Various - Ayo Ke Disco: Boogie, Pop & Funk from the South China Sea (1974-88)Soundway Records delivers an exciting new compilation, diving ever deeper into South East Asia. Ayo Ke Disco celebrates the musical identities emerging during the 1970s and 80s from the newly independent countries nestled around the South China Sea. This time, Soundways long time general manager Alice Whittington (aka DJ Norsicaa) steps into the limelight, embracing her Malaysian heritage and selecting music from her heavy collection of Asian records.

While they were clearly listening to music from the US

The albums both feature two full length tracks of ghostly and atmospheric sounds

Arthur Doyle’s New Quiest Screamers… "New York quartet Sunwatchers drew a line in the sand with their last album "II"

Amidst these intoxicating and richly eclectic soundworlds

It glistens as much as it blasts

while intimating that any path taken

a conduit for essential human aches

Rockabilly Blues

Truscott came across a note in their phone that read

are designed to be an additional instrument

one that expanded outwards towards the cosmos

All the original audio has been reworked and refined