Chinese rock

The rock music in China is still quite young and does not reference a long history. A special role is played by the musician Cui Jian, who is considered the first rock star in China and now appeared several times in Germany with Udo Lindenberg.

Development

The first Chinese rock bands in the early 1980s, for example, Wan Li Ma Wang founded in 1980, Alisi 1981 Mainland in 1982 and Seven - piece Puzzle and Self Righting Doll 1984.

1986 Cui Jian established his most famous song I have nothing ( Yi wu suo you一无所有) and his second album Rock on the Road of New Long March (1989 ) as the "Godfather of Chinese Rock ' n' Roll". His socially critical lyrics and his appearance with red blindfold after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 earned him the wrath of the Chinese government, which made ​​it difficult for the departure from China as well as domestic performances. At the present time, the situation has relaxed and Cui Jian graduated from tours around the world and concerts in Germany.

Influenced by the breakthrough Cui Jian reached in the presence of China, the bands Hei Bao (黑豹, Black Panther ), 1987, and Tang Chao (唐朝, Tang Dynasty ), founded in 1998.

Hei Bao is a rock band of the old school, who sang in English and Chinese texts on their first self-titled album Hei Bao. The band is still active (as of 2005 ), although their first singer Dou Wei (窦唯) left the band after the first album and successfully launched a solo career.

Since the early 1990s, no Chinese record company was willing to publish rock albums, the band departed on companies in Taiwan or Hong Kong.

A weighty step in the dissemination of modern rock music in China also did the Midi Modern Music School in Beijing. Founded by Mr. Zhang Fan in 1993, it was and is the only school in China, which offers courses in jazz and rock music. An offshoot and school festival, the Midi Modern Music Festival developed for China's biggest rock festival annually up to 80,000 visitors and more than 80 bands. The school and the festival helped the underground rock scene in China and pushing up and also allowed the performances of over 18 foreign bands in China (including Alev, mono cinema, Yokohama Music Association, The Wombats, etc.).

Punk and Metal in China

Tang Chao, China's first real Heavy Metal band; their 1991/1992 published first album " A dream return to Tang Dynasty ", which combined elements of traditional Chinese opera with classic heavy metal, they helped to break through. A band member died shortly after the publication in a traffic accident.

In the mid- 1990s, the first thrash metal band Chao Zai ( Overload) was founded, which published three CDs to 2005, the last of them in cooperation with the pop-rock singer Gao Chi, a former member of the disbanded rock band The Breathing.

In the nineties grunge was very successful in China; so today merchandise with his face Kurt Cobain's omnipresent at concerts and students and also a biography written by a Chinese author is already a best seller in the People's Republic.

Punk spread in China also between 1994 and 1996 from ( 1995, in Beijing, the first wave of Chinese punk on, the second in 1997 ), Nu Metal short time later. As China's first punk, and at the same time also the first post- punk applies He Yong.

In recent years, extreme metal and post-punk and more popular in China's underground, and the willingness of foreign bands to tour China undertook to: Labyrinth in 2004, The ( International) Noise Conspiracy 1998 and 2004/ 5, Deep Purple 2004, Udo Lindenberg in 2004 and many more.

Internationalization of the rock scene

Straight from the year 2004 internationalized the rock scene in China, which makes not only to the increasing number of foreign rock bands noticeable, but also in the tours of Chinese bands in Europe ( Subs ) and American foreign ( Carsick Cars, Lonely China Day).

The German music label Fly Fast Records published alongside the documentary Beijing Bubbles from 2005, which insight into the current punk and rock scene specifically are in Beijing and accompanied the five Beijing bands at their rehearsals and concerts, but also in their daily lives, including albums the chn. Bands Joyside and sand.

By opening the club D -22 in Wudaokou, Beijing, by Michael Pettis and the later founding his label Maybe Mars Records, which mainly focused on Beijing No bands, this rock scene was granted the possibility of the presence in the United States.

Known bands

• AK -47
• Ashura
• Blood Horror
• Brain Failure
• Cankered Corpse
• Ershou meigui

• Car Sick Cars
• Gao Qi ( Overload)
• Hang On The Box
• Hei Bao (Black Panther)

• Hollow
• Joyside
• Mainland
• New Pants
• Regicide (China)

• Sha Zi
• Tang Chao
• T9
• Wan Li Ma Wang
• Yaksa (also Yecha )