by SubtropicalAsia | Jun 9, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content, News, Videos
7 PM. Shanghai Changning district. People are busy eating, heading home, or carrying on with their mundane work. But hidden in this ordinary neighborhood there is a mysterious place – a subculture hub that is known throughout the underground scene in Shanghai....
by SubtropicalAsia | Mar 25, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Videos
<Rebel Riders>, is a film by Dutch cinematographer Marc Aziz Ressang, who has been living in Asia for 8 years. It’s a documentary about Vespa Ekstrim, an Indonesian community where people share their love of modifying their Vespas into outlandish novel hybrid...
by SubtropicalAsia | Feb 7, 2020 | Videos
It was a one-in-a-lifetime-chance for Doch Chkae, a band of young orphans from the slums of Phnom Penh: In 2018 they were invited to play at Wacken, the worlds biggest metal festival. But first their visa got denied and then their band almost broke apart. That they...
by SubtropicalAsia | Nov 14, 2019 | Videos
During the shooting of RESOUND in Jogja, Subtropical Asia was fortunate enough to interview SENYAWA. As a band they’ve become something of an national treasure in Indonesia. They combine the traditional music of Java with an experimental touch that sounds like the...
by SubtropicalAsia | Oct 24, 2019 | Videos
This summer, the slumdog kids of Doch Chkae left Asia for the first time in their life to play at Wacken Open Air, the world’s largest heavy metal festival. Their energetic show in front of a huge crowd was simply mind blowing. We are currently editing the...
