It has been many weeks since Rock in China announced it’s CORE IN CHINA project for the very first time. We already announced the participation deadline, closed the submissions and reviewed them in our small yet dedicated team. A couple of days ago we sent out the official selection emails and also informed those bands that didn’t make it. There was no case that we had to reject a song due to its bad quality, but with a total number of 20 songs and by far over thirty song submissions, we had to make a choice.
Right now, all songs are being “mastered” in Germany, with it being however less of a real mastering and more of a volume alignment as most bands already had pretty good mastering done before submission. Whilst we wait for the final song versions to be issued to Rock in China and whilst we wait for the designers to prepare our cover, here is the band and song list:
| # | Band | Song Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why Lazy | Dying in the dream |
| 2 | NewTank | The Dreamer |
| 3 | Meat Sucks | Buried the Truths |
| 4 | Ordnance | Ask for a justification |
| 5 | Partisan | Selfish |
| 6 | Monkey King | Until you come 2010 |
| 7 | Multi-Ego | End Of Me |
| 8 | Mensheng | 故謠 Ballad of Fallen |
| 9 | Die In Velvet | 每天生每天死 (final mix) |
| 10 | Ashtemato | JOKER同期录音人声完整版 |
| 11 | Saving Molly | To my friend |
| 12 | Luktomo | We Are Luktomo |
| 13 | Beyond Cure | Self Destruction |
| 14 | DustFall | Dawn Late |
| 15 | Thyhazard | Liar |
| 16 | King Ly Chee | 在路上 feat. Andrew Neufeld (Comeback Kid) |
| 17 | Shut Up! Shut Down! | Bros Holds On Firm Bloods |
| 18 | Raving Jokes | No Vain |
| 19 | The Falling | Circle II Circle |
| 20 | Mary Dolls | 2012 |
We have already interviewed a number of these bands above and you can check out the interviews here:
- Interview with Ashtemato (2012)
- Interview with Die In Velvet (2012)
- Interview with Mary Dolls (2012)
- Interview with Mensheng (2012)
- Interview with Monkey King (2012)
- Interview with Raving Jokes (2012)
- Interview with Shut Up! Shut Down! (2012)
- Interview with Thyhazard (2012)
- Interview with Why Lazy (2012)
PS: Photo taken from Multi Ego‘s Douban page.
