Posts Tagged ‘original’

neocha.com | odi et amo ::

Friday, May 29th, 2009

:: a slideshow by the creative force behind the Beijing-based independent design brand Odi Et Amo and Neocha.com-user Wang Shaobei (王晓贝). I met Shaobei at this year’s MIDI Music Festival in Zhenjiang and was refreshed by his confidence, he told me then (and reiterated on his Neocha blog): “We will make the #1 independent and original brand in China. If we can think it, we can do it. Nothing is impossible in youth. A lot of people have similar ideas, but the difference is that I am going to make it happen. I believe in us, we have youth, we will do it.”  Check out a video interview with Shao Bei to learn more about Shaobei, his brand, and his world domination plans. See some of his designs below.  // AjS

[full disclosure: 56minus1 is a partner at Neocha.com]

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neocha NEXT ::

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

:: Neocha.com has a free music player called NEXT that streams songs from its library of user-created and user-uploaded music. The NEXT player works from within a web browser, as a downloadable widget, or as embedded HTML anywhere you want to put it. All of the songs on NEXT are 100% original works from Chinese independent musicians, in genres spanning garage rock, electronica, hip-hop, shoe-gazing, indie-pop, art rock, folk, ambient, dance, metal, post-rock, etc. The widget is fully bilingual (unlike the Neocha Web site which is only Chinese), so it addresses the “where to find Chinese indie music when you don’t know where to start” question for non-Chinese readers.

Click here to download NEXT or try out the web pop-out version; or just press play and stream from the player to the right.

Below is the HMTL code for embedding, feel free to copy and paste wherever you’d like:

[full disclosure: 56minus1 is a partner at Neocha.com]

//  AjS

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