Shanghai Indietop Compilation CD
January 2009. Last year Monokino recorded the song “New Kid” (with only piano arrangement, some guitars and vocals) during a studio session at Soma Records in Shanghai. Soma is one of Shanghai’s best known indie labels. “New Kid” now features on the compilation CD, “Indietop”. This CD features mostly young, Shanghainese artists.
Press and websites in Shanghai are reporting that Soma brings a significant change to Chinese underground music. “Shanghai has been long ridiculed as Beijing’s ugly musical sister.” So things are changing, Soma has been recruiting Shanghai’s top talent and to promote the label’s upcoming releases, a large showcase was held at the Dream Factory last month.
The song is mixed and produced by singer Li Pang of Shanghai band Crystal Butterfly, and is different from the piano version on the cd “Human Error”, which was released by Beijing label “Modern Sky”. Monokino met Li Pang 2 years ago in Shanghai when the band was performing there and in Beijing.
In China the CD is available on January 25. More info at http://www.indietop.cn/
You can listen to most of the songs (no samples) on Streetvoice.com already.
Here are some English web pages containing information about Soma, the label’s showcase event and reviews from the first compilation CD. Much more information can be found on the internet if you read Chinese, here, here and here.
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