The stalwart Shanghai singer & producer takes us on a cinematic, 2-hour trek through her sonic memory ahead of her May 3 LA debut at RADII's china.wav showcase Long before she began releasing music under her given name, producer and vocalist Yehaiyahan was an unmistakable presence on Shanghai’s underground music scene. The Guizhou-born artist moved to China’s biggest city in 2005, and in 2007 took to the booth as part of legendary bass/dub crew Uprooted Sunshine, toasting crowds and honing her vocal chops under her best-known alias, ChaCha. In the early years of her career, many of them spent in long-gone Shanghai club LOgO, Yehaiyahan cut her teeth as a DJ, producer, and vocalist with the heavy sounds of the Uprooted Sunshine entourage, in the process brushing up against bass music luminaries like Clive Chin, The Bug, and Kode9. RADII presents: china.wav Over the following decade, Yehaiyahan has gone on to stack more collaborations, career milestones, alter-egos and unreleased studio sessions than I care to list here. Highlights include AM444, a genre-bending duo formed with Dutch producer Jay Soul in 2010; a slot at the 2011 Red Bull Music Academy, where she was the first artist to represent China; vocal hooks sung for the cream of China’s underground hip hop crop, including MC Webber, J-Fever and Soulspeak; a mid-stream reinvention with the birth of her dark, haunted, experimental side project Faded Ghost; and another bold re-do, as she shed her longstanding ChaCha moniker last year to re-emerge under her real name, Yehaiyahan. Like her kindred spirit and frequent collaborator Kai-Luen, for Yehaiyahan it’s more important to invest in new sounds than to cash in on old ones. View this post on Instagram @yehaiyahan's roots spread out across China, bringing a special perspective to her music. She'll be performing in LA at our china.wav showcase, tickets on sale now from our link in bio 🌴🇨🇳 A post shared by RADII China (@radii.china) on Apr 22, 2019 at 8:54am PDT Ahead of Faded Ghost’s appearance at RADII’s china.wav event on May 3 at El Cid in Los Angeles, we asked her to put together a megamix highlighting personal favorites from her incredibly prodigious last decade of output. This cinematic, nearly two-hour trip through Yehaiyahan’s sonic memory includes a few unreleased tracks from both her upcoming debut solo album, as well as some Faded Ghost demos that will give you a good idea of what she has in store for her live performance on May 3. Tracklist 01. Sunbiz & Kyle Chin – “No Chinese” 02. Sumurai Mal – “Lil Cherry & OneEye Lee” 03. IJAPA – “杀人戏剧” (Unreleased) 04. 阿龙 – “末日前相见” (Unreleased) 05. OTM – “Fall In” (Unreleased) 06. WordySoulspeak – “One More Day” 07. 白天不亮 – “I Wonder” 08. Soulspeak – “Flowers” (Unreleased) 09. Soulspeak – “Another Story” 10. RSD – “Can’t Forget” 11. Swimful – “Shanghai Blue” 12. 56Loop – “Miss U So Much” (Unreleased) 13. 阿龙 – “围城” 14. Believe ATL – Untitled (Unreleased) 15. Desto / Clouds / Jimi Tenor – “Time Bird” 16. Masak – “Collapsing” 17. Letta – “Nothing Left For Me” (Unreleased) 18. Kode9 & The Spaceape – “Love Is The Drug” 19. Mind : Body : Fitness – “Neige Neige” (Unreleased) 20. Hamacide – “Thirty Hours” 21. Hamacide – “YouMe (Jared Turinsky Quogue Remix)” 22. AM444 – “神经末梢” 23. AM444 – “各种人” 24. AM444 – “Lies (Jay.Soul Remix)” 25. AM444 – “神仙药” 26. AM444 – “就快要窒息” 27. AM444 – “Dark Show” 28. AM444 – “链” 29. YEHAIYAHAN – “Sleepless” 30. YEHAIYAHAN – “Under The Moonlight” 31. YEHAIYAHAN – “跌入梦里 (demo)” 32. YEHAIYAHAN – “Lost Your Mind (demo)” 33. Didjelirium – “不不不” 34. Adrian Sherwood – “爱就会有伤害” (Unreleased) 35. Zion Train – “I Believe” (Unreleased) 36. Jahtari – “Black Eyes Stranger” 37. High Tone – “Oh Why” 38. Faded Ghost – “Horror Movie OST” (Unreleased) 39. Faded Ghost – “Reverrrb The Shelter” (Unreleased) 40. Faded Ghost – “Talk To Me” 41. Faded Ghost – “Jawa Meditation” 42. Faded Ghost – “Little India” — Other artists performing at RADII’s china.wav event on Friday, May 3 at El Cid in Los Angeles: A Decade of Sound from Jeff Kai-Luen Liang, aka Soulspeak (Exclusive Mix) MC Tingbudong Wants Chinese Hip Hop to Find its Place in the World Bohan Phoenix Injects a Dose of Reality into China’s Hip Hop Boom on New Track “YMF”
