Ode to Nanjing Lu
Just uploaded to last.fm, a new track: Ode to Nanjing Lu originally made for the radio show Subsequence on 2XX FM, Canberra on request by Subsequence host Dan Mackinlay, one afternoon in Fremantle. The track includes several field recordings I made in Shanghai and it’s mildly inspired by a ragtag melange of influences::: playing big techno beats in reverberant chambers at The Great Escape festival 2007, dubstep basslines and textures of Burial, the Shanghai MagLev train, fake label touts on Nanjing Road, Shanghai, bamboo demolition scaffoldings and the stochastic rhythms of hand-wielded hammers breaking down bricks… and probably a few other things too.
The track’s free and you can hear it here: