3-wheel(non)motion. Harmoniously harmonious yadunheard.
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Yesterday checked out the Midi Festival at Haidian Park. Started 7 years ago by the Beijing Midi School of Music, this lil' shindigger is now the largest outdoor music festival in China, where bands come from all over the provinces to showcase "what they got." This year there was the main stage, the rock stage, the electronic music stage, the hip hop stage, and the MIDI/avant-garde stage (i.e., bleep bleep boop stage).
Found this clip covering last year's festival by danwai.org, who wondered if the DIY spirit would be totally overrun by the emerging commercial forces behind the event.
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Well at least imagery of DJing is not getting commecialized in China.
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These guys were my crowd MVP's.
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A view of the festival grounds from behind the hip hop stage. The park security guards wear gloves so you know not to mess with them. (One of the guys was later drinking a beer. Rock on!)
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My new favorite Chinese rappers, C.O.U. Hilarious. (Unintentional hilarity?)
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I took some video footage of this Mongolian rock band and the China DMC champion, DJ Wordy, but there was too much audio distortion. Sucks. Anyway, this Mongolian group had this singer that was pretty dope. Apparently a traditional Mongolian singing style entails using the back-lower throat. To me it sounded like when people imitate smokers, who have had a tracheotomy.
DJ Wordy was definitely legit with his wicky wicky's, but my favorite was this dance troupe. It was kind of like they were performing for a talent contest, as they were very earnest and had great outfits. Well see for yourself.
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And your boy, for those of you that try to act like they don't remember:
1 comment:
cool footage! I love that they're so into the DIY thing in China. I give the dance troop high marks for originality -- zoot suits and robotic moves, yea! At least they haven't bought into the rigid American notions of signifying identity: this is what a rapper looks like and how a rapper moves, this is what a hispter wears and how a hipster behaves, etc... Looks like fun!
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