With their vinyl debut, Shanghai all-girl post-punkers Next Year’s Love offer up two raw and dirty cuts of their dark, ‘80s synth goodness. The A side features “Smash the Pink Bug,” a desperately infectious dirge that alternates between spare, atonal melodies and crashing guitar. The B side, “True Love Song,” takes the dance-factor up a notch with drum machine-driven, lo-fi synth-punk, topped by catchy, melodic vocals. Best of all is the mellow-sharp mix of Super Sophia and Vic’s vocals, which, interweaving high-and-urgent with deep-and-alluring, draws you into their fractured, static-pop world. A co-release with Shanghai’s Uptown Records, this 7” is pressed on baby blue vinyl and limited to 500 copies.
Blue vinyl 7"
Genjing/Uptown Records 2012
Self Released EP 2012
Next Year's Love on Facebook
2014
Brief Lesbian
2014
Splits Don't Work
2014
Pairs side:
1.Gig Of The Week 2.Eighteen Shakes
God Bows To Math side:
1.Tightly Wound 2.AABB (slow)
Genjing/Tenzenmen/Muzai/Bomb Shop Records
2013
Your Feet Touch Ground, A Carousel
2014
Vinyl LP/CD/Download - Metal Postcard 2012
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USB EP
Self Released 2011
CD/DVD - Self Released 2011
7"/Download - Metal Postcard 2011
汤姆克鲁斯和凯蒂赫尔姆斯
2014
Hot & Cold was born in 2005 in New Delhi, India, the brainchild of Joshua and Simon Frank. Sparsely pairing lo-fi bass and megaphone vocals, the Frank brothers’ single Delhi performance incorporated a bedraggled Yamaha keyboard, and involved throwing candy at small children from above.
In 2006, Joshua (20) and Simon (18) relocated to China’s chaotic, indus- trial capital – a city far better suited to their dirty robotic clangour. At the encouragement of internationally-acclaimed composer Zhang Shouwang, they began to accumulate an arsenal of effects pedals, quite literally launching themselves at Beijing audiences in frenzied 20-minute sets.
Even in Beijing – one of the most exciting cities for new music today – Hot & Cold have proudly stuck out. Rather than gradually descending into chaos, their notoriously frenetic performances explode from the get- go. Their debut, "Any Monkey is Dangerous" captures the band’s shambolic grooves with all the vitality of their live performances. Hot & Cold channel their penchant for obliterating noise through a deep love for the fuzzy anthems of Pavement and Pixies. Their angular riffs and keyboard jabs have drawn comparison to New York No Wave and Cabaret Voltaire, while lo-fi drums loops, rollicking basslines, and irreverent vocals evoke The Fall in both sound and attitude. Crystalline melodies emerge from their pulsing sonic chaos, and touches of yesteryear Bollywood Hits pierce through the melee.
Split 7"
Genjing Records
2014
split 7"
white and black vinyl
Gary Records 2014
white
or
black
A Dirty Beaches–curated compilation for Bathetic Records.
Maybe Mars/Maybe Noise 2009
Hot & Cold on Facebook
Je Suis Un Deontologue
2014
limited edition of 300
Lot's more Simon Frank @ https://simonfrank.bandcamp.com
FAT CITY & LUXINPEI
Fat City is Ma Meng and Zhu Wenbo. the duo began in 2008. They use keyboard, guitar, drums, and sing in chinese. They like Krautrock, Prog-Rock, Ambient and Industrial music, Beat-Poetry and Noise Sound. They are trying to melt these things together to make their own sound.
2CD Split Album - Self Released 2012
Ma Meng and Ma Yuan began making music as a duo under the moniker Luxinpei in 2007. They were high school classmates in the 90s.
Luxinpei’s compositions are constantly evolving; they have zero tolerance for structuralized form. logically, they never confine themselves with any given genre.
Onstage, they display an extreme sense of calm and coolness that, despite being in total control of the musical movement, would always give people an impression of randomness and chaos.
The name Luxinpei is an acronym for “the soundtrack (peiyue) band for Lu Xuechang’s new (xin) films.” Luxinpei says, “we’ll always be making soundtrack for Lu Xuechang’s new films.
