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In the spin and swing of a vinyl revival

By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2019-04-13 09:49

Zheng Yu (first from right), owner of record shop Fusion Music. [PHOTO BY WANG JING/CHINA DAILY]

The first Record Store Day took place on April 19, 2008 and is celebrated by record stores around the globe. This year's event takes place on Saturday.

Yang, also a producer and chief executive of Maybe Mars, one of the largest independent record labels in China - and whose founding in Beijing coincided with that of Record Store Day - announced that to mark the day this year the company would hold a live show in the capital on April 21 featuring three indie rock bands: Lonely Leary, Muzzy Mum and Streets Kill Strange Animals.

Three days before the show the record label will release a compilation of vinyls featuring the three bands' latest singles, and P.K 14 will contribute two singles to the compilation.

When Yang gets to Free Sound his fans are waiting in a basement room whose walls are adorned with concert postures featuring well-known Chinese rockers such as Dou Wei and Ma Tiao.

The fans have done well to find Free Sound, for it is a shoebox of a shop tucked away in a small alley in downtown Beijing. And those who do find it will quickly be disabused of the quaint notion that old-style phonographic recordings have gone the way of the dinosaur.

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