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Snapline
Snapline is a band based in Beijing, consisting of Li Qing on guitar and keyboards and Li Weisi on bass, who met while students at the Beijing Institute of Technology. Their music was dedicated to working out in a contemporary Beijing context the sounds and ideas produced by the noise and minimalist musicians of the 1970s and 1980s, especially focusing on the New York scene of that period. Wanting to also explore the dark, industrial music coming out of England during that period, especially from bands like Joy Division and the Cure, the two created a side project, which performed strange, drum-machine-driven music over dark, minor chords. Chen Xi, on vocals and drum machine, brought a softer sound to the band with his singing. Ex-Public Image Ltd drummer Martin Atkins produced their first CD.[1] IrrespectiveAs snippets of the recording filtered through the scene in China, the band's shows started drawing larger crowds, and they soon began to develop a strong following. A series of concerts at D-22 established them as one of the central bands in the scene, much loved by critics and musicians, although difficult at times for audiences to follow. In October, 2007, they PressThe subject of many articles in the Chinese press, the band was listed in the September 2007 edition of That's Beijing as one of the ten best bands in China and in an article in Rolling Stone that same year Li Qing was listed as one of China's four major guitar innovators. Discography
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