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WHAT’S GOOD IN SHANGHAI THIS WEEKEND // 周末有啥好的?

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SOME PEOPLE HAVE PROBLEMS WITH DRUGS, GAMBLING, AND ALCOHOL.

I ALSO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH STUFFED ANIMAL/CIGARETTE GRAB MACHINES. I SPENT 63RMB ($10) IN THE LAST WEEK AND GOT A TURTLE AND A PACK OF LION CIGARETTES. I ASKED MANY BBQ COOK IN HANGZHOU ABOUT LION BRAND, BUT NO ONE KNOW THAT. MUST BE VERY EXPENSIVE. LIFE HAS UPS AND DOWNS, THIS IS A SERIOUS UP.

OMG PHOTOSHOP HAS A “TRAP” FUNCTION.

SO I’M AT THE ARCADE ALL WEEKEND TIPPING THE GRAB MACHINES, PLAYING TEKKEN, DRINKING NONGFU SHAN, WATCHING PEOPLE WITH FISHING-GAME PROBLEMS. 10RMB LASTS A LONG TIME AT THE ARCADE.

LOTS ELSE ON. HERE’S THE TOP FIVE:

1. FRIDAY @ KTV DISCO – MOST BARS IN SHANGHAI DEPEND ON THE PROMOTERS, SO GOT DIFFERENT VIBE EVERY NIGHT. NOT KTV DISCO. I TRIED TO BOOK IT THEY SAID NO WE DOING OUR OWN THANG, DON’T WANT DJS WHO PLAY IN SHANGHAI. “ALL IMPORTED.” THAS COOL, U GO GIRL. YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU GET AT THIS VENUE, AND THAT’S SOLID, SOMETIMES BORING DISCO, HOUSE, AND COKE MUSIC. TONIGHT IS A DISCO GUY FROM A LABEL CALLED GOLF CHANNEL. THAT’S @ 3/F, 370 HUASHAN LU, near WULUMUQI LU AND WILL COST YOU ONE RED BILL.

2. FRIDAY @ GEISHA – HIP HOP HIJACK. IF YOU WANNA HEAR THAT NEW TYGA, RICK ROSS, CHIEF KEEF GO HERE. GUEST IS SOME GUY THAT’S GOOD AT DJING HIP HOP.  ALSO GOT A BATHTUB ON THE DANCE FLOOR. THAT’S WACKY. ALSO ONE RED BILL AND ON THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF FUXING AND SHANXI NAN LU.

3. FRIDAY @ YUYINTANG – ITALIAN PEOPLE PLAYING ELECTROROCK  PLUS THE NEW BAND ASTROFUCK. MAYBE FRIEND OR FOE ARE PLAYING TOO, AND SOME OTHER BAND. SO, FOUR ROCK BANDS AND A NICE PARK FOR 50RMB. NORTHWEST CORNER OF KAIXUAN LU AND YAN’AN LU.

4. SATURDAY @ SO COOL DOCKS – BBQ COOKOFF. MY FRIEND JUST CALLED SAID TMMR GOT BBQ ON THE SOUTH BUND. PUT ON BY BUBBA’S. BUBBA SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE WHO KNOWS BBQ. WAY MORE THAN RON OR HEROLD. IT’S 100RMB FOR UNLIMITED BBQ AND THERE’S PROBABLY SOME NOT ITALIAN PEOPLE PLAYING LIVE MUSIC.

5. ANDY WARHOL EXHIBIT @ ??? BUT THAT’S COOL.

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I GOT EXCITED ABOUT EVENT CALLED “GLAMOUR BAR PRESENTS RANGOON THEN AND NOW” BUT TURNS OUT IT’S ABOUT SOME COUNTRY AND NOT CRAB RANGOONS.

I’LL BE AT THE ARCADE WINNING SHIT SMOKING RARE LION CIGS AND LISTENING TO THIS:

PINCH – SWISH

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HEATWOLVES’ CASTLE, ROUND THREE TONIGHT

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yo yo, a bit of shameless self-promotion here. i’m DJing down at the new Logo Bar tonight. basically just testing out new tracks and practicing. really chill space that’s like a combination of Dada and Shelter. clean concrete and couches. feels odd to describe Logo Bar as “nice,” but I can’t deny it.

music: chilll hip hop like Madlib/Quasimoto, deep dubstep, maybe some house, who knows. a bit of everything, depending on the crowd.

298 Xingfu Lu – look for the lions.

animated part one

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Way before i got into electronic music, I was into cartoons. Everything from Doug and Muppet Babies to Wallace and Grommit, Akira, and even Urotsukidoji. I studied animation for a few semesters at Kalamazoo Valley Community College while I was still in high school, but stopped due to sheer laziness. Animation is hard work – much harder than music. Animators might spend a month working on just a few seconds.

Animation got really wack and lazy-looking in the late 90s when Flash came around. It’s one of the few realms where technology caused a tremendous quality drop. If you don’t believe me, watch an episode of Looney Tunes then peep some cartoons from 2013 on Nicktoons or something.

Luckily there’s still peeps doing really solid work. I knew my friend Jeannette Lee posted up in Vancouver on a year-long animation program after graduating from Berkeley, and after seeing her demo reel on Facebook, decided to feature her work here. So here’s two shorts from her, one hand-drawn and one tasteful application of Flash.

This one’s called “Wut” (unrelated to the Girl Unit song)

WUT from Jeannette Lee on Vimeo.

and this one, Epeolatry, about infrequently used words.

Epeolatry from Jeannette Lee on Vimeo.

I bypassed the great firewall to talk with Jeannette about her work via Facebook messages.

Heatwolves: What were your favorite cartoons growing up?

Jeannette: Batman the Animated Series, Samurai Jack, Dexter’s Laboratory, Pinky and the Brain, Looney Tunes

Heatwolves: What are your favorite cartoons now?

Jeannette: Daria, Aeon Flux, Bob’s Burgers, Archer, Regular Show, Adventure Time

Heatwolves: Why did lots of animation get so low-quality in the late 90s and will we see a rebirth of good, hand-drawn animation?

Jeannette: Ooo I’m assuming you’re referring to the introduction and proliferation of Flash in animation. Flash was made for web design, and is notorious among animators for being animation unfriendly (and my goodness is it buggy). That being said, it’s still the industry standard, and there are people out there who can do amazing things with Flash. Fortunately, there are newer softwares that are tailored for animation, like TV Paint and Toon Boom Harmony, which are starting to gain traction. But as far as good ol’ hand-drawn animation goes, I’m afraid those glory days are largely over. Everything is going digital or merging with it. Even Disney is slowly shutting down it’s traditional animation department. But whoa let’s not get too dire–short films, both student and professional, are where lots of awesome old school animation still survives.

Heatwolves: how long did these shorts take to make?

Jeannette: 
From storyboarding to compositing and sound, WUT took about 5 months, Epeolatry about 5 weeks. I should mention that WUT is hand-drawn, and Epeolatry is Flash.

Heatwolves what’s the best animation sequence ever (e.g. motorcycle chase in Akira)?

Jeannette: The opening sequence and title sequence of Ghost In The Shell get me every time. Also the rest of the movie. It’s just an awesome movie.

Heatwolves: What’s next for you and animation?

Jeannette: Get paid to make cartoons!

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Cheers for the interview. You can follow her work on Vimeo – expecting great tings from her in the future.

I may turn this into a regular feature on the site, so if you or someone you know makes cartoons, holla at me.

HoW 2 Cr3ATe ur Own M1Dee 电子 Fe$T1val

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Sittin here drawing up the flyer for the Heatwolves.com five-year anniversary party going down this Sunday night @ Dada. Why Sunday night? Because we’re working seven days straight here in the PRC then we get Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday off. I’m taking off to somewhere, not sure where yet. Probably not to MIDee Festival.

If you insist on going to MIDee, head straight for the rock stage to see some good Chinese bands. If you wanna check out the electronic stage, you don’t actually have to go to the festival. You can have a MIDee festival in your own house!

Steps to Creating Your Very Own MIDee Electronic Festival

1. Google “EDM MP3s” and download some trap remixes of classic rock songs like “Time of the Season (H979 TRVP RM1X)”

2. Google “How do use Traktors wit a MIDI controller” or “How to use das Abletons 2 DJ” and watch some YouTubez videos from the search resultz.

3. Mix some common household chemicals/medicines with Sailor Jerry rum and drink dat $hit! but make sure to plug in your MIDI controller first cause you gon g3t faddddded. If y0ur vison goes b1Ack, thas when u know you’re wayyyyy MIDeed out!

4. For extra MIDee, just map all your MIDI controller buttonz 2 “beat repeat” caU$e thas the only function u need anyway and you won’t accidentally unsync ur trackz.

5. Call some of your MIDee friendz over, but m8k sure dey don’t no h0w 2 DJ on CD or Vinyl. Also, more younger and m0RE inexperienced = more MIDee.

Haha I’m just talking shit. Tourettez is a super nice kid and Sulumi makes good music.

But seriously, who the fuck is Jack Esquire? And DJ Weng Weng, who has a Soundcloud and no public sounds? Why have I never seen Florian Bo on a lineup but suddenly he’s organizing a stage for three days at a festival? Where are Acid Pony Club, S L V, Ceezy, and hBd? I just watched S L V put on one of the best live sets I’ve ever seen in China and the people running this festival probably don’t even know who they are.

I want this in my outdoor festivals:

Zomby – We Got The Sound

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saturday – wake up and head to BLOC – cat city is going down.

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Cat City At Arkham Shanghai

With perhaps the worst luck ever, my good friends over at 1LoveShanghai tried to make their Cat City party happen all over town. Was originally supposed to happen like three weeks ago, then Arkham got shut down. Then they found the perfect rooftop in Jing An, and at a test party with only thirty peeps, someone in the building got upset and cut the electricity to the whole 18th floor.

Well, it’s happening this Saturday, April 13th, right on Changle Lu/Ruijin Lu, at a chill spot called BLOC. DJ Caution x Heatwolves, DJ Sal, Luce, Rain, and CJ DJing on the roof until sunrise. Three floors, bangin tunes, big soundsystem courtesy of Patrick Mai, plus good beer and food.

party starts at 4:20PM. get down early before it gets packed. gonna be 72 degrees Fahrenheit. work that out in Celsius, it’s warm.

AND SEE U TONIGHT @ DADA FOR THE LOVE BANG THREE-YEAR. THAS TRES ANOS ESPANOL PENGYOUMEN, 一会儿见!

Thursday @ Logo – Heatwolves’ Castle

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Our favorite dive is back, and looking a bit sharper than before. I’m headed down to Logo on Xingfu Lu for a long set this Thursday with all strains of dope music – hip hop, disco, beats, dubstep-not-brostep, house; songs for dancing, songs for love. No cover, affordable drinks, nice place. Really love the new Logo, pumped to play there.

还记得幸福路的LOGO酒吧吗? 如果记得，那你就是个上海老头！ LOGO终于回归，所以热狼必须要到那边放音乐. 本周四，没门票，只要过来听各种各样好音乐就行了 – HIP HOP, HOUSE, DISCO, BEATS, DUBSTEP, 还有更多. 酒也不贵。不要宅！

Love Bang in London Tonight

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YO! If you’re in London, tonight is LOVE BANG, our night at a venue that seems just about right for our kind of house-party-in-the-club vibe – The Moustache Bar in Dalston. DJ Caution, DJ Scene, and myself rocking on two technics all night. hope they work, so far we’re one-for-four for turntables working out here in the UK : / see you down there, we start at 9PM.

你在伦敦吗？超人阿姨打扫卫生帮在。我们今晚搞LOVE BANG最跳会在MOUSTACHE BAR (Dalston, East London). 在伦敦的话一定要去 － 不要宅。伦敦朋友请帮阿姨专发！

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