Chinese electronic-music artist Zhu Jianhui (aka Double Fish), 25, is fond of contemporary global culture, hacker aesthetics, art, breakcore and IDM (intelligent dance music). In early 2002, he released his first experimental music single enclosed in the magazine I Love Rock ‘n Roll. In June 2004, he founded the independent-label Reconfiguration Records in Guangzhou, the aim of which is to promote avant-garde, independent and experimental arts, and provide a platform for artist collaborations. Since then, Zhu has released a series of EPs and LPs and organized a number of musical events to promote this unusual scene. In August 2004, he launched a conceptual electronic-music collection by artists from Hong Kong, the Chinese mainland and Poland called “The Sound of Silence Project”. In 2005, Zhu, who knows no boundaries, released the EP Hackers on the Polish label Audiotong Records, and participated in several compilations released under his own label (Hey!!! Let’s break, V.A landscape 2). On Inter Net, Zhu, uses virtual drum machine, synth, effect processors and sound loops, to create a piece of relaxing, atmospherical downtempo music timed precisely at 20:05-minute (the year of its release, 2005). With samples reminiscent of early 1990s videogames’ sound effects, Inter Net is a strangely easy-listening piece of avant-garde-ish electronica.
Reconfiguration Records/Bedzoo/available at www.reconfiguration-records.com

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May 2006 issue



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Guanzhou Chief editor: Christopher Cottrell
May 2006 issue