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Great Wall Beach Party
So, information about the Great Wall Beach Party is scarce - their site still shows last year's information, as does their Myspace, but! I have heard that people have bought tickets and will be attending on July the 4th, so there you go. Best source of info right now is the Clubzone website, and it looks like you can buy tickets from that site. There's a bit of info on the City Weekend website and also the Beijinger website. Otherwise, hard to say what exactly is going on. Find out exact details by calling 13810785362 after 6pm.
Drum and bass-wise, Blackie has got a set there, and may or may not be playing around 3am; other DJs on the lineup are Mickey Zhang (Yen, Morse), Patrick Yu (ABCDJ), El-Mar, DJ SUKI, DJ Carlo, QQ, and Ou Yang.
Syndicate at White Rabbit
Flyer says it all, innit?!
The Great Wall Beach party (featuring a dnb set courtesy of Blackie) is on July the 4th, information is kinda thin at the mo', but the basic beach party info is on the Clubzone website.
Yen 5th Anniversary
All right then, a massive party this Saturday night, with dnb represented in prime time (1:15am-2:30am) on the main floor courtesy of Mr. Blackie. Expect a ridiculous amount of people to turn out for this party, so get tickets early, and get there early if you don't want to spend an hour in the queue.
As a brief summary:
Advance tickets available for 80RMB from Apertivo, Lush, and the Clubzone.cn website
Limited VIP tickets available from Apertivo for 200RMB (incl. 100RMB of drink tickets)
Door sales 150RMB (incl. 1 drink)
For your further information: full info on the o2 culture website, there's a map and contact phone numbers too.
Yen 5th Birthday DJs
Main floor
Dio
Usami
Blackie
Flo Eysler
Ouyang
Liman (live)
2nd floor
Mickey Zhang
Yangbing
Patrick Yu + HBH
Eddie Lv
Ben Huang
An-n-n-n-n-nd coming up, Syndicate at White Rabbit, June 27th.
Finally, the thing of the week*: as Youtube is still being dominated inside China, we skip the video funnies for a mix download. This week, a Klute live set. Why Klute? Well, he may be coming through Beijing in September, and this mix should remind you how much of a badman he is. Nice lightweight download from dnbshare, partial tracklist below.
Klute mix for We Fear Silence
00:00 Chris.Su - Bandpassed
01:50 Mindscape & Zero Method - Dissonant [Subtitles]
04:30 Nymfo - Wall Movement
07:30 Commix - Breaking Through [31 Records]
11:47 Logistics - Murderation
15:15 Amit & Outrage - Insane Bitch [Commercial Suicide]
17:57 ST.Files - Crackden [Soul:R]
21:30 ?
24:50 Mindscape - Razorsharp [Commercial Suicide]
27:50 SKC & Munk & Hydro - Animism [Commercial Suicide]
31:57 Dose & Trei - Valium Express VIP
34:12 Klute - Learning Curve [Commercial Suicide]
37:58 ?
41:22 Jade & Mindscape - Banshee [Citrus]
44:36 Ed Rush & Optical - Titanium [Virus]
download from dnbshare
* thing of the week may not appear weekly
Connection at White Rabbit
For your dnb fix this weekend get down to White Rabbit around 4am to check Blackie's set at Connection, Saturday 13th June (well, by the time Blackie starts it will be, technically speaking, the 14th, but anyway).
Full Lineup
11 - 2 Ludo V
2 - 3 Huang Wei Wei
3 - 4 Terry Tu / Elvis
4 - 5 Blackie
5 - 6 Mickey Zhang
6 - 8 Suki and Elmar
Going to take a stab and say it will cost about 50RMB on the door.
And next week! is the Yen 5th Anniversary Party, which should be massive - Blackie is playing at that one as well (alongside about a billion other DJs), more info at http://o2culture.com/.
Kode 9
Supported by Upstepper and Syndicate DJs, Kode 9 is playing at White Rabbit on Thursday June 4th. It's 60RMB on the door, and will start 10ish. The White Rabbit website is not loading atm, so find more information on the websites of City Weekend and The Beijinger.
Lineup
Dan (Upstepper Sound)
Steve Barker (BBC, Upstepper Sound)
Kode 9 (Hyperdub) UK
DJ Slide (Syndicate)
There's a new Syndicate podcast on the way as well, with Dio doing a guest set - keep an eye out for that later in the week.
And here's the promised podcast, plus a bonus!
Syndicate Podcast feat. Dio guest mix (non-dnb) - right-click to download
Kode 9 promo snippet for Syndicate Beijing gig (live from FWD) - right-click to download
DNB Allstars / Kode 9
Here's the flyer for the party at White Rabbit on the 22nd - it's kinda small on the page, click it to view a bigger version.
Two of the finest from Shanghai's underground, as well as an unspecified number of Beijing's double-dropping deck-wrecking dnb dangermen. I like the sound of that. From 11pm, Friday May 22, White Rabbit - 50RMB on the door, free for ladies before 1am.
Also, we got: Kode 9 (yoish!) at White Rabbit early June, and DJ Blackie has a set at the Yen 5th Birthday on June 19.
Beijing Upcoming DNB
Updates few and far between at the moment, but here's what we've got coming up in Beijing drum and bass:
Siesta / MC Cha Cha / Syndicate Allstars at White Rabbit, May 22
White Rabbit is still down to one room; on the 22nd of May the Syndicate are taking the whole thing over, and inviting Siesta and MC Cha Cha up from Shanghai to assist. Blackie and Elemental were down to Shanghai to play late April, so we'll call this the second leg of the Shanghai/Beijing matchup - let's see how the ladies of Shanghai represent.
50RMB on the door, 11 til late, White Rabbit (flyer/more info coming soon).
And that seems to be it for the moment. There are portents of more visitors from afar but we shall await confirmation before spilling the beans.
A non-Youtube thing-of-the-week: get a sanctioned free download of the Kemistry and Storm DJ Kicks mix, a total classic from 1999.
Download from Dogsonacid, more info here, tracklist:
01. Dom & Roland "Trauma"
02. John B "Ole"
03. Architex & DJ Loxy "Submerged"
04. Test "Fuse"
05. Digital & Spirit "Mission Accomplished"
06. DJ Die "Clear Skyz"
07. Bill Riley "Closing In"
08. Sci-Clone "Everywhere I Go"
09. Decoder "Stash"
10. Goldie "Hyaena"
11. Jonny L "Uneasy"
12. John B "Pressure"
13. Primary Motive "Venom"
14. J Majik "Space Jam"
15. Test "Static"
16. Absolute Zero & Subphonics "Code"
17. Test "Tronik Funk"
Oh the tunes!
DNB AT THE STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
The Modern Sky Strawberry Music Festival is on this weekend and on Saturday the 2nd the electronic stage has got stacks of dnb on, starting from 3:30 with LYDNB, followed by Kay C, and then Blackie. Sound good? This year the festival is in Tongzhou, way out east - to get there you've got to take the Line 1 Subway out east to the Tongzhou Beiyuan stop and find a taxi or a Modern Sky shuttle bus. You can find more information on the Modern Sky website or the City Weekend website
Syndicate Podcast #11 ... they're calling it the Chinese Takeaway.
Right-click to download Syndicate Podcast #11, featuring a LYDNB interview and mix.