Share Lesser Known Music/Artists - venture outside the beaten path!!

[yulee]

A Thread for Sharing Lesser Known/Discussed Music & Artists

Featured Song for the week of 3/11/2017

(Randomly chosen by post #)

Original post is #61, 09 January 2017 - 01:38 PM

 

I noticed that most of the music and artists on this forum are either very mainstream or established. Also, there are popular artists that are not discussed here at all. I thought a space to share those would be nice. China is pretty saturated with tons of less known acts, either established in a niche, starting out, up and coming, less international, or simply less popular. Sharing performances are also greatly encouraged.

 

Guidelines

1. No fame is required for posting. Nada. None. You can be their only fan.

2. Do not post content related to artists that have their own threads in the Artist sub-forum if the page-count is more than 5 pages long.

3. It is alright to post very famous artists if #2 is true (ex. Wang Fei).

4. I recommend that if you know it, post a brief background and maybe a photo along with the artist and their music. English-only speakers basically will find it impossible to learn anything about them.

5. Don't be afraid to post music from off-the-path subcultures. Exploring is good.

 

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Table of Contents

organized by page# & post#

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(under construction)

Notes:

• representative work is not the artist's most famous song/album, but the song(s) that the original poster chose to share
• some music was posted to share the artist, others to share the music, so some entries are formatted differently
• songs from the same artist in different posts will be grouped with the first post mentioning that artist, but it will have the page # and post # listed
• descriptions directly quote original poster

 

Page 1

#2  Visual, Genre: Indie-pop, Post #: 2, Other info: Duo

Representative Work: 

 

#5

Genre: Hip-hop, Rap

 

#9 Su Yunying Visual, Genre: Indie-pop with experimental elements

Representative Work:

 

 

 

#10 Elephant Gym Genre: Taiwanese Math Rock, Other info: [Facebook]

Representative Work: 

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Chochukmo, Genre: Indie Rock with a blend of different genres (i.e. Alternative, Jazz, Math Rock, etc.), based in Hong Kong, Other Info: [Facebook], All English-language

Representative Work:

 

Silhungmo, Genre: Alternative Rock/Power Pop (Hong Kong), Other info: [Facebook]

Representative Work:

 

CHTHONIC - Genre: Taiwanese Symphonic Black/Death/Folk Metal, Other info: [Facebook]

Representative Work:

 

#11 Cicada, Genre: Post-Rock influenced Chamber Music (Taiwan), Other info: [Facebook]

Representative Work:

 

 

Chocolate Tiger Genre: Alternative Rock/Indie Pop (Taiwan), Other info: [Facebook]

Representative Work:

 

GDJYB (Gain Dan Jane Yuk Bang), Genre: Math Rock/Folk (Hong Kong), Other info: [Facebook]

Representative Work:

 

Evocation HK, Genre: Death Metal (Hong Kong), Other info: [Facebook]

Representative Work:

 

#12 Cheng Bi Visual, Genre: Indie (Folk)

Representative Work:

 

#15 My Skin Against Your Skin, Genre: Post-Punk Rock, now Electropop (Taiwan), Other info: [Facebook]

Representative Work:

 

Orangegrass Genre: Alternative Rock/Shoegaze (Taiwan), Other Info: [Facebook]

Representative Work:

 

HAYA, Genre: World Music (Mongolian), Other info:

 

Representative Work:

 

Tengger Calvary, Genre: Folk Metal (Mongolian), Other info: Based in NYC as of 10/14/16, [Facebook]

Representative Work: [Battle Song From Far Away]

[yulee]

Milk@Coffee (牛奶@咖啡)

Genre: Indie-pop?

Singer/Lyricist: Fu Yan

Keyboard, guitar, arranger, and producer: Ge Fei

Record Label: Modern Sky (former), Huayi Brothers

Releases: 7 studio albums, 4 singles

 

 

Milk@Coffee is an mando pop-music group consisting of Fu Yan, aka Kiki (singer / lyricist), and Ge Fei(Keyboard / guitar / arranger and producer). Back in the day they were considered very indie, not sure about now. They have 6 albums, I believe. Note that my music picks are by no means their most popular songs, it's my personal choice. I self-translated the titles, btw, so use the Chinese titles to search them.

 

We're only off by a little bit 我们åªå·®ä¸€ç‚¹ç‚¹ ft. Liang Xiaoxue from Recalling People (忆中人) (2015)

 

The older you grow, the lonelier you become è¶Šé•¿å¤§è¶Šå­¤å• (2008) is the album I first got to know them from a long time ago. Entire album is solid, I go back to it fairly often, even more than their recent music now that I think of it.

 

My favorite 2 song from it:

Across the Coral Sea 穿越çŠç‘šæµ·

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1EnnrhqBNs

Butterflies è¶æ‹èŠ±

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_4x52VJQU

Edited October 9, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

With all due respect, this in the Chinese entertainment section of onehallyu. Does the rest of the k-centric part of the forum not have a thread for small artists? I did look him up though and am listening now though lol.

[yulee]

oh ok sorry bye omg im so embarrassing

and no we dont

sad though i spent so much time on my post gg i should read instructions better

could always post a new thread and put your post. that's basically what i did

Edited October 9, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

Su Yunying 蘇é‹ç‘©

Genre: Not sure, indie mandopop which incorporates experimental elements (folk, R&B)

Record Label: Sony Music

Releases: 1 album (2016)

 

Su Yunying (Susu) is a 25 year old (Born April 8, 1991) singer-songwriter from Sanya, China who first gained fame in 2015 from her self-composed and arranged "Wild Child" performed on the show "Song of China," later going on to win 2nd place. Song of China is a show similar to Voice of China, but that which also requires on song writing skills and creativity as performances must be self-composed. In addition, it is more geared towards the indie scene. She is known for her ability to sing in a way that touches the soul, beautiful lyics, and unique style. She has since signed with Sony Music Taiwan. Following the release of her first studio album, she received Best Mandarin Female Artist Award  and Best Newcomer Award from Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards

 

"Wild Child" (野å­)

as originally performed on I Am Singer (absolutely beautiful lyrics and singing btw, cried the first time I heard it)

"Ming Ming" 冥明 * I wasn't sure what a good translation would be, but it is literally "Deep Bright"

Title song of her first studio album.

 

"Fragrant Fantasy" 香香的幻想

Edited October 11, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

程璧 Cheng Bi

Place of Birth: Shandong, Bizhou

Genre: Indie (Folk)

Releases: 4 studio albums

Chen Bi is a musician, independent folk singer, and photographer active in Beijing and Tokyo. While at Peking University in 2012, studying Japanese, she won the campus award for best singer. She is known for her beautiful songs whose abilities to evoke a natural atmosphere and melancholy have been called "poetry meets song."

 

 "I want to spend time with you" (我想和你虛度時光), title song for 2015 album

 

"End of Spring" (春的臨終 ), title song of her first album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG5wgPd_Ob8

Edited October 11, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

 

 

I just went through these today when doing table of contents. Really awesome selection, right up my alley, with the exception for Chthonic. It was good, but I usually listen to heavier stuff for that kind of metal. Especially liked Elephant Gym. Excited to go through your next post tom night after work n class

Edited October 11, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

Su Yunying 蘇é‹ç‘©  - “Unbeaten East" æ±æ–¹ä¸æ•—

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kY0Ncq-vE

 

作詞：蘇é‹ç‘©

作曲：蘇é‹ç‘©

編曲：JerryC

[yulee]

I've heard a few of those. I'm learning I'm pretty partial to math rock. Didn't even know it was called that until now. I'm going to look up instrumentals on 激膚 / Bloody Tale, really liked the intro (music collector here), vocal melody was a bit standard though.

 

My next post:

 

SENJOUGAHARA YOUSEI 戦場ヶ原妖精

 

Guitarist, drummer, songwriter, composer, arranger, producer

Based in Beijing

Genre: Chinese djent, heavy metal, progressive metal

[Douban][Baidu][Soundcloud (posts random WIP here, kind of like a music blog]

Senjougahara Yousei (戦場ヶ原妖精 Senjougahara Yousei; 戰場原妖精ï¼æˆ˜åœºåŽŸå¦–ç²¾ ZhànchÇŽng Yuán YÄojÄ«ng) is a VOCALOID song producer from Beijing, China who composes djent metal songs. He is also well known for his Touhou arranges. He is a member of Quadimension, a group that produces doujinshi albums and owns the marketing and character rights of the VOCALOID, Stardust, which they also commissioned from Shanghai Henian IT Co. Ltd.

 

He has so many good songs, so I'll just link them. Note that all originals use vocaloids (voice bank/singing program) since he's not in a group/band, he just produces.

 

Some of his stuff is probably too heavy for pop listeners. If you don't listen to metal, I suggest you start with Shao Yin Fu, Newborn, or

Dust Brigade (not djent).

 

"Shao Yin Fu 韶音赋" (Chinese-chords Djent ) [

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"Dream Generator 造梦器" [

][

][Instrumental]

"Stars Perished 星·ç­" [

][Fan cover]

"Ember of Phoenix" [

]

"Dust Brigade" [

]

"Newborn" [

] Edited October 15, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

Nice posts guys *_* I listen to everything

 

 

Edited October 24, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

Aristophanes springs to mind..

 

 

 just listened, this is nice. Thanks for the share. I was interested to see who wrote it, but the vid description just said director and starring.

 

i think i'd recognize her voice anywhere

Edited October 25, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

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Will probably do bands next time. Black Meddle already did some that i'm familiar with. Btw if you like Elephant Gym and are interested in a japanese band that sounds pretty similar, check out Uchu Conbini. They disbanded already but have 2 EPs and are worth checking out. Also Tricot is a pretty awesome math rock jrock band. 

 

I will take your advice and listen to Uchu Conbini later. good music is always exciting 

 

I actually loved all your "esoteric" picks more btw except the Jia Huizhe song you chose. I thought it had a good concept but the polish (tuning in my language) was off my taste, but I went through her album and damn I am in love with this song. Going to be repeating for a while 

 

 

Edited October 25, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

My favorite voice:

 

yousa 泠鸢  gained recognition and a following from singing covers of various songs, many of which were original Chinese and Japanese vocaloid-sung productions. She has also provided her voice for albums produced by other musicians. These are her first two original songs. In each MV, the brown-haired girl is a representation of herself.

 

yousa 泠鸢 - Ultra-Long Distance Connection 茜 色 詩集

Singer & Chinese Lyrics:泠鸢yousa

English Lyrics: 冰镇甜豆浆
Composer & Arranger：å°é‡Žé“

 

 

yousa 泠鸢 - Summer is Disappearing å¤æ—¥å·²æ‰€å‰©ç„¡å¹¾

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0yUa1pcCTQ

Edited October 28, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

I REALLY like hard rock personally (but it has to be good), though I enjoy math/alt. rock too to chill xD! I prefer female voices for hard rock though usually, which is much rarer.

 

^ chinese vocaloids is something i know exists but i've wondered about how common it is. I've only come across it a few times. 

 

 

I think they are pretty popular for what it is, but nowhere near the mainstream (more likely than not in a country as big as China). I'm not really into the fandom-side of it (being a fan of the actual character and making stories about them) but I like to follow it since, well, normal people self-composing/producing and being creative is always a winner for me. I previously mentioned another

in this thread who I absolutely adore that I wouldn't have discovered if it weren't for following the community so I'm glad for it. I would prefer he had a real singer, but his composition/instrumentals (all done by himself) already standalone for me. I mean

.

 

I vaguely recall there was quite some excitement some time ago since on the show XFIRE (that lead to the boy group XNINE debuting), one of the contestants performed a slightly silly vocaloid-sung original called Ordinary Disco (普通disco). A mentor on the show was Li Yuchun/ Chris Lee, who liked the performance very much and later

along with her new single on HunanTV. I didn't know about it at all till Li Yuchun performed it myself Edited November 1, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

Not that into mainstream Chinese music. I prefer the singers with a very ethnic sound, they are such a joy to listen to. Here are some oldies but goodies from Sa Dingding and Dao Lang.

Omg lol! I haven't heard that one from Sa DingDing a longgg time! Major throwback.

 

I actually remembered an artist i haven't been following for yers, that I should be... Alan! My memory clicked since she sang Road to Heaven before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRbefCGnQ5E

 

I was so inspired, that I went even further and listened to Qinghai Tibet Tableau and Road to Heaven lmao... so beautiful though!

 

 

Edited November 2, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

I love Morning Call's songs so much, especially the first one you shared I wish I knew about them earlier.

Edited November 7, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

new Morning Call song 

 

 

 

I kept expecting this song to transition into heavy riffs and metals and screaming for some reason. I have no clue... maybe it's reminding me of something. That moment where you want to enjoy a good song but your brain keeps screwing with you

 

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本兮 Benxi - Pink Gun

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpHmK8kwhbo

 

Crush The Story

 

 

I like this one better, but it's the demo, not the official. Official def sounds more polished though

 

 

Edited November 8, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

new Astro Bunny

 

 

Also i asked a mod to pin/sticky the thread~

 This is amazing

 

On a different note, do you guys know any metal/heavier rock artists? looking to expand my listens on that genre been snooping around

Edited November 16, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

A lot of these subgenres are actually ones I don't hear much in america nowadays.

 

How did this thread get pinned ?___? This explains so much. I was like wow cent is so dead, it was the last post in cent music forum this morning and it still is today lmao...

 

http://www.bilibili.com/video/av6688171/

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE22qCEYTLE

Edited November 18, 2016 by yulee

[yulee]

can internet music count?

 internet music?

[yulee]

Alt. Rock band - 丟ç«è»ŠLost Train

Definitely for people into mid-carrier 五月天Mayday

 

如期As Planned…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=beWusBrpqEg

 

呼å¸Breathe

 

å¡çˆ¾åŠ é‡Œè·¯Calgary Road

 

晚安Good Night

 

I've actually recognize all of them. Feeling proud 

[yulee]

郭頂 - 淒美地 The Fog Space

 

heard this guy on the radio lol

 

 

[yulee]

seems like she's on a new label, but her style that i love so much remains i guess ishould update OP but i've been having a hard time getting back on OH ever since site went down >:

 

 

Edited February 2, 2017 by yulee

[yulee]

Pretty tasty Thrash Metal from Hong Kong. \m/

 

Black Meddle bringing me back to the thread \m/ Do you listen to djent?

 

Not sure if I've shared these before, they're djent/post-hardcore tracks:

 

Instinct of Sight - 光影 feat. Kitlo

A relatively young band based in Hong Kong I believe. Their songs are in Cantonese, sounds good (even though I can't understand haha).

 

呦猫UNEKO - 梦回还 Dream Begins Again

A heavily j-metal inspired djent band based in Beijing. The members tend to do their own thing and their multi talented drummer-guitarist-composer is amazing. They did this song for a Tencent animation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70WQz1WEQ78

 

 

Oh and obligatory catch up music posts!

 

New Astrobunny Woo!

 

Astrobunny - 被你éºå¿˜çš„森林

 

 

三無 - 醉 Drunk

 

What would this genre be in English? å¤é£Ž Eastern/Ancient-Electronic? xD...

Tuning style reminds me of Astrobunny but much more layered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIHXxNtiU4I

 

 

Also, I feel like Hemlock might like the next song. A Pop-rock and å¤é£Ž fusion catchy as hell on the 2nd listen. Lyrics are nice too. I heard it since my little cousin wanted me to watch an old show with her.

 

 æ—…行团 Luxing Tuan, 孔阳 Kong Yang- 爱You Ready 爱我Ready

 

Edited March 11, 2017 by yulee

[yulee]

those anime jrock sounding songs are interesting. I haven't heard cpop that has gone for that sound before. But wow, i really like the ä¸‰ç„¡ song :O Probably better than anything Astro Bunny has done. It's like a more electronic Seven Sense. 

 

 

They are a bit more subculture, but they are gaining momentum. These types of songs are driven in the same way as the gufeng (ancient sound/music genre): a community of individuals usually with a specific skill like composing, arranging, tuning, artistry, lyric writing collaborating to create both fan music for novels and stories, as well as creating their own original songs. The mainstream cpop music machine isn't really a part of it. That's why I'm appreciative of tencent reaching out to these little artists and giving them a wider audience through their animations/promotions.

 

And I was thinking Seven Sense too due to not just the gufeng touch, but the way the singing was executed.

 

I still haven't listened to the songs you posted yet, I'm in a deadly exam season nonstop studying for hours T__T Hopefully it'll end this Friday for good. If I listen to new songs I end out focusing only on listening. I'm fueling myself with Wang Fei nostalgia lmao haha

 

 

Edited March 15, 2017 by yulee