33EMYBW is a producer and digital visual artist who's known for her hyper-rhythmic, experimental sonics released via Shanghai-born label SVBKVLT.

The artist – real name Wu Shanmin – is at the forefront of a wave of experimental club music coming out of Shanghai, and a prominent artist within the Chinese underground scene. Her distinct sound pulls from traditional folk music and visual influences, with her latest album, Holes of Sinian, themed around time, the porous qualities of the sinian stone and the history of the earth. The artist's notes on the album explore the notion of creating music about ghosts of the Ediacaran biota that "drift from rocky crevices into another dimension, from hole to hole".

So far, the artist has released four studio albums. After the drop of 2018's Golem, she quickly garnered praise from the likes of Kode9, Akito and Desto, with Aphex Twin enlisting her for his curated night at The Warehouse Project in 2019. That same year, she released the genre-bending album Arthropods, which cropped up across end of year lists at music publications and resulted in her being internationally recognised as one of the most forward-thinking artists to operate within China's underground scene.

Aside from her own music, she's soundtracked exhibitions such as Weirdcore's first solo show in Beijing in 2021, titled Orient Flux. Her latest LP sees her expand her network, linking up with artists Marina Herlop, Batu, Forrest Gander and oxi peng for collaborations.

As someone who's worked across China's music scene for over a decade, we trust that 33EMYBW has a wealth of knowledge on where to go. Here, she lets us in on her top Shanghai spots to dine in.