Having a sweet and insatiable alienation towards any kind of balloon-provoking music coming from Japan or having something to do with it, it is rather unfair that Japan usually gets the better pie piece of attention. Yet China, in a world almost devoured by its politicians, gets a very small share. Hearing a few admiring voices here and there makes us feel there is a freakish and extraordinary river of talents running under the asphalt in Beijing, Guangzhou or Taipei, let alone Shanghai which pretty much has its own universe.
Following the now-half-erased footsteps of one of our own favorite discoveries on this blog, The Offset: Spectacles, has led us to another canto-psych band called Hot & Cold. They are definitely going nowhere chart-topping with that title (because Google! And we doubt if they are ever intending to grow a corporate identity from their music), but a similar and captivating scent of lo-fi/analog noise with Dirty Beaches inclinations (or perhaps the other way around) is easily identified. Hot & Cold’s latest album Border Area dates back to 2012 and is credited to Yang Fan and Cheuk Ki Tom Ng and recorded in Beijing.
“Uighur Pop” was, back in the days, handpicked and promoted by the band’s record label Rose Mansion Analog who also happened to accommodate The Offsets and Dirty Beaches.
(Photo source: Jeremy O'sullivan)
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