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Mixtape: Dakou

2021/10/22
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Simon Adler：磁带作为一种技术，改变了世界，影响了人们表达情感的方式，并重塑了我们与媒体互动的方式。它带来了政府的垮台，时空的崩塌，以及我们表达爱意方式的改变。 Steve Moog：演奏摇滚乐的关键在于释放自我，并从各种信息来源中汲取灵感，即使是简单的或不悦耳的声音。 Mabu：中国文革时期的红色歌曲和革命歌剧是政府宣传的工具，内容模式化，且是当时唯一被允许的音乐形式。 Kaiser Ghoul：1989年天安门广场抗议活动期间，学生们用音乐作为表达和反抗的方式。天安门事件后，西方流行音乐在中国被禁止，但几年后，达寇现象的出现改变了这一局面。 Wenhua Sher：天安门事件后，西方音乐的传播受到严格限制，人们很难接触到外面的世界。 Hao Fang：达寇磁带的出现让他第一次接触到丰富的西方音乐，改变了他的生活轨迹，让他成为了一名音乐评论家。 Bill Nadel-Seder：80年代末90年代初，美国唱片业过度生产，导致大量滞销磁带被销毁或廉价出售，这些磁带最终流入中国。 Rebecca Cantor：达寇现象催生了一种独特的中国摇滚乐风格，它融合了各种西方音乐类型，不受传统音乐规则的限制。 Li Yang：达寇磁带让他接触到各种各样的西方音乐，启发了他组建乐队，并创作出融合多种音乐风格的作品。

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This chapter tells the story of the Sony Walkman, a revolutionary device that allowed people to experience music in a personal and portable way. The Walkman, released in 1979, was a cultural phenomenon that changed how we listen to music and interact with the world around us.

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Through the 1980s, the vast majority of people in China had never heard western music, save for John Denver, the Carpenters, and a few other artists included on the hand-picked list of songs sanctioned by the Communist Party. But in the late 90s, a mysterious man named Professor Ye made a discovery at a plastic recycling center in Heping.In episode 1 of Mixtape, we talk to Chinese historians, music critics, and the musicians who took the damaged plastic scraps of western music, changed the musical landscape of China, and reimagined rock and roll in ways we never could’ve imagined.

 

*Mixtape is reported, produced, scored and sound designed by Simon Adler with original music throughout by Simon. Invaluable reporting and production assistance was provided by Eli Cohen. **Additional reporting by Noriko Ishigaki, Rebecca Kanthor and our amazing anonymous Chinese reporter. *

 

Special thanks to: Paul de Gay, Juliette Kristensen, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Nick Lyons, Michael Bull, Jiro Ishikawa, Hayley Zhao, Megan Smalley and Deanne Totto.

This episode would not have happened without each and every one of them.

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