Fri Oct 31 2025

Foreign Exchange

hosted by Benny Sun

1:00 AM - 3:00 AM

Though electronic dance music, at its broadest definition, was brewed in the urban landscapes of the United States and moved quickly to the mainstream clubs in Western Europe, it also found its way to Africa, Asia, and South America. From the Miami Bass-Brazilian funk transmission, to skeumorphs of techno and house on singeli, kwaito, Asian underground, batida, dembow, and digital cumbia, focus will be turned towards the modern scenes that foster new sounds and historic movements that pioneered lasting genre. Foreign Exchange won't simply highlight dance producers from the global diaspora, but on irreplicable creative movements happening outside the English speaking world. With a different focus every week (whether genre, nation, label, artist, scene, or era), Foreign Exchange presents an anthropological, Anglo-exclusionary perspective on electronic dance music.

SynthScale - Shinichi Atobe, SynthScale - Single (Plastic & Sounds AWDR/LR2) 2025

mgm on a guest list - Takkyu Ishino, throbbing disco cat (Sony Music Labels Inc.) 1999

Extra - Ken Ishii, Jelly Tones (R&S Records) 1994

Parents and God - Mayurashka, LSI Dreaming - EP (Rhythm Section International) 2025

Acid Storm - Technasia, Passages, Vol. 1 - EP (SINO) 2002

Class 0 (Submerge Remix) - Hiroko Yamamura, Class 0 - EP (Impact Mechanics) 2016

Innervisions (Pilot) - DJ Shufflemaster, Exp (Tresor Records) 2001

O-Bang! - LEOPALDON, () null

Antibody - Fumiya Tanaka, UNKNOWN POSSIBILITY vol.1 (Sony Music Direct (Japan) Inc.) 1998

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Acid Storm - Technasia, Passages, Vol. 1 - EP (SINO) 2002

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Polynasia - Takkyu Ishino, BERLIN TRAX (Sony Music Labels Inc.) 1999

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ID - Wata Igarashi, My Supernova () null