The World Underground is moving to Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Hey.  Hope you are well.

The time has come to move this project to Indonesia. I will be starting a short film "dispatch" series. This was supposed to happen last year, and after many delays, it's once again time to take a giant, terrifying leap into the unknown.

The goal will be to release short films at least once per month, while I work on the feature length documentaries. Write more. Expand the scope from music, onward to arts and culture issues.  Indonesia is a vast and ultra-compelling area.  

In June, I will move to Yogyakarta, and use it as an editing and launching pad. Their art and music scene is an absolute gem itself, and I've wanted to move there since my first visit 4 years ago.

Essentially, the new leg of this project will begin the second I leave Northeast China, when I will follow a short tour with a Chengdu, Sichuan based band Hiperson, who you should know by now. After I get settled in Yogyakarta, I will go back to America for the first time in 3 years, mail the perks for this fundraiser, kiss my parents, and then begin editing the first short film. Bringing this project into the full-time realm, and visiting places like Borneo, Sabah, Taiwan, and fringe scenes along the way is going to expand the way I run this project, and should be endlessly exciting.

I am raising funds to do this the right way.  You can grab art from Tony Cheung, record packs with music across Asia, and more. Your money will spread across everything touched, paying for translators, gig covers, supporting local scenes through fundraiser perks and beyond.

Please consider donating: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-world-underground-dispatch-series/x/101516#/

Thanks so much.

-Yingling

M.D.C. - Live in Jakarta, Indonesia

 MDC - Live at Ponti Fest, Jakarta, Indonesia.

My recorder was cradled on my backpack, on a rickety piece of wood that Dea Karina and I were standing on. Even though there was a waist high concrete barrier dividing us, I still had to cross my leg over the area, barely moving the whole time, in order for no punk kids to fly back into the thing. Definitely the most nervous I've been for a piece of equipment in some time. This was a really perfect thing to see, right after this stupid asshole got put into office. Mastered by Dereck Blackburn of Quiethouse Recording. Thanks, Jakarta punks. Enjoy. Cheers.

No Trump.  No KKK.  No Fascist U.S.A.

Enjoy.