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Audio artists

Labels

  • 18wrecords Soundcloud [electronic, techno]
  • 2pi records Site Discogs [noise, improv, sound art, experimental, see Jianhong Li]
  • 523 Studio [classical, electroacoustic, electronic]
  • Aloe Records Site Bandcamp [experimental, free improv, sound art, onkyokei, field recordings] (new - December 2025)
  • Bedzoo (Bedzoo Records) Rock In China Discogs [electro, electronica]
  • Bivouac records MySpace
  • bluescreen Bandcamp [experimental, noise, industrial]
  • BrainWave communication Site Facebook [Honq Qile's label][2008]
  • bypass Site Myspace Archives Last.fm [electronic, idm, ambient, experimental]
  • CFI Record Bandcamp Discogs [sound art, folk, improv, free jazz, experimental]
  • Chaos Productions Discogs [dark ambient, experimental, neoclassical]
  • CHUI Discogs [noise, spoken words][2012]
  • D Force Records (大福唱片) Bandcamp Facebook Douban (豆瓣) Discogs [electronic, ambient, experimental, rock][2015]
  • Deaf Blind Dumb School Discogs [breakcore, electronica, experimental]
  • Do Hits Bandcamp [electronic]
  • Doufu Records Discogs [noise, experimental, see Ronez]
  • Dying Art Productions Site Bandcamp Discogs [martial, dark ambient, black metal, post-folk, punk][2001]
  • Far Infinity (Far / ∞) Vimeo [electronic music, digital art][2012]
  • foreign lands Bandcamp Discogs [noise, experimental, ambient, US label relocated in China]
  • FunctionLab Bandcamp Facebook [electronic, techno, hardcore techno, glitch][2017]
  • Fuzztape Site Douban (豆瓣) Soundcloud Taobao (淘宝网) Discogs [noise]
  • G.B.J.D. Records Bandcamp [noise rock, noise, lo-fi, no-wave]
  • Genjing Records (根茎唱片) Site Bandcamp Douban (豆瓣) Facebook Youtube Discogs [noise rock, noise, electronic, punk, hardcore, post-folk, etc.]
  • GiN Label MySpace Blogbus [field recordings, experimental, dark ambient, see KLC_NIR]
  • Guava Site Discogs [electronica, breakcore, experimental, techno]
  • Harshmallow Records Bandcamp Discogs [noise, experimental][2012]
  • Huashan Records Bandcamp Discogs [noise, experimental, rock, electronic, etc., tapes & digital][2013]
  • Little Soul 小心唱片 Bandcamp [free improv, prog rock, avant rock]
  • Isolation Music Discogs [noise, no wave, experimental, improv, industrial, techno, ambient, etc.][2001-2004]
  • Kill Club Discogs MySpace [chiptune, electronica, Shanshui's sublabel, relocated to Japan]
  • Kwan Yin Records Site Bandcamp Discogs [Subjam's sub label]
  • Li Make Site [electroacoustic]
  • Little Sound Site Discogs [noise, experimental][2006]
  • Lu Minjie Site [electroacoustic]
  • Neocha Site
  • Maybe Mars (兵马司) Site Bandcamp Facebook Discogs [jazz, free improv, modern classical, post-punk, punk, hardcore, oi, psychedelic, rock, industrial, noise, etc., parent label of Maybe Noise][2007]
  • Maybe Noise Records (Maybe Noise) Bandcamp Facebook Discogs [jazz, free improv, modern classical, see, Maybe Mars]
  • Nojiji Records Site Discogs [noise, experimental, other ?][2004]
  • Nowhere Festival 荒音祭 Facebook [noise, experimental]
  • play rec Bandcamp [minimal, drone, ambient, improv, electroacoustic][2017]
  • Seippelabel Bandcamp Facebook [noise, experimental, electronica, folk, etc]
  • shanavlab (Shan Audio Visual Art Laboratory) Bandcamp Facebook [experimental, free improv, dark ambient, noise, electronica, audiovisual, etc.][2021]
  • Shānshuĭ (Shanshui) Bandcamp Discogs Facebook Twitter [breakcore, electronica, etc. relocated to Japan]
  • Shasha Records MySpace Discogs [noise, experimental, see Torturing Nurse]
  • Sinotronics Site Bandcamp Douban Weibo (微博) Facebook [electronic, experimental]
  • sleepings Bandcamp [experimental, recordings of people sleeping]
  • SVBKVLT Bandcamp Soundcloud Weibo Twitter Discogs [electronic, hip hop, ambient, electronica, etc.][2013]
  • Subjam (Sub Jam) Site Bandcamp Soundcloud Discogs [breakcore, electronic, noise, ambient, punk, experimental, sound art, field recordings, etc.][2001]
  • 尾巴尼亚 TAILNIA Bandcamp Discogs [noise, experimental, free improv, etc.] (new - May 2025)
  • TIC (see Dying Art Productions) Site Discogs
  • Treeman Records Site [noise, experimental, industrial]
  • Wangba MySpace Discogs [electronica, pop, rock]
  • We Play!Records Site MySpace
  • Where Is The Zeitgeist ? (时代精神在哪里？) Bandcamp Facebook [experimental, sound art]
  • WV Sorcerer Productions Bandcamp Soundcloud Facebook Discogs [ambient, black metal, drone, noise, folk, improv, industrial, China/France]
  • xuán yīn (玄音, xuan yin) Facebook [ambient, electronic][2011]
  • XY records Bandcamp [experimental, ambient][2015]
  • Z-Bugle Site MySpace Discogs [ambient,industrial,neofolk][2005]
  • Zhang Ruibo Site [electroacoustic]
  • Zoomin' Night 燥眠夜 Bandcamp Facebook [experimental, jazz]

Parties / Events / Venues / Booking / Festivals/ Schools / Centres

  • 696 Livehouse Weibo (微博) [experimental and other]
  • Alkaline 南碱 YouTube Instagram [noise, experimental, electronica, industrial, hip hop, etc.] (new - January 2026)
  • Central Conservatory of Music Site [electroacoustic, classical]
  • CHEARS (China electroacoustic Survey) Site [electroacoustic]
  • China Electronic Music Center (CEMC, 中国电子音乐中心) Site [electroacoustic][1993]
  • Dorkbot-BJ (Dorkbot Beijing) Site [audio-visual art, experimental]
  • Dorkbot Shanghai Site [audio-visual art, experimental]
  • Electroacoustic Music Center, Shanghai Conservatory of Music (EAMC) [electroacoustic]
  • Electronic Music Association of China (EMAC) [electroacoustic]
  • Electronic Music Technology Research and Creation Centre (EMTRCC) [electroacoustic]
  • Fuyou Festival (Ephemerals' Festival, 蜉蝣音乐节, Fu You Festival) Facebook [Beijing international post-folk music festival]
  • Freedom House Douban (豆瓣) [also record store]
  • fRUITYSPACE Facebook [experimental, free improv, noise, hip hop, electronic, etc., also record store]
  • Indie Space
  • International Festival of Sound Emissions 01 [experimental, improv, noise][2011]
  • Liangcha Shop (凉茶铺) [exhibitions, experimental and electronic music]
  • Littles Space Chengdu-Expat [concerts, exhibitions, performances]
  • Mao Livehouse Site Douban [experimental, improv, noise, rock, etc. - closed]
  • Mini Midi Music Festival Site [experimental, improv, noise]
  • Mooka Space MySpace
  • Musicacoustica Beijing Site [yearly electroacoustic festival]
  • Neo Sound Site [electronic and experimental events]
  • NOIShanghai MySpace [noise]
  • No Jiji Site [noise, experimental, other ?][2004]
  • Old What? Facebook [venue][2012-2016, now closed]
  • Reso Douban (豆瓣) [avant-garde, experimental, improv]
  • Sally Can’t Dance Festival Site [experimental, improv][2008]
  • 上海育音堂 (Shànghǎi Y ù Yīn Táng, Yu Yin Tang Shanghai ) [noise, experimental and other alternative music]
  • sounds unfound (声觅声) Site Instagram [improvised and experimental music] (new - November 2025)
  • The Antidote Shanghai Site MySpace [breakcore, post-punk, idm, hard techno]
  • trigger Instagram [noise, experimental][2023]
  • UCCA (Ullen Center For Contemporary Art) Site [contemporary art, experimental]
  • Waterland Kwanyin [experimental, sound art, noise][2005-2010]
  • 杂家 (Zajia Lab / Zájiā Lab) Site Facebook [contemporary art, experimental, films, etc.][2011]

Magazines/Blogs

  • China Music Radar Site [website about the music industry in China, especially pop, rock, electro, alternative, etc.]
  • China: the Sonic Avant-Garde Site [webzine about experimental in China, in Chinese]
  • Chinese New Ear Site [a portal to the new music and experimental scene in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities]
  • Chinoise Site [blog over outsider music in China]
  • Gothic Age [gothic, industrial, electronic, dark ambient, ebm, literature, etc., defunct]
  • GNO (Global noise Online) Site [experimental/new media art, with an emphasis on China and other developing areas in the world][2005]
  • Harsh As Torturing (Junky/Torturing Nurse) Blogus [noise, see Torturing Nurse]
  • Liupai Magazine Site Facebook Twitter Douban (豆瓣) Wechat Weibo (微博) [electronic, undustrial, punk, viaual art, etc.][2014]
  • ManManthink (慢慢諗) [music, comics, photography, paper fanzine]
  • pangbianr Site Facebook Bandcamp Radio Twitter Youtube [platform, magazine, radio dedicated to underground & avant-garde music from mainland China][2010]
  • Rock In China Site 1 Site 2 Facebook [all sorts of Chinese music from rock to noise]
  • Vitamin [defunct on line electronic music magazine]

Distributors/Shops

  • Freedom House Douban (豆瓣) [Chinese underground and international music, frpm experimental topop, jazz or classical, based in Changsha]
  • SugarJar Site Facebook Discogs [Chinese underground music and foreign alternative music, based in Beijing]

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