Live Beijing Music invites two bands - from Xi’an and Wuhan - to make the pilgrimage over to Beijing and light up the scene for one night only. The young Xi’an trip-hop act WestByWest who made big noise this year - and while music is digital in a large sense, the emotion is purely organic, evoking a rigid cold serving of haunting beauty and resonating lyricism that lingers long after. Out of Wuhan comes electro rockers Cod New, one of the city’s busiest acts – playing everything from festivals to opening for heavyweight groups like Ratatat – their sound finds the ‘balance between electronic samples, musical instruments and all its possibilities only to then restructure that sound into the real world’. Local support from indielectronic duo Nocturnes, who have been on a tear since their debut LP last winter - slick downbeat grooves that ripple outwards, ghostly vocals weighed down in emotion, and a keen sense of the bittersweet beauty.