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...aficionados of Shanghai's avant-garde chill out with local DJ and musician Lou Nanli, otherwise known as B6. Although he continues to keep one foot in noise art, and still cites U.K. art-punk group Throbbing Gristle as an influence, the 26-year-old makes a clean, minimal techno sound these days. His set is remarkably poised, with only a few leitmotifs - like samples of signal interference from mobile phones - revealing a past in sonic experimentation...
...that doesn't preclude intelligent synth pop. In 2007, he teamed with Shanghai singer-songwriter Jay Wu to release Synth Love, an album of songs sung in English. A solo album of danceable techno, Post Haze, is due out this month on China's Modern Sky label. "The whole independent music scene is growing slowly in China," he says. Some of its hottest acts, incidentally, can be seen at Antidote, a club night co-founded by B6 and dedicated to new electronica. "Local kids are getting used to parties that are outside of traditional Chinese culture, and most...
With strobe light flashing and techno music blaring, seven Harvard students dressed in skimpy clubwear raved in one corner of Lowell Dance Studio on Friday evening. Gyrating in front of the studio’s mirrored wall, the dancers were filming the club scene of a music video for the song “Predator,” a pop sensation by Peter C. Shields, Jr. ’09. For Shields, known as “Petros” in the Greek music world, this was his third music video and the second-ever to exclusively feature Harvard students...
...cell phone to a cop who answers, "You need to sell what?" - pay off. (A more somber, striking moment: Sam looks up after he comes to and sees the gleaming new Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.) But the real fascination is how the show plays off the techno-expectations about police work that CSI has bred into us. With no computers or lab work, Sam has to chase his case '70s-style, with shoe leather and - as his new boss, Lieutenant Gene Hunt (Harvey Keitel), demonstrates - a healthy disregard for search warrants...
Musical elitism is shoved out the door in favor of tunes that could probably find a home in just about anyone’s playlist. The hodgepodge of sounds—ranging from techno to hip-hop to rock—works in tandem with the band’s overarching theme...