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 Tomas Pinheiro and Lucas Tinoco | May 6, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content
“I wanted to celebrate outsider music from Asia.” —— Saphy Vong, founder of Chinabot label Saphy Vong is Subtropical Asias’ brother in spirit. Just like us, he tries to connect underrepresented artists to each other and to a wider global...
by SubtropicalAsia | Apr 17, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, News, Videos
Last winter, we became friends with the Indonesian DJ-Duo Gabber Modus Operandi. In Jakarta, we experienced their crazy live shows, in Bali we had traditional food together and talked a lot about cultural identities in the age of Globalization. We also witnessed...