Tzusing

Tzu Sing Tho, known as Tzusing, was born in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, and grew up between Singapore, Taichung, Shanghai and San Diego before studying at Columbia College Chicago. He began DJing in 2002 at Chicago's Smartbar, later became a resident at The Shelter in Shanghai, and now works from Taipei. L.I.E.S. released his A Name Out Of Place EP series from 2014 to 2016 and his first album, Dongfang Bubai, in 2017, named after a character from a wuxia novel. A split EP on PAN followed in 2019, and PAN also released his second album, Green Hat, in 2023. His music fuses industrial techno with Chinese folk sounds, trap and pop, and in 2021 he started the label Sea Cucumber. He recorded a Dekmantel podcast and played Lentekabinet in 2018.