Beijing D22 Bar, (2006-2012), later renamed XP, English name Xiaoping, closed in 2015.
The band's Summer 2, mentioned by rustic lead singers, introduced Rustic when Joyside said they had performed in D22. When you think of D22, you'll find that bands that have been debuting for more than 10 years have a sense of intimacy and excitement about the name.
RUSTIC European Tour
The Persistence of the Sea Rustic - Summer of the Band 2 Issue 3
At the London Awards Ceremony of the Sixth GBOB (Global Band Competition) Finals in April 2010, Wain Yee, producer of GBOB and a long-time observer of Beijing's underground music scene, said: "Just as more and more bands are touring the United States and Europe, Chinese rock music is making a noise to the world. ”
It was the Chinese punk band Rusty that stood out from 3,000 bands from all over the world at the sixth GBOB and won the first place in one fell swoop, when Rustic was only in its third year, and they were called the best new orchestras in the world, standing at the top of the music trend and expanding their horizons for live music performances in Beijing and all over China.
◆◆D22 what is ◆◆
D22 coordinates five crossings, next to 13CLUB. Wudaokou is the famous student street that gave birth to the Howling Club. In early 1998, at the fifth crossing of College Road, a bar called the Howling Club was born, while a group called the Boring Army set off a nationwide wave of punk. The punk band Mirror, which has been established for 20 years, is the "debut" here. Here you will see bespectacled students from Tsinghua University of Peking University, Dalin Dadi, Dabei University of Science and Technology with a can of beer and then disappear after 12 o'clock (school access control). "Wednesday Rock Night, ticket price 30, student ticket minus 10 yuan", the big sign at the door gives these music-loving students a utopia.
Illustration 2006-2016 BEIJING LIVE HOUSE, design by Cannon
It is said that Beijing is the birthplace of the spirit of rock and roll, and if you look closely at the brief history of Chinese rock and roll, you will find that the beginning tells the story of Beijing. Cui Jian began to "have nothing" in the workers' body, Dou Wei also went from Beijing to Hung Hom, and Wang Feng's 43 Baojia Street was established... At that time, all the musicians who loved rock had to come to Beijing to prove that they were real rock.
In the eyes of many people, playing rock and roll belongs to "no learning and no skill" and "not doing business", but what is interesting is that D-22 is surrounded by colleges and universities, close to Tsinghua, Peking University, Beihang, Beilin, and today it is definitely one of the best "school district bars", and the people who come here to watch the performances are also famous schools. "Cheap tickets, cheap drinks, high-quality performances" once became the signature of the D-22, and compared with old punk and old rock, it is the birthplace of Beijing's avant-garde rock.
To say that the most rock is also the D22 boss Michael Pettis hereinafter referred to as MP, MP Can Niu 13, Peking University Guanghua School of Management Professor, class said rock, after class said economy, if you are his student, may have just finished class during the day, at night in his D22 to see drinking. You go google his videos, half about economics, half about rock 'n' roll. MP also has a most well-known is the owner of the label "Terracotta Division", Which is now the largest independent record label in China, signed Carsick cars, PK14, Cake of Life, Dirty Finger, Haipensen, Xiaohe and so on.
Oh! Well-behaved Carsick Cars - Summer of the Band 2 Issue 8
Soldier Androd Michael Pettis on Beijing based rock
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08 years ago MP worked as an investment manager at Lehman Brothers, (08 Lehman Brothers suffered a subprime mortgage crisis bankruptcy) in today's words has achieved economic freedom, so people are not bad money, MP once opened a very well-known music bar in New York, and widely organized performances in the active areas of New York and Beijing, so the establishment of D-22 has nothing to do with profits, and all the income and expenditure are used as music equipment repair and replacement. Rumor has it that D22 has just started for two years and lost 800,000 yuan per year.
When D22 first opened, MP let the whole audience drink for free, but also casually delivered wine, 13CLUB to the west 30 meters, it will be D22, but as soon as you enter the door, the D22 bartender "boo" a sound to open the bottle of beer: "Brother, come one!" To the side of the 13 boss Liu Li new gas no, "the bar every day to send wine, this day must not lose 100,000 80,000, I lose 20,000 are painful"!
◆◆D22—— American Rock Club CBGB China Beijing Version of Underground Music Mecca Holy Land ◆◆
Some people commented that D22 is China's CBGB, in fact, from the concept of holding yes, but D22 career is slightly shorter, China's rock environment is also very different from New York, New York is very supportive of local musicians, if a world-renowned musician and a musician in New York but not so famous, in New York must be more popular in New York.
If you've experienced the night of the Beijing show from 2000 to 2015, you've been in and out of the now-defunct legendary clubs of D-22 and XP. You can even tell if you're a "insider" by spitting out "D-22, fork split, Xiaoping" from the audience (in China, no city cares more about "circles" than Beijing, not fat sausages). People who make music, listen to music, watch performances, and mix in it make up the smallest unit of one culture after another – this is also the favorite part of MP. All on and off the stage are musicians, artists or their friends, and everyone is involved in the culture of the whole city.
◆◆D22 makes a hedgehog◆◆
At the beginning of the D-22, a new group of bands appeared in Beijing, all young, but twenty-three or four years old. New pants, underground babies, and flowers are called Beijing New Sounds, and hedgehogs, Houhai sharks, and Carsick Cars are called Post-Beijing New Sounds.
The train sails out of the clouds, and The Dream Resplends are in the Nine Hedgehog Band - The Band's Summer Issue 3
Beijing rock circle set off a new wave, many bands gathered in D-22 performances, walking, proofing, it has become a common spiritual shelter for Beijing's super new generation of rock and roll youth. In early 2007, the hedgehog performed the first game in D-22, according to the words of D-22 boss Mike, "The first time I watched the hedgehog performance, I felt very deep, Zi Jian jumped up and down like crazy, jumping like that did not affect the guitar playing"
Liu Hao said that hedgehogs are like "bad students among good students", rebellious with literary style, female drummers look small, but the drums are very good. The two bands don't communicate much, "like the feeling that good students don't dare to recruit (bad students)".
This is the hedgehog of my youth, a restless energy, I should be like this, only this is me.
Hedgehog's first album in 2006
◆◆Top brand Joyside◆◆◆
Joyside is the number one band in D22. Ten years ago, Joyside's ad hung on an entire wall in Xidan. They toured Europe and became the subject of two foreign documentaries. There was a saying at the time that it was impossible not to be unaware of Joyside as long as you paid attention to underground rock and roll, and their style even had an impact on some young bands.
"If Joyside appears, it will definitely explode", Wang Zi, the lead singer of the gambling ghost band, recalled that the fans were far out of the outside, and the people below were crazy, "flying all over the sky". The bar can only accommodate two or three hundred people, and when a band is done, they go to the small room to drink whiskey.
silly girlJoyside - joyside last live
Rather than saying that Joyside was the king of underground rock and roll at that time, it is better to say that they were the youth of Beijing rock fans. Joyside has always been free, spontaneous, and idealized. Once Mayday wanted to invite Joyside to perform together, probably because they were not confident in their own performance in Beijing, and wanted to ask the band that was hot in the Beijing underground rock circle to help. Bianyuan was young and vigorous at the time, and he didn't agree, he felt quite bored. Later, the agent persuaded Bianyuan to be a good talker, but he wore a t-shirt that read "i want to shit on may" when he performed.
Penicillin went from SCHOOL to the worker's body, and JOYSIDE went from D22 to Europe.
Rainbow said D22: It's just a spaceship, and picking these people up, and inside is a utopia.
◆◆MP China Bethune◆◆
In 11 years, MP felt that the bar space was too small to accommodate so many spectators, and the equipment was not completely satisfactory, in order to better realize his ideal of popularizing rock and roll to the majority of college students, he resolutely decided to move the D-22.
D22 went out of business
At the beginning of the founding of D22, he said: "Our first goal sounded more modest, because it was mainly to see the active underground music atmosphere in Beijing at that time, and a lot of talented musicians who were working to transform the city into a new music mecca that attracted the world's attention, and we were honored to be a part of this movement." To be honest, this process has evolved more quickly than I could have imagined. The next second goal is to draw fans to Beijing's new music scene, or China's new music scene.
A few years ago, there had been a large number of foreign immigrants and local musicians controlling the audience of underground music, but for me, it was clear to me that if China's college student bands and the vast number of young music practitioners could not become the reserve force of this circle, then the whole new music movement, the new underground music wave, would not continue. That's why we set the venue at Wudaokou to provide a convenience for the musical geniuses in the ivory tower, even if they are not as generous as the foreigners and can give us a lot of wine money at once. ”
◆◆Brand Terracotta Warriors◆◆
Mp in addition to the D22 bar also has a well-known is the Terracotta Division brand, the band of the Terracotta Division, and the D-22 performance has one of the biggest features, that is, the forced high, not shaken. Especially JOYSIDE, the songs are all English songs, first of all Chinese most of them can't understand, you have to rap, so live for thirty years, until the building collapses, many people will resonate. One is that the quality of musicians is relatively high, basically all have gone to college, and the other is that the aesthetics of music fans are relatively high, and there is no brain residue.
Let me buy you packs of cigarettes dirty fingers - a trilogy of abusive feelings
Terracotta is essentially a philanthropic undertaking, not a record label that operates commercially. Basically, there is no commercial and operational planning that enterprises should have, that is, the feeling of artists playing tickets. The packaging is the path of the New York indie rock circle, setting up several benchmark bands in various fields, such as Noise's Carsick Cars, Houpeng's PK14, Indie Rock's Gadge and Core's fault. Daijo Route made in China, European and American tour. Even a band like Low Absinthe is not tacky at all.
Published by The Terracotta Division
The company style does not have extensive management style, and does not establish a complete enterprise system. The principal is Yang Haisong, the lead singer of PK14. The operating model is no model, completely no different from no enterprise, only the pursuit of cool cool, what is cool, regardless of cost, do not care about promotion and marketing, and do not carry out development outside of content and performances, because even operation managers and agents are rolling green, no one is responsible for these things. Mas is an aesthetically oriented record label, not a for-profit and business-oriented company. MP said that he signed the band and never listened to the album to listen to the scene, and signed it immediately when the scene was good.
Former owner Michael Pettis is now working on a project called "White Light White Tower" and has held several performances this year: WhiteLight White Tower is Michael Pettis' most ambitious project to date. Visual arts, fashion, literature, record stores, experimental music labels and coffee bars converge in this new art space/salon.
She lost faith in P.K.14 – who who and who who
The volume of the Terracotta Division is in the middle and upper class of today's independent Chinese music labels. At the top is Modern Sky (maybe it can't be called an independent label), and then there's the Terracotta Division, and there's another one next to it: Red Pupil Music. To say a few more words, last year, Red Pupil Music gave people the feeling of not moving, but this year, a look, various performances and releases, may have to catch up with the Terracotta Division. (Artists under the Umbrella of Red Pupil Music include: Hedgehog, Sleepy Train, Mr. Gaibu Elegance, City Flanker, and more.) These two are kiki audio and video, boring manufacturing, raw fried records and other small labels.
The main temperament of the Terracotta Division seems to have been established from the moment of its birth, three keywords: noise, experimentation, psychedelic, and so on. Last year, the Terracotta Division just celebrated its tenth birthday, just two generations, if you want to choose two intergenerational typical, the first generation of Terracotta Division will be chalk lines and motion sickness cars, the second generation is blowing wan. Who would be the typical third-generation Terracotta Division: Hayborn, Lonely Lilly, Dirty Fingers, Backspace, FutureOrients or Valley Water Workshop?
Wanderer Lonely Lilly - Record Store Day Unplugged
Lonely Lilly
Looking back from now on, the emergence of the Terracotta Division in 2007 has greatly changed Chinese rock, whether it is from the style or the way of development, it has brought new ideas, before the concept of independent rock has been introduced to China, it has begun to take the road of independent rock, and it can even be said that the establishment of the Terracotta Division is the starting point of the 'modernization' of the national rock.
◆◆Xiaoping Bar XP◆◆
In 2012, D22 was closed and moved to the XP (Xiaoping) bar in the center of the city, in addition to music performances, MP designed xp bar as an open and diversified cultural experiment platform, supporting art projects including music, video, contemporary art, drama and so on. Xp's name comes from the abbreviation of English Superior, and because the site is close to Deng Xiaoping's former residence, Chinese is cutely called "Xiaoping".
Hai Pengsen in Xiaoping
Strawberry Haypensen - Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter
XP Stable Series Performances: Every Tuesday based on experimental noise, "Sleep Nights", other series of performances and event plans are being called for. Everyone is welcome to contact us, tell us about your new ideas, and do something interesting together. The idea seemed too common now, but it was a pioneer at the time. It's hard to imagine a bar in 15 years where you can watch theater exhibitions and put on movies in the era when everyone was still listening to Xu Song.
But it was so cool at the time.
Pingping appears in the iPAD AIR advertisement video
Although D22 and Xiaoping have gone out of business, the rock spirit that remains in our hearts will not change. The recorded D22 era, which is a mixture of alcohol and hormones, will not disappear, but will continue to exist in our lives in another way.
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