Journalist
A controversial drug raid leads to the closure of a dance club in Manila, leaving a music subculture lost and scrambling.
Filipino food is gaining worldwide popularity. But as the diaspora grapples with the country's multicultural history, the cuisine's identity is yet to be established.
In Manila, Heritage Architecture Struggles to Survive
With the demolishing of Capitol Theatre, one of Manila’s last remaining art-deco theaters, the city’s cultural landmarks face a precarious future as it finds its footing in a transforming urban landscape.
CNN
Out of Print
To those who knew the artist, no headline could ever capture the complex truth of her humanity. But there are beautiful traces of it.
Photographer
01 — Editorial
01 — Editorial
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02 — Portraits
Disc Jockey
Dub and ambient techno
Featured on RA’s Mix Of The Day
Featured on RA’s Mix Of The Day
Dance film scores and soundtracks
R’n’B, hip-hop, soul, afrobeat
About
Sai Versailles is a multimedia journalist focused on culture writing and reporting, whose work has appeared on Vice, Munchies, CNN, Courier, and more. She is also the curator of the newsletter and radio show, Cultural Learnings.
Under her DJ artist name Versailles, Sai traverses a range of genres with especially deep crates of film scores and soundtracks, as well as percussive and hypnotic electronic music.
Once described as radiating “the fond specificity of a mixtape smothered in fingerprints,” The Cultural Learnings radio show is a sonic exploration of one theme – whether a music or film genre, an artist, or a carefully curated “vibe” à la field recordings, sound bites, interviews, and more.
Versailles’ residency on Refuge Worldwide covers a spectral library of music where “rhythm and beat coalesce,” such in jazz, hip-hop, R’n’B, soul, reggae, and dub.
Sai earned an MPhil from the University of Oxford.
Sai Versailles is a multimedia journalist focused on culture writing and reporting, whose work has appeared on Vice, Munchies, CNN, Courier, and more. She is also the curator of the newsletter and radio show, Cultural Learnings.
Under her DJ artist name Versailles, Sai traverses a range of genres with especially deep crates of film scores and soundtracks, as well as percussive and hypnotic electronic music.
Once described as radiating “the fond specificity of a mixtape smothered in fingerprints,” The Cultural Learnings radio show is a sonic exploration of one theme – whether a music or film genre, an artist, or a carefully curated “vibe” à la field recordings, sound bites, interviews, and more.
Versailles’ residency on Refuge Worldwide covers a spectral library of music where “rhythm and beat coalesce,” such in jazz, hip-hop, R’n’B, soul, reggae, and dub.
Sai earned an MPhil from the University of Oxford.
Press
Feature
Mixmag Asia, 2022.
Podcast interview
Dead Air Podcast, 2022
Interview
Mixmag Asia, 2021.
Feature
Out Of Print, 2021.
Podcast interview
Monday Off Radio, 2020
Feature
nolisoli.ph, 2019.
Feature
Mixmag Asia, 2022.
Podcast interview
Dead Air Podcast, 2022
Interview
Mixmag Asia, 2021.
Feature
Out Of Print, 2021.
Podcast interview
Monday Off Radio, 2020
Feature
nolisoli.ph, 2019.
Contact
Email:
me[at]saiversailles.com
me[at]saiversailles.com
Location:
Manila, Philippines
Manila, Philippines