Animal Soundtrack This article is from "Yitiaotv" Shanghai Revitalization Plan. The name seems to be that of a construction company. In fact, it is an electronic band from Brooklyn, New York. The band was established in 2005 and it has been 14 years now.

Band members Dave Liang and Sun Yunfan, one is a Chinese who grew up in the United States and graduated from the Department of Applied Mathematics, and the other is a Shenzhen girl who later came to the United States to study visual arts. After graduation, they both worked as office workers because they like music and art.

Say goodbye to each other, create together, and live together.

They combine their own life experiences and integrate Chinese folk music, hip-hop, jazz and electronic music into their music. They have topped many electronic music charts in the world. Their various creations over the past ten years have allowed them to accumulate many fans in China.

Recently they returned to Shanghai from New York to perform, and a film crew followed them to attend music festivals and travel around Shanghai.

Self-report Dave Liang, Sun Yunfan Editor Chen Xing Dave: The name of our band is Shanghai Restoration Project, and its Chinese name is Shanghai Renaissance Project. It is an electronic musician group. The current members are Yunfan and I.

I founded the band in 2005, so it has been 14 years now and has released more than a dozen albums.

Yunfan started helping the band with visual projections for live performances, designing posters and album covers in 2011, and later gradually joined the band in music creation and arrangement.

Starting from the "Life Elsewhere" album in 2022, the band's music has been created by us together.

We write songs together, release music, collaborate with other artists, and perform everywhere.

From the beginning to the present, our music has always been integrated with many different elements: from classical to hip-hop, jazz, samba, Chinese folk music, electronics, atmosphere, etc., they are all part of our musical chemistry.

One person was born in China, and the other person was born in the United States. Dave: I was born in Kansas, USA, and grew up in upstate New York.

Although my parents are both scientists, they both like to sing. My mother could play the guzheng and sing Peking Opera when she was young. My grandfather played the flute very well, so I would listen to some Chinese folk music since I was a child.

Outside of family, I have also studied classical piano and jazz piano since I was a child, and also played jazz trumpet.

In high school, I also participated in a rock band and choir.

In college, I studied applied mathematics and economics, but spent most of my time rehearsing in the choir and performing around the world every summer.

After graduating in 2000, I went to work in a management company. It was very boring and I couldn't stand it after one year.

Later, I started working during the day and interned at a hip-hop record company in Harlem, New York, at night, learning beats from some black musicians.

After a few months, I quit my job and became a musician.

After working in this industry for a few more years, I didn't establish my own record company and band until 2005.

Yunfan: I was born in Fengxian County, Shaanxi Province, China, and grew up in Xi'an and Shenzhen.

As a child, I learned piano, ballet and painting.

But I still studied finance in college, worked for two or three years after graduation, and then returned to school to study oil painting.

My parents are both from the south. When I went to college, they were assigned to a remote mountainous area in the Qinling Mountains after graduation. Although there was a lack of supplies, they still tried their best to live a more prosperous life.

One year, in Xi'an, they didn't know where they got a recipe book for a state banquet with exquisite photos.

During the Chinese New Year, they actually cooked food for me and my brother according to the photos of the state banquet, and carved phoenixes and put them out.

This left a deep impression on my mind.

Although Dave and I grew up in very different childhood environments, we are both lucky enough to have preserved some emotional touch during our growth.

As long as you keep your antennae, you will be willing to do different things when you grow up.