Shadwell to Shanghai: Sinogrime

As the year closes and many cultural commentators review the past year – and indeed decade – in music, much attention is being devoted to the impact that grime and dubstep have had on the electronic music scene. One of its key London-based proponents has been Kode9, working as an artist under the same name, Hyperdub label founder/curator and music academic with his book Sonic Warfare published by MIT Press earlier this year.

He has recently released a mix which blends the sounds of the East End scene with more traditional Chinese samples. Dubbed Sinogrime, it draws on the  shared urbanity of Shanghai and the East End.

Listen to the mix here: Sinogrime

This post was written by Edny Tappy, Flamingo London

    This entry was posted on Saturday, December 19th, 2009 at 2:28 pm. It is filed under Culture, Europe, Music and tagged with , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

    3 Responses to “Shadwell to Shanghai: Sinogrime”

    1. David says:
      January 8, 2010 at 10:10 pm

      If you like that, you might like this:

      http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=71930

    2. Julien says:
      January 9, 2010 at 10:21 am

      Thanks David. It will be interesting to see if Chinese artists will start appropriating Western culture and putting their own spin on it. Zhang Yi Mou recently did an homage to the Coen brothers movie Blood Simple.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Simple_Noodle_Story

    3. Sonic Warfare | Flamingo Shanghai says:
      October 19, 2010 at 9:15 am

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