I grew up in a small Midwest town where no one worried about the difference between “minimal electro,” “house,” and “progressive trance.” Sure, the cool kids knew Aphex Twin, but we mostly labeled anything composed of blips and beeps as “techno,” the e-tard soundtrack. Kind of like how Asia mostly gets awful, commercial hip hop like Akon and Black Eyed Peas, I was exposed to a similar breed of techno. Well, Shanghai’s a big city full of French people and others who care about more diversity in their electronic music, and I’ve come to really like some of it. DJ Sasha (maybe just Sasha), apparently “the world’s number one progressive trance” DJ will come on Saturday, so that aforementioned Europeans and wealthy Chinese can pay an absurd cover charge to [possibly] dance, drink scotch and green tea, and perhaps even toss a glow stick around.

Fuck that.

Fortunately, my friends VOID, two DJs who strive to bring quality underground electronic music to Shanghai convinced DJ Bone to fly here from Detroit and play a show the same night at The Shelter that will likely go until the sun comes up.

Here’s a taste of what’s in store. I stole these from Smart Shanghai.

DJ Bone - Formations

DJ Bone - The Move