This episode, we’re thrilled to welcome Yuka Yu, a San Francisco-based DJ and producer with roots in Taipei, Taiwan. Having honed her craft in London’s Camden Town, Yuka’s sound reflects her multicultural background—Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese—blending diverse influences into deep, immersive storytelling. She’s played EDC Las Vegas, Ministry of Sound, and Jazzfest’s Rabbit Hole, and is the founder of Nu Tekno and Chinatown After Dark, two projects pushing underground sounds in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
For this mix, Yuka crafts an introspective journey through breath, nature, and Asian history, exploring the ritual of self-connection within the universe. It flows through film soundtracks, field recordings, Asian mountain songs, Mandarin pop, and ethereal Southeast Asian modular music, layered with unexpected textures—a touch of “trippy candy” weaving a dreamlike narrative. The mix embodies the feeling of history and memory, inspired by the poem:“I am the ocean of my ancestors’ grief; the shoreline where my parents’ dreams were sacrificed.”
Shigeru Umebayashi - Yumeji's theme
Tiny Giant - Ngày Mới
Knopha - Passing Clouds
Yuka Yu - cosmic insects on zheng (unreleased)
Mess - Mắt Buồn
Arushi Jain - I feel incomplete without sound
Arushi Jain - Drown out the noise with your silence
Arushi Jain - Just like a dragonfly
One Child Policy - Yin || 阴
One Child Policy - Absence (缺席)
One Child Policy - Red Coast Base Surveillance (feat Harrison Holt)
