Radio Hour #1: "Trees Aren't Real"

In this Episode: Krish, Simon, Zoe, Jaime, Yan, Caiwei, Ting, Aaron, Sasha, Tianyu, Christina, and Makob Jangles.

Tianyu: Happy new year! By popular demand, we’ve recorded a podcast.

Krish: We recorded a lo-fi zoom call with 12 people across four time zones.

Tianyu: Yes. Things, understandably, were a bit chaotic.

Krish: So we’ve structured this like a “radio hour”—some lukewarm takes interspersed with hot new music from our favourite bands in the Beijing scene. It’s not professional or even fully coherent, but we had a lot of fun. We hope you find it interesting!

Tianyu: We’re probably never going to do this again lol. So we’re releasing this just for our paid subscribers as a premium perk, and as a small way to say thanks for all the support!

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SHOW NOTES:

• Yan’s piece on idol fandom and Big Yoghurt in China.

• The 一猫人 (Yimaoren) sticker that went viral:

  

• Alibaba’s Ant Forest minigame. It’s won awards.

• Most tree-planting campaigns fail.

• Trees aren’t real.

• SHRUBS (no link needed).

• The Sanhe Youth. Their motto: “work for a day, party for three.”

• The podcast that Jaime recommends is an episode of 噪音开始了.

• Zaliva D on Bandcamp.

• Gong Gong Gong’s remix album.

• The Invisible Shore (无尽的航程).

• One of the anti-work Douban groups Zoe mentions.

• Wagas on sale.

PLAYLIST:

• Naja Naja - New Toy (forthcoming from Wharf Cat Records, Mar 2022)

• 八仙饭 Eight Immortals Restaurant - 吞吐 (Puff)

• Sourtower - dim staircase

• 退格 Backspace - 蜥蜴精灵 (Lizard Elves)

• Simon Frank - Don’t Understand

• The Claptraps - On My Surround

• 工工工 Gong Gong Gong - Inner Reaches III (Zaliva D Remix)

• Sleeping Dogs - Kweichow

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