CORE IN CHINA | Official Release Post | Tell Us What You Think

Hereby the compilation record CORE IN CHINA is officially released worldwide! It had been some busy five months (January – May 2012) that we worked on getting the songs lined up, mastered and uploaded on various internet services for the global release.

As such, cutting things short and keeping it essential, download the album (ZIP) or go to either bandcamp, soundcloud or last.fm to listen to it online and download it. All songs have been mastered by Björn Sonderman in Germany and we have received two splendid cover arts which were contributed by Joe Wu and NERVE Magazine!

Spread the word! Share the compilation and send it to your friends! CORE IN CHINA is alive and the twenty bands we have chosen for this first edition are hungry to show you what China is: Heavy! Whether its the electronicore of Thyhazard or the hardcore of King Ly Chee, these bands deserve to be listened to!

Please tell us what you think of the songs, of the bands, the cover, the project itself, the impression you got and what you think of when you listen to “Liar” or “End of Me”. Write it in the comments below!

Tracklist

1. Why Lazy – Dying in the dream 04:35 (mp3)
2. NewTank – The Dreamer 04:22 (mp3)
3. Meat Sucks – Buried the Truths 04:54 (mp3)
4. Ordnance – Ask for a justification 03:44 (mp3)
5. Partisan – Selfish 03:18 (mp3)
6. Monkey King – Until You Come 05:31 (mp3)
7. Multi-Ego – End of Me 04:01 (mp3)
8. Mensheng – 故謠 Ballad of Fallen 04:54 (mp3)
9. Die In Velvet – 每天生每天死 03:59 (mp3)
10. Ashtemato – Joker 05:06 (mp3)
11. Saving Molly – To My Friend 02:58 (mp3)
12. Luktomo – We Are Luktomo 06:41 (mp3)
13. Beyond Cure – Self Destruction 04:34 (mp3)
14. DustFall – Dawn Late 06:02 (mp3)
15. Thyhazard – Liar 04:58 (mp3)
16. King Ly Chee – 在路上 feat. Andrew Neufeld (Comeback Kid) 03:29 (mp3)
17. Shut Up! Shut Down! – Bros Holds On Firm Bloods 03:14 (mp3)
18. Raving Jokes – No Vain 04:07 (mp3)
19. The Falling – Circle II Circle 04:50 (mp3)
20. Mary Dolls – 2012 04:14 (mp3)

Download the whole album as ZIP.

Gimnicks

Not only is the overall compilation free, but Rock in China has also compiled further information on the ‘core scene of China that will help everybody to understand what is happening in the scene:

1. Read The ‘Core of China – Deathcore, Metalcore, Post Hardcore, Nintendocore, our accompanying article about the CORE scene of China.
2. Regional Love: CORE IN CHINA has been listened to, shared, downloaded and talked about in France, Germany, the USA and China.
3. Since the inofficial release as sneak previewed by Beijing Daze,  CORE IN CHINA was downloaded over 600 times (bandcamp), with additional 200 downloads on Soundcloud and it was listened to over 5000 times across various servers.

Free Music from Shanghai | Next Year’s Love | Noisy Rock

Straight outta Shanghai and with a pretty cool cover comes noise rock band Next Year’s Love and their latest self-titled EP.

Andy Best pointed them out to me, when I visited him in Shanghai and we had the chance to seem the live! Three young energetic girls playing noisy music for noisy people.

Next Year’s Love a video by Azchael on Flickr.

And now they have released their record with the help of Andy and his Qu Records record label. Kuddos to that and thanks for sharing the music on bandcamp. Interested in what others said? Read a review on Pangbianr and Smart Shanghai.

Discovering Chinese Music | Bandcamp …

With the digital revolution haven taken place in China a couple of years ago, Douban, RenRen, Weibo and Xiami are dominating the social network space of Chinese language sites. Another prominent website that has attracted a number of bands is BANDCAMP. With free compilations such as WE ARE SHANGHAI online there are a total of 17 pages of albums online. Each page having 40 albums that makes over 700 albums available for listening and purchasing / sharing!

Just check the China location tag and you see what I mean.

Enough of my words and here are some examples of Chinese artists doing their thing on bandcamp:

CORE IN CHINA: An Update …

Since our first announcement of the online project CORE IN CHINA at the end of January not even a week has past and already more than 20 bands have applied to participate in what we anticipate will be a momentum snapshot of the heavier side of China’s music scene. With applications rolling in from Zhengzhou, Changsha, Macau, Hongkong, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu and Guangzhou a great number of awesome bands have given us a story to tell.

With scheduled release in May 2012, bands can still participate and apply for the compilation project until March. So please if you read this and you are a band: Apply! If you know bands that should apply, tell them! And if you want to help us spread the word, then message us. Right now we are looking at featuring the compilation in four countries (Germany, France, China and the USA) and are still looking for media partners in other languages (Spanish, Italian, Portugese) that are interested in bringing the ‘core world of China closer to their readers & listeners.

The graphic above is a third preliminary design for the cover art of the compilation. The design will be fixed most propably in April.

Any ideas? Suggestions? Comments? Or just rants on why the heck we try to include Nintendocore? Just type it into the comments section!