DJ Old Rat - China Underground 2002-2011 [Accidental Meetings]

DJ Old Rat - aka music aficionado extraordinaire Steve Barker (host of the long-running On The Wire radio show) compiles this hour and a half long trip through underground Chinese music from earlier this century. We kind of forget that despite the ease of access we have to seemingly everything in the world these days, that there's still a huge cultural underground out there, existing offline and in the margins. For most of us, and indeed for many Chinese people, this stuff is destined to remain unheard by all but the most committed sonic adventurers. To be honest, there's nothing (other than the language) that explicitly marks these tunes out as having come from China, with Western influences spanning from SF to Naarm and everywhere in between combining with the kind of free expression you can only get from a local scene operating entirely within it's own boundaries.