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Simon Frank

@simotalk

writing / translation / music

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Joined September 2011
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in ancient times, the Greeks invented the Olympic Games so that twenty eight centuries later we could obsess over the politics of a 18 year old athlete who loves jumping inside a half pipe of fake snow in a former steel plant
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Our last episode for 2021: "The Chaoyang Trap Gift Guide." feat. getting tea drunk + Great Resignation starter packs + Old Heavens, fresh hells + glou glous for the discoteca + blatant Kwei’chow product placement chaoyang.substack.com/p/2021…
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Here's Part 2 of Rewilding, @yilingliu95's series on the language of the Chinese web. This week: Wind Vents and Flying Pigs. chaoyang.substack.com/p/flyi…
Rewilding #2: Wind Vents & Flying Pigs

Rewilding #2: Wind Vents & Flying Pigs

Part 2 of a new series: an evolving dictionary of the Chinese internet. A close-up on the words that grow in the labyrinthine swamp of online life in China.

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"REWILDING." @yilingliu95 explores the language of the Chinese internet. A close-up on the words, old and new, that grow in the labyrinthine swamp of online life in China. A evolving “dictionary” of sorts. The first in a series: chaoyang.substack.com/p/boun…
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NEXT WEEK: "Between ROC and a Hard Place" A deep-dive into Taiwanese indie music in China: the contradictions of cross-straits tours + "Hyper California" + punk rock solidarity Words: @brianhioe @ChenYu0214 @lnachman32 @MiaJian @nathanelamarHK @simotalk | Illustration: AU Chang
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Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebis is now available to watch on-demand! Streaming till July 12 here: chaoyang.moviesaints.com
Chaoyang Trap (@ChaoyangTrap) profile pictureChaoyang Trap@ChaoyangTrap25 Jun 2021
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We had to get everyone we knew to watch it. It's taken a while but we're so excited to finally present the China and streaming premiere of this contemporary masterpiece: chaoyang.substack.com/p/hors…

July 4: The First Chaoyang Trap Film Screening

We're screening (and streaming!) 'Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebis.' Join us in Beijing on July 4, or watch online from July 2-12

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Tianyu M. Fang@tianyuf19 May 2021
Narrator: Stanford has cut its Cantonese language program due to budget shortfalls. The plan?
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A really exceptional piece by Arundhati Roy. She expresses as no one else can the pain, anger, grief and outrage that everyone I know is feeling right now. Must read.
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@guardian28 Apr 2021
Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’ theguardian.com/news/2021/ap…
Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’

Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’

The long read: It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain

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welcome to the @ChaoyangTrap house 🔥
Chaoyang Trap (@ChaoyangTrap) profile pictureChaoyang Trap@ChaoyangTrap23 Mar 2021
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Our music recommendation is the brilliant @Hualun_band and their gorgeous 'Homework in Quiet Time' release: hualun.bandcamp.com/album/ho…
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Excited to be on this compilation organized by our Tokyo friend @succhiri featuring an unreleased 工工工 track, music from @simotalk and @HIPERSONBAND and more Chinese artists, plus Japanese groups including @BarbicanEstateM! rhymingslangtokyo.bandcamp.c…
RHYMING SLANG, by Various Artists

RHYMING SLANG, by Various Artists

10 track album

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Next year will be bad, too, I'm sure
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Record Store Day Beijing, a celebration of independent record shops- represented in 2020 by subsidiaries of 2 multinational conglomerates (Taihe/Modsky), 1 venture-funded label + just 1 actual record store- is an accurate reflection of the state of contemporary music in this city
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If you're buying from Bandcamp today, Rabih Beaini's @Morphine_Rec is channeling all of today's profits to grassroots aid in Beirut. Great artist, great label, crucial cause. facebook.com/permalink.php?s…
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Alexmalism@Alexmalism30 Jun 2020
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Is there a CCP funded equivalent of VICE yet
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The story of Uyghur pop amidst the internment of millions in China's Xinjiang is the most important music story today. This incredible essay also reveals, to me, how music journalism has failed us, with consistent disinterest in musical worlds outside narrow western imaginations
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it's 2015. you're playing a show for 10 people in tokyo. no one's really dancing, but most will stay until the end. life will never be this good again
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emptyset@emptyset_11 May 2020
The discovery of a dusty box of tapes in a cupboard in Ahmedabad sets musician Paul Purgas on the trail of a little-known chapter of Indian electronic music. The 44-minute documentary will be aired on @BBCRadio3 , this Sunday, May 17 at 18:45 (UK time). bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000j96…
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NPR Music
@nprmusic8 May 2020
It has become a cliché to compare Kraftwerk to the Beatles – but if anything, the group's impact has been wider and more enduring. trib.al/hwfKIgZ
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jery experience nonstop low level anxiety attack
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