Today, a guest post from Radar chum Michael Ohlsson. Michael is a 7 year veteran of the Shanghai/ Chinese music scene. He leads the Antidote crew, an electronic touring and booking collective, and has recently added Shanghai’s Dada Bar to his arsenal.
While Beijing’s indie rock scene has been acquiring (perhaps a bit too much) hype over the past couple years, the Chinese electronic music scene lags behind. When I first arrived in China in the early half of last decade, I watched and listened to the independent music talents here and thought for sure it would be the other way around.