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Elie Rosenberg
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Empowering Chinese bands to reach audiences abroad. A bridge between worlds, through music. Based in Yunnan, South of the clouds…
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Puman’s 2nd album is coming out, available on pre-save, and lots more happening for them this summer. No plans for the US but if you’re in Europe, you could catch them
#reggae #reggaesky #music #musicsky #🎧 #yunnan #濮曼 #雷鬼 #音乐 #puman #rototom #nologo
June 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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What a haul for this episode with tracks from some artists spanning from Southwestern retro mandopop to various flavours of folk, experimental electro and a surf rock song that makes for a feel good episode of the LCM Podcast.
#newmusic #surfrock #folk #newreleases #chinasky #musicsky #electro #LCM
The Live China Music Podcast logo (stylized letter M in red and black, with the podcast name below, on a background of grey noise), with “Episode 7” stamped in yellow above it.
May 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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What new music has come out of China in March? A particularly noteworthy avant-garde experimental metal album by Smiqra, and a lot more!

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#metal #avantgarde #experimental #soundscapes #newmusic #🎧 #musicsky #numbergirl #chinasky
The Live China Music Podcast logo (stylized M on a background of grey noise with the title under it) with the text “Episode 5” in green stamped on it.
April 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Rototom Reggae Festival’s 30th edition poster, where they share the bill with some of the biggest names in Reggae, such as Burning Spear, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Shaggy, Ky-Mani Marley, Julian Marley, and many more include La Yegros which I personally love and who are right next to Puman on the poster!
April 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Next episode from the Live China Music Podcast dropping this Saturday, with some proto-punk rockabilly, a lovely ballad, and various declinations of rock.
How many compressors are enough is my question?

#podcast #rockabilly #China #music #🎧 #reaper #soundediting #livechinamusic
A screenshot from the Reaper DAW, displaying the vocal tracks from the podcast, and effects added.
March 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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I’ve embarked on yet another fool-hardy project, in my mission to further share Chinese music with the world. A podcast, which will be releasing every two weeks! The first episode releases this Saturday.
Follow on the website player to be updated when the episode drops www.livechinamusic.com
Logo for our podcast: in red and black line a stylized M sits above the words LIVE CHINA on one line and MUSIC PODCAST on the line below. The whole of it sits on a background of noise, i.e. pixels of varying shades of light grey.
February 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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It is the Chinese New Year! Happy Year of the Snake everyone!

#cny #reggae #Chinasky #对联
A photograph of a burgundy apartment door. It is decorated with traditional Chinese duilian, long strips of paper framing the door left, right and above. These are different from traditional ones as they are themed around reggae music. In the middle is a red square at a 45-degree angle, with the character 福 meaning fortune at its center.
January 25, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Hot pot on the first day of the year! Happy 2025!
A photograph of a Chinese hotpot. The pot is divided in two, one spicy broth one non-spicy. All around the circular pot are plates with ingredients to drop into the broths: meat and tofu. Small individual bowls with dipping sauces can be seen as well.
January 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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People in Yunnan love to dance, especially on tracks like this one, 喝酒喝 Drinking Song. Shanren’s concerts are always fun.

#musicsky #liveconcert #China #Kunming #Spacing
December 21, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Soft opening of a new cool spot in #Kunming last night. It’s called Breathe Breath. Good selection of gins, whiskeys, farm to table ingredients, and a very decent sound system. Fangzhou was on the turntables 😊

#food #bar #gin #newspot
Photograph of the author with Kunming-based DJ Fangzhou, both standing by the turntables and laughing. In the background can be seem the restaurant behind large white windows. Photograph of the author with restaurant-lounge bar owner Vlad A photograph of one of the gins available. A rare one called Raasay produced in Scotland! A photograph of the entrance to Breathe breath, a restaurant/lounge bar in Kunming
December 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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These days everyone on wechat seem to be sharing their “Lifetime Festival” lineup, as generated by Netease based on listening habits. Looks like this.

#China #music #netease
A poster generated by Netease based on listening habits, unique to every user. It is designed as a festival lineup poster, with three different days and a major headliner per day. My headliners are Puman 濮曼 for Day 1, Instinkto Industrio 本能实业 for Day 2 and 100 Gecs for Day 3. At the bottom of the list there is a drawing of a beach at sunset
December 2, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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山人 Shanren was performing at MAO livehouse in Beijing last Friday. Hadn’t seen them in that kind of a setting for a while, and it was a lot of fun reminiscing. Didn’t expect to see quite so much crowdsurfing!

#live #music #China
A crowd watches as the band Shanren performs on stage. A person can be seen crowdsurfing on the left of the picture. A crowd watches as the band Shanren performs on stage at MAO livehouse in Beijing A crowd watches as the band Shanren performs on stage at MAO livehouse in Beijing A crowd watches as the band Shanren performs on stage at MAO livehouse in Beijing
December 2, 2024 at 4:18 AM
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Saw Tulegur’s performance at Modernista in Beijing, really enjoyed this version of their set.

#music #live #mongolianrock #nomadicrock #Beijing
Gangzi and Lao Bai from Tulegur on stage at intimate venue Modernista. On the right side is Gangzi sitting with a guitar, a microphone on a stand in front of him. His guitar is a Fender Acoustasonic Jazzmaster. On the left of the image is his bass player Lao Bai with a bass (can’t remember the model). Behind them is a red curtain. The light bathing them both is blueish.
November 27, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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Was invited to see Haya perform tonight. Solid band from Qinghai, formed about twenty years ago.
The band Haya as they perform at Modernsky Lab Kunming in front of a large crowd.
November 24, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Puman’s performance tonight at 1701 Livehouse in Nanjing. Always a party!

#Puman #濮曼乐队 #yunnanreggae #livemusic #party #云南雷鬼
November 22, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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Sunday walk with the dog by Dian Lake. Wonderful weather
A photo of the Dian Lake. In the background Xi Mountain can be seen. Also a boat on the lake, under a blue sky A photo of a dog basking in the sun among brushes, with a contented expression.
November 17, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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#Cephalosis is one of my very favorite bands based in Kunming. If you like #coldwave look them up, their first album is on #Bandcamp. They were performing tonight at Xianke (闲客), with a set introducing many songs from their upcoming album.
November 16, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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Yesterday concert by the band #Puman in #Chengdu, a city with one or the most vibrant music scenes.
A photograph from the back of the room at 不歪 (buwai), a music venue in the heart of Chengdu. The lights above the crowd’s head are tinged red. In the forefront a large number of people are reacting to the band, barely visible in the back, with their hands up. A photograph from the back of the room at 不歪 (buwai), a music venue in the heart of Chengdu. The lights suffuse the room in green, with spots of red at the very left and on the right side. In the forefront a large number of people are reacting to the band, barely visible in the back. The audience is carrying various objects: a stool, a security fence, a traffic cone, a person carrying a stool. It is a concert of the band Puman. A photograph from the back of the room at 不歪 (buwai), a music venue in the heart of Chengdu. The lights above the crowd are neutral. In the forefront a large number of people are reacting to the band, barely visible in the back. The band is Puman, we can see the bass player (bare chest) on the left, then the singer, the wind instrumentist with his hands up in the air, and the guitar player.
November 16, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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It was great to see so many reactions to my post about music from China. I’ve often asked myself why a country of about 1.4billion inhabitants hadn’t produced an international star yet. Starting to have answers on what are the most significant reasons, happy to expand on this if there’s interest
Photo taken by Laura Lee Soleman during MaMA 2024 in Paris. It is a photo of the panelists and myself, during the panel I organized discussing the Chinese music market. From left to right we see myself (Elie Rosenberg), Zhang Ran from Kiloglow, Vivian Wei from Netease, and Liu Qi from Taihe/Showstart. This took place on October 17th at the storied Élysée-Montmartre venue.
November 13, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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Two weeks ago I was at #womex2024 , first time attending the event. Got to see Grammy-award winner Kabaka Pyramid. It was a good show.

#reggae #music
A photograph from the concert of Kabaka Pyramid at the Avevo Studios venue in Manchester. A large crowd in the forefront, the stage with Kabaka in the middle of the stage, dressed in white. Above him a large LED screen dominates the upper half of the photo, displaying a striking lion. A hand can be seen raising from the crowd, making the shape of a claw.
November 12, 2024 at 12:18 PM