Apex Express is a weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.
Intimate Sounds of the Four Continents Episode #1
Intimate Sounds of the Four Continents combines Lisa Lowe’s theories and music from around the world to create intellectually stimulating sonic experience. DJ Miu created this radio show with a mission to spread the message: “Freedom is Yet to Come.” I encourage listeners to take the time to read, write, and resist. We require inoculations that repel the seductions of corporate servitude. Cauleen Smith told us. Starting with reading Lisa Lowe’s writing. Reading is Fundamental.
This is my very first episode of Intimate Sounds of the Four Continents, where I dug a lot of music from Southeast Asia, Vietnam mainly to pay homage to my roots, where my people are from as well as China where my ancestors migrated from into Vietnam. I also share some Vietnamese New wave music, popularized in the 1980’s in Southern California, where my mom and many other Vietnamese refugees migrated to after the Fall of Saigon. So there’s some funky music that Vietnamese diasporic people digs into European electronic, synths, disco, and recorded covers of that. Check out Elizabeth Ai’s documentary New Wave that talks all about that era and my people. And I also threw in some love and heartbreak songs, because they are always timeless.
My name is Paige Chung. I am a writer, skater, poet, and turntablist-in-training. My last project Nail Trap is juicier than your neighborhood gossip and my current project is hotter than your cousin’s mixtape. Based in LA, but I roll everywhere and go by DJ Miu. I am currently enrolled at the Beat Junkies Institute of Sound.
Special shout out to my dear friend, Thao Le for introducing me to so much of this music and creating the Southeast Asian Psych Funk playlist on Spotify.
Lastly, special shoutout to my DJ crew 730 Faders. Catch us throwing the next best party in LA and coming near you. And my deep study crew Quinnette, Zahara, Discott and the Soul in the Horn family.
Lisa Lowe’s Book:
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Cop it over at Duke University Press
Find me anywhere and everywhere @paigechung @DJxMIU
Intimate Sounds of the Four Continents’ Episode #1 Set List:
- APEX EXPRESS INTRO
- Ba Đình Đời (Ba Dinh Existence) by Trà Đá Connection
- Sáng Rừng by Thanh Lan
- This is no horse by AJL BAND
- Gotta be the one by THE NEW TOPNOTES
- Hurt so bad by TRACY
- La Isla Bonita (Demonslayer edit) by Vwave- Vietnamese New Wave 1980’s
- The Petch Phin Thong Band by Soul Lam Plearn
- 葉德嫻 – 輕輕嘆 by DEANIE
- Hào Hoa feat. Blacka (DJ Release Remix) – Saigon Soul Revival
- Xin Lễ Cưới Em – Túy Phượng
- Nhớ Mình Anh Thôi – Mai Lệ Huyền
- Swearin to God – CHARING CARPIO
- Sài Gòn by Carol Kim
- Make me believe in you by OSCAR AND HIS ORCHESTRA
- You’re the one by LOUIE CASTRO
- Mandarin Night by Midnight Runners
- Thôn Trăng Mở Hội Trăng Tròn by Sơn Ca
- Ruth Edit by Midnight Runners
- Lovin’ You by RITA KWONG
- Ghana Highlife by Midnight Runners
- Pioneer Spirit by Trà Đá Connection
- Makibaka / Ikalat by Dakila
- Pioneer Spirit by Trà Đá Connection
- Xoay (Trà Đá Connection Remix) by Tú,Trà Đá Connection
- Take it to the Bossman by THE REFLECTION
- Day Dreamin’ by JULIE SUE
- Cô Tây Đen by Vân Sơn
- Khi Tình Yêu Đến by Sơn Ca
- APEX EXPRESS OUTRO