The Fresh, Inventive Sounds of Contemporary Chinese Post-Punk
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In the extended genealogy of rock sub-genres, #post-punk has always been something of an oddball. Unlike most sub-genres, the term “post-punk” doesn’t strictly describe some element of how the music sounds. Instead, it references a period—specifically, the roughly half-decade following the point when punk rock blasted apart established musical tradition, ushering in a new spirit of experimentation in rock music. Bands that embraced this forward-thinking mindset—artists like Pere Ubu, Gang of Four, DEVO—are tricky to pin down stylistically, because they pull ideas from a diverse range of genres, including funk, dub reggae, krautrock, free jazz, musique concrete, and (to the chagrin of their punk predecessors) disco.
“There’s not really a post-punk ‘scene,’” says Josh Feola, a music journalist and former manager of XP who’s now working on an illustrated history of underground music in China. “There’s a rock scene and an experimental music scene, and there’s post-punk bands. But the ‘scene’ these musicians were in was more this experimental scene.”
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