January 2013 - Page 3 of 8

The Computer Graveyard

Yesterday was a beautiful day so I spent the afternoon cycling around Chengdu with Chris, who recently came back to Chengdu from a road trip in the US. One of the places we stopped was a computer market on First Ring Road which specializes in used computer sales.

I had been to this market before, years ago, and had nicknamed it the the computer graveyard. It’s the only place I’ve seen in China where you can see rows of hundreds of desktops, computer monitors, printers, and other miscellany. Interesting place.

Chengdu computer repair guy

Song of the Day #137: Mirror Maru

Cashmere Cat – Mirror Maru

Deep trap music from Oslo-based producer Cashmere Cat. Through this song I learned a new word in Chinese: 陷阱 xiàn jǐng, which literally means trap, as in animal snare.

For a while it felt like trap was going down a similar sonic path as moombahton: a very heavy, distorted, hyper vibe. Good to hear deep trap, if that sub genre exists yet.

Live for the Funk said:

“It sounds like a mixture of some of that rad music from those Final Fantasy video games meets HudMo meets cheesy RnB meets all those cool distorted UK Bass vocals that we still can’t get enough of.”