XING KONG Official Bio (English) [2020-06-19 Update]
XING KONG is a signed artist of Electronic Music Information, he is a pioneer of Chinese dubstep scene. XING KONG has produced and released original tracks or bootleg tracks since 2012, in the same year, he became one of the earliest dubstep producers / DJs and dubstep cultural popularizers in China. Since 2013, XING KONG has been the manager of Baidu Tieba Dubstep Bar.
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XING KONG also has a well-known Chinese nickname: 星空下的舞者. This nickname has been officially used since 2007. In the same year, he started managing various independent forums, which laid the foundation of dubstep culture promotion years later, he experienced another round of internet platform popular stage. Previously, XING KONG also used S-Dancer, DipperX and other stage names to release tracks. Until 2019, XING KONG was adopted as his main stage name.图片来自XING KONG Press Kit Folder 图片版权属于原主
In fact, the nickname 星空下的舞者 he used for 13 years has always influenced XING KONG's dressing style.
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It has been 8 years since 2012, XING KONG has been outputting dubstep theory and production technical articles through independent forums, Baidu Tieba, Zhihu, NeteaseCloudMusic and other platforms. Especially in the early times, it helped many netizens to come into contact with dubstep and its rich sub-genres. Considering the spread of this knowledge, XING KONG has made an important contribution to China's dubstep field, no matter in music production, show, or cultural promotion, he is a real leader without any doubts.
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Before graduating from graduate school, XING KONG also served as a mentor in the DJing & music production training institution, helping many music lovers who are eager to become electronic music producers / DJs to realize their producer / DJ dreams, which also paved the way for many Chinese dubstep producers later. XING KONG has shared many production technologies from worldwide to the students and let the knowledge popular and well-used. This mentor stage gained him lots of respects among the dubstep producers / DJ, also influenced the technologies of the next generation.图片来自XING KONG Press Kit Folder 图片版权属于原主From 2015 to 2017 alone, XING KONG successfully created many big internet event. For example, the viral video When Mom Isn't Home combined with Freaks (XING KONG Edit) BGM in bilibili. The western culture and Chinese culture combined headbanging video 开门大波红 combined with 开门红 & Where We Belong (XING KONG Mashup) BGM. There are many hits such as “烏鴉咬與八咫烏” which are often used as BGM of various channels.
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The tracks in the EP "桜" released by XING KONG on January 18, 2017 have been used as BGM numerous times by the public channels, such as selfie videos of the famous make up blogger 千户长生 and many other internet celebrities, the reality shows like "潮流合伙人" (2019-12-20) and other TV shows, countless Japanese restaurants that play Japanese trap, and so on.
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From 2015 to 2017, XING KONG has also launched many cultural promotion projects. The music industry includes but is not limited to the knowledge column "Dubstep Academy" and the radio station "Dubstep Official". They have got a wide spread till today. His articles and the radio station has got over one million plays and views in NeteaseCloudMusic alone. He has also written dozens of modern or classical Chinese articles, programmed stand-alone games, he also worked for the filmdom, television, new media and education industry.
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XING KONG has the same level of international music production skills, and has shown great talent in music selection and stage performance in live performance. His furious, brutal bass music stage style has convinced almost every first party he has worked with. XING KONG started tours in nightclubs, warehouse parties and music festivals in different cities. During the period, he even shared the stage with top international figures such as Excision, Kompany, Zomboy, SKisM, Space Laces and became a special support.
图片来自XING KONG Press Kit Folder 图片版权属于原主Excision is one of the most influential dubstep artist in the world, his sound design has very distinctive features, the strongest headbangers live convener of North America. XING KONG shared the stage with him in Shenzhen.
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Kompany is the exclusive signed artist of Never Say Die, and is also a DJ / producer and sound designer quite recognized by XING KONG. XING KONG shared the stage with him in Foshan.
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Zomboy dominated the past period of heavy dubstep with Skrillex, they are all be considered as the representative personage of brostep. XING KONG shared the stage with him in Shenzhen.
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SKisM is the founder, boss, mastering engineer and head of A&R of Never Say Die Records and Black Label. In addition, he is also an excellent DJ / producer. XING KONG shared the stage with him in Shenzhen.
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Space Laces is one of the exclusive contract artists of Never Say Die Records, in the high-frequency laser bassline collocation has shown a certain color of science and technology. XING KONG shared the stage with him in Shenzhen.
During XING KONG’s S-Dancer and DipperX period, he also experienced producing funk, popping music, piano music, world music, tribal, dark trap, ethnic, uplifting trance, big room house, EDM groove house.
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Since 2018, XING KONG has begun to explore the riddim dubstep subgenre briddim, which is a title proposed by Wooli to combine brostep and riddim dubstep, A.K.A. heavy riddim, XING KONG began to create tracks in this category in the same year. In 2019, XING KONG also released briddim works such as "10K" and "Briddim.CN", these tracks are very influential in Chinese media and Chinese streaming media.
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Except heavy dubstep, XING KONG is also good at combining dubstep with elements like epic, flamenco, classical, psy-trance, trap, hardstyle and EDM's house elements. He accumulated more fans with mature works and shocking performances. So far, XING KONG has accumulated more than 80,000 followers on Chinese platforms such as NeteaseCloudMusic, Zhihu, BaiduTieba, Douyin (Chinese TikTok), Weibo, Instagram and YouTube, and it’s still growing rapidly. If we talk about the works, XING KONG in NeteaseCloudMusic alone has got nearly 10 million playbacks.
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In addition, elements such as Japanese trap, hybrid trap, hard trap, tango, deep dubstep, leftfield bass, old-school dubstep are also presented in some of XING KONG's tracks. His music has been released by many independent labels or net-labels in China, and recommended by well-known channels, totally gained millions of views. In 2019, XING KONG graduated from the graduate school, then became one of the few professional DJs / producers in China who’s got a master's degree. As a top student, XING KONG's professional test scores have won first place in graduate school many times.
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Just a label business from China here, XING KONG has released his tracks at Electronic Music Information, DarkGlow, Purple Battery, Fad Records, xKoncert, got supported by Chinese promotion channels like DYT, JCJ, EDMDrops-PYZ, MusicBox360 and so on.
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During his graduate studies, XING KONG also wrote and directed a 30-minute electronic music science documentary and wrote a 20,000-word electronic music graduation thesis, with outstanding results. After graduation, XING KONG was soon accepted by China’s lead electronic brand Electronic Music Information and signed a 360 Deal, he cooperated in artist management, artist booking, talent agency, record release, event present and popularizing and all other aspects. After full-time immersed in music, XING KONG worked in performance, production and cultural communication shows more unknown power.
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Electronic Music Information is a diversified brand of electronic music, only in WeChat official accounts platform, enjoy reading more than 300,000 subscribers, more than 50 million views total, surprisingly output more than 4,000 pure original articles, in the new media and begin from January 1, 2019 involving a wide range of electronic music related business such as artist team, as XING KONG talent team is busy behind the scenes in the practical work.
In October 2019, XING KONG was invited to participate in the 10-year-anniversary official tour of Never Say Die Records, which is one of the world's largest Heavy Dubstep labels, Shenzhen site, China.
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XING KONG emphasizes stylized, highly-recognized sound design, iconic personal style, poetic arrangements and innovative ideas, all of which were verified by internationally renowned DJs / producers. In November 2019, his "Magnets (XING KONG Remix)" won the championship after participating in the China Remix competition jointly launched by Asia404 and Snails / Zeds Dead.
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By the end of November 2019, Electronic Music Information began its 4TH Anniversary Tour, which was performed by the Electronic Music Information artists XING KONG, Yaakov and KOOOZ with total eleven sites. Numerous media with more than 10 million followers promoted the tour. Among them, XING KONG was invited by IMF and ESMI to run an IMF official pre-party with thousands of ravers and served as the only headliner of the whole show.
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On January 9, 2020, the "China Top 20 Dubstep Artists" ranking held by China's Dubstep media DubstepCN announced the results, and XING KONG came to the 7th place with almost no canvassing.
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On February 23, 2020, XING KONG was invited by bilibili official and Kanjian music to become the guest of the stage for the three-day "B站宅现场" livestream music event. Its DJ set and project tutorial show reached a maximum of 13,000 viewers online. The record of watching online at the same time became one of the most popular DJ / producer live broadcasts of the day.
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XING KONG is trying to becoming an active tour DJ. His shows amazed representative nightclubs, bars, Live Houses in cities such as Chengdu, Chongqing, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Shanghai, Suzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Foshan, Zhuhai, Jieyang, Guangzhou and so on. He also shows in home parties, warehouse parties and music festival stages, and made many sold out shows, venues and event promoters of the cooperation also have more weight.
图片来自XING KONG Press Kit Folder 图片版权属于原主XING KONG has never stopped his work, he keeps trying his best to prove to the West the power of electronic music of the East. In the first half of 2020 alone, XING KONG's songs were signed and released by several Western record labels, include but not limited to track Mirkwood Hunting which was released at Russian label Glitchworld Recordings, track 30 which was released at American label Visum Collective, a blockbuster bass banger which has been put on the release schedule.
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XING KONG's single Mirkwood Hunting released at Glitchworld Recordings was picked up by Glitchworld Recordings its annual compilation Glitchworld Bass Bomb and was put to the first place, and uploaded and re-posted on numerous channels overseas, including but not limited to Nation of Dubstep, WONXX Promotions (founded by MONXX), DubstepBeatMusic DBM, Darkness Legion, MasterOfDubstep, Dubbass Sound Arfex, Dubstep Latin America, SLY and so on.
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XING KONG subsequently received similar treatment with his track 30 released at Visum Collective, oversea channels which supported this track including but not limited to Nation of Dubstep, DubstepBeatMusic DBM, Darkness Legion, MasterOfDubstep, Dubbass Sound Arfex, Dubstep Latin America, Kill Trap Spell and so on.
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Back in the DipperX period a few years ago, his work was uploaded to channels such as Royale Beats and Dubstep Evolution Music.
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Starting from 2019 to no end, most of the music works produced by XING KONG from 2012 to 2020 are gradually distributed or published to dozens or even hundreds of streaming media platforms around the world by Electronic Music Information with correct release time.
图片来自XING KONG Press Kit Folder 图片版权属于原主May 9, 2020, his track 桜の花びらたち (XING KONG Bootleg) got on Top 200 Electronic in iTunes Music Japan.
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May 30, 2020, XING KONG’s track 30 and the compilation that includes it Reveles Visum: Third Calling together got on the Beatport Dubstep Top 100 Releases.
图片来自XING KONG Press Kit Folder 图片版权属于原主On June 10, 2020, XING KONG also interviewed Duke & Jones, a British duo. This interview was not only released by Electronic Music Information on WeChat official accounts platform, but also shared on social media by well-known brands such as Duke & Jones and Liquid State.
Only a few Chinese producers / DJs have produced and released dubstep since 2012, and stick to dubstep includes it’s sub-genres as the main genre till now. Judging by XING KONG's accumulated qualifications, strength and even ambition, he is facing his international artist goals, don't think that's all XING KONG has really experienced in eight years, ‘cause everything is building up.
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If you have any business cooperation needs related to XING KONG, such as artist booking, artist management, various agency works, and record collaboration or something, please send an email to davidyandrinofficial@gmail.com of XING KONG's manager.————————————————————————
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