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

[jooyoungsbae]

JK IM EMBARRASSING BYE

Edited October 9, 2016 by jooyoungsbae

[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.

[DJ LP]

Edited October 9, 2016 by DJ LP

[Hemlock]

when i used to do the weekly artist of the week threads for this section I regularly mixed in lesser known artists. I don't post much threads anymore though. 

[jooyoungsbae]

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.

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

Edited October 9, 2016 by jooyoungsbae

[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

[Black Meddle]

Elephant Gym - Taiwanese Math Rock

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/elephantgym/?fref=ts

 

Chochukmo - Hong Kong Indie Rock band with a blend of different genres (i.e. Alternative, Jazz, Math Rock, etc.) All of their songs' lyrics are in English.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/chochukmo/?fref=ts&ref=br_tf&qsefr=1

 

Silhungmo - Hong Kong Alternative Rock/Power Pop

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/silhungmo/

 

Chthonic - Taiwanese Symphonic Black/Death/Folk Metal

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/chthonictw/?fref=ts

 

[Black Meddle]

Cicada - Taiwanese Post-Rock influenced Chamber Music

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/CicadaTaiwan/?fref=ts

 

Chocolate Tiger - Taiwanese Alternative Rock/Indie Pop

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/chocolate.tiger.band.tw/?fref=ts

 

GDJYB (Gai Dan Jane Yuk Bang) - Hong Kong Math Rock/Folk

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/gdjyb/?fref=ts

 

Evocation - Hong Kong Death Metal

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/evocationhk/?fref=ts

 

 

[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

[Black Meddle]

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

 

Cool, glad you liked most of it.

 

My Skin Against Your Skin - Taiwanese Post-Punk (though given their last single and what it says on their FB page, apparently they switched to Electropop...)

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/msaysband/

 

Orangegrass - Taiwanese Alternative Rock/Shoegaze

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/orangegrass/

 

Haya - Mongolian World Music

 

 

http://www.last.fm/music/HAYA

 

Tengger Calvary - Mongolian Folk Metal (currently based in New York City)

 

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

 

https://www.facebook.com/tengger0cavalry/

[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" [

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][Instrumental]

"Stars Perished 星·ç­" [

][Fan cover]

"Ember of Phoenix" [

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"Dust Brigade" [

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"Newborn" [

] Edited October 15, 2016 by yulee

[MangoKiwi]

Thank you for this thread! Ah! Now I'm addicted to Su Yunying's voice  holy crap 

 

Liang Chen æŽäº®è¾° has such a hypnotizing voice~

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFFQ4E0QWlk

 

*my fav from him (listen to the end xD)

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

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CXqxb3zmLM

Edited October 16, 2016 by MangoKiwi

[Orangeberry]

Aristophanes springs to mind..

 

[Hemlock]

I'm bad with genres just so everyone knows lol. I'm just gonna pick whatever i think is closest. 

 

Jia Huizhen - electronic, synth, pop

 

 

 

 

The Other (他者) - electronic, folk

 

Formed in 2015 with lead singer Xuan at the center, the trio’s sound is a hybrid of electric folk created with electric beats and strong synthesizers based on a foundation of acoustic guitar and psychedelic electric guitars bridging the gap between the two genres. With straight-forward, catchy melodies and poignant lyrics, The Other‘s songs take you on a smooth ride through shapes and colors that all people can identify.

 

 

 

 

Phoebe (慶慶) - electronic, folk, acoustic, ballad

 

I think she debuted this year but not completely sure...

 

 

 

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Jia Huizhen and Phoebe's albums from this year might be two of my favorite cpop albums of the year btw. I'll probably add some less...esoteric stuff later haha. 

Edited October 17, 2016 by Hemlock

[yulee]

Nice posts guys *_* I listen to everything

 

 

Edited October 24, 2016 by yulee

[Hemlock]

Here's some ballady singers for more "normal" cpop songs but still girls that aren't talked about much

 

Koala Liu

 

 

Riva Jan

 

 

Kris Kuan

 

 

PiA

 

 

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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. 

[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

[Hemlock]

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 

 

 

I called it esoteric mostly because i seemed to be the only one who liked those slow dark electronic style cpop songs haha. 

 

I was very, very close to posting this song instead of the one i did lol. I like both though. The entire album in general is fantastic. I just feel guilty listening to it for free on her bandcamp because the little heart breaks when it asks you to buy it and i say no 

 

And also Aristophanes wrote that song on the Grimes collab. Would have posted her myself but i've talked about her on this forum before and wasn't sure if i should. 

Edited October 26, 2016 by Hemlock

[Xiao An]