In July of this year, Resident Advisor (the global bible for electronic music) brought their Horizons concept to China. DJ Levon Vincent played Shelter back in July.
Resident Advisor sent a correspondent to Shanghai. Said correspondent has just completed and posted a long and surprisingly accurate analysis of the electronic scene in the city, interviewing many of the main players (mostly foreign) and commenting on the fact that:
- there are very few Chinese involved in the scene, either as promoters, DJ’s or punters
- many of the local producers // DJ’s chose not to pay money to see a hot Western DJ. Rather, they mostly converged in Dada Bar which was where the local DJ’s were representing (mostly for free), suggesting that DJ hero worship here is less pronounced than in the West.
We’d just like to add that a lot of the success of electronic music to the masses internationally can be attributed to the increasingly wide proliferation of consumer // designer shizzle since the 60’s, something that hasn’t hit China’s youth in any significant way as of yet.