《被丢失的他》单曲封面
视觉设计：ZD
如同“Backspace”一词，这是一支充满数字化时代年轻人敏感气质的乐队。Motorik式鼓点、紧凑而戏剧性的贝斯、大段吉他配合，时而如冲浪音乐般清亮婉转，时而如凶兆显现般冥响嚎叫。而充满失落感和反复质问句式的歌词则为他们拒绝进入污秽的成人世界的表态，充满随意性和挑衅性。
，音乐风格也蜕变得更加“凶狠”和“腥臭”。去年签约兵马司后乐队进棚录制了乐队的首张专辑《人性建筑》，P.K.14主唱杨海崧录音制作。全长专辑也将于6月29日正式与大家见面。
从左至右：贝斯/ 大龙 吉他/ 阿辉 主唱&吉他/ 郑冬 鼓/ 毛特
摄影：杜怀一
对于许多乐迷朋友来说，Backspace仍然是一个陌生的名字。今天我们邀请了最了解年轻乐队也是最了解Backspace的老外，中国摇滚乐的“白求恩”——LiveBeijingMusic的主理人William以第三者的视角为大家介绍，描述他眼中的“腥臭小子”。并邀请乐队的好朋友，The Bedstars乐队主唱赵凯翻译了这篇意味深长的“腥臭小传”。
文／ Will Griffith
译／赵凯
在音乐场景写稿七年，我已经习惯了看着乐队们成长蜕变、一夜消失或是改顺时潮。我曾看着乐队出卖自己。也曾看过乐队学着谦卑。我见识过真正的战友情谊，也目睹过兄弟间的夺位之战。到了这时节，已经没什么事能再让我吃惊。可同时，我又发现自己依然铁托着某些乐队，活脱一个精神错乱的啦啦队员，或者更不堪些——一满身劲酒味儿的怪叔叔。
总之，2016年9月第一次在乐空间看到噪音摇滚乐队Backspace的演出时，我两耳一颤。也许是因为乐队温柔又散漫的举止。那弥漫着混响的凝视般声音分明预示着深植内心的神经症就要倾泻而发。不管为何——我被吸引了。当时我还不知道，实际上那仅仅是乐队的第一场正式演出。以这样的方式与日后场景中最为有活力的乐队之一相遇，够意思。
Backspace首次演出现场 “Frank一天”派对
摄影：一人日月
如果你以为Backspace是突然冒出来的一支乐队，那就错了。相反，Backspace的处女秀不过是几位成员作为音乐人进化中的一步，更重要的，也是他们作为来自中国玉林的年轻人进化中的一步。
乐队的几位成员——包括主唱郑冬、吉他手阿辉、贝斯手大龙和鼓手毛特——早年间就在老家广西玉林的亚热带盆地中相识。初中时郑冬开始拨弄吉他，有次他在乐器店瞥见了貌似好搞的阿辉，立马将其招入乐队。两人一起组建了一支高中乐队，演奏的是从布鲁斯到流行的任何音乐——基本上就是能让我逃避高中痛苦生活的任何音乐。也是在这个时期，他们又认识了贝斯手大龙（虽然同在一座城市，但毛特直到大学时期才出场）并开始在寒暑假一起演出。虽然这些经历让几个孩子开了眼界，但他们谁也没指望能作为乐手走入人生的下一阶段——北京的大学生活开始了。
摄影：杜怀一
几人的专业让他们获得了在艺术世界里工作的机会——郑冬做动画、阿辉做园林设计、大龙做实验艺术、毛特画画——但提起大学几年，他们却都没什么好气，尤其是郑冬，将那几年视为令人窒息的体验。更别提其中俩人还在那会儿被姑娘伤得可以。虽然他们没有直白承认，但很明显，年轻成年人生活中出现的新空洞，却成了他们孤注一掷投身音乐的完美时机。郑冬开始四处联络朋友和曾经的队友（其中包括一直在乐队待到2017年的施力轩）。于是，2016年夏天，Backspace初现雏形。
摄影：杜怀一
乐队的首支单曲“Romantic Young”发行在中国年轻独立乐队合集《Nerd Noise》中，及至此时，他们所曾展现的一切dream pop表象都已从乐队的盛装中褪去。Backspace心智中的缝合线逐渐崩裂，几人开始暴露在冲浪摇滚的激情和后朋克的坚韧中。在那年年底辗转DDC、坛以及热力猫的一系列的暖场演出上，Backspace给在场的观众们（甚至包括我年过八旬的父亲）送上了大大的意外惊喜。
乐队初期首支《Romantic Young》收录在中国年轻独立乐队合集《Nerd Noise》。此后Backpace的创作方向放生巨大逆转，dream pop表象褪去，冲浪摇滚的激情和后朋克的坚韧开始在他们的音乐中兴风作浪。
2017年，他们继续探索打磨自己的声音，并在北京地下摇滚圈获得了更多的注意（为噪音摇滚乐队Cloud Nothings开场显然是走向正确方向的一步）。乐队不买社会帐的态度以及某种微妙的丧失感也更深地融入他们的音乐，将他们的现场演出变成了狂热能量包裹的音乐杂烩大旋风。
2017年3月底在School的那场炸裂演出简直犹如是一次大曝光——在这个时刻，乐队的声音终于清晰响亮地传入了各方耳中，我当时就预测，这场演出会让乐队当场被签走。也算猜的差不离儿，三个月后，乐队签约厂牌兵马司。
2017年7月，Backspace签约兵马司唱片
照片拍摄于兵马司小院
但即便是在签约之后，乐队依旧置外界期望如罔闻，把从迷幻到Krautrock的各式手段一股脑整合进自己的武器库。随后乐队先是踏上了一场喧闹而令人谦恭的江浙巡演，又在国庆期间与自己的同辈和偶像一起站上了兵马司十周年大秀的舞台。之后乐队进棚与传奇人物杨海崧合作录制专辑——并力求在唱片中重现现场声音。多数乐队都会对第一张专辑的声音一丝不苟、精细打磨，Backspace却尽可能放手不掺杂，将自己扭曲声音的本质与精华原封不动地呈现。
2017年底的几场演出中，Backspace在Krautrock领域又深涉一步，邀请来自瑞士的好友兼合作者临时加入乐队演奏键盘，双方的几次长度即兴合作也带来了共鸣和惊喜 ——正是这样的不期而遇让乐队愉快地忙碌并全速前进着。
拍摄：国栋 剪辑：Backspace
2018年以来，Backspace酷劲不改——排练、上班、喝酒、看演出——一边以柔克刚一边兵来将挡。几个人虽年轻气盛，却也只是刚刚踏上旅程，而这场旅程则是一次意味更深规模更大的策划。
每每有人讲起Backspace的成长史，提及最多的就是这支乐队作为一个整体的完美运行。乐队成员间所具有的那种化学是不可能被伪装出来的。而对套路的厌倦已深深嵌入Backspace的声音和人格，每一波新音乐浪潮的来袭，每一段音乐征程的开启，他们都竖起百经锤炼的耳朵，迎接着所及之处的一切不确定。成长，也许就是一瞬间的事。
[英文]
Backspace 传
By Will Griffith
Over the course of seven years in covering the music scene, I’ve grown accustomed to seeing bands grow out of their shells, disintegrate overnight, and/or adapt with the times. I’ve seen bands sell out. I’ve seen bands be humbled. I’ve seen true comradery, and egos battle it out. Nothing shocks me at this point. At the same time, I still find myself rooting for certain bands out there, like a deranged cheerleader or even worse, your creepy uncle who reeks of jinjiu. When I first caught noise rock outfit Backspace at Yue Space in September of 2016, my ears perked up ever so slightly. Perhaps it was the band’s tender yet scrappy demeanor. Their reverb-soaked gazing tunes that hinted at a deep-seeded neurosis struggling to break free. Whatever it was – I was hooked. It didn’t even dawn on me until later that this was, in fact, the band’s stage debut. Hell of an introduction to what would become one of the scene’s most voracious bands.
Photo by：Du Huaiyi
It would be wrong to assume Backspace was a band that emerged seemingly out of nowhere. On the contrary, Backspace’s debut was simply a step in its member’s evolution as musicians and more importantly, as young adults who all hailed from Yulin, China. Each of its members, including vocalist Zheng Dong, guitarist Ahui, bassist Da Long and drummer Mao Te, crossed paths in the small hilly subtropical basin in the southeastern part of Guangxi where they grew up. It was there in the limelight of junior high school, Zheng Dong who had already started dabbling in guitar, spotted the seemingly at ease Ahui in an instrument shop, and immediately enlisted him. Together they formed a high school band, playing everything from blues to pop – basically anything to keep my minds distracted from the daily grind of high school life. They would later meet their bass player Da Long (though from the same city, Mao Te didn’t enter the picture till their university days) and began performing together during winter and summer breaks. Whilst it was an eye-opening experience for them, they never expected to follow their paths as musicians into the next phase of their lives – university life in Beijing.
Photo by：Du Huaiyi
While each of their studies led them to work in the art world - Zheng Dong in animation, Ahui landscape design, Da Long in experimental art, and Mao Te in painting - they don’t look too fondly on their university years, particularly Zheng Dong who views those years as a suffocating experience. It didn’t help that a few of them had had their hearts broken during this time. And while they don’t outright admit it, it’s clear this new void in their young adult lives left them with the perfect opportunity to hedge their bets and try to make it as a full-fledged band. Zheng Dong reached out and pleaded his case to his friends and past bandmates (which included Shi Lixuan who performed with the band until 2017) and in the summer of 2016, the prototype for Backspace was born.
By the time ‘Romantic Young’, the band’s first single off of Nerd Noise, a comprehensive compilation of up and coming indie rock talent across China, was released, all semblances of dream pop romance have rotted out of the band’s attire. The steams of the band’s psyche have already begun to crack, opening them up to a world of surf rock fervor and post-punk grit. Audiences (including surprisingly my eighty-year-old father) were blindsided by the bands opening sets at a series of year-end gigs at DDC, Temple, and Hot Cat Club – putting them firmly on every promoter’s radar and leading to just about everyone who came upon them asking just who the hell where these cats were.
Backspace would further explore the nooks and crannies of their sound in 2017, whilst gaining further traction with the underground rock scene in Beijing (opening up for staple noise rockers Cloud Nothings was certainly a step in the right direction). Their refusal to take society at face value and their sense of forfeiture bled into their music even more, turning their sets into a whirlwind of musical styles wrapped up in frantic energy. A rollicking outing at School Bar in late March 2017 felt like a revelation - a defiant moment where the band’s voice was finally being heard loud and clear, and I predicted, the moment that would get the band signed. I was close – the band would be signed to Maybe Mars three months later.
Photo by：Du Huaiyi
Ever after getting signed, the band continued to play around with expectations, integrating everything from psychedelic boogie to full on krautrock into their arsenal. They hit the road for a nourishing, boisterous and humbling tour through Shanghai, Ningbo, Yiwu, and Hangzhou, playing with both their peers and idols, before joining Maybe Mars’ Ten Year Anniversary extravaganza over the National Holiday. Recording with the legendary Yang Haisong faced the band with yet another challenge – finding ways to keep their sound as pure as their live sets. While most bands would meticulously lord over the sound of their debut album, Backspace wanted to keep it as unfastened and unadulterated as possible, keeping the essence of their twisting sound intact. As a palate cleanser, the band jumped further into krautrock territory in late 2017 when their friend and fellow musician from Switzerland joined them on keyboard for a few gigs finding refuge and unexpected surprises in their lengthy jam sessions – surprises that happily kept the band on their toes and kept them charging forward full steam ahead.
Since 2018, Backspace has kept their cool – rehearsing, working, drinking, watching performances – rolling with the punches and taking it one day at the time. Despite their youth and all the follies of it, the band has embarked on quite the journey, one that’s only just beginning in the larger scheme of things. Charting the course of Backspace’s evolution what is most prevalent is how well the band functions as a unit. There’s an interplay between its members that simply can’t be faked. It’s ingrained in the fabric of Backspace’s sound and even as the band refuses to stick to any formula, they hit each new wave and musical jaunt with a sophisticated ear, open to the uncertainties that lay within their reach. Oh how fast they grow up.
/ 被丢失的他 /
作曲 : Backspace
作词 : 郑冬冬
录制&制作：杨海崧
关于一切离开的想法
你却感叹感叹而丢失他
密密麻麻地生根发芽
你努力的地看到他
散播你的计划
如果你真的丢失他
你赶快快快找我吧
你抢我的头脑去梦里寻找他
我漫无目的的伤口在开始探索那潮湿的石头啊
如果你发现丢失他
请你赶快找寻我吧
如果你真的丢失他
你赶快快快找我吧
我好像又在梦里再次见到他
我好像又在梦里再次见到他
我好像又在过去再次见到他
他告诉你别再沮丧
请你赶快快快寻找我吧
附：去年巡演至杭州时，我做过一篇Backspace的采访，请点击：是什么风正在吹过来？ 这篇采访也收录在了我自出版的书籍《重返乐园》中，欢迎至豆瓣阅读搜索。
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