Asian Futuristic Party with indepedent label Chinabot

An evening of immersive, live Asian futuristic electronic music as we celebrate Platform Asia’s 5th anniversary. Presented with independent Asian music label Chinabot as part of Dreamy Place 2024 in Brighton. Let’s dance!

Featuring international Asian musicians Neo Geodesia, CHOOC LY, and Memeshift, whose boundary-pushing music draws from science fiction, rave culture and traditional Asian instruments, spanning dynamic genres from noise and techno to acid dance.

CHOOC LY is a multi-disciplinary artist, DJ, and cultural producer whose work spans moving images, DJ sets, radio podcasts, event organizing, and club nights, with a background in sculpture and performance. Her practice aims to create new realities by subverting or repurposing the systems and tools we use to understand our world, drawing on concepts from physics, politics, and music. She also co-runs the London club night Décalé. As a DJ, Chooc Ly crafts emotionally charged and kaleidoscopic mixes of club music and futuristic sounds.

Neo Geodesia is the alias of Saphy Vong, a French-Cambodian audio-visual artist born in a Thai refugee camp after his parents fled the Khmer Rouge, and raised in the suburbs of Nancy, northeastern France. His distinctive musical vision merges the experimental and DIY ethos of the local Nancy Hardcore and Grindcore scenes, which embraced him as a teenager, with the sounds of Cambodia transmitted into his home via his parents’ pirated tapes and videos of Khmer pop, karaoke, monk chants, and movies.

In recent years, his work has concentrated on blending experimental electronic techniques with traditional Khmer music, pushing the boundaries of sonic expression to include noise, Bek Sloy, Funeral Smot, and Roam Vong. His approach has evolved from focusing on heaviness to exploring slipperiness, granular textures, and intricate polyrhythms. Active for over a decade under the alias Lafidki, Vong has produced, composed, and released electronic music through Orange Milk Records.

Memeshift is an experimental electronic musician and organiser who draws creative inspiration from his cultural heritage and the diverse diasporas of his kin. Alongside Bilawa Ade Respati, Rabih Beaini, and Khyam Allami, he developed an open-source sample pack of Javanese gamelan instruments, including their MIDI tunings, guides, and tools for artists interested in Southeast Asian tonality, called Latent Sonorities.

In collaboration with Rumah Budaya Indonesia – Berlin (RBI) and Morphine Raum, this project was co-released with live album recordings on his label L-KW and Yogyakarta’s Yes No Wave, and is available for free download to support artists and researchers exploring new sonic landscapes. The project will soon be added as a free, public resource to RBI’s library collection. Morgan’s debut album, Echoes, was released on Chinabot in April 2024.

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