A couple of months ago, the team behind Rock in China wiki and good ‘daze friends set out to collect samplers from all around China to get a feel for what was happening in the ‘core side of things… by ‘core they meant hardcore, nintendocore and all kinds of other terms i’d never heard off. [...]
Tags: core in china, Free Music, hardcore in china, King Lychee, Rock in China
Flash back to 2009 when yours truly had a hectic circuit running around Beijing from show to show, the one slotted in the middle featured Voodoo Kungfu and the Folk Orchestra at Mao Livehouse. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the sight of Li Nan perched up above the stage, his body covered in writings, [...]
Tags: Free Music, Gary Temple, Li Nan, voodoo kungfu, Weibo
There’s a lot of new music going around ‘daze headquarters and tons of reviews delayed by real life obligations… so it’s always good to be able to share some of the stuff with you guys and see whatcha all think. On the menu for today, we’re looking a 2 completely different types of releases, both [...]
Tags: Free Music, Gouride, Hedgehog
Back in 2008, Google announced their free music download service in China in cooperation with top100.cn, http://music.google.cn with a bang: The promise of legal & trustworthy FREE downloads was an exciting one. Almost 3 years into it, most people have forgotten about said service but could this sleeping giant be google’s trojan horse into the [...]
Tags: Free Music, google music
Thanks to Jake Newby over at Kungfuology for pointing out that Shanghai’s Top Floor Circus had made their record available for download for free online. The record is called 上海市经典流行摇滚金曲13首 ( 13 of Shanghai’s golden hits or smtg like that) This is a really cool package that includes songs, lyrics, chords, alternative covers and basically [...]
Tags: Free Music, Top Floor Circus
Remember that little show back in May 2010 with Bad Mamasan and Chunqiu? Well, our good old friend, metalhead and all around madman of Beijing Music, Mr. Jaime Welton, had a recorder on… at least for the Bad Mamasan side of the show! The result has been out for a little while. mastered by Jaime [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, Free Music
*note:* Sorry about the broken download link. It’s fixed now! Just because the anniversary is over, it doesn’t mean we’re gonna stop bringing you folks the good tunes and with cause, we got a whole Live CD available today exclusively and nowhere else ever but at BeijingDaze.com. Yup folks, it’s none other than Zhang Si’an [...]
Tags: Free Music, freebies, Jean-Sébastien, Zhang Si An
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