Recommended Chinese Music

*essential and/or accessible releases that make for good entry points for the section
**personal favorites
POP GENERAL (indie pop, dream pop, twee, Mandopop, Cantopop, art pop...)

Arumimihifumi - 东京铁塔下**
At17 - Bian Bian Bian 變變變
Boyz & Girl - Boyz & Girl
Cao Fang - 遇见我
Carrchy - 日光倾城*
Cheer Chen - 華麗的冒險
Ciacia - 她的。發光搖擺
Come on! BayBay!
cozy diary
Deserts Chang - My Life Will
Ellen Joyce Loo - 你安安靜靜地躲起來
Faye Wong - Restless*
Hopscotch - A Wishful Way
Ivana Wong - 詩情．畫意
Joanna Wang - Joanna & 王若琳 and The Adventures of Bernie the Schoolboy*
ma-te lin
Mavis Fan - 绝世名伶
My Little Airport - Zoo Is Sad, People Are Cruel**
Nancy Sit - Greatest Hits
Nighteentael
Pixeltoy - Science of Love
Rayray Liu
red red mushroom
Shao Fong Fong - 玉面女殺星
Shirley Kwan - 'EX' All Time Favourites
Teresa Teng - 淡淡幽情*
The Marshmallow Kisses - I Wonder Why My Favorite Boy Leaves Me An EP
The Pancakes - Les Bonbons sont Bons
Various Artists - Girls in the Garage, Vol. 09
Wei Ru Xuan - La dolce vita
Zhou Xun - 偶遇
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	A. SHIDAIQU

	Chang Loo - Pathé 100: The Series 1
	Gary Lucas - The Edge of Heaven
	Grace Chang - The Legendary Chinese Hits*
	Julie Yeh Feng - Pathé 100: The Series 34
	Tsin Ting - Pathé 100: The Series 28
	Various Artists - The Legendary Chinese New Year Hits**
	Yao Lee - Pathé 100: The Series 3
	Zhou Xuan - The Legendary Chinese Hits*
FOLK

	A. TRADITIONAL FOLK MUSIC (yayue, guzheng music, pipa music, Guqin music, Mongolian throat singing...)

	Fred Ji - Erhu
	Gong Yi - Master of Chinese Traditional Music: Qin Performer*
	Guan Pinghu - Masters of Traditional Chinese Music: Guqin*
	Hanggai - Introducing Hanggai
	Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
	Li Xiangting - L'Art Du Qin
	Liu Fang - Chinese Traditional Pipa Music
	Liu Tianhua - Erhu Solos - 1929-1932
	Lo Ka Ping - Lost Sounds of the Tao: Chinese Masters of the Guqin
	Mei Yueqiang - 移雲齋心旨
	Mu Liang Wen Wang - 暮良文王
	Various Artists - Chinese Ancient Music
	Various Artists - Chine: Musique classique
	Wang Guotong - Master of Traditional Chinese Music: Erhu Performer*
	Wu Fei - A Distant Youth**
	Wu Jinglüe - Sunny Spring
	Wu Man - Pipa: From a Distance
	Wu Zhao - Song of Life in the Mountains
	Xiang Sihua - Master of Chinese Traditional Music: Zheng*
	Xiao-Fen Min - Spring, River, Flower, Moon, Night
	Yu Xunfa - Master of Chinese Traditional Music: Dizi
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	B. CONTEMPORARY FOLK MUSIC (indie folk, chamber folk, folk rock/pop, neofolk...)

	Anniedora
	BaiShui - Time
	Bloody Woods - Colour
	Cao Fang - 遇见我
	Cicada - Pieces
	Cold Fairyland - Seeds on the Ground
	DaWangGang - Wild Tune Stray Rythm
	Gol Dolan - Constantine'Summons
	Jiao Gong - 菊花夜行军
	Labor Exchange Band - 我等就来唱山歌
	Lin Sheng-Xiang
	Moonteg - Moonteg
	Silkfloss
	Summer Lei
	Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Tal Nutag
	Wan Xiaoli - Walk Here Walk There
	Wild Children - Shanghai ARK Live
	Xiao He - High-flying Birds Unfall on the Slow Cattle's Back
	Xing Li Band
	Yang Yi - Internal Reference	-
ROCK (indie rock, rock pop, shoegaze...)

8 Eye Spy - How Damn Far to Yinma Lane?
Birdstriking - Birdstriking
Buyi - That Long
Carsick Cars - Carsick Cars*
Chocolate Tiger - 夜工廠
Chui Wan - White Night*
Dear Eloise - 美丽陌生人
Girl Kill Girl
Hedgehog - Noise Hit World
He Yong - 何勇
Manic Sheep
Miserable Faith - The Music Won't Be Stoped
Monster Cat - Mannequins
Muscle Snog - Mind Shop
Mr. Graceless - The Tree Ever Green
Omnipotent Youth Society - 万能青年旅店
Ourself Beside Me
Papaver
Rita Chao & The Quests
RUN RUN RUN
Silkfloss - Lead You
Skip Skip Ben Ben - Sacrifice Mountain Hills*
Super Tortoise - Change
Teddy Robin & The Playboys - The In Sounds of Hong Kong!
The Evening Primrose - Stargazer
The Gar - The Gar
TheJUNK
The Scoff
Tongue - This Is You!
Touming Magazine - 我們的靈魂樂
TuT - You Got Me When I Stare At You
We Save Strawberries - Solar System
White+ - White+**
Various Artists - Maybe Mars, Beijing China Compilation Vol. 2
Yujun Wang
Zhang Chu - Shameful Being Left Alone
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	A. POST/MATH ROCK

	Chinese Football - Chinese Football*
	Constant & Change
	Elephant Gym - 角度*
	Hua Lun - Silver Daydream
	In It - None of That Matters
	Kimtak Building - In the Forest and the Field
	Plum Berries
	Shimmering Islands
	Sparrow - Rainbow Mountain
	Summer Fades Away - 最後我們會了個面 然後就離開了
	tfvsjs - equal unequals to equal
	Wangwen - IV*
	Zhao Ze - 1911**
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	B. METAL (black metal...)

	Deep Mountains - Deep Mountains
	Dopamine - Dying Away in the Deep Fall
	Enemite - Wuyuan
	Fu Xi - 在寂静的路上
	Inferno Requiem - Gloomy Night Stories
ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Dead J - Mental Imagery
FM3 - Mort aux vaches
Wang Lei - Xin
NOISE (harsh noise, industrial...)

Chin Sung Li - Past
D!O!D!O!D! - Ghost Temple*
Dancing Stone - Normal Free
Li Jianhong - San Sheng Shi**
Li Jianhong + Itta + Marqido - See You New World
Most of the Taciturn - History of Iron & Blood
PNF / Torturing Nurse - Splittail
Rice屎Corpse - Mrs. Rice*
Torturing Love - Torturing Love
Torturing Nurse - NanaNanaNanaNanaNanaNana and Does Utmost*
Various Artists - An Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music 1992-2008*
王凡 - Sound of Meditation Within the Body
AVANT GARDE (classical musics, revolutionary opera, improvisation...)

Alice Hui-Sheng Chang -
Bun-Ching Lam - ...Like Water
C. Spencer Yeh
Chen Xie Yang/Yu Lina - The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (Shanghai Symphony Orchestra)
Free Music Collective of Shanghai
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra - First Contemporary Chinese Composers Festival 1986
Intelligent Shanghai Mono University - 7.9
James Fei
Lu Jia Hong
Min Xiao Fen and Derek Bailey - Viper
Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra - Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy*
The Other Two Comrades, Yan Jun & Topfloor Circus - Improvisation in Shanghai
Various Artists - The Vocal Art of Chinese Beijing Opera (1910-1990)
Vladimir Ussachevsky - Film Music
Xu Fengxia - Difference and Similarity
Yan Jun - Wormhole Trip OST (Music for Time-Space Travel)
Yin Chengzong
Zafka - Yong◎He
Zhu Xiao-Mei - Variations Goldberg
Wáng Fán - Infinite Loop
MISC.

718 - Nowise Assault
Wu Quan - View
VagusNerve - Lo Pan
Zuoxiao Zuzhou - The Missing Master
不一样 - 早春的雨伞
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JUST TO BE CLEAR, this list includes music from mainland China, Hong Kong, & Taiwan.
v. 25.10 (Not regularly updated anymore; sorry)

Resources:
http://music.douban.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oj2sxv2MsAU89mtccm8HQ