Sai Versailles is a multimedia journalist and DJ from Manila. Her radio shows are acutely experimental, with energetic club sets laced in acid, breakbeat, and hardgroove.
Sai Versailles is a multimedia journalist, specializing in culture stories. Based in Manila, her reporting often investigates the social, political, and economic dynamics of creativity, exploring the everyday lives of people and their communities.
Under her DJ artist name Versailles, she traverses a range of genres with especially deep crates of acid, breakbeat, and hardgroove. Versailles’ radio shows are acutely experimental while her energeric club sets hypnotize with percussion.
Versailles is also the curator of Cultural Learnings, a newsletter and radio show. Once described as radiating “the fond specificity of a mixtape smothered in fingerprints,” the Cultural Learnings show on Manila Community Radio, broadcasting since August 2020, is a sonic exploration of one theme – whether a music or film genre, an artist, or assortments of field recordings, sound bites, interviews, and more.
In July 2022, Sai joined the volunteer team of Manila Community Radio, a not-for-profit online platform.
Versailles’ residency on Refuge Worldwide covers her spectral library of music where “rhythm and beat coalesce,” such in jazz, hip-hop, R’n’B, downtempo, reggae, and dub.
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