Adriel Luis: Blog

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On a recent evening, as he watched his father return from feeding his pigs, he added: “The older generation is happier than we are.”

Irving Penn (USA) Issey Miyake Fashion: White and Black 1990

DUMBFOUNDEAD Domies (도우미) - ft. Keith Ape & Okasian 2015

Spending tonight digging for musicians from Laos. Came across this gem deep in the wormhole.

I spent the morning excavating the netz for electronic music from Bangladesh. Here’s one of my fav finds.

2am in the wormhole. Today my homie in Manila hipped me to some Filipino music blogs, Vandals On the Wall and Radio Republic, where I commenced to spend the deep hours of the evening while eating pie and accidentally downing half a bottle of wine. The thing about these music binges is you get to a point where things start blurring and you can’t tell if you like a song or you’re just trying to like it, and then you start questioning if you even have any authority to judge music in the first place, especially after being at CVS and Shazamming a song you really dig only to learn that it’s Katy Perry. And then a song just cuts through the noise, because it’s soulful and funky and ridiculous and reminds you that your ears are indeed worthy. Tonight that track was “Blasé” by June Marieezy. What a fucking find.

I can’t remember when was the last time I spent the entire day excavating and enjoying music! There’s so much out there, amazing sounds by artists with just a handful of followers – songs that have only been played a couple dozen times. Here’s one of my favorite finds today, OJ Law from Indonesia.

I’m working on a new pet project which has led me deep down a wormhole of Asian electronic music. I took some leads last night from this excellent piece on the Fader by Juliet Liu on the Beijing underground. The result of an afternoon of net digging is this eery but quite lovely video.

Yall I'm getting way too excited about hosting & rocking at #KollaborationDC tonite 😵😵😵😵😵 Hella talent out here in the #DMV *plus* it's in Maryland so I get to cop some good Asian food on my way home?? #score 🎯🍱🎯🍲🎯🍜🎯 (at Fitzgerald Theatre of Rockville Maryland)

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Zebra Katz x Leila Arab (USA) You Tell Em, 2015

Young Thug (USA) Pacifier, 2015

Abra Rose, 2015

Maggie Cheung in the Hong Kong Tramway, captured by Japanese French photographer Yoshi Omori, 2005.