30 minute mixtape of released and unreleased SRP tracks. Artwork by Sun Yunfan.

00:00 - New Tea
01:35 - sum of all things nini
02:30 - the MONKEY queen feat. Di Johnston
03:36 - Utopia (unreleased)
05:13 - Supermega Cosmomall
07:13 - Dream of the Red Mansions
09:13 - The Wandering Songstress feat. Zhang Le
10:49 - Greedy Neighbors
13:06 - crow of the ROOSTER feat. Jennifer Kim
15:13 - Feng Yang Hua Gu
16:19 - Rabbitual feat. Roopak Ahuja
17:32 - Chinese Recess
17:56 - crow of the ROOSTER
18:27 - Rabbitual feat. Roopak Ahuja
21:24 - Suzhou River feat. Zhang Le
23:31 - Life is Drama feat. Zhang Le
25:03 - Breakdance of Yao feat. Brittany Haas & Lily Henley
26:31 - Pace of Light feat. Michal Towber
29:06 - Uproar in Heaven

Shanghai Restoration Project Official Mixtape #1

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R.U.R

iTunes

Telemicroscope

High Culture Tour

Library Breakin'

Triple Speed Taichi

R.U.R.

Supermega Cosmomall

Spotify

Spooky Party

Untitled 2017

Last Bachelor Oecanthus

Expedition Voronya

Tropical Spice Garden

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Alpha Go

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Exclusive mix of tracks from R.U.R., the latest album from Shanghai Restoration Project.

0:00 Triple Speed Taichi 
1:16 Alpha Go
2:49 High Culture Tour
4:36 Tropical Spice Garden
5:53 Self-Run Diagnostic

Shanghai Restoration Project Official Mixtape #2

Music written and produced by Sun Yunfan & Dave Liang
Vocals by Sun Yunfan & Dave Liang

Public Poet

Shanghai Restoration Project - A148
Music & Lyrics by Y. Sun & D. Liang
Vocals: Sun Yunfan
Spoken Word: Dave Liang

A148

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“Soft Diamond” is written for a child who feels trapped in a difficult home situation but doesn’t have the means to survive on his or her own. The song encourages patience, promising that one day the child will have his or her own "sword and compass” with which to navigate the world.

English translation of Chinese lyrics:

Mouths are still talking
Your ears are getting numb
You only want to know where the raindrops
Outside the window go
Flow through the street without hindrance
Running four hundred steps to the beach
Gathering in a pond reflecting the lights
When wheels pass by, they make a fog

Endless accusations are attempts to hide
Uncontrollable disgust
In the mirror that was smashed by desires
Your existence is a mistake
Fantasize about leaving Planet earth
Escape to Mars to herd cattle
Unrestrained and untethered
You can grow a baobab tree

Heartless people
Get as far away from them as possible 
Gutless people
You don’t need to shoulder their blame
Luck is not direct causality 
To disturb the world was not your choice
So don’t apologize
Be patient

Suddenly one day
You’ll have a compass and a sword
Depart in the early morning
Write your own poems
Start a bonfire to burn away the pain
Spit out the poison that you’ve been fed
Find a stretch of unbroken and lush forests
You can be a legend on the tree

Let go of the past
Stop trying to make sense with them
Leave the memories behind
Their spell will immediately break
From a willow tip to a grass blade to a lotus leaf
You are a translucent soft diamond
You will be radiant
So spin and dance in the air

Flashbacks in a Crystal Ball

Soft Diamond

English translation of Chinese lyrics

You’re never nervous
Rushing the four seas like a big wind blowing over mountains
You’re never enchanted 
Even if the sirens sing to you
Believing that one day you’ll 
Find the legendary treasure
Sailors, first mate, and ladies
Will look at you with worshiping eyes
Searching and seeking
You need to win one round
In this contest with fate
No other choice
You’ve been trained to be a
Time gambler

You never panic
Even if a dense fog covers the front
You never despair
Even if the water has entered the cabin
Even when it’s springtime at home
You’re stuck in deep mud in a faraway land
Even when the years have gone by, when things might look the same but people have changed,
You still dream about riding the armored horse crossing the frozen river
Year after year
You still aspire to go a thousand miles
Lonely captain
Your desire to be recognized
Exiles you to the sea

Time Gambler

“Tactile Sonic Glide” is a reaction to the increasingly fragmented and mindless sound-bite culture we live in. The fifteen minute piece is an invitation to a musical meditation, where thoughtful melodic development, meaningful transitions, gratifying stretches and breathable pauses can happen. Synth, vocals, kalimba, bass, and percussion instruments freely rise and fall in the soundscape, allowing for a unique experience on each listen.

Tactile Sonic Glide

Sudden Rush of Memories

LIC Color Blast

Lyrics:

Zoom in the lens on a wild, wild East
See a clever girl, daughter of a squanderer 
Dressed in second hand love, fibers so tough
Clinging by a thread but she hauled herself up

Yearned for higher learning, didn’t have the right chromosomes
Told her only duty was to pass his chromosomes
Hard pass, to the mountains she fled
Rocked out on the organ with a chorus of kids  

Soundtrack to a carefree time
Green jagged hills kept the chaos in line
Gold dust sprinkled all over the place, over the clothes, over the hair

Everyday a celebration in the tropical heights
River mirror glowed with the purple twilight
Evening boat rides on a gentle wave of clouds
And she would row this way and that way

This way, that way 
This way, that way
Which way she will row
Nobody knows, nobody knows

This way, that way 
This way, that way
Which way she will row
Nobody knows, she doesn’t know

Now and then she would get a rosy letter
Every brushstroke drew a better future 
But the sketches in ink never came to be
Blotted out by a storm fast approaching it was time to flee

Hitched to the wagon of a slumbering beast 
Rolling over rocks at a breakheart speed
Mad dash ascending to a city on the hill
But the race didn’t stop at the top 

She found herself trapped in a cauldron of heat
Surrounded by a feast but only given scraps to eat
Lights came on, masks came off, orders came down, 
Dirty laundry piling up

And out from underneath she crawled to the window
Peeked through the pane, the moon gave the go ahead 
Open the hatch, the cool wind lifted her wings, carried her out, over the wall, off she flew

This way, that way 
This way, that way
Which way she will fly
Nobody knows, nobody knows

This way, that way 
This way, that way
Which way she will fly
Nobody knows, she doesn’t know

From the summit she bobbed down the river
Current so erratic she learned to maneuver the ball
Each bounce gathering dialects, black and white photographs, three little ones and

Always in motion, surrounded by commotion
Contamination came out in the wash of the ocean
What remains is a childhood collection of music and words
Minus the hurt

Many years later she dreams of the weather in the tropical heights
Can’t quite recall that purple twilight nor the names, the faces, the green and the gold
But the feeling is the same

Never had a compass built according to plan
Caught a few breaks and the arrow would bend but it never ever came to a stop 
It’d either go this way or that way

This way, that way 
This way, that way
Which way she will dream
Nobody knows, nobody knows

This way, that way 
This way, that way
Which way she will dream
Nobody knows, only she knows

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