EPISODE 1 : CHINA
EPISODE ONE begins on tour with one of Mainland China’s most legendary bands, P.K.14. We delve into various cities along the way, including Guangzhou, Chengdu, Beijing, and Wuhan. Over three dozen groups, musicians, and artists make up the first new, cumulative feature-length update on China’s underground in over half a decade.
Budget : $6,000 (after all fundraiser fees)
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Detailed credits are below. Nearly all of the text is clickable. We highly suggest exploration.
CAMERA / AUDIO : JOHN YINGLING
EDITORS : JOHN YINGLING / NATHAN CHRIST
AUDIO ENGINEER : DERECK BLACKBURN
LEAD TRANSLATOR : CHRISTINE NI
ADDITIONAL TRANSLATION : BRAD SEIPPEL / HOWIE LEE / ZINING CUI
LIVE RECORDING AUDIO MIX :
- MICHAEL CUPOLI
- DERECK BLACKBURN
- JOHN YINGLING
- BRAD SEIPPEL
- MATT STEVENS
- JORDAN MITCHELL
- TOM WHITTAKER
CAST AND INFO :
BANDS (ORDER OF APPEARANCE) :
- P.K.14
- Bloody Butterfly
- Vagabond Street
- Meikadeer
- Colour Hunter
- The Maples
- Stolen
- Hiperson
- WHITE+
- Free Sex Shop
- Carsick Cars
- The Big Wave
- JFI
- Hong Qile
- Mind Fiber
- Chai Mi
- Soviet Pop
- SUBS
- Deng Chenglong
- Casino Demon
- Mr Graceless
- The Flyx
- XINMAYOUJIANG
- Streets Kill Strange Animals
- Girl Kill Girl
- Skip Skip Ben Ben
- Bedstars
- Nova Heart
- DIDERS
- Duck Fight Goose
- Hedgehog
- Casino Demon
- Ken Ueno
- MII (A Min / Dee)
- Residence A
- GUIGUISUISUI
- Thruoutin / Dee / Lulu Chow
- Proximity Butterfly (Chengdu)
- Speak Chinese Or Die
- A.V. Okubo
- Resist Control
- One Lick Less
- After Argument
SONGS (EXCLUDING LIVE AUDIO) :
- Ourself Beside Me - “Sunday Girl”
- P.K.14 - “Eden”
- P.K.14 - “Egyptian Rain”
- P.K.14 - “Flowers In Hand, Crazed Woman”
- P.K.14 - “How Majestic Is The Night”
- P.K.14 – “Summer, After Summer”
- Stolen - “Electric Echo”
- Hiperson - “He Made Up His Mind To Be A Tourist”
- P.K.14 - “Hurry Up”
- WHITE+ - “Purple”
- The Gar - “Cat”
- WHITE+ - “Green”
- Nova Heart – “My Song 9”
- DIDERS - “Suck It”
- Hedgehog - “DDDDDDreaMMMMMM”
- Residence A - “送春”
- Speak Chinese Or Die - “Happy New Grind”
- A.V. Okubo - “Love Song”
- SMZB - “Scream For Life”
- The Gar - “Tail”
TERMS / THINGS :
- PANGBIANR
- GENJING RECORDS
- FULL LABEL
- SHARE IN OBSTACLES
- PSYCHIC KONG
- 46 LIVEHOUSE
- B10
- NUTS CLUB
- LITTLE BAR
- NEW NOISE
- JINGWEIR
- SCHOOL BAR
- ZAJIA LAB
- YUGONG YISHAN
- XP CLUB
- WUHAN PRISON
- VOX
This episode was funded entirely with donations. Click to see who made it happen.
THANK YOU :
- Josh Feola
- Nevin Domer
- Alex Bennion
- Justin Cheng
- Yang Haisong
- Jonathan Leijonhufvud
- P.K.14
- Howie Lee
- Brad Seippel
- Michael Cupoli
- Full Label
- Julia Yingling
- Heather C. Love
- Dereck Blackburn
- Yuen Song
- Zaza
- Christine Ni
- Anran Gong
- Jef Vrys
- Benjamin Funke
- Ben Norton
- Zining Cui
- Stolen
- Hiperson
- Nathan Christ
- Matthew Niederhauser
- Christine Ni
- Shen Ye
- Wang Xu
- Helen Feng
- Xin Wang
- Kang Mao
- Liz Tung
- Lulu Chow
- Zo
- Ben Ben Lin
- Wu Wei
- Jingweir
- Maybe Mars
- Genjing Records
- Michael Winkler