Don’t look now, but Valerie & Chad are wearing the same shirt in different colors! It's all good though cause most of you are audio only anyways (we’re also on YouTube). They’re back this week with a highly-entertaining and stimulating conversation with Saka, a multicultural dude making some unique dubstep and left-of-center bass music who has recently toured with titans of the scene such as Zeds Dead, Slander, and Subtronics. We waste no time in jumping into a wide-ranging convo (3:15), including why young people are trying too hard these days, growing up as an American expat in Hong Kong, how Porter Robinson introduced a generation of Asian Americans to EDM, the Asian family dichotomy of stability and the quest for one’s dreams, why he left Silicon Valley for the bass music world, how Skrillex’s new music was disruptive, the dilemma of not compromising your art in a mainstream setting, and why kids watching anime in 2023 have it so good. Powered by Yaté Yerba Mate: https://linktr.ee/drinkyate Hosted by Valerie Lee & Chad Kenney Produced by Jose Guzman Original Music by RamonPang Recorded at ICON Collective Music Production School https://www.iconcollective.edu/ All This Noise drops every Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts: https://linktr.ee/allthisnoisepod https://www.instagram.com/allthisnoisepod https://linktr.ee/browniesandlemonade