The New Chaos of Asian Dance Scenes

At Boiler Room’s first post-pandemic event in Seoul, in 2022, one set stood out among the rest. Wearing a colorful umbrella hat and wielding thick iron scissors, Seoul-based DJ and producer Seesea spun high-octane K-pop edits and a bouncy, backbeat-heavy genre known as “trot” or “ppong-tchak” to a …