"A stellar beginning to a new project well worth keeping an eye on as it gathers speed"
Tape Label Of The Year 2018: presenting an entirely fresh and reinvigorated version of global culture
"A vital and illuminating journey"
“2018: Favorite Labels” that unpredictability was exactly what made every new Chinabot release such a treat; there was never just one way to sum up the label’s identity, and somehow its releases always managed to make the past sound like the future.
The London publishing house and the Chinabot collective see their role as taking over the narrative, showing the diversity and richness of Asian experimental and niche music.
"Each track on the compilation has its own unique cultural identity through contributions from Asian artists"
Chinabot is redefining the Pan-Asian experience
The 10 Best Labels of 2018
“it’s hard to boil down the label’s fruitful year into a select few when they’re all so unique and forward-thinking”
"The Chinabot Label Is Uniting Asia’s Next Generation of Electronic Experimentalists."
The future will be just video game music and despair
8 predictions for music in 2019 from expert pop forecasters
”Music will be truly global, the Chinabot imprint showcasing artists of East Asian descent” Joe Muggs
Chinabot is a consistently good label. Jennifer Lucy Allan Link
Label of the Month:
“Chinabot has broadened and demystified the public perception of Asia’s experimental music scenes by issuing quirky, unpredictable and innovative work by regional artists. Each release is stylistically varied and meaningfully conceptualised through local cultural references”