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Sai Versailles 


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CTM Magazine
Love More, Judge Less: How Budots Music Informs Understandings of Intersectionality

Manila Community Radio volunteers Sai Versailles and Sean Bautista explore artistic influence, individual agency, and community by immersing themselves in the world of budots, a Filipino grassroots dance music genre.


Refuge Worldwide
Master Selector w/ Versailles

If film noir was a playlist ... featuring ambient selections from Versailles’ ‘Selector Thursdays’ set in Bombvinos Bodega.


Refuge Worldwide
Rapido Hataw w/ Versailles and Duality

Live from the studio, Versailles and Duality split the hour with music and shenanigans.

Refuge Worldwide
Master Selector w/ Versailles
Celebrating 29 years around the sun, Versailles returns with gentle digs from her travels.


MEGA Magazine
The Faces of Now: Meet the Next Generation of MEGA’s Most Beautiful

MEGA’s Most Beautiful makes its long-awaited return with a full cast of fresh faces redefining the way we perceive beauty.


NTS Radio
Anicca with Versailles

Consisting of music that has shaped me for over a decade, 'Anicca' was recorded after ten days of silent meditation, capturing me at a crucial point of change.


Refuge Worldwide
Master Selector w/ Versailles

Versailles presents her interpretation of the ambient room, recorded on November 17, 2023, at the Evening Breeze party by transit records in Makati.


Refuge Worldwide
Master Selector w/ Versailles

With a turntable on one channel and Spotify on the other, Versailles returns with a crate of new records and debriefs her two-week trip in Berlin.


Refuge Worldwide
CTM Festival w/ Versailles and Duality

Versailles and Duality stop by the Refuge Worldwide studio as part of the CTM Festival week residency, discussing budots, music ecosystems, and community radio.


Refuge Worldwide
Master Selector w/ Versailles

Versailles sets the tone for her 2024 as she traverses the soft rock classics of Filipino FM radio, Palestinian hip-hop, and hardcore rap, among others.


Biography →

Sai Versailles’ work traverses the fields of art and journalism.

As an independent multimedia journalist, her reporting is rooted in a decade-long archival practice spanning text, image, video, and audio storytelling, investigating the sociopolitical dynamics of everyday life and community.

As a multi-genre selector under the name Versailles, her chameleonic approach takes reference from literature and cinema. Versailles’ club sets shuffle through densely layered repetitions of a tough and swinging sound informed by her cross-generational understanding of dance music.

Versailles is a resident of Refuge Worldwide, and a volunteer of Manila Community Radio.

As a grassroots organizer, she has participated in public discussions on issues of art, culture, and creativity throughout Europe and Asia. She holds an MPhil from the University of Oxford.

Press

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Resident Advisor, 2023.

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Vogue Korea, 2023.

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Vogue Philippines, 2023.

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Mixmag Asia, 2023.

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.

Vogue Philipines, May 2023
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