Published on July 7, 2008

This week’s episode is focused on the city of Shanghai, which has a completely different kind of music scene to that of Beijing. Presenters Paul Kendall and Wang Weilin discuss the bands and music of Shanghai, listening to bands such as Thirty Three Islands, Top Floor Cirus, Cold Fairyland, B6, Banana Monkey, and SRC.

While many a Beijinger would tell you that Shanghai doesn’t have any music scene at all, the breadth of genre brought together in this show really challenges that notion, and although a Beijinger would tell you that Shanghainese sounds awful, the rap music coming from Shanghai bands such SRC in our opinion is much better than Beijing rap bands such as Dragon Tongue Squad. A bilingual programme recorded in English and Mandarin Chinese.

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