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十年水流东，十年水流西——五条人2009-2023日本精选专辑
DESIGNER : Hu Zhenchao
PHOTOGRAPHY : Hu Zhenchao
CLIENT : WUTIAOREN
YEAR : 2025

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This landmark release marks Wu Tiao Ren's inaugural overseas record publication - a poetic full-circle moment. Two decades ago, the band's founding members subsisted in Guangzhou by trading imported "Dakou discs" (cut-out Western records), through which they absorbed their foundational musical influences. Now releasing albums in the very nations that once exported these cultural commodities, this symbolic cycle embodies both cultural retrospection and subversion: a reimagining of the "export countries" by the Dakou generation, and the globalization of the Pearl River Delta's distinctive "sonic vernacular" - transforming regional musical dialects into a transnational conversation.

十年水流东，十年水流西——五条人2009-2023日本精选专辑，是五条人乐队首次在海外发行唱片；二十多年前，乐队两位主创则是在广州以贩卖海外唱片为生，俗称“打口碟”，并形成了最早的音乐养分积累，如今在“出口国”出版唱片，一个具有象征意味的轮回——是打口一代对“出口国‘的反刍和逆袭，是珠三角“音乐土特产”的全球化。

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