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Bananas is back from the afterlife and dishing up all the platers that matter...

Try out specials!
From Kung Pao Pop to Egg Foo Funk, 1000 Year-Old Hip Hop, Eight Treasure Electro, Diced Disco Delicacies, Sweet & Sour Soul and Braised Spicy Breaks our menu has something to delight every palate.

Please to enjoy the mysterious local feast from the comfort of your own Shelter (5 Yongfu lu near Fuxing Xi lu). 30rmb delivery (entrance) fee.

On the Woks and Twos:

Kamikaze - Stinky Tofu

elnomo - The Drunken Shrimp
Choyce Kutz - Chop Sticks

Ten minutes after it's over, you'll be hungry for more!

And here's a song we'll play:

Malente&Dex - Gipsy Kings

This is happening soon!

Yeah, that's right, me and Mr. Tsang acting our age on the turntables, playing wacky Funk Disco and Hip Hop from when most internet users weren't even born yet.

Like this one:

Melba Moore - Love's Comin' At Ya'

Oh yeah, hip hop's still good.

I've recently hit a wall with blog house, fidget electro and all that stuff the kids are into these days. If you ask me, Crookers can bite it man. I'm over it. I feel like the genre peaked like a week after I heard my first Justice song and now it's a bunch of people trying to cop that style and not doing it very well. Sure, the Ed Banger phenomenon was interesting and there's a lot of talented cats putting out electro records, but is that really what I want to listen to in my headphones on the subway? No. Meanwhile, I had the realization that people are still making dope hip hop records.
Case in point:

Tanya Morgan - Alleye Need (Ft. Piakhan)

Another Rainy Day

I recently returned from nearly two months in sunny, friendly, fun, beautiful and tropical Thailand to cold, rainy, mean, stressful and generally unpleasant Shanghai... and I've been wondering why I subject myself to life here. Today's another rainy one. Fortunately I have a pile of records to listen to that Onra dug up in Guangzhou and left at my place in Shanghai after his show here at the Shelter last year. This joint from Singapore has been particularly helpful in me accepting my fate of living in a huge city with crappy weather, many unpleasant locals who spit on your shoes and a complete lack of awesome curries.

1) Peggy Tann - Kan Ku Bawa Pergi

2) Peggy Tann - Rentak Bunyi Hujan ("Rhythm of the Falling Rain" cover)

Shanghai No.1 Taoist DJ Party, every Thursday @ Dada

I somehow got a weekly gig here in Shanghai... it's been a while since anyone's allowed me back in their establishment to play within a month of my last dj fiasco. But, the guys down at Dada know what time it is, so they threw me a bone. Here's the press info, if you're into that kind of thing:

EVERY Thursday after 10pm...

- "Shanghai NO.1 Taoist DJ Party"

- Resident DJs Dan Battle (elnomo), Blaise Deville, Ozone, Steve
Bamford, Trix, and friends heat up Thursday nights with smart but carefree eclectic music -- using ancient Taoist wisdom to help select the perfect tunes -- from rock to disco, from funk to electro, from trip hop to tech-house and global rhythms. Free entry.

每周四10点以后

"上海NO.1 Taoist DJ Party"

上 海常驻DJs Dan Battle (elnomo), Blaise Deville, Ozone, Steve Bamford, Trix, 还有其他的朋友，他们会用电音将周四晚上沸腾起来。用道教的智慧去选择完美的音调--从摇滚到disco，从funk到电音。

And here's a song you might hear this Thursday:

NYGz - Giantz Ta Thiz

Old News

Yeah yeah yeah... the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have been around for a while now, and their latest album, "It's Blitz!" came out in, like, January, not last week or something; so it's not like I'm hipping you to anything mindblowingly new or so underground you'd never find it by yourself. But this albums been on my mp3 player for months now, and pretty much every song is the jam. Here's the one that strikes the "awesomest" harmonic with me:

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dragon Queen