Shanghaiist: Toote6: Underground and you know it

Cameron

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:14:36 +0800

Ferhas: Aug 26 Goldie @ Bon Bon Aug 31 Antidote @ Cs bar. Shanghai Ultra: 707 v 101 a 100% live vintage synth performance + The Antidote DJ crew September 1 Richie Hawtin aka Plastikman (real techno in Shanghai!!!!!!!) @ Bon Bon Also Tanghui 3rd floor Friday and Saturday night always has something worth going to. Check out smartshanghai.com you'll find party info on there, but, well, just don't take anything on the interactive forums seriously. Hope you find something to your liking. Rgs, Mr Boom-boom-boom-boom Techno man

evs

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:53:37 +0800

Hello. Big Tokyo club-hopper coming to shanghai(first time) for a week (21-28). Looking for the tastiest of 小龍包子,the hippest club,the coolest of bars and good people to hang out wit. Mail me if ur going out at evgitahi@yahoo.com. and show me where and how you shanghai pple paint your town red (yes,intended).Cheers.

patwack

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:24:29 +0800

Aric, the only reason the "scene" isn't bigger in Shanghai is that there is no audience for it. Period. From punkrock to minimal techno, most people here don't give a shit. And it's gonna take years and years before anything takes off in this city. That's if it ever does. If Western people would be out now, it would be the end of it. Such words as "scene" or "underground" are Western concepts. Telling Chinese people which way their music environment should go is just as imperialistic as telling them which way their politics and economy should. See you there on friday!

carsten

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:32:28 +0800

there is not really an undergorund scene in shanghai, at least none comparable to europe. most of the DJs in town have to play commercial music and its getting difficult for the "indipendent" promoter to do a party in a gallery/warehous, because most of the time the police is coming.... so the alternative promoters have to go into clubs, like tootekool and B6. i checked their sets several times at tanghui 3 floor. they really are into their music and create everytime a special atmosphere in the location! and the name toote6 is just hilarious.

ferhas

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:06:15 +0800

@cameron wilson: i am new in town and you seem to be a big electronic music lover, where else then on shanghaiist.com:) can i get some information about upcoming underground party? for eg the one you mentioned, antidote and phreaktion. actually i didnt even knew that there is an electronic music underground scene in shanghai. thank god, i thought i will be lost in trance and vocal house clubs. will definately check it out on friday.

Aric

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:46:50 +0800

So is Kafka - but that doesn't mean it's good. People attack the way someone promotes a show? That's shitty. Whether or not one "gets" the way the writer positions it, why do they have to catch flack? Hell, I understood less than half of it, and even less when it comes to minimal/house, but it doesn't mean I'm going to be a vindictive prick about it. If you don't understand, or don't dig the music, then don't go - but there's no need for people to be nasty. Some of you all are very unpleasant people.

toms@gmail.com

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:41:09 +0800

...well i can understand, that for a non electronic fan their music might be hard to understand, for all the others its a must go!! ....even if the article is sometimes "hyperbolic", its not the two guys who wrote it, so dont blame them.....

Aric

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:57:40 +0800

I don't get it - the commentary, I mean. Someone promotes a show in his/her own way and they get shit for it? ...and you wonder why the scene isn't bigger.

getoveryourself

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:43:57 +0800

Wow - what a bunch of hyperbolic s--t. I want to crawl in an (underground) hole and die.

TW

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:38:11 +0800

oh dear

nanheyangrouchuan

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:53:59 +0800

The expat business community helps "The Man" distort China's eloving culture and restrain chinese people in the name of "conformity", "stability" and pure profit. Rise up and smite the expat business community and scatter their ruin to the wind.

Bob the Man

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:08:19 +0800

electronic music, a catch-all term for a myriad of sub-genres which fundamentally changed the way people thought about music. It circumvented the traditional barriers to creativity — the need to learn to play an instrument, and unleashed the imagination of millions of minds all over the globe, changing music forever That is some hilarious shit.