Noi's cassette stall, Siam Square
SIAM '96 played in a tiny cassette stall in a Bangkok arcade, under a ceiling fan, waiting out the afternoon storm.
SIAM '96 is a champagne-gold boombox with twin speakers and a seven-segment display. It belonged to Noi, who ran a tiny cassette stall in a Siam Square arcade in 1996.
On slow afternoons the storm came in, the customers stayed away, and the radio carried the shop. Noi's note is written on a shop receipt in blue felt-tip, with a dried tea ring.
When the afternoon storm comes and nobody's buying, put it on 101. The fan, the rain on the tin roof, this. That's the whole shop.
Three stations and a room
Indie Afternoon on 91.5, Midnight Acoustic on 95.5 and Lo-Fi Rain on 101.0. The room is a fan and rain on the tin roof.
SIAM '96 is a sound pack in Dial. Try it for 60 seconds first.