NOSAJ THING China Press Coverage

FREE the WAX presents June 2009:NOSAJ THING (Alphapup) - UCCA Superganbei, BEIJING - Yuyintang, SHANGHAI - Electrograss Festival, SHANGHAI - C:Union, GUANGZHOU - I Du Tang, SHENZHEN

NOSAJ THING (Alphapup) - China Tour

NOSAJ THING is the best kept secret in America right now. Masterful in manipulating heavy music-making machinery, this boy is a living weapon of sonic annihilation in the form of twisted beats and beautiful electronic beasts that bear little resemblance to anything you’ve heard before.

Now only 23, Nosaj’s unique organic approach to dirty frequencies has already earned him remixes for Radio-head, Daedelus and Flying Lotus and received accolades from the ridiculously progressive scene of electronic beat heads in LA – just think of Free The Robots, Bus Rider, The Gaslamp Killer, Ras G, SamIyam all in one Californian pot.

Releasing his highly-anticipated first album this June, this sound innovator is off to crack hearts and spread his roots into China’s minds with a ride of raw cosmic soul that will have you all aroused for days on end. Music heads, fasten your seat belts and have a safe journey...

NOSAJ THING是美国现今最优秀的神秘。凭着对重量级音乐制作技术的掌握，这个小男孩通过扭曲的节奏以及美丽的电子音效把自己的音乐塑造成你闻所未闻的机器野兽。

现在23岁的Nosaj处理脏频率的独特有机方法已经为他赢得了Radiohead，Daedelus和Flying Lotus等人的re-mixes，以及来自洛杉矶高速发展的电子音乐界巨头Free The Robots，Bus Rider，The Gaslamp Killer，Ras G，SamIyam等人的赏识。

在这个六月发行他备受期待的首张专辑之后，这位声音革命家将前往中国，带领我们与音乐一起扶摇而上九万里。同志们，系上你们的安全带，我们马上启程


NOSAJ THING FREE WORKSHOP

[ ALPHAPUP / LA ]

3: 00 - 4: 30 PM

意工场 | FACTORY

上海市虹口区沙泾路29号4号楼

Bld.4 No.29 Shajing Rd. Hongkou, 1933 Complex

www.factoryshanghai.com

意工场 The Factory and FREE the WAX will hold a free

1-hour workshop and live performance at 3pm with

NOSAJ THING, America’s brightest rising star.

Budding producers and music aficionados, bring your

gear and your questions and take advantage of this

unique opportunity to have unparalleled access to every-

thing you wanted to know about producing but had no

one else to ask.

Free Shuttle Bus pickup & drop off at Shanxi Rd Metro Station, (58 MaoMing Rd outside Garden Hotel). Pickup 2:00 PM. Send via sms your name to reserve your seat! 138 189 258 17

电音天才NOSAJ THING的免费现场音乐演示加免费巴士接送！ 6月20日（星期六）下午3点，来自美国洛杉矶的电音天才机器野兽NOSAJ THING将在意工场与你一起零距离分享他的奇幻音乐旅程。届时他不仅会为发烧友带来奇幻的现场音乐体验，还会为我们现场演示他制作音乐的全过程，与电子音乐爱好者和DJ朋友进行作品交流和问答。现场还将赠送他的个人专辑和限量的签名海报。

免费巴士会在2点半在陕西南路地铁站靠近茂名路花园饭店门口把大家接去1933意工场。要来参加的人请在豆瓣 http://www.douban.com/event/10785254/ 留言来保证你有座位，谢谢！音乐现场演示活动将在3点举行，4点半结束。5点接送大家回到陕西南路地铁站。如果有任何问题请联系FREE the WAX: 13917493513

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NOSAJ THING will be playing his debut album onFriday and host a workshop at The Factory onSaturday.Where: (for Friday) Yuyintang, 1731 Yanan Xi Lu,near Kaixuan Lu ��1731�( ��) �� and (for Saturday) The Factory @ 1933,Building 4, 29 Shajing Lu, near Haining Lu (tell thetaxi its at Jiulong Hotel) �� , ��29�, ��

Starts: Friday, June 19, 9PM for the albumrelease; Saturday, June 20, 3PM for the workshopat the FactoryCover: 50 RMB for Friday, free for the workshop

For more local events, visit the Shanghaiist Calendar.

Interview: Nosaj ThingNosaj Thing, a.k.a. Jason Cheung, is a L.A.-based musicproducer whose geeky charm at first sight deceptivelyconceals his sinister and innovative musical agendas. At theage of 13, he molded his father's rudimentary PC thatstruggled with even Word documents into a FrankesteinIntel Celeron home studio.

Now aged 23, he has just released "Drift", his first full lengthalbum this month - which catapulted straight into number 1on Bleep's electronic music chart - and is set to takeShanghai on a haunting instrumental journey this weekend.We are looking forward of course since we've heard NosajThing does a wicked live show. For a quick sampling, checkout Nosaj Thing on Myspace and Vimeo.

FREE the WAX caught up with Nosaj Thing before he flewout on his first Asian tour and talked about his influencesand the story behind his debut album.

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read here somewhere that you started making music at age 13. What made it start taking a similar shapeto what you are producing right now?When I started making music, I was experimenting with different styles and rhythms. I was into hip hop andunderground dance music like drum and bass and house. I wanted to blend all my influences together and it startedto shape up over time.

You said on your blog that you were laid-off from your day job! Is that the beginning of Nosaj Thing, thefull time producer?

Yes, for now... and I hope for a while! I'm going to see where my music takes me. I've been learning a lot moreabout myself ever since I got laid off! Now I've been able to focus all my time and energy into my music. I feelblessed that I can sustain it right now. I am sacrificing a steady paycheck but this is a risk I'm willing to take.

How much do you think nostalgia, longing and other such bittersweet emotions play a part in your music?

Nostalgia comes into place for a lot of it. Writing songs is very therapeutic for me. They are emotional feelings Iwant to recreate. Sometimes, writing music can ease my stress or let out my inner beast. Other times I see acertain kind of spirituality to the way I approach music-making.

What do you think is the most important element in your sound?

I would say I do emotional/cinematic music with heavy influences from electronica, hip hop and experimental music,so definitely musicality comes first.

Other than your music, what else moves and interests you?

I'm a big fan of art and technology. I follow a lot of tech blogs and geek out about the latest gadgets. Seeing artinspires my music. Other than that, my family and friends inspire me. Sometimes I feel that my music is a reflectionof my moods and most of my moods are affected by them.

You got a good 300,000 hits on myspace and a lot of love from a healthy number of fans! What role hasthe internet played in your career so far?

It has played a huge roll. The immediacy of social network sites have been great help. I try to use all social outletsto get my music out and interact with listeners.

And you released your first album this June! What is the story behind it? Can people expect the sameNosaj as your last EP?

The new album "Drift" is pretty different in comparison to the "Views/Octopus" EP. This new record has a lot morethought put into it. Making music is therapeutic for me. I would consider "Drift" a cinematic record.

What do you expect from your first Asian tour?

I've been to Korea once when I was really young. I'm really excited about this Asia tour and interested howeveryone will respond to my music. I hope to see and experience as much as I can.

And what is in the plans for the rest of 2009?

I'm doing a few remixes and hope to tour extensively. I'm also working on a interactive visual show and new music.In the future I'd love to make music for films/television and work with hip hop and pop artists.

Nosaj ThingWorkshop @ The

FactoryJun 17th, 09 Nightlife by Morgan Short 0

LA-based knob-twiddler Nosaj Thing will bedoing an electronic music workshop thisSaturday at The Factory. If you're anaspiring producer, or even if you just want tosee how all that stuff works, make sure youhead down.

Come with questions prepared (i.e. "HiNosaj. I'm using Abelton. How can I makemy bass lines more sticky icky?").

There's no cover for that and it runs from3pm until 4:30pm. Nosaj Thing performsthis Friday at Yuyintang. Here's the eventinfo for that.

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