Breakfast Club Coco with Chris Menist

Welcome to Breakfast Club Coco! Coco Maria presents her morning show Monday to Wednesday on Worldwide FM. Join us to hear the best in contemporary and heritage music rooted in Latin sounds.

This week, Coco is joined by Chris Menist aka Awkward Corners is a writer, DJ and musician best known as the co-founder of the Paradise Bangkok label and band, alongside DJ Maft Sai. He co-curated the ‘Sounds of Wonder’ series with the Finders Keepers label, as well as the ‘Sound of Siam’ (Soundway) and ‘Thai? Dai!’ (Finders Keepers). He was also behind Dust-To-Digital’s ‘Qat, Coffee and Qambus : Raw 45s from Yemen’, and wrote the ‘Black Fire! New Spirits! Radical and Revolutionary Jazz in The USA 1957 – 1982’ book for Soul Jazz.

Currently residing in the UK, he hosts a monthly show on NTS and his DJ sets (in Japan, Thailand, Australia and in Europe at Nuits Sonores, Glastonbury, Off Festival and Wax Treatment amongst others) encompass a broad mix of reggae, soul, african, latin and asian sounds from across the globe. Awkward Corners is a regular side project Chris uses for exploring experimental soundscapes and settings, and his latest LP ‘Dislocation Songs’ is out now on Shapes Of Rhythm.