“Early on, we didn’t really have what you’d call a plan, but we had these fuzzy notions that we’d like to be able to reach people in far off corners of the world,” says Ding Mao of Hualun, speaking to Jake Newby in The Wire 450. Since forming in Wuhan in 2004, the band (now based in Shenzhen and Beijing) have released their music via labels based in China and those abroad, including Brighton’s Crafting Room Recordings and California’s Katuktu Collective.

Their latest release is a compilation of cuts from their wʌndərlænd EP series, published by Knoxville based imprint Gezellig Records. Hualun call the series an “adventure focused on sound, tone and atmosphere”, and say the tracks “present the most lush side in our way of creation, with new possibilities to be discovered all along the way”. Here the group share three previously unreleased, similarly ambient-leaning works with The Wire.

Read Jake Newby's interview with Hualun in full inside The Wire 450. Wire subscribers can also read the article via the online archive.