Thanks to a pair of Bangkok-based record collectors, an awful lot of curious listeners in the west have been introduced to the distinct pleasures of Thai popular music in recent years. Chris Menist and Maft Sai have compiled and produced a series of excellent collections for Soundway, Finders Keepers, Dust-to-Digital, and Zudrangma Records examining luk thung and molam music from the 60s-80s, and judging from another recent collection they put together for the Japanese imprint Em Records there seems to be plenty more to come.…
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