On the third floor of Pearl's Hill Terrace, an old Singapore enclave of pottery, taxidermy, and photography studios, a grey soundproof curtain called the Sound Barrier marks the way in. Behind it sits a room small enough that people call it possibly the smallest club in Singapore: a custom DJ booth, a sound system far too big for the space, and walls that Chris Shearmon and Andy Lines painted by hand. They built it in 2022 for friends. In 2026 they are turning the radio back on.
A room built to play to yourself
Chris came to Singapore from the UK in 2012, a record collector and a vinyl-only DJ. Andy landed in 2019, just before the pandemic. They met at a mutual friend's beach birthday, and the house parties that followed grew into something that needed its own four walls. They found a small studio on Pearl's Hill Terrace, furnished it partly out of the closed Kilo Lounge, leaned on the Kult Kafe crew for help, and opened the doors.
What they made is unusual on purpose. The room is engineered so a DJ plays to themselves, on a system loud enough to disappear into, every set filmed and recorded like a live broadcast.
Who has played the room
For a room this small, the signal has carried some distance. The American DJ and producer Kush Jones passed through, brought in by the crew at Revision Music, the one international name in a roster that is otherwise proudly local. Bongomann of Ice Cream Sundays, Sivanesh Pillai of Sivilian Affairs, Dean Chew of Offtrack and Darker Than Wax, Sebastian de la Cruz of Tropic City, and Linda of Jungle Flow Music have all played the room. These are names that carry weight in Singapore's own underground, and a small studio on Pearl's Hill Terrace gave them a stage.
What Singapore gets from it
By 2022, Wild Pearl had paused its own open nights to become something steadier for everyone else. The founders set about turning the space into a rentable practice studio for aspiring DJs and a streaming platform to put local music into the world. Off-site, they carried a solar-powered DJ booth to an Ocean Purpose Project beach clean-up, the music and the tide work running through the same afternoon. A club that stepped back from its own party to build infrastructure for other people's.
That work is also why the radio is coming back. The hiatus was never the end of Wild Pearl; it was the time it took to build the thing worth broadcasting.
Part of the coalition
That instinct, building a room that serves the scene first, is what makes Wild Pearl a natural part of Airtime Asia: the independent, decentralized coalition of underground radio stations from across the continent. From the 13th to the 16th of August 2026, those stations gather across Da Nang and Hoi An in Vietnam, and Singapore's smallest room joins them with its signal switched back on.
Feed your mind with high frequency vibrations. Join us in the Airtime.
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