Chinabot

Chinabot Chinabot is a platform and collective created to change the dialogue surrounding Asian music. Why? In the most literal sense: we want to make a new stereo-type.

In 2017, a digital diaspora community of Asian artists decided to cooperate on a new way to collect and promote exciting Asian music. We want to show a slice of what we like, the cultures we come from and our own ideas. We’re an online community and a virtual home celebrating the music that falls between the gaps -- a place for adventurous listening. Chinabot is positioned at the junction point be

tween the influence of Asian music on contemporary sounds and the development of experimentation. We work with composers, sound artists, improvisers and musicians to develop projects that rearrange the furniture of the musical world. We want to question our assumptions about what music is and where it can go. People are often fed a singular image of ‘Asian music’, but each of our cultures is varied and complex. Even in 2017, realistic portrayals of Asians are still thin on the ground in the West, throughout cinema, television, literature, music and theatre too. We are smothered by the stereotype of the uncreative, robotic worker, and labeled as ‘Chinese’ no matter where in the continent we are from. By continuing the dehumanization of Asians onscreen and in popular culture, it dehumanizes us in real life. Racism against Asians is not only ignored, but often accepted, unacknowledged or even encouraged. We want to break silences, which are often also encouraged our own culture, in order to push the public to take a closer look at racial inequality towards Asians. People have always moved around the world, bringing their traditions, knowledge, and beliefs with them, and often mixing them with those of their new homes. For many people, their migrations and those of their ancestors are important in shaping both their personal identities and the art they produce. Chinabot is a space for Asian artists to play with their ideas and cultural hybridities. By doing so we hope to create another narrative in contemporary music from Asia and its diaspora.

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07/08/2025

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Inter.Sonix 02 (20 June 2025)In this one-night only performance, Hand to Earth (AUS) and Sipaningkah (ID) create transformative sonic landscapes that bridge ...

29/06/2025

tQ’s own round-up of 100 excellent and eclectic releases to have delighted us thus far is just a week away, but for now, there’s still the matter of picking out our favourites from June alone... Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of June 2025

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09/06/2025

On his latest album 〽, Japanese folk experimentalist KASAI masterfully weaves traditional minyo into the fabric of contemporary labor. Watch the video for “Piling-up Garbage Song”, featuring his real-life workmates.

KASAI ‘〽’ reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan for The Quietus ‘Rum Music for June’
09/06/2025

KASAI ‘〽’ reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan for The Quietus ‘Rum Music for June’

Sound poetry, percussions, vowels sung in imitation of angels, emissions from the French underground, and an album entirely of water droplets

The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music 497 is out now with a incredible page-long feature on KASAI'Minyo worksongs meet ju...
08/06/2025

The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music 497 is out now with a incredible page-long feature on KASAI
'Minyo worksongs meet juke and singeli in the Japanese producer's anticapitalist anthems' by Daryl Worthington

«(…)Throughout the new album, rhythms mutate as minyo influenced melodies entangle with cutting edge beats and traditional instrument samples. KASAI’s songs might have roots in the mundane but they express something more than drudgery.»

Thank you so much

🔗 order a copy of the magazine via www.thewire.co.uk and preorder/stream 〽’ – the new album by KASAI, landing 25th June 2025

https://chinabot.bandcamp.com/album/--2

📷 Haruki Yamada
📝 Daryl Worthington

CHINABOT x Radio Alhara راديو الحارة episode 10 w/ YOKUBARI Hisham A. BharoochaTonight 9pm-10pm GMT 11pm-Midnight Bethl...
27/03/2025

CHINABOT x Radio Alhara راديو الحارة episode 10 w/ YOKUBARI Hisham A. Bharoocha

Tonight 9pm-10pm GMT 11pm-Midnight Bethlehem Time

Hisham Akira Bharoocha aka YOKUBARI will be presenting a soundscape mix referencing the many moods that seem to be encompassing the planet at the moment; fear, love, chaos, joy, and the eternal search for peace.

📡 The show will be broadcast at :

www.radioalhara.net

Collage by Hisham Akira Bharoocha

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