Musical tearaway Cao Jian Jun  lets rip.

SH: Describe your music.
CJJ: It’s not music, it’s noise. It’s completely random. We don’t need musical instruments. I’ve played a hammer in an abandoned factory before.

SH: Audience reaction?
CJJ: Most of the time, they have no reaction. There aren’t many places that welcome us to play here but I don’t care. NOIshanghai is a monthly thing now and the audiences are getting more and more used to it.

SH: Shanghai’s music scene?
CJJ: I don’t care. I only care about noise.

SH: Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore is a fan of yours:
CJJ: I don’t like him or his band. They are too rock’n’roll. I don’t care if he’s a fan. What we do is totally different. I don’t care if they like us.

SH: DJ scratching is noise. Is there any relationship between your noise and theirs?
CJJ: DJ scratching has rhythm – it’s not noise to me. My noise is full of hatred. I still insist on noise even when I want to relax, because that’s not noisy to me at all.

SH: Will you go the DMC finals this week?
CJJ: Are you kidding? I hate disco, IDM, d’n’b,  anything like that. I hate their rhythms.