Shanghai Blitzreview

Hey, Chrome very right.
Shanghai is very different from German or European club culture.
Sure, we have an alternative scene here but this one is very different from the one we have back in Germany, too.

Chinese People are not to much attracted to ware-house or loft parties, they like it mostly just bling. Here are a ton of clubs called: Richy, BLING, VIP Room, and so on and on....

The Expats on the other side are not always kids from Berlin or New York, people come from all places, have different taste and style and sometimes have not so much clue about clubbing in general because they run companies here and focus more on their business then checking dicobelle.net or reading the VICE Mag.

I saw many DJs "fuck up" here when I arrived 5 years ago, playing Rakim or KRS 1 and club promoters kicked them off the booth because they are not playing HipHop because The Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce and 50 is HipHop...

Maybe you guys saw A-Trak's Video-Docu, he played about 5 years ago a gig in Shenzhen and it was a disaster (for him), similar stories happened here many, many times, too.

But things are changeing slowly here and that's the great challenge, to be part of the party and put your piece in it - instead of just take everything for granted :-)

thats just your perception, from this side of the world. asia is different, like russia and all the other new places in the world. those inbetween spots do not exist - moscows population is about the size of the 10 biggest cities in germany combined, but they do not have any alternative spots like we have. (we have too many by the way). and after 15 years of beig robbed by the west (to our benefit) you canot seriously expect them to be on our level. nor will they ever be, they are building their very own which won't look and be like ours. and who are we - to believe that our moral highgrounds are superior to others? we are the ones that messed up the world in the first place. there wouldn't be any conflict in the world - ever - if not one side thought their reality of the world was the right or superior one - be it economically, culturally or morally.

we are not alone anymore. its a world full of expats that bring different cultural programs to new places, looks different than good old grandma europe. if you were an expat - 10.000 miles from home would you really care about someone judging you from an eternity away - someone who hadn't made such a bold step as to leave everything behind, would you? you certainly wouldn't because you preception and thus your ego & personality would have changed.

we so are so easily bound to our current perceptions and hold on to them while in truth we wake up every morning and are a new person. so let go of your past - die to it every moment you are aware - and the very same goes for the entire world, which is very much bigger than the little spot you see around you.

here is something i like to quote for you by the great krishnamurti:
" Seek not to change the world,
but choose to change your mind about the world.
What you see reflects your thinking.

And your thinking but reflects your choice
of what you want to see. "

And finally: maybe you should travel a bit, best alone to see and perceive different things. this will help strip off the well woven jacket called personality. you will find yourself as you truly are.

have a great day

congratulations

but jackets and ties, champagne and fireworks... doesn't look like the good old yumyum parties we know over here. Do you also have a strict door policy?

Totally SUGOI! Keep it up...

big up kami & jana. serious throwdown from what i heard. bienvenue...

yes!
congrats to kamikaze and the team for setting up this one