouloukos为《音乐爱好者》写的。这个很棒的杂志在上海音乐学院边上的几家卖唱片和书谱的店里都有卖。
