Music

Pierre Pradat is one of the most requested musicians established in China. He has played thousands of shows all over the country at the greatest venues for more than a decade after relocating from France, including many for some of the top Chinese pop stars and movie directors. He is a highly versatile and creative artist, cultivating a mainstream jazz piano style balancing elegant lyrism and virtuosic energy with a great sense of swing. He is also specialized in playing Rhodes electric piano and analog synthesizers, and is very open-minded on other genre like Funk and Electronica. His main influences to name a few are Kenny Barron, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett. He is also a very respected jazz educator, having taught to hundreds of Chinese students so far.

Michał Ciesielski is a composer, arranger and jazz pianist from Poland. He has composed almost 100 compositions, was awarded in several international music competitions and collaborated with many musicians as a pianist.

PUMP is your new best friend, the ultimate crowd-pleaser, here to make you feel reel good with the finest House music from Hip and Acid to Chicago, Ghetto Bass and UK. Prepare to feel loved and let PUMP vibe up the place like no other friend can.

Bona Fide crew is back for more! Presenting funky rhythms, urban beats, boogie revival, and those classic groovy gems with soulful sounds, just try to think every groove that makes your body swing, you can find them all in Bona Fide. We don't care if you use pots and pans, as long as the party rocks, that’s all that matters.

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Thursday RAW MEAT - a night of all sorts of styles of music from experimental trap beats to lazer techno, by young fresh local talent. Free entry! 

Registration: Send introduction + DJ set to email: Puzzystack@qq.com

Truly, finding a suitable theme for our upcoming East Palace West Palace edition wasn’t all that easy this time. As our following is unequivocally growing, we feel increasingly more committed to challenge parochial sites of queer representation. This means that we won’t cease to emphasize the political implications of our project. It ain’t all glitter and drama huney. Instead we hope to investigate the unconscious biases instilled in our collective psyche by the archaic norms of society. We want to transcend queer cultural traditions but also reflect its established histories. What do we mean?

A few editions ago it came to our attention that there was a note of disatisfaction about the fact that our DJs often play soulful, vocal-oriented House or Disco music. We are aware that this is the DNA of recognised archetypes in queer culture. If something like ‘vernacular queerness’ exists then this is best epitomized by the subcultural environs of 1970s Chicago or New York. We are aware that queer culture goes far beyond such archetypes.

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