It’s Technically Asia Until Istanbul - This Week's Free Lab Radio

Renowned sound artist and musician Otomo Yoshihide has launched an ambitious seven year project Ensemble Asia. Supported by Japan Foundation Yoshihide invited dj sniff (Hong Kong) and Yuen Chee Wai (Singapore) to direct one of the three streams of the project called Asian Music Networks, which connects independent music collectives across Asia to bring them together at their annual event, the Asian Meeting Festival.

Ahead of the festival in Tokyo and Kyoto, February 6-8th 2015 dj sniff releases this mix tape of participating artists, one that winds through an intensely creative stream of contemporary classical,  reworkings of modal systems and digitally manipulated compositions

that wildly spurn as many links to tradition as possible.

Otomo and sniff have both long performed with the Resonance Radio Orchestra at Resonance104.4FM and London Musician's Collective events, and live on air. We also recognise at least one of these tracks, the dramatical reworking of There's No Limits into assumed Chinese form by another one-time ResonanceFM artist Xper. Xr., a plaintive, angular track that rails against itself, and subverts our ideas of what a Chinese version of the 90s hit would have sounded like.

A region with such a long history, often struggles with its own inheritance. The arts, which should at some level be tapping into the unconscious, must acknowledge the psyche's own link to an idea of one's forefathers, trickled down through fables, images, architecture, behaviour and language.

dj sniff(Hong Kong) / Bin Idris(Bandung) / To Die(Yogyakarta) / Iman Jimbot(Bandung) / Kok Siew Wai(Kuala Lumpur) / Leslie Low(Singapore) / Yuen Chee Wai(Singapore) / Yui-Saowakhon Muangkruan(Bangkok) / Nguyen Hong Giang(Ho Chi Minh) / Luong Hue Trinh(Hanoi) / Sachiko M(Tokyo) / YONAGO Tadashi(Osaka) / YAMAMOTO Tatsuhisa(Tokyo) / SATO Kimiya(Tokyo) / KAWAI Shinobu(Tokyo) / FUMITAKE TAMURA(Bun)(Tokyo) / KΣITO(Tokyo) / WATANABE Ai(Tokyo) / ONO Ryoko(Nagoya) / OTOMO Yoshihide(Tokyo)

Broadcasts Saturday 24th January 2015 11-midnight, repeats on 104.4FM Thursday 2am. http://radioplayer.resonancefm.com/console/

Mixed by dj sniff
 in two parts
PART 1
1. Sensei Intro (0:00 - 0:09)

2. Puzzle / Nguyen Hong Giang (0:09 - 1:36)

3. Hologram / Ryoko Ono (1:01 - 2:40)

4. Tò Vò-excerpt / Luong Hue Trinh (2:13 - 6:53)
5. Pada Akihiranya Kita Akan Terlupakan / To Die (5:18 - 8:15)

6. Hanoi no Hinageshi / Ai Watanabe (7:00 - 11:00)

7. Otomo cutups / dj sniff (10:59 - 11:35)

8. Nano (dj sniff scratch edit) / SjQ (11:31 - 13:56)

9. Dai 5 / Dakim & FUMITAKE TAMURA (Bun) (13:20 - 15:47)

10. BH BR / Shimizu Koichi (14:52 - 18:04)

11. Lingam / Sin:Ned (16:50 - 20:03)

12. JUKE SHIT №5 / KΣITO (18:52 - 22:54)

13. Liquefaction / dj sniff (22:35 - 26:15)

14. Subterfuge / The Observatory (25:49 - 29:49
)
15. Occupy HK, Causeway Bay, 2am 09.29.2014 (28:14 - 30:00)

PART 2
1. Dusk at Yachaban / Mind Fiber (Li Jianhong, Wei Wei) (0:00 - 3:14)

2. Harunire / Kimiya Sato (2:08 - 5:08)

3. Ratree / Yui-Saowakhon Muangkruan (3:58 - 8:16)

4. Yaro Tahes / Karinding Attack (7:43 - 10:15)

5. Geni / Senyawa (9:45 - 13:47)

6. The Wah / Yan Jun (12:52 - 13:48)

7. Hit City / MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse (13:49 - 14:39)

8. Vagrant Debo’s Song / Xiao He (14:39 - 17:34) 

9. No Limit / Xper. Xr. (17:34 - 19:48)

10. Poo Jud / Neung Phak (19:48 - 22:10)

11. Calm Water / Bin Idris (22:10 - 25:51)

12. End of Journey / Lesley Low (25:47 - 28:08)

13. Occupy Admiralty 11:30pm 10.01.2014 (27:49 - 29:11)
14. Dai 1 / Dakim & FUMITAKE TAMURA (Bun) (28:11 - 30:00)