A few of those Mandarin songs are covers of Teresa Teng, there wasn't much pop culture coming out of communist China before the 2000's. I remember HK-pop and J-pop was the in thing back then, long before both got inundated and buried by the K-wave.

That bass mix was a nice confirmation that my system's settings are dialed in and that Dolby Digital upmixing is magical.

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