# @thefader on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-12-12T15:38:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

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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 like Wu-Tang Clan, Kool Keith, and Grooverider. And if you stuck around, you could catch Dntel and The Postal Service’s Jimmy Tamborello’s show, “Dying Sounds,” where he plays the kind of music he thinks “you’d want to hear while you’re dying.”

“It’s like getting in a car crash while your stereo is playing something you want to bring you to heaven,” McNeill says of just how adventurous dublab’s programming can still get.

Read sndrsng’s feature at the link in bio, or head to TheFADER.com.

📸 Mary Nagakawa, Kate Berry

#dublab

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