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About Adik Tung
In 2016, during the monsoon-soaked final night of Clockenflap, Hong Kong’s first major international indie-festival, Adik Tung dropped a 45-minute live edit of Cantonese opera samples warped through modular synths and jungle breaks, silencing 8,000 people mid-rainstorm. That set didn’t just fuse traditions, it redefined what ‘Asian electronic identity’ could sound like on home soil: not as exotic garnish, but as structural grammar. He co-founded the underground collective ‘Gwai Lo Sound’ in 2012, running illegal warehouse parties in Sham Shui Po where he’d splice Cantopop vinyl with Detroit techno stems using a hacked Roland SP-404. His 2021 album ‘Neon Kowloon’ became the first Hong Kong, produced electronic record added to the M+ Museum’s permanent audio archive, not for its popularity, but for its forensic layering of urban field recordings: MTR announcements, wet market haggling, neon sign buzz, all time-stamped and geotagged. His sensibility is tactile, archival, defiantly local, and built on the conviction that dance floors are civic spaces.
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- “What was the most controversial sample you've ever cleared—or not cleared—for a live set?”
- “How did the 2019 protests change your approach to sound design and crowd energy?”
- “Tell me about sourcing that 1973 Shaw Brothers film reel for 'Neon Kowloon' Track 7.”
- “Why do you still use cassette decks in your main rig instead of digital emulators?”