December 2019

The Beijing based musician deploys unplugged electronic music in the struggle against bad sound systems

Essay

An audience of six in Chengdu

July 2019

Noisemakers are being used as guinea pigs to test new art spaces. It won’t last, predicts musician, artist and Wire contributor Yan Jun after a poorly attended gig in the capital of southwestern China’s Sichuan province

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April 2019

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How To Mute Crows. By Yan Jun

February 2019

“Why and how can a rock band like The Observatory exist in such a silent dream state?” Yan Jun discusses censorship amid the noise and silence of Singapore

Columns

Yan Jun: Drugs, Violence, Porno, Mafia, Anti-government, Anti-religion and Acid Mothers Temple

May 2015

"I’m in hell now. Welcome to hell if you love it too." Yan Jun reports from the Land Of The Dragon on Makoto Kawabata, the Chinese Bureau of Culture and doomsday cults

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Yan Jun’s The Beastly Archives collected writing on Chinese underground music

23|01|2015

Beijing based musician and Wire contributor Yan Jun’s book, The Beastly Archives: An Anthology Of Essays And Reviews On Underground Rock...

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Yan Jun: Top questions of 2014

January 2015

Yan Jun gets more questions than answers when he asks himself what happened in 2014

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Yan Jun : Speakers Have A Right To Die

November 2014

Yan Jun blows up knock-off speakers, bids Mother Nature farewell and embraces life and death in The Machine era

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Yan Jun: Who Will Eat The Sun?

June 2014

Yan Jun chews over some spicy food and experimental music: What are these enlargements of bodily experience reacting to?

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Yan Jun: Which Hell Do You Prefer?

May 2014

"The end of the world has already happened and we are all living in that apocalypse together." Yan Jun takes the temperature of two of China's biggest cities and their music.

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Yan Jun: I Was Stupid In The Year Of The Snake

March 2014

Yan Jun on beer in Singapore, venues in Beijing and bloody Russians

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Yan Jun: Thanks For My Chinglish

January 2014

Writer, musician and Sub Jam label runner Yan Jun tells a story about Chinglish music and what happens when the King Kongs and Godzillas of world music collide.