Club / DJing in Shanghai & Hong Kong?

[GIANT ROBOT new york]

Hello, I'm in Shanghai and going to HK next week. I'm trying to sort out some places to DJ and also just check out. Any particular spots to look at, or people to look for? I play a range of music and am pretty flexible (no trance / progressive house stuff though).

Any advice or leads would be appreciated.

Peace.

[xcoldricex]

shanghai is mostly house... there's a drum and bass thing that goes on maybe once a month... then there's some people that hold down funk, reggae, good hiphop and whatnot... what kind of stuff do you want to spin/hear?

well both places don't really have very good club scenes in my opinion - but there's always some good people that are usually forced to play crappy billboard shit... hong kong is mostly lounges that are in high rise buildings - play either pop rap, lounge, and whatnot... maybe you can check out yumla there..

[GIANT ROBOT new york]

yo thanks for looking out. is this xcoldricex that posted on the GR board? this is empanadamn. whattup?

i'm open to hear whatever, even the super chinese pop stuff. i just want to experience the local scene. not really interested in going where there's nothing but gweilos and the people that love them. though i hear that's what the better music is, but then again who's dancing? i'll dance to whatever, but the head swinging, pulsating trance thang is not my steez.

i went to some place called logo on friday night in shanghai. it was really strange seeing some euro / german dudes playing reggae and dub, speaking in some fake patois accents to people who don't know what they're saying regardless. i couldn't get my head around how that's strange on so many levels.

in terms of music to play, i can go all across the board: downtemp, drum&bass, funk/soul, hip-hop, r&b, dancehall, current pop, 80s/90s pop, house, broken beat, baltimore club, baile funk, bass, rock, indie rock, hipster shit, blah blah blah... and actually mix this shit. i don't mean mash-up or anything like that, but playing genre to genre in a way that works, and isn't trying to be ironic.

i play all forementioned stuff out, but i have a grasp of playing to the lowest common denominator - the drunk girl. so the formula for them is typically popular hip-hop, r&b, regular pop, maybe some 80s, and madonna. in china, i don't know what works aside from super fast trance stuff, which i won't play because i don't have that. i enjoy playing polyrhythm type of music, so i'm afraid people wouldn't be able to catch a beat, and then i'd end up coming off as a wack DJ because i'm not playing what's familiar to them.

HOLLA

[xcoldricex]

yessir that's me.

chinese clubs (for the locals) aren't about the music- its more about plunking down $ for a table and buying a bunch of bottles. they mostly play very bad trance anyway, so i would avoid them.

for shanghai- you could hit up a few people - dj v-nutz (organic soul) heads up the hiphop scene... free bananas does some good stuff (mr. stokes and kamikaze).. mr. stokes is a great guy and spins a bunch of shit... probably the only person in shanghai that spins bmore club and baile funk at clubs. synRG was pushing the drum n bass events there last time i was there - not a very big interest in dnb though. tanghui usually has something that's not your run-of-the-mill club music. mural usually has someone decent spinning... there has been a bunch of new clubs built since i was there last so i can't really update you on what's the new hot club.. but you can probably head over to smartshanghai to figure that out.

hong kong.. well i'm tempted to say hong kong is kind of musically dead - but maybe i was just out of the loop. yumla was the place i mentioned earlier which is a small, chill place that had good music. you can talk to dan f (the owner of the place- and he could probably fill you in better than me). but i generally feel like in hong kong its not about the music - its just about going out and looking good- spending a lot of money, etc. etc.

hope that helps.

[xcoldricex]

In shanghai make sure you check out "xin tian di" area. imho it blows away nyc club scene and i'm not even chinese

are you kidding? i hope so.

[homme.homme]

whats so bad about it?? going to China nxt month and need to know what to avoid!

[xcoldricex]

it's not bad but it's like two small blocks.and there's not even a proper club in that area so i don't know how you could even compare it to nyc's club scene.... it's mostly restaurants and shops.

[poly800rock]

i love how coldrice started the GIGANTIC sneaker thread on the GR forum

[DaBestSpoona]

^^

No that was Blink

Do you guys still hear from him?

[poly800rock]

^^

No that was Blink

Do you guys still hear from him?

maybe the jeans thread than

[fade to black2]

If you're in Hong Kong, you gotta go eat at Gau Gei Ngau Lam (On Gough street i believe...i can't type chinese so just say it out loud: Nine Gei Beef Brisket). Best beef brisket noodles in the world. Last summer when I worked in Central, I went there every day and had the same thing: 3 bowls of clear soup beef brisket noodles. Food doesn't get much better than that.

[xcoldricex]

would love to hear where you ended up spinning, who you met, clubs you went to/hated/loved....