#chinah

[feathers-little-nest]

sometimes I feel so tempted to write English in some a bit more coherent spelling style like for example

I lik too woch moovees set een ahncee'ent Chinah weeth ko'oort drahmah end uneeks

because the fact that every letter can be read like 10 different ways is just. ridiculous. I'll never be chill about this.

[exfentertainment]

#FUN FACTS

some fun facts about the members and the group to help fans get to know them!

#MIDNIGHT RENEGADES

The group was originally supposed to debut with 7 members, but ended up debuting as 5.

Thir current dorm arrangement is BK and Chiro, and Yuze, Hakkun, and c.hae.

BK and c.hae participated in writing the group's first album. BK has expressed that Chiro is a very good songwriter and he cannot wait for North Stars to hear his writings.

#BK

He is ethnically Korean but was raised in Melbourne, Australia.

He enjoys eating sweet foods.

His hobbies are skateboarding, baking, and collecting; he collects pencils and fun sunglasses.

He was roommates with c.hae predebut; c.hae says it was good experience due to BK's outgoing personality.

He has a younger sister.

He would love to adopt a dog someday.

#YUZE

He was born in Chengdu, China.

He used to train in ballet.

He enjoys learning new choreography for popular dance trends.

He enjoys swimming.

He has a younger brother and an older brother.

He has a good eye for fashion.

#HAKKUN

He is from Gwangju, South Korea.

His favorite color is blue, leading to his nickname "Bluebird".

He is quite tall, which used to be in insecurity of his.

He tries to visit his parents once a month.

He is an only child.

He was a child actor.

#CHIRO

He is from Kyoto, Japan.

He plays the electric guitar.

He enjoys fashion, especially painting his nails.

A lot of new fans and friends find him intimidating due to his cold visuals, but underneath he is a warmhearted person.

He has an older brother.

He loves rock and hip-hop music.

#c.hae

He is from Busan, South Korea.

He is bad at eating spicy foods.

He enjoys writing poetry and short stories.

He, predebut, was an influencer and dancer under the instagram handle @.haestruth (user explanantion: his full name is chinahe, which means truth)

He is the youngest of 3 siblings and the only boy.

He is the shyest member of MR.

Do you have a bias so far?

[frankbedbroken]

frankcore 2k25 !!

and if you can believe it. it's a monthly playlist once again. for this first installment (?) this year it mostly falls into three separate blocks: a lot of stuff that passed me by during last year and i didn't get hip to until i checked out a bunch of year-end lists (shouts out billdifferen and vhs midnight style), the few new releases that i got to during this month, and assorted random stuff from previous years.

for the first part: we've got ominous and haunting acappella performance from vocal-centric catalan folk duo tarta relena; an incredibly addicting loosie from lucy bedroque that only recently got put onto streaming services (had it been around by the time my year-end list dropped, i would've definitely gotten a hard time deciding between it and how to pretend to be on said list),; poppy bassline/garage numbers from niko b as well as silva bumpa with megan wroe on vocals; broken, ever changing rhythms and corrosive sound design under the always uncertain umbrella of deconstructed club from ship sket and seychelles; a metalcore number from the band kaonashi with an off-kilter and unique vocal performance but also maintaining the aggression and chaos you'd want out of the genre; and finally, speaking of chaos, mind-numbingly hard stuff from CONNIE, moving from a bouncy, hyperactive, super saturated donk-like rhythm which later on slows things down to a brazilian funk drum pattern and tempo but not letting go in the harshness department, all underlying the hardest tts vocal performance since knife party's internet friends (?).

in terms of new stuff: hazy and disorienting yet compelling and riveting ambient / hypnagogic sounds from voice actor & squu; very solid trip hop revivalism from destroyer (very unfamiliar with his discography, this track's not really representative as i understand but im interested to see what the rest of that album is like); pitch-dark and sombre slowcore from the ever-inspiring ethel cain; delightfully euro pop rap with a l'amour toujours interpolation thrown in for good measure from bassvictim (this track dropped last year technically but the project it's from was released just now); slow-burning and mechanical yet vaguely horny new beat vibes from marie davidson; of course i had to include something from twigs' most recent album, went with a track that feels very in line with ray of light and impossible princess, introducing acid techno influences into a pop format; wonderfully sweet indietronica with some influences of microhouse from baths; light and icy garage rhythms intermingling with hip hop and r&b on the latest from john glacier alongside sampha; turn-of-the-millenium-inspired house-pop crossover from rose gray (featuring an interpolation of blue (da ba dee) as well, i know im a bit hypocritical when it comes to that kinda thing but idk i think the two tracks featured here do it well); a couple of tracks from projects that will be dropping shortly: from mun sing, a track that feels equally as indebted to post-club / uk bass experimentalism as it does pc music and recent developments in pop and r&b; from traxman, no-nonsense footwork that works exactly as well as you'd want it to; and from aya, a track that you could compare to machine girl in its tackling of digital hardcore idioms but that also brings in a lot more influence of deconstructed club sound design as well as more hectic edm influences from hard techno and donk; wrapping up, a track off the most recent pink siifu project, this one having really atmospheric yet danceable production courtesy of the duo hi-tech, in a way reminds me of the more dnb-centric side of artists like machinedrum.

and then: the rest! big trip hop block at the start, with more recent revivalism from buttechno & triš, a bizarrely ahead-of-its-time anomaly that's technically folk and industrial adjacent but sounds just like trip hop in 1977 from emmanuelle parrenin, and languid r&b sounds from chinah, mixing an almost monotone vocal delivery with rhythms influenced by trip hop and minimal drum and bass; later on, probably the most popular track off that model/actriz album, the album itself didn't do as much as i wanted to but i do like this track quite a bit; finally, bedroom-esque screamo with potent vocal delivery filled with rage and angst from awakebutstillinbed.

my one track that i would've liked to include but couldn't because it's not on streaming is left leg out by mala, classic uk dubstep sounds from one of the originators of the sound, very grimy and dingy as you would want from the genre.

that's it for now, tube it!

[internationalmusic-oeins]

International Music im Juli 2024 - Die Playlist

Songs der Sendung vom 04.07.2024

1. Nothhingspecial – Catacombs 2. Catalogue – Houseplant 3. Mia Morgan – Gift 4. Loupe – Black Beauty Race 5. Molchat Doma – Son 6. Liza Dries – Unreal 7. The Jürgen Clubs – Daddy Was a Player 8. J. Bernard – Don’t Get Me Wrong 9. Aiko – Gemini 10. Pond – So Lo 11. Svea – Breakfast Club 12. Leyya - Pumped up High 13. Chinah – Strange Is Better 14. Lazy Ghost – Eat You Alive

[eldeljazz64]

CHINAH - Give Me Life

[ellies-chaos-corner]

Update 2:

"She is Biden" - Trump

"Clearly I am not Joe Biden" - Kamala

"She has a plan to confiscate everybody's gün" - Trump

"She doesn't have a plan" - also Trump

"And they're very good people there's a lot of good people" - Trump

"I have concepts of a plan :]" - Trump

"Stop with the continuous lying about this stuff" - Kamala (yass kween)

"In many cases owned by chinah 🙄" - Trump

Real quotes from the debate tonight:

"Love letters to Kim Jong Un" - Kamala

"I have best rallies the most beautiful rallies" - Trump

"A leader on fertilization" - Trump

"She'll never get the vote, she won't even get close to it" - Trump

"She's a Marxist" - Trump

[knightofleo]

Two Shell | home

[astarkey]

CHINAH - Seconds of Heaven

[fauxi]

"Can't Remember How It Feels" by CHINAH

[chanelbagsandcigarettedrags]

Songs on current rotation #21

Zhu - Save Me

Sade - Kiss of Life (Kaytranada Edit)

L’Imperatrice - Erreur 404

Naji - Fallen

MMZ - S Line

CHINAH - Real Thing?

Lomepal - 1000ºC

Oceanvs Orientalis - Tarlabasi (Be Svendsen Remix)

Khruangbin - August 10

Chiara Noriko ft Skye Chai - Anything

Damso - Fais-moi un Vie

Wafia - I’m Good

Fabz Pi - Feel Alive

ZHU - Guilty Love

Other playlists here

[swedeandsour]

CHINAH - Anyone (LP) - 2018 Record of the Year Review

Anyone (LP) CHINAH Released: November 9th, 2018 / No3 Words: Peter Quincy Ng

When the Denmark trio first dropped their stunning debut with 2016's "When the Lights Go Out", it was through vocalist Fine Glindvad's quiet exasperation and sobering heartbreak that CHINAH's hybrid R&B took form. Beating with its clunky Orientalism and the vast architecture of its synthesizer sustain, their debut EP was atmospheric without eschewing the catchy beat-driven structure of a modern electro-pop sensibility. Fast forward to 2018, and we see the maturation of CHINAH's form in their debut LP "Anyone", which at first glance is a complete one-eighty degrees from their 2016 breakthrough. 

From a sulky vulnerability to the absolutely brazen, Fine's legato is cut into a sharp, poignant cold on their latest record. Comparable to the trajectory of Copenhagen contemporaries Smerz, we see the snide delivery and digital frivolity of opening track "Anyone". On this track, among many others, a vocal nonchalance is paired to the vacuous snarl of pounding beats. 

“Real Thing?”

Generally, speaking the album compared to its predecessors fosters a more instrumental affair. We see the introduction of hip-hop inspired sounds such as the menancing relentless of "Give Me Life" and the hazy R&B glaze of single "Real Thing?" where spitting verses heap over bass-dropping hooks. Fat, raspy synths build into a towering gargantuan in the climax of "Drown Me" and in "Obsessed" a growling resonance to contrast its R&B smooth is reflected by its trip-hop punch. Perhaps most strikingly on LP "Anyone" is the aggression we see on track "Adrenaline". In a discord of blaring sirens and clanging cymbals that are contrasted to a loungy downtempo, CHINAH's experimentation feels more metal rock than R&B on this rabidly infectious number. 

“Yeah Right”

As for its other singles, we see more of the new CHINAH through the sarcastic tone of "Yeah Right" building over the dreamy dystopia of its staggering synth as swooning emotion is met with the stern reality of Glindvad's delivery. We also see the revelation that is "Strange is Better", an astonishing track that contrasts the cool, calculated venom of Fine's blasé over a cacophony of jarring beats. Strength and fragility intertwine in this conflicting number, where swooning emotion is blurred to general indifference as a layers of synthesized texture build over the loops over its powering anacrusis. 

“Strange is Better”

Despite CHINAH's newly-found innovation, the record "Anyone" is not a betrayal of CHINAH's initial beginnings. We still see the blissful naivete enraptured in the nostalgia of its flowery notes on "Simple" and the ephemeral tone of the crystalline "Everything is New". No fool to turn their back on the tested and true formulations of their previous hits we see the working of their closing track "Nowhere". The longest on the record at over six-minutes length, “Nowhere” grooves over a muted zoom and brings the album to a close with the dovish carry of Fine's lofty delivery. 

While both grabbing and beat-driven, the biggest disappointment about "Anyone" is that is by no means a critic's record. Fitting into neither genre A or B, nor furthering in any discourse on the current state of world affairs, perhaps what makes "Anyone" such a subversive record is its irreverence to pop music today. Eschewing the vocal harmonies and discernible lyrics of its earlier records and instead opting for raw, visceral emotion, "Anyone" though wildly experimental, avoids the pitfall of becoming consciously weird and pretentiously inaccessible. "Strange is Better", they say? Sure, we'll agree on that one.

You can visit the rest of CHINAH’s “Anyone” on Soundcloud GO HERE and Spotify HERE .

[iheartmoosiq]

We know full well that Danish trio CHINAH is the real deal when it comes to shattering conventional boundaries in electronica, R&B, and pop. The group recently returned with a minimalist R&B masterpiece in ‘Real Thing?’, their latest taste off their forthcoming debut full length. It’s a fierce simmering, sultry smoldering ballad dripping with future R&B aesthetics and draped in Fine Glindvad’s dreamy twirling, softly poignant vocals. Speaking on the lyrics, Fine explains how 'Real Thing?' is "a song about choosing to be lazy with your integrity because you long for intensity". It explores the feeling of experiencing a sense of "dominance within the submission". CHINAH has also announced a release party in London next month, featuring guest DJs including Balamii’s Em Ady. It’ll be held at Bermondsey Social Club on the 13th, four days after the arrival of long-awaited album No3.