Chinabot is a platform and collective created to change the dialogue surrounding Asian music. Started in 2017, the multi-disciplinary label and network of Asian artists decided to cooperate on a new way to collect and promote exciting Asian music. Releasing undiscovered artists from Bahrain to Thailand, Chinabot is positioned at the junction point between the influence of Asian music on contemporary/traditional sounds, music outside the mainstream and the development of experimentation. Whether it’s Jazz folk music, experimental ambient or mutant techno, we celebrate exciting new music that falls between the gaps, a place for adventurous listening.________________________
JAEHO HWANG
Jaeho Hwang is a Seoul-based DJ, producer, and visual artist who recontextualizes traditional Korean instrumentation and brings it into the contemporary club music scene. South Korean artist inspired by the Buddhist concept of impermanent selfhood, his first EP “Non-Self/비자아” combines dark, industrial club beats with old Korean sound and samples. He explores his sense of identity in the digital age as refracted through the Buddhist concept of anatta, or non-self, the belief that there is no unchanging, permanent soul or essence in living beings.
His music has been featured in Resident Advisor, Boiler Room, The Wire Magazine, BBC, DJ Mag, Xlr8r. He is a member of Chinabot but also he is one of founders of Seoul-based collective called “Fragmented Service” that represents Seoul’s sub-club scene and curates shows with International artists in Seoul such as ZULI, ENDGAME, Dis Fig, X/O and etc. Recently, based primarily in Seoul, he is involved with Seoul’s underground club scene such as Cakeshop, Visla FM and, Seoul Community Radio, etc.
“Hwang incorporated traditional Korean instrumentation into the familiar palate of post-apocalyptic underground London club music...While the whole EP is excellent, this relentlessly visceral finale is its best track” The Wire magazine
“It’s a remarkable mixture, and the result is an intense rush of sounds that converse at a ferocious pace; thunderous kicks propel sweet-yet- sharp melodies, disjointed voices and wild FX into a dazzling orbital motion.” DJ Mag
https://www.instagram.com/jaeho111111/
https://soundcloud.com/jaehohwang
https://www.chinabot.co/jaehohwang
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NEO GEODESIA
Neo Geodesia is Saphy Vong, a French Cambodian audio visual artist born in a Thai refugee camp after his parents fled the Khmer Rouge, and grew up in the suburbs of Nancy, northeastern France. His unique musical outlook fuses the experimental and DIY ethos that can be found in both the local Nancy Hardcore and Grindcore scene that embraced him as a teenager, and the sounds broadcasted from Cambodia into his home through his parents pirated tapes and videos of Khmer pop, karaoke, monk chants and movies.
His recent project has been dedicated to fusing experimental electronic processes with traditional Khmer music and exploring the far edge of sonic expression to include noise, Bek Sloy, Funeral Smot and Roam Vong.
Over the years, however, he has focused his approach less upon heaviness than slipperiness, granular textures and head-spinning polyrhythms.
Active for more than a decade under the alias Lafidki, he has produced, composed and released electronic music for Orange Milk Records. His music has been featured in Resident Advisor, NPR, NTS, BBC, Mixmag, The Quietus and Bandcamp Daily.
NEO GEODESIA has performed with the likes of Foodman, Evicshen, Object Blue, Why Be, Zoë mc Pherson, Sunik Kim, Ecko Bazz, Still and his music was played by Drew McDowall, Hiro Kone, Zuli, Animistic beliefs.
He currently lives in London and runs the multidisciplinary Asian platform and record label Chinabot, on which he released his latest album 2562 Neon Flames. His new album is coming up this year, this work is inspired by Pradal Serey and Bokator music, while indirectly commenting on the gridlocked, Nepotisic system of power in Cambodia.
‘Fanta Rouge’, with its pounding drums and ridiculously addictive melody, is the most ecstatic thing I’ve heard in ages, all the more remarkable considering the sadness which surrounds it." The Quietus
“Euphoric sound collage of Cambodian folk song mashed into raver beats, gambling machines and cut-up karaoke. A glitter-smashed standout from Vong’s London-based Chinabot, a label devoted to experimental musicians across the Asian diaspora.” NPR
“Calmly negociating iridescent electronic and ancient acoustic instruments, the track plays out like an odyssey, some long, winding tale which leaves much up to the imagination. Piercing Asian instruments duet - or duel, depending on your stance” Inverted Audio
https://www.instagram.com/neogeodesia/
https://chinabot.bandcamp.com/album/2562-neon-flames
https://www.nowness.asia/picks/neo-geodesia-venomesis-chinabot
https://www.chinabot.co/neogeodesia
https://ra.co/features/3911
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PISITAKUN
Pisitakun Kuantalaeng (b.1986) graduated with a BFA in Sculpture, School of Architecture, Art, and Design – King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand.
Pisitakun has been weaving traditional Thai instrumentation together with pounding rhythms and rugged samples, building post-industrial noisescape since 2014. A large part of his inspiration lies in a frustration at his country’s political life and censorship rules, forging these protest songs to turn noise into fiery expressions of hope – and anger.
He has performed at CTM Festival (Berlin), Asian Meeting Festival (Tokyo), MEIA (Aveiro), Schiev (Brussels), Rokolectiv (Bucharest) and Cafe OTO (London). His previous releases on Chinabot are SOSLEEP(2018) created shortly after the death of his father from cancer, and combined traditional mourning instruments with harsh noise and techno beats, wrapping them around intimate recordings of the hospital machinery that kept his father alive during his final days. and Absolute C.O.U.P. (2020). He also released Kongkraphan (2022) on Yes No Wave, toured with Gabber Modus Operandi in Thailand. He’s also part of the SHAPE Platform roster of artists for 2022 and has performed with the likes of Meuko Meuko, Abadir, Evita Manji.
"Noise as Abstraction: Fuzzing The Limits of free Speech in Thailand " The Quietus
"True to the nature of censorship in Thailand, there’s no explicit criticism of the regime in the music; Pisitakun instead uses a potpourri of sound to hint at dissonances elided by the suppression of Thai voices." Daily Bandcamp
https://www.instagram.com/pisitakun/
https://www.facebook.com/pisitakun
https://www.chinabot.co/pisitakun
https://thequietus.com/articles/24151-pisitakun-kuantalaeng-thailand-noise-artist
https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/pisitakun-kuantalaeng
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Paavli Kultuurivabrik, Paavli 7,Tallinn, Estonia
