MMusic
Sungai Launch

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A launch for the release of Sungai Mix #1. Sungai (Malay for “river”) Mix is Isobel D’Cruz Barnes’ response to Shah Sharafi’s Nile Mix, a collection of Arabic and North African hits. Sungai Mix #1′ is a compilation of psych-rock, bent disco and acid folk from South East Asia, Japan, South Korea and India.

The collection explores Asian alternative music made between 1964 -1981, and asks us to consider: what are the impacts of civil war, military coups, dictatorships and colonisation on global alternative music subcultures? How have different Asian nations, in their varying responses to political turmoil and Western interference, responded to attacks on their artistic freedom?

A night of DJs from a range of diasporic communities, blending genres and spinning tunes from countries close to their hearts.

In collaboration with

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.