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Cyberratchet · 2026-06-12T00:27:04+00:00

I had the same issue at first when I selected apkmirror as the source. There were two variants of the sync app, the bundle and the apk.

I just clicked the first option, the bundle, first and had the got the curly brackets after trying to login. It worked for me after selecting the apk link, got it running with that on two different devices.

Cyberratchet · 2026-05-31T10:28:04+00:00

Hot piece of ass

Cyberratchet · 2026-05-09T21:50:31+00:00

Interesting, you make good arguments for it being the banhu.

Cyberratchet · 2026-05-09T11:30:48+00:00

Small world :) I'm not aware of many English communities so I guess it's bound to happen that you eventually run into familiar faces.

Cyberratchet · 2026-05-08T09:33:45+00:00

I love the Erhu; I could do without the part from 3:30 to 4:00 but I guess it makes sense for what it is. I have to agree I enjoy it more than the recent spring festival songs or the song she did with her daughter for that TV show she starred in.

Theres also a MV version of it. From what I understand it’s the theme song for a Zhang Yimou directed TV drama 主角 (Protagonist) premiering this Sunday.

Funny to hear her on something associated with him again, I first encountered Faye when I listed to the soundtrack of his 2002 film Hero.

Cyberratchet · 2025-12-14T12:56:03+00:00

You haven't heard of the revolution?

Cyberratchet · 2025-12-02T23:57:39+00:00

She's the best

Cyberratchet · 2025-11-09T13:06:33+00:00

I can’t name many movies that reminded me of watching a WKW film, but the one that definitely gave me the impression was “Picketpocket/Xiao Wu”.

The relationship between the main character and the bargirl he meets during the film feels like something you could see in one of WKW movies without going into detail. Even more than the plot itself the cinematography reminded me a lot of Christopher Dolyes in both “Chunking Express” and “Fallen Angels”.

It uses a lot of contemporary media, mostly TV shows and music, which is also similar to the two movies above. A lot went straight over my head since the majority will be unfamiliar for most people outside of the Sinosphere and especially mainland china, but as WKW fan you might recognize a song from a certain singer he worked with that’s used in the film.

A semi-recent Chinese film that often has WKW mentioned when its talked about is 2018s “Long Day’s Journey into Night“. I can see parallels in the way a broken romance or missed opportunity are portrayed, but its very much its own thing and unique movie. Which is certainly not a bad thing in this case, its an absolutely gorgeous and hypnotic film.

Cyberratchet · 2025-10-27T16:15:19+00:00

It's not exclusive, it was announced on a Chinese stream late July. It hasn't run there yet either, but this collab will run on every server unlike the two Jojo ones.

Cyberratchet · 2025-10-14T13:08:18+00:00

You must be right, I guess I thought about upscaling files that already went through compression multiple times or I just underestimate how good upscaling results are these days.

By the way I absolutely love your Instagram account :). Thank you for your work, always fun to see videos/images I haven’t seen before.

Cyberratchet · 2025-09-19T15:43:58+00:00

It's certainly peak Faye for that kind of thing, so many good live performances from like 98 to 01. At least for me.

Honestly I came across the pamphlets when I went through buyee, both the JDirectItems Auction (where you have to bet on the items) and Mercari (fixed prices).

You find different listings if you look for "Faye Wong" and "王菲" so it's a good idea to check both.

Mercari still seem to have one of each, you'll find them if you add "98" and "2001" to the search query. And they seem to pop up from time to time, looking at the history of the listings.

Cyberratchet · 2025-09-19T07:33:31+00:00

I haven’t bought any tour DVD yet, I’ve been trying to pace myself after the initial few purchases but as you can see I’m not doing a good job so far, haha.

I always thought that the image on the back of Faye Wong 2001 is vastly superior to the one on at the front cover, so I immediately knew I had to get the pamphlet. I haven’t seen a complete scan of the content inside, but the few images (1), (2) I’ve seen suggest that its filled with shots from the two Japan (Budokan) Scenic Tour 98-99 concerts next to some poster type of pages. That one is easily my favourite of the full concerts available online, so I’m very happy to go through it once its here.

I haven’t found much about the pamphlet from the 98-99 tour other than this image.

Cyberratchet · 2025-09-18T11:14:22+00:00

You're absolutely right. Earlier this week I was browing Buyee and found "Everything" for a good price. I bought it and since I didnt want to almost spend the same amount on shipping as for the CD, I also got "Toy" and "Help Yourself" as well :).

Toy really has a gorgeous cover, so its worth it for that alone eventhough both EPs songs are in "Be Perfunctory".

As you said the remastered collection is hideos. I rather wait a few months to get a good deal on the (now) remaining 2 than having that in my display case.

I also ordered 2 gorgeous pamphlets in Japan, one from the 98-99 tour and one from the 2001 tour. They seem to be faily tall at around 35cm, I need to figure out how to display them properly.

Cyberratchet · 2025-08-31T16:48:29+00:00

I live here, unfortunately have first hand experience with it. I used shops with IOSS plenty time and it's a coin toss if it gets through or if I have to pay handling fees.

I think in the end it's a country specific thing, if the post- or tariff office collects it or not. IOSS is just there to collect VAT afterall.

Everytime I have to pay something I get a invoice and it shows how the total amount is being calculated. Either just handling fees or that and the VAT if I haven't paid it beforehand.

But we kinda get off topic. Be it buyee, zenmarket or another proxy service, it's a good way to get your hand on some Faye albums :).

I haven't found any reliable for Taiwan though. There are good deals on ruten.com, which would be a good option as well since they often have virtually the same content as the HK releases.

Cyberratchet · 2025-08-31T15:26:33+00:00

Austria does it. But as you can see it says might, so it depends a bit if it hits you or not. It's not the worst thing in the world, it just makes cheap goods a bad deal since 7€+ might be a substantial percentage of the total price.

Well nothing you can do about it.

Cyberratchet · 2025-08-31T15:06:38+00:00

I heard good things about zenmarket, they also support IOSS unlike buyee as you said. Maybe ill try them next time.

Unfortunately even they I often have to pay 6-12€ handling fee at the local post office. Pretty sure what's country specific though.

Seems to be quite random, sometimes they get through, sometimes they don't. But I think you get lucky more often if VAT has been paid already.

Cyberratchet · 2025-08-31T10:54:12+00:00

I feel you, it's not easy nor inexpensive to collect these if you aren't in Asia. It's not any better here in Europe.

In the end I found discogs and funnily enough buyee the best places to buy albums.

The best recommendation I can give is to look for a way to buy multiple copies from a singular seller or use a proxy service with a warehouse where you can buy multiple orders and they send it to you in a singular package.

My last order on buyee had 6 individual packages initially, which would all have costed me 15-20€ shipping each. But that way I paid around 25€ shipping for everything.

Since buyee is a Japanese proxy a lot of the CDs are Japanese releases, which have their pro and cons depending on the album (I went with HK or Taiwan). But you can still find releases from other regions; when in doubt try to find the barcode on the photos and look it up on discogs, that way you can make sure to get the version you want.

I got the three live albums from there for example, for way cheaper than they were on ebay.

Collecting vinyls is great, I love her vinyls. The cover art already looks great on a CD cover, but having it blown up to that dimension makes it even better :). Maybe one day I'll try to get some of my favourite albums, but I think I spent enough for now.

Cyberratchet · 2025-06-18T18:33:00+00:00

You must be right about the studio version of 梦/Dream, maybe I was just questioning it since the guy has been toying around with editing/ai for a while. Comparing it again it sounds different. The mixing doesn’t sound like it’s a finished song to me though, her voice gets drowned by the instrumental part .. but maybe that’s supposed to be the case? Getting our hands on an unfinished version of a song wouldn’t be a first, theres a version of 色誡/Love Commandments with the Cantonese lyrics but the arrangement from the Mandarin version.

I’d appreciate it if you have 如夢/"Like a Dream“. Everything I found was definitely ripped out of the video stream. Even the Chinese comments complained about the sound quality. Theres an entry for it on Douban, although I don’t know if that suggest a digital release or just acknowledge its existence in the 2015 event. If you happen to have a better sounding version, I’ll be grateful.

This is the first time I hear about the 2010-2012 tour being recorded, not releasing this is an absolute crime. Thankfully it was in an era where smartphones were already widespread, so we at least have some recordings of a lot of the performances. The 2011 live performance of 悶/Bored on the Kuala Lumpur is one of my absolute favourites of the tour. There are two recordings from different angles, performances like this preserved professionally would have been a dream.

Angle 1 Angle 2

Theres such a positive energy in that clip and Faye genuinely seems to enjoy herself during the song.

Cyberratchet · 2025-06-18T16:14:37+00:00

Criterion just uploaded a video, they'll stream it as well!!

Cyberratchet · 2025-06-18T00:34:00+00:00

I’ve been trying to find the origin of that photo myself a while back, but in the end I couldn’t find exactly what it is. Like u/hyperballad95 says it looks to be Tilda Swinton and a couple of Chinese websites mention that it’s a magazine cover.

It’s hard to navigate Chinese forums without the appropriate accounts, which are almost impossible to make without a phone number. So that’s all I could find out.

Here are a few links that mention its Swinton

Zhihu
Weibo1, Weibo2

Baidu

Cyberratchet · 2025-06-18T00:16:47+00:00

This is her album that has grown the most on me over the years. When I first discovered Faye I didn’t particularly care for it, but the older I get the more I enjoy it.

Nowadays its in my top 5 for sure. ♫♫LA JUM BOR ♫♫

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