The Fabricatorz are on the road this week, kicking off 2011 the right way. Founder, Jon Phillips will be teaming up with Matt Hope to bring the Laoban Soundsystem to The Border Show. The exhibition, organized by The Society for Experimental Cultural Production, features recent art concerning border mechanisms of the Pearl River Delta:

Taking place inside a set of shipping containers placed amid the hulking post-industrial buildings of the New Territories halfway between the urban cores of Hong Kong and Shenzhen, this exhibition proposes a new relationship between these two cities and the wider region by approaching the ontology of the border crossing.

The event kicks off on January 8 (running through the 28th of the month). Laoban will be providing the musical backdrop for the entire opening evening!

In the coming weeks, Laoban Soundsystem will be releasing new plans, photos, and even more media through it's homepage. For more details on The Border Show, check out the event page, and look check this space again soon for recaps and photos from Hong Kong!

So you want to make it louder? More hardcore? Come get hard, low and deep with the Laoban Soundsystem crew at Sanlitun SoHo on Thursday, September 23 from 9 PM onward in the basement of the mall behind the Get It Louder Pavilion. Bringing the bass is Aussie Little Wu (Dave Thompson) cutting minimal techo, TommyBoy from UK cranking old school jungle, Rez and Marula tripping the drum and bass switch from the Spanish Corelabs and Get It Louder curator Jiancui mixing it up from an iPad. Also, echoing Mall Rats and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Laoban Soundsystem founders Matt Hope (UK/Beijing) and Jon Phillips (SF/Beijing) will chop n screw up dancehall, drum and bass and dirty southern hip hop through the 6000 watts of pure sound through the aptly titled, Laoban Soundsystem 2.0. Communing at the new Chinese commodified temple where money ain't a thing, hustling visual imagery without spending a dime, and expanding conversation with a pure sound and video experience that exemplifies the sound clash heard from Kingston, you don't want to miss this realideal. Invite your friends, spread the news, and let's get it louder!

If you want to get harder, visit: http://laoban-soundsystem.com

• Who
  
  
  
  • Laoban Soundsystem (http://laoban-soundsystem.com/)
  
  
  • Little Wu (Dave Thompson) (Australia/Electric Forrest) glitch/dubstep/minimal http://www.electricforest.info/
  
  
  • Tommy Boy (UK) drum and bass
  
  
  • Rez and Marula (Spain/Corelabs Beijing) drum and bass, http://corelabs.cn
  
  
  • Matt Hope (DJ set, UK/Beijing/Laoban) drum and bass, http;//matthope.org
  
  
  • Jon Phillips (SF/Beijing/Laoban) dirty southern chopped n screwed hiphop, http://rejon.org
  
  
  • Jiancui (Beijing/Get It Louder), http://www.getitlouder.com
  
  
  • With inspiration from Neill Mclean Gaddes and Yijing Xu (http://sanspractice.com/), Ou Ning, LuJia, lil Chris, Sophie, and more :)
  
  
  
  


• What
  
  
  
  • Mall Party, Laoban-only Event
  
  



• When
  
  
  
  • Thursday, Sept 23, 2010, 9 PM - midnight at least
  
  
  
  


• Where
  
  
  
  • Sanlitun SOHO, Inside the mall, ground floor (http://www.sohosanlitun.com)
  
  
  • http://www.getitlouder.com/CnSonorIntro.aspx?ID=19 (chinese)
    
  
  
  • http://www.getitlouder.com/EnSonorIntro.aspx?ID=19 (english)
    
  
  
  • Google Maps: http://ur1.ca/1qffh
  
  
  
  

Updates

Little Wu (Little Five), aka David Thompson
http://soundcloud.com/littlefivemusic

Hailing from the shores of Australia, Little Five has been globetrotting for the last seven years stopping off in Europe, America and now China. Weaving together sounds from all sides of the table, his sets are full of energy and excitement a journey to the dark side.

Expect Techno, Tribal, Tech House.

We are just going to keep tacking on more friends as they come together here!