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Ice cream at Berghain, internet friendships + the growth of Eastern Margins (ft. Jex Wang)

Ep. 5
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Miles Ginoza (DJ oyasumi) and Jex Wang talk about being satellite babies and growing up between China and Australia, joining Eastern Margins and helping it grow as a collective, finding out you can get ice cream and smoothies at Berghain, and sliding into the DMs of your favorite jungle producers to tell them that cereal is a supermarket scam.

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