What happens when the internet flattens every subculture into an “aesthetic”? And what does it mean to build identity through music when the dance floor is no longer neutral if it ever was?In this episode, we sit down with ZAKU.86, an LA DJ, record collector, city pop obsessive, and former punk kid who somehow became a cultural bridge between Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Chinese, and Southeast Asian sounds. We talk about growing up feeling uncool while everyone else had Mustangs and perfect high school lives, buying turntables with stimulus checks, digging through crates like it’s religion, and accidentally becoming the guy who shifts energy in rooms people don’t expect.We get into the collapse of real subculture, the myth of “apolitical art”, nostalgia as survival, and why city pop isn’t just cute music, but a whole archive of memory, migration, and longing.If you care about music history, identity, third spaces, or what happens when cultural obsession becomes community, this episode is for you.

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