Kaishandao 首张专辑《家园》正式发行
《家园》出锅了
Homeland Out Now
《家园》是常驻成都的制作人 Kaishandao（又名 Kristen Ng）发行的首张 EP，六首曲目探讨了我们称之为家的地方、空间和人们。
Homeland is the debut EP from Chengdu-based producer Kaishandao, aka Kristen Ng, six tracks that explore the places, spaces, and people we call home.
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在一个充斥着反思与无常的时期，唱片的雏形出现在成都（Kaishandao 的第二家园）一间卧室的即兴演奏中。在中国严格封锁的边境里，她从之前长居的公寓"中南海"搬到了蒸汽旅舍的一个小空房间，在那里她带着满满一个行李箱的物资生活了六个月——邀请失谐、流浪的鼓机音序和四处拾来的人声采样来占领她的内存条。
2020年春天，国内的俱乐部和厂牌夜进入解封后的复兴期，这些曲目在与本地 DJ 和音乐人的多个周末共演中被重新加工和完善，在舞池中不断进化，又在零散的深夜修补和录音后最终就位。
像正带着墨镜一样跳舞吧
你就是自己的家园
During a period of reflection and uncertainty, the first rough sketches for Homeland emerged from bedroom jam sessions in Kaishandao’s adopted hometown of Chengdu. With no way in or out of China, she uprooted from a long-term apartment known as 'Zhongnanhai' to a small vacant room at Steam Hostel, where she lived out of a suitcase for six months — inviting detuned chords, nomadic drum sequences and foraged vocal samples to occupy her memory banks.
In the spring of 2020, when the country’s network of clubs and label nights entered into a post-lockdown renaissance, the tracks were reworked and refined over weekends of live hardware sets performed alongside local DJs and musicians, evolving across dancefloors, before eventually falling into place through scattered late nights of tinkering and recording.
Fusing elements of lo-fi electronica, minimal, techno, RnB, house and garage, Homeland serves a dislocated narrative of percussive micro-aggressions, distorted audio residue and wistful guitar overdubs, distilled with fragmented memories — high school era chart toppers meet filtered breaks, a Wellington Hospital therapy cassette speaks through a drum machine, overlapping timelines converge around a slow-burning fire.
Dance like you're wearing sunglasses.
You are your own homeland.
About Kaishandao
在新西兰一座孤立而迎风的山边长大，又在当代中国的音乐节奏中快速融合，开山刀创造出了一系列有着自己复杂起源又有高辨识度的声响和一些古怪的不完美。作为cdcr.live电台联合创始人，Kiwese厂牌创始人，HTTP旗下艺人，Kaishandao深受摇滚乐，碧昂丝和保利中心低音炮的感染。
Kaishandao在2017年的实验现场“不辣不辣”中宣告了她的存在。自那以后，她在全国各种场地，俱乐部和音乐节演出，并在 Boiler Room 和 NTS Radio 直播演出。她的作品被收录于 Siamese Twins和环形山唱片的合集。
Kristen和来自比利时的朋友Aymen是cdcr.live电台的联合创始人，电台旨在向全球推广中国成都的音乐与文化。节目大多放送自科华北路的电台玻璃房工作室，有时也漫游去城市中其他场地和现场，播放一些不同的声音。
她也是多媒体博客和巡演厂牌 Kiwese（奇异思）的创办人，以写作记录中国与新西兰的草根音乐合作及现场演出，并组织了包括 Orchestra of Spheres， The All Seeing Hand， mr Sterile Assembly， E N T， Alphabethead ， Lady Lazer Light， WOMB与Strange Stains 艺人在内的巡演演出。
Kaishandao - Boiler Room - System Restart
Kaishandao is Mandarin for 'machete.' Born in Wellington, NZ, roots in Taishan, Guangdong. Student blogger-turned-livehouse booker-turned-resident club rascal, living the 中国梦 since 2013. Middle child. Sagitarrius. Anything but Hoegaarden.
Co-founder of cdcr.live (online radio station / offline beers). Creator of Kiwese (multimedia musings / DIY tours). Featured on Boiler Room and NTS Radio. Released by Siamese Twins and Crater Records. Covered by BBC World, Resident Advisor and Mixmag. Regular at HTTP. Collaborator / resident boozehag at Morning早上好, Steam Hostel, .TAG, 13Lounge. Former events manager of NU SPACE. Curator of SYNC, Blah Blah, Faux Club, Subterranea, XII...
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and now...
drum roll please!
Kaishandao Homeland Tour 2021
开山刀《家园》2021中国巡演
5.22 周六 深圳 OIL
5.29 周六 阿那亚 招待会
6.18 周五 厦门 ATP
6.19 周六 福州 瀑布
6.25 周五 阳江 THE CHVRCH
6.26 周六 广州 UPSTAIRS
7.09 周五 西安 未来俱乐部
7.10 周六 北京 WIGWAM
7.16 周五 呼和浩特 三只猴子
7.17 周六 锡林浩特 好家伙
7.23 周五 长沙 CAVE42
7.24 周六 武汉 404CLUB
7.30 周五 杭州 LOOPY
7.31 周六 上海 ELEVATOR
8.06 周五 重庆 NUTS
8.07 周六 成都 .TAG
[ 8.08 周日 成都 蒸汽旅舍 After Party ]
More Info Soon...
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Homeland is Out Now on Bandcamp
& Streaming Online Everywhere
All songs by Kaishandao
Released by Kiwese
Mastering by Shen
Cover photo by Melanie Young
Poster by @aappapappa
Photos by ty, Mengki, John Yingling, tanzman, Ellen
Calligraphy by Zhang Xin
Text by Kaishandao
Translation by 1d
Appreciation for the sampled sounds and voices of Ashanti, Destiny’s Child, Congo Natty, Womack, Chen Sijiang, Mariah Carey, Uygur in China, Alice Schwarzer, Patti Smith, and Karis Boyd.
Gratitude to those who put on the shows, create the spaces, provide the couches, suss the sustenance, lug things from place to place, lend ears, bring the vibes, and dance till the end.
Special thanks to my whanau and friends at home and beyond.