Beijing Beats: Trus'me, Zuckermann, Tony Junior, Samples Party, and Trophy Munters
Beijing Beats brings you the best in Beijing nightlife each weekend so that you can soothe the woes of a long and stressful week with some out-of-body gyrating and some experiences you'd rather forget come Monday. Check the weekend's full list of nightlife events here.
Thursday, Jan 24
Raw Meat
A platform for Beijing's up-and-coming DJs to cut their teeth, Dada's weekly Raw Meat night serves as both a good way to limber up for the weekend as well as to catch acts before they're famous. This week, deep house DJ KenKeni is joined by OOPS2, BK, and venom. Free. 10pm doors. Dada
Friday, Jan 25
Zuckermann
Best known as a producer "with an experimental approach and a serious attitude," Germany's Zuckermann keeps audiences on their toes with leftfield flourishes that include field recordings, improvisations, or disparate genres like jazz, classical, or 20th-century modernism set against a driving techno backdrop. RMB 50. 10.30pm. Lantern
Tony Junior
A "darling of major music festivals and big clubs," Dutch DJ Tony Junior (also pictured at top) attained his biggest hit with his collaboration with "greatest DJ of all time" Tiësto, titled "Get Down". Now Junior comes with his super hot pecks to get One Third all hot and sweaty. RMB 100 (advance). 10pm. One Third
Samples\Beats\Rhymes Party
Several of Beijing's beatmakers and rhyme enthusiasts will congregate in the Fruityspace basement this Friday for one big head-nodding session. The bill includes Jinsfake, Natural Doc, RapaciouzC, Strawberry Papa, 1999, Trius, and Vertigob. RMB 100. 8pm. Fruityspace
Saturday, Jan 26
Trus'me
This Manchester DJ and producer brings his house and disco indebted tracks to Zhao Dai on Saturday. Regarding his growth as a DJ, he recently told us "I continue to dig deeper and expand my musical palette, so that I may embrace this in both my sets and productions as an artist." Expect a deep dance set sprinkled with nods to his home town and a couple of disco cuts. Price TBA. 10pm doors. Zhao Dai
Trophy Munters Vol. 2 Release
Trophy Munters, why not? DJs Pieman and Suddha return to the capital for the release of the latest GoaProductions’ album Trophy Munters Vol. 2. As they put it, "The stage is set for a mind-expanding experience right at the pulse of the capital’s underground – join Beijing’s psychonauts and soul seekers on the trancefloor as we write the next volume of China’s psychedelic history!" Read: expect hours and hours of psytrance and an eyeful of neon. RMB 60. 10pm doors. Dada
Aurora Retro Stoplight Party
Aurora take it back to the old days this weekend when apparently people used to dress according to their relationship status. You know the deal by now: wear green if you’re single, yellow if you DGAF, and red if you’re just in it for the music (and maybe some cheeky grinding – you wouldn't want to feel left out). Funk, old school house, and disco will set the mood. Free. 10pm. Aurora
Find even more heat on the dancefloor in our Nightlife Events section here.
Photos: partyflock.nl, courtesy of the promoters
