The ‘De La…’ series asks artists to choose a certain provenance - be it a country, community, town, artist, or label - and make a mix highlighting what they love about the music.

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“I’ve been in Vietnam for just over 2 years now, and the best part of that has been spent with a burning desire to find old, dance floor friendly tracks from the country. For various reasons this search has been tiresome and fruitless. Vietnamese pop music trends have been geared towards ballads since the country’s re-unification in 1975, and the decades after where electronic music was being birthed in cocaine filled clubs across the world, Vietnam was battling hyper-inflation in the aftermath of a bloody war.
About 2 weeks ago, however, browsing the shelves of a pokey little basement CD shop in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh district I picked up a medley CD from a record label called Asia Entertainment Inc (I bought the CD because I saw La Isla Bonita mis-spelled on the back cover). Taking the CD home to listen I was taken aback. Digging a little deeper I found the label was based, not in the metropolises of Hanoi or HCMC, but at an address in Westminster, California - the heart of Little Saigon, the largest collection of Vietnamese expatriates in the USA. 
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks digging through Vietnamese music websites, listening through old cassettes, sifting through medleys, in search of the best tracks from this niche. The tracks are bilingual, made by Vietnamese, for Vietnamese, in the USA and around the world.
With this mix I want to highlight this genre to music lovers. It’s a sound I never knew existed, a sound my Vietnamese girlfriend had never heard, and I don’t want that to be the case. These tracks are fun.”

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Tracklist

Jeannie Mai - Khi Em Đi (You Can Win If You Want)
Lê Toàn - Hold Me Tight (Tonight)
Thái Thảo - Come Back To Me (Vietnam 80’s Version)
Kiểu Nga - Strangers By Night
Như Mai - Tình Nồng Say (Sando)
Thuý Vi - Cuộc Tình Bay Xa (One Night Is Not Enough)
Linda Trang Đài - Jump In My Car
Linda Trang Đài - Baby Don’t Break My Heart
Thuý Vi - Khi Em Cần Anh (I Need A Man)
Như Mai - Nhạc Tình Cha Cha
Ngọc Lan - Khi Ta Bên Nhau (Two Of Hearts)
Tuyết Nhung - Venus
Ngọc Tuyết - Shy Shy Sugarman
Jeannie Mai - Nếu Dối Gian Cho Nhau (Don’t Tell Me No Lies)
Thái Thảo - Tình Yếu

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MBE #11: Atdhe - De La Petit Saigon

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MBE #11: Atdhe - De La Petit Saigon

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