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The Factory and Mine Dependents

by Re:Layers (磊落)

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The Factory and Mine Dependents 05:30
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我知道你喜欢种花， 在阳台上，泡一杯热茶 孩子啊，你相信这一切。 你为我安排的路上， 是金属碰撞的巨响。 跳跃的麦芒上，那细碎的夕阳。 一天，又一天；一年，又是一年。 一天，又一天；一年，又一年。 我们在“幸福之地”歌唱， 人们却紧闭了门窗。 抱怨的双眼， 和那些，干涸的谣言 我所谓的出走， 是另一种接近你的方式， 你的离去，是我认识你的开始。 多少年，过了多少年； 没有人再提那些从前， 他们羡慕我的伤痕， 却质疑一切可能的改变。 你走过的路上 花儿在安静地、安静地生长 那空白的地方，有细碎的夕阳 一天，又一天；一年，又是一年。 一天，又一天；一年，又一年。 一天，又一天；一年，又是一年。 一天，又一天；一年，又一年。
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Promise 04:05
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A Life Different From The Older Generation 04:00
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Power Division 02:47
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They Call It Running Away 03:52
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Jose Guzman - Twilight on the Aristate 05:41
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Land of Happiness 05:30
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The Last FMD 06:38
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Lili 06:13
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想带你，去外面走走， 别忘了，要牵着手， 想带你，去山上看看， 那里有，一片海。 静静地，你来到，我的身旁； 哦——你学会哭，又学会几句话， 慢慢又都忘啦。 哦我最喜欢， 看你微笑，跟你拥抱，教你帮帮忙； 帮帮忙，这让我知道... 带你，去楼下走走， 别忘了，要牵着手， 带你去，山上看看， 那里有，有一片海。 每次回到家，欢呼的，总是你； 每次再离开，拥抱的，也是你； 晚饭之前的世纪广场， 热热闹闹，熙熙攘攘，让我们， 我们跳个舞吧，跳完再回家。 带你，去外面走走， 别忘了，要牵着手， 带你，再去山上看看， 那里有，有一片海。 这是你的生活，也是我的生活， 这是你的生活，也是我们的生活， 这是你的生活，也是我的生活， 这是你的生活，也是我们的生活，

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The Story of The FMDs
- We were just looking for a way to live a life that was different from our elder generations.

In the small town of Boshan, which was based on factories and mining enterprises, all of the town's construction and development was linked to an enormous industrial complex. The factory compound was composed of the housing which was distributed by the companies, and the replacement of positions among various departments of the companies formed the basis of feelings which were maintained between multiple generations. After the factory closed down and production came to a halt, people's living habits in the compound remained frozen in time. In the midst of a society experiencing rapid development, they turned into a dwindling no man’s land; a perennially unchanged "place of happiness".

For Wang Lei, in the early 1990s, he made a plan to leave the mediocre life of the factory and mine dependents of the Boshan compound. In "They Call it Running Away" and "A Life Different From Their Parents", we hear the collision between young people, who are determined to leave, and their surroundings. Such decisions may seem like a flash of fire, but in reality, they are manifested in breaking away from the original family, and the inevitable result this has on the parent-child bond.

In the process of growing up, we are inevitably faced with the concept of escape time and again. In each instance that we make the decision to leave, our mind becomes more mature, due to a tearing away from the present and a synthesis of the future. When we collide with the worldview of our predecessors, we all experience a stage of “hormonal explosion”; we are destined to refuse to rationally compare the struggles of the previous generation, or try to comprehend any well-intended or rashly given advice. It was only when Wang Lei's father died many years ago, and he became a father himself, that he really began to reflect on the relationship between himself and his father, and began to cherish the memory of those things which he had previously had.

Day after day, year after year. Our present is created by the very things which we cannot tolerate, while the people and events which we fail to comprehend will ultimately predict the collisions of our future. The FMDs can be seen as a prosy elegy of a working class family, which has been seeking reconciliation for half a century.

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released August 24, 2020

Album cover inscription: Wang Zuan
Cover design: INTOX DESIGN NETWORK
Artistic support: SHENZHEN FRINGE ART CENTRE
Composition: Wang Lei, Yile
Arrangement: Wang Lei, Yile

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Re:Layers (磊落) Shenzhen, China

【Re:Layers】 is a band of two producers and musicians, bassist Wang Lei and keyboardist Wang Yile.

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