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Nattapon “Nat” Siangsukon’s love affair with
molam—the electrically-charged roots music of Northeastern Thailand—started mostly out of necessity. After seven years living in London and DJing up and down Portobello Road, he found himself back home in Bangkok in 2007, and broke. Unable to justify the hefty price of importing wax from abroad, he began scouring the dusty record stores of Chinatown for time-warped gems.
“There was so much music and so little information, so I’d go around with my portable record player and listen to everything as the sleeves all looked so damn cool,” the DJ, who records and performs as Maft Sai, recalls with a laugh. “My first reaction was, ‘How? Why? What’s going on?!’” ....

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