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Inspired by that UK VS Uk music thread:

CHINA – the sonic avant-garde
POST 005 2xCD digipak

This first-ever, 2-hour survey of the current experimental music and sound art scene in Mainland China features 15 artists mostly in their twenties from all over the country. The double-CD set shows what is really happening today on the Chinese new music cutting-edge. No more symphonies or string quartets with self-Orientalizing titles and pentatonic motifs. In fact, you won't hear one Chinese instrument here. The incredibly wide range of styles cover everything from plunderphonics, musique concrete, experimental electronics, ambient, sample collage, plug-in modulation, text-sound, sound poetry, mixer feedback improv, hardcore noise, radio art, political satire, to post-concrete recording art documenting a family karaoke scene. This is only the beginning of something unpredictable. No to be missed.


ARTISTS:
ZHANG Jüngang
WANG Changcun
FU Yü
JIA Haiqing
LI Ruyi
HU Mage
XÜ Cheng
ZHOU Pei
ZHONG Minjie
Intelligent Shanghai Mono University
JIANG Yühui
China Sound Unit


Compiled and Edited by Yao Dajün
Mastered at false.time.controller
Design by Visual Concrete
Cover photo by Monkey Zhao
Back photo by Wang Changcun
Inside photo by Zhang Jün'gang
Special thanks to Faux Tang Punk
A Post-Concrete + ChineNoir Co-Production
©2003 Post-Concrete
http://www.post-concrete.com/005/index.html#


It's a superb glimpse into some music produced in China today.