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Sounds ripped from cassettes & CDs found in immigrant-run mom & pop stores. Deconstructed icons. Field recordings. Sonic mayhem from the far corners of the internet.

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Favoriting May 20, 2015: Beijing Calling
A three-hour tour from proto-punk forays and the first punk song recorded on the mainland, through highlights of the Maybe Mars and Modern Sky catalogs, to some of the most promising post-punk acts emerging in the last couple of years.

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time

Music behind DJ:
Bodega Pop 
Intro   Favoriting
Bodega Pop Live 
2015 
 
 
Underbaby  Dou Yiyang (All the Same)   Favoriting Chinese Fire 2  1996  China ... the first Chinese Fire compilation came out in the early 90s; there were three in total.  0:04:32 (Pop-up)
24 Hours  My Sir   Favoriting No Party People  2009  China  0:06:48 (Pop-up)
Snapline  Holy Comments   Favoriting Party Is Over, Pornostar  2007  China  0:08:44 (Pop-up)
Hang on the Box  Asshole I'm Not Your Baby   Favoriting Yellow Banana  2000  China ... here's an article I wrote several years ago about this, the first all-girl punk group in China (tho not the first all-girl rock group, which was Cobra): http://burningambulance.com/2013/01/04/hang-on-the-box/  0:12:31 (Pop-up)
Zuoxiao Zuzhou  你一直没让我的脑子休息过 (You Have Not Given My Mind a Break)   Favoriting You Know Where the East Is 2  2008  China  0:15:58 (Pop-up)
Jia Huizhen  Do Not   Favoriting Ladder  2013  China  0:19:53 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
DJ Wordy 
Can't Hold We Down   Favoriting
Soulspeak 
2011 
China 
0:23:09 (Pop-up)
Birdstriking  Monkey Snake   Favoriting Birdstriking  2012  China ... see them live in Brooklyn at Baby's All Right on June 15!  0:30:31 (Pop-up)
Queen Sea Big Shark  Hard Heart   Favoriting Sound Kapital: Beijing's Music Underground  2009  China  0:34:54 (Pop-up)
The Fly  美好生活 (A Better Life)   Favoriting The Fly I  1999  China  0:37:56 (Pop-up)
SUBS  Strange Country   Favoriting SUBS LIFE  2004  China ... their first album  0:41:59 (Pop-up)
Fat City  Xiao Gu   Favoriting Super Split  2012  China ... LuXinPei on the other disc  0:45:10 (Pop-up)
GLGB  X   Favoriting 2014  2011  China ... every song on album is a different letter ... despite the name of the album, it was actually released in 2011  0:50:12 (Pop-up)
The Diders  Friday Flower   Favoriting   2014  Not sure if this is from an album or not; nor, for that matter, from where I might've pilfered it  0:53:41 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
DJ Wordy 
High All the Time   Favoriting
Soulspeak 
2011 
China 
0:54:47 (Pop-up)
Cui Jian  Flying   Favoriting Balls Under the Red Flag  1994  China ... protopunk  1:03:36 (Pop-up)
8 Eye Spy  Conditioning   Favoriting How Damn Far to Yinma Lane?  2011  China  1:08:30 (Pop-up)
Misandao  Never   Favoriting Proud of the Way  2006  China ... the country's first & biggest Oi band. Singer Lei Jun recently passed away: http://www.timeoutbeijing.com/features/Blogs-Music_Blogs/142656/Misandao-frontman-Lei-Jun-dies-aged-40.html  1:11:57 (Pop-up)
Hedgehog  Noise Hit World   Favoriting Sound Kapital: Beijing's Music Underground  2009  China  1:14:43 (Pop-up)
Xiao He  切朋友的生日 (The Birthday of Friend Cie)   Favoriting The Performance of Identity / One Man's Orchestra  2011  China  1:17:31 (Pop-up)
Yang Fan  Arabian Princess   Favoriting What Happened After 1001 Nights?  2015  China  1:21:44 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
DJ Wordy 
WordySoulspeak   Favoriting
Soulspeak 
2011 
China 
1:23:44 (Pop-up)
The Twenties  Sunny Hell   Favoriting   2015  China  1:30:09 (Pop-up)
Lonely China Day  Sorrow   Favoriting Sorrow  2007  China  1:32:05 (Pop-up)
Da Bang  No Hero Days   Favoriting 少年邪 (Juvenile Evil)  2011  China  1:36:43 (Pop-up)
WHITE+  Red   Favoriting Independent China in Stereo - Maybe Mars 5th Anniversary  2012  China ... this may still be free via their website  1:38:58 (Pop-up)
Pet Conspiracy  Love Is Dead   Favoriting Pet Conspiracy EP  2008  China  1:43:23 (Pop-up)
Ourself Beside Me  Medicine Girl   Favoriting Ourself Beside Me  2009  China  1:47:58 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
DJ Wordy 
Dark Thoughts   Favoriting
Soulspeak 
2011 
China 
1:50:25 (Pop-up)
Joyside  Hey Bitch!   Favoriting Bitches of Rock and Roll  2006  China  1:58:06 (Pop-up)
Guai Li  Be Cool   Favoriting Flight of Delusion  2010  China  2:00:28 (Pop-up)
Second Hand Rose  Just Because   Favoriting The Long Lost Songbook of Chinese Rock and Roll  2014  China  2:04:34 (Pop-up)
Caffe In  Mario and Peaches   Favoriting Look Directly Into the Sun: China Pop 2007  2007  China  2:08:21 (Pop-up)
New Pants  两个男朋友 (Two Boyfriends)   Favoriting Dan Dragon  2006  China  2:11:34 (Pop-up)
SMZB  Sin Harmony   Favoriting Independent China in Stereo - Maybe Mars 5th Anniversary  2012  China ... a nice article about the leader, Wu Wei: http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/oct/17/wu-wei-china-punk-wuhan  2:14:38 (Pop-up)
The Diders  Friday Flower   Favoriting   2014  China -- replaying the song for Uncle Michael's b-day  2:18:28 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
DJ Wordy 
Day Tripping   Favoriting
Soulspeak 
2011 
China 
2:19:34 (Pop-up)
Tongue  Tail   Favoriting Fly with her mother, her mother rock with it  2014  China  2:25:39 (Pop-up)
P.K. 14  Storm Eyes   Favoriting Look Directly Into the Sun: China Pop 2007  2007  China  2:29:56 (Pop-up)
Carsick Cars  Zhong Nan Hai   Favoriting Carsick Cars  2007  China  2:32:59 (Pop-up)
Girl Kill Girl  And See You   Favoriting demo    China  2:39:27 (Pop-up)
Duck Fight Goose  Ghost Is Online   Favoriting FLOW  2010  China  2:43:26 (Pop-up)
Pairs  I Want to Die in the Ocean   Favoriting Pairs  2010  China  2:48:12 (Pop-up)
SUBS  So Fine Emo   Favoriting Down EP  2006  China  2:48:55 (Pop-up)
Rebuilding the Rights of Statues  A Death-Bed Song   Favoriting Cut Off!  2005  China  2:52:39 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Catrina Paslaru 
Hei La Bodega   Favoriting
Hei La Bodega - Carnaval! 
2000 
 
2:57:19 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:58pm
ndbob:

evening Gary and everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Gary:

Howdy, Bob!
Avatar 7:02pm
Carmichael:

Hey Gary, and the Asian dude drinking the Tsingtao.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Gary:

Howdy, Carmichael!
Avatar 7:05pm
ndbob:

Hi Carmichael!
Avatar 7:08pm
Carmichael:

Man, I gotta hit the archives later tonite. It's time for me to run quickly away from work. Happy listening!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
Gary:

Night, Carmichael!
Avatar 7:09pm
doca:

Hi, Gary! Hi, all! Show themes like today's are one of the reasons I listen to WFMU
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Gary:

Doca! Listeners like you are why we exist in the first place
Avatar 7:11pm
doca:

Thank you, Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
Gary:

Article I wrote on Hang on the Box: burningambulance.com...
Avatar 7:18pm
doca:

@Gary: Do you know when rock bands began to sing in "Chinese"? I was impressed watching Don't Think I've Forgotten on how the bands started singing early in Cambodian(?). I was thinking of Japan, of which I've always seen that it was only with Happy End that they started singing in Japanese.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
Gary:

Rock bands started singing in Chinese as early as rock music, essentially, although not on the mainland .... but certainly in Taiwan and Hong Kong and countries with lots of Chinese speakers ....
Avatar 7:23pm
Cheyenne:

Ah! Taking me back to my time in the mid-00s mainland China and its various subscenes. I saw some of the most well-groomed punx I've ever encountered!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
Gary:

Cheyenne, I am so, so, so jealous!
  7:36pm
Doug Schulkind:

My nephew Reuben is living in China right now. He is a minor celebrity skateboarding star. A chain of skate shops is using his image on their promotional posters. Crazy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Gary:

That's awesome, Doug! ... and HI!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
Gary:

An article I wrote about discovering this CD in a bookstore in Brooklyn's Chinatown (I was wrong, however, that they were the first punk band): opencitymag.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Gary:

A post about The Fly on Bodega Pop, not sure if the link to DL is still live: bodegapop.blogspot.com...
Avatar 7:56pm
steve:

hey Gary
Avatar 7:58pm
ndbob:

excellent first hour Gary - catch the rest on the archive
Avatar 8:02pm
hyde:

hi all. barely here tonight but i do have one ear open.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Gary:

Steve! Hyde! Howdy, guys! And have a great night, Bob!
Avatar 8:08pm
tim abdellah:

Rock!!! Hi Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Gary:

The Tim!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Gary:

RIP Lei Jun: www.timeoutbeijing.com...
  8:20pm
pacific standard simon:

The Chinese Joseph Spence!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Gary:

Simon!
  8:21pm
pacific standard simon:

Hi Gary. I have joined you in unemployment hell -- unless you have already made your way out of it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Gary:

Oh, man, I'm so sorry to hear that. Don't give up looking -- I'm working part time now for a great place doing work I really love
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
pacific standard simon:

My old job was pretty close to ideal, until they stopped paying us and then closed up for good. But maybe something almost as good will turn up.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
Gary:

Damn.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
pacific standard simon:

There's always the music. Fortunately my swag-for-life commitment is not onerous.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
Gary:

I had just made one myself in February right before I was laid off in May
Avatar 8:47pm
doca:

I was lurking here, but I'm going to watch the ball game. Thanks for the show, @Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Gary:

You're welcome, Doca -- always a pleasure to see you here!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
Uncle Michael:

Hello!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Gary:

Birthday Boy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
pacific standard simon:

The Giants/Dodgers game starts 15 minutes after this show ends, so we're golden.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
pacific standard simon:

Oops, forgot to buy a present!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Uncle Michael:

I hate west coast games. Cubs aren't on for another hour. I'll be up past midnight.

Last night's triple OT hockey game was worse, though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Uncle Michael:

Make a donation in my name.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
pacific standard simon:

I did, last marathon. Twice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
pacific standard simon:

Gary, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Uncle Michael:

Then we're good!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Gary:

We thank you, PSS!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
pacific standard simon:

Also, I promise not to say anything personal when the Giants play the Cubs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Gary:

These guys are often referred to as Beijing's New York Dolls. This is probably why: www.sino-us.com...
Avatar 🇰🇷 9:07pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...okay - what a choice: Reed back for a fill-in w/ Punk as it should be on the Main Stream - you here w/ Chinese Punk - & efd starting up!...Here now...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
Gary:

Awwwwww, nice to see you, RevRab!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
pacific standard simon:

I don't think anyone in the Dolls would be caught dead in that rainbow wig (and most of them ARE dead).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
pacific standard simon:

These guys must be the Chinese Rezillos.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:11pm
Gary:

LOL
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Uncle Michael:

I can't wait to hear the Chinese Greg Kihn Band.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Gary:

It's your birthday, Michael -- you want to hear the Chinese Guitar Wolf?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:16pm
pacific standard simon:

There's an album cover for that:

gregkihn.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:16pm
Meghan:

I'm going to have to go back to the archives..... grrrrr... Hello Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:16pm
Uncle Michael:

I'd like for there to be a band called The Tienanmen Squares.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Uncle Michael:

Is this the Chinese Jerms?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Gary:

Okay, this next track goes out to Uncle Michael for his birthday, cuz I know he'll like it, cuz I know he will, cuz he'll like it. HI MEGHAN!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
pacific standard simon:

These guys can't decide if they're the Chinese Clash or the Chinese Horselips.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Uncle Michael:

The Chinese Lee Ving is named Vee Ling.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Uncle Michael:

I like it! Thanks, Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Uncle Michael:

The Chinese Steely Dan!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
coelacanth:

greetings Gary and Bodegians!
...well i know by the last 2 songs that i'll visit this archive!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
pacific standard simon:

Chinese Black Flag... or is it The Minutemen?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
Gary:

Howdy, Coelacanth!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Gary:

LOL ... I opened a can of worms!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
Uncle Michael:

I wanna here Chinese Rocks, China Grove and China Girl in Chinese.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
pacific standard simon:

Chinese Mission Of Burma!

Yeah, Chinese worms.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
pacific standard simon:

Don't forget China Cat Sunflower.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
pacific standard simon:

These guys have actually been on WFMU.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
Gary:

Mary Wing's show, yes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:36pm
Uncle Michael:

The Chinese Pixies?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
pacific standard simon:

I was thinking New Order, but whatever.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
Uncle Michael:

There needs to be a band called Chinese Algebra.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
Gary:

Here's their trax from Mary's live show: freemusicarchive.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
pacific standard simon:

Damn, they're good.
Avatar 🇰🇷 9:39pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Oh yes - Carsick Cars - who did they famously open for??
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
Gary:

I'm going to guess Sonic Youth? But I dunno RevRab
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:40pm
coelacanth:

that's an excellent guess!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:41pm
pacific standard simon:

@UM - How about The Angular Banjos?
Avatar 🇰🇷 9:45pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

That's right! SY was it - almost sure.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
pacific standard simon:

Chinese Chipmunks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:56pm
Uncle Michael:

Such a great show tonight, Gary.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
Gary:

I'm so glad you liked it, Michael!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
coelacanth:

Thank you Gary!
ciao peeps
Avatar 9:59pm
tim abdellah:

Gnite all - Great stuff, Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
pacific standard simon:

Way cool, Gary. Happy birthday, Michael!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Gary:

Happy Rest of Your Birthday, Michael, and goodnight everyone else!
  12:29pm
michael:

hey guys, great show, great selection. love from Zurich and www.china-drifting.ch
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