For the last year my wife, Janejira, and I put on a monthly DJ night in Saigon. We called these nights Beat Kontrol.

Like most things in our life, we took a very DIY approach to Beat Kontrol — we made our own flyers, we bootstrapped any costs involved in the event and we didn’t seek out corporate sponsorship; we did not seek to earn a profit. Our focus was, and remains, playing non-commercial deep house and techno.