Broadcasting from Da Nang
Dispatches, mixes, and field notes from Southeast Asia's electronic music scene. The Airtime Asia conference runs Aug 13–16 in Da Nang. This is where the signal goes between shows.
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All posts →A little before six, Da Nang is already on its feet: swimmers in the half-dark off My Khe, tai chi lines on the sand, basket boats hauling in the night's catch, and the cranes behind all of it. A city living in several eras at once, and the window in which they still touch is closing faster than most people realize.
Most people think of radio in two kinds. There are three. Community radio is the third, non-profit, human-curated, made by the community it serves, and it has quietly shaped what you listen to. Part one of two.
The clean story of scrappy independents stopped being clean once the independents got bought. The answer, a genuinely decentralized, grassroots model, is already on air and rising fastest across Asia, from Seoul to Manila to Da Nang. Part two of two.
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