indie music: September 2010 Archives

It's official. Our label's first album is done and released. Shanghai band Pairs' debut album Pairs.

Here's a standalone page at Bandcamp where you can get the whole release or just have a listen. Most of you will be familiar with their famous live tracks by now so why not start with F1, an instrumental that really captures the raw energy.

Anyway - go on, go there

All the tracks are on Pairs' Douban page now too, for China based or Chinese language users. You had to be singed in to download last time I checked though.

Congrats to everyone involved.

Welcome back.

We all had a break in August and have been working behind the scenes this month. In the past post we had set up a label page using Douban.com and posted up our demos and videos as a taster.

Now our producer Adam is back from his stint in Myanmar and the final mixes are in. The next stages:

1) Make the tracks available online

2) Produce the physical CDs

3) Start a promotional tour.

Look out for tracks at the Qu page and the full releases at the artists' pages (link through the label page). We will make everything available for DL there.

As for the physical CDs. Pairs have opted for super DIY style. Xiao Zhong will burn off CDs on a home computer then put them in envelopes, like the normal ones, you know, letters, and hand write on them. A design for an insert sheet is already done and should pop up at the label page soon. For LP we are weighing up options and will post on it as soon as a decision is made.

The tour is just in conception at the moment. The idea is to play seven shows in seven days around Shanghai, choosing only smaller venues. Details to be thrashed out shortly then posted on.