dublab has now been live on air for 25 years, and other longtime listeners in Germany, Spain, and Japan have since formed their own satellite studios under the dublab name. dublab’s Japan director Yuki Tamai says he first stumbled upon dublab in 2000. Drawn to the intimacy of pirate radio and that feeling of having a one-on-one connection with the DJ, Tamai remembers the broadcasts giving him “a sense of the growing free and timeless music culture that included all genres.” Per the station’s executive director Ale Cohen, the station was “never hard and fast about genres” from the get-go, explaining how you could tune into dublab to hear Brainfeeder’s first broadcast or cumbia picks from the station’s first engineer, who also happened to be a custodian at USC. Mark “Frosty” McNeill recalls weekly selects from Jurassic 5’s DJ Nu-Mark; Carlos Niño spinning “amazing funk and soul while his wife breastfed [their newborn son]” next to the decks; and surprise sets from out-of-town legends li...