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Artist | Mixing & Mastering Engineer @slumberjackmusic Co-captain of @sampansessions

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I found the producer who brought a piece of Sarawak to the world stage.

It‘s funny how we often overlook the talent that’s right in front of us. We don‘t talk about them much when they’re here, but the moment their name appears on international lineups, festival posters, and stages around the world, we suddenly realise they were from Sarawak all along.

@morganthen story feels familiar to many Asian kids.

Music wasn’t necessarily the path that was laid out for him. Like many of us, there were expectations, practical choices, and the question of whether pursuing a creative career was even realistic. Yet through patience, discipline, and years of showing up for his craft, he built a career that took him far beyond Kuching.

As one half of Slumberjack @slumberjackmusic, Morgan has performed across the world, travelling constantly and playing to crowds many of us can only imagine. But despite all the cities, stages, airports, and opportunities, one thing never changed:

Home is still home.

For Morgan, Kuching isn‘t a place he outgrew. It’s the place he returns to whenever he wants to slow down, reset, and see things differently. It‘s where he finds space to create.

And perhaps that’s why he started Sampan Session @sampansessions together with his partner, Kiyoshi.

Not because Sarawak needs more attention.

But because he believes more people deserve to experience it.

He doesn‘t want travellers to stop at Kuala Lumpur and think they’ve seen Malaysia. He wants Kuching to be one of the reasons they come. He wants people to discover the stories, culture, creativity, and communities that make this place special.

In many ways, Sampan Session isn‘t just about music.

It’s about introducing people to his motherland.

It‘s about showing the world that there’s something worth discovering here in Sarawak.

And maybe that‘s what bringing a piece of Sarawak to the world stage really means. by @morganthen

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a whole damn year of figuring it out, yet somehow I wouldn’t change a thing. by @morganthen

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4 months ago

Next up on Sampan Sessions we got @thebeardedcameragod, the man behind @saturdayselects a collective that’s been making serious moves in the KL scene for years 🫡

Full set on YouTube 🎧
Link in bio

🎥: @darren.vvs by @morganthen

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6 months ago

this thing on? i do intend to be more active.

anyway, a year distilled to moments here by @morganthen

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6 months ago

BADMAN TINGZ 🔫

Sampan Sessions with @slumberjackmusic

🔊 @big_flowdan - Trenches

Full set on YouTube 🎧
Link in bio by @morganthen

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7 months ago

Didn’t think we’d be trappin on the Sarawak River but here we are 👀

Sampan Sessions with @slumberjackmusic

Full set on YouTube 🎧
Link in bio taken in Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo by @morganthen

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When the track hits so hard you have to dap the DJ 🫡

Sampan Sessions with @slumberjackmusic

🔊 @fluxpavilion - Bass Cannon (@lynyofficial Flip)

Full set on YouTube 🎧
Link in bio taken in Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo by @morganthen

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We put a DJ set on a sampan boat in Borneo 🌊

Only right to bring the homie @morganthen from @slumberjackmusic to kick off the first episode of Sampan Sessions 🫡

🔊 @quixofficial - Long Legs

Full set on YouTube 🎧
Link in bio taken in Kuching, Sarawak, East Malaysia by @morganthen

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Part 2 of the 2024 recap: I haven’t exactly been the most active on here this year—consider this a catch-up series with all the photos I’ve been hoarding. This carousel is proof that I did leave the house occasionally.

1. Cool art thing in Seoul 🇰🇷
2. Fan in audience gave my nephew his first festival shoulder ride
3. Kids out to paint the town red while parents look after smaller kids
4. Pretending to be important at @borneosonic.mf
5. Mom’s bday in Sunshine Coast
6. Forming EDM BTS with @twerlbeats @kurenmusic @33_below @darbysounds in Melbourne
7. Ramen with @hamdimusic
8. Our love for prawns
9. Kuching
10. Dad making me show @jasminejisu the Kedondong fruit
11. Waterfall
12. Bumped into @alwyntay
13. The pain these lights caused me (worth it)
14. Filming cool shit while @brendancphoto bleeds out
15. Eddie (aka Ah Hoo) and his mini Dyson
16. WE ARE SO BACK
17. Mini golf with @nitepunk (he won)
18. TRUE
19. @ezrizzles casually killing it
20. us playing the NBL half time show by @morganthen

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2 years ago

As Ludwig Göransson’s Oppenheimer score provocatively asks: Can You Hear the Music? For most of the last three years, my answer was a hard “no.” Not in the Beethoven way —more like, “Why does every song feel like it’s dragging its feet to Monday?” And don’t even get me started on the pentatonic epidemic or saxophones invading dance music; or the abuse of the flat 5th just because it sounds ‘jazzy’ (Seriously, who let that happen?)

But hold onto your hi hats, because plot twist: I made the groundbreaking discovery that balance and recovery are, in fact, important. Revolutionary, I know. After a dramatic leap onto the couch — purely for research — I remembered what matters: making music that doesn’t make me want to jab my ears with a pencil. (Because, let’s be real, some of what’s being released out there? It’s aural assault. Did we all just discover triplets yikes)

Fast forward to the last two months: 14 tracks done, and I finally feel like a weapon in the studio. Not in a Taken “particular set of skills” way, but close.

2024 was solid—a warm-up act, really. 2025? I’m aiming for main-stage energy. Let’s go. (For reference: Last slide is how I’m entering the new year) by @morganthen

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2 years ago

first release of 2024. artwork features my maternal grandparents. it’s a song about finding love yadi dadi da we’re never good at describing our songs.

Just listen to it and you tell me how it makes you feel ya feel me? link in bio innit by @morganthen

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3 years ago

things so heavy, damn near broke my toe when I fumbled over it in excitement. Anyway, high key always wanted one of these in the house. Number 1 baby. Team work makes the dream work. @danieljohnshq @bmgausnz @slumberjackmusic

next stop: Grammy’s by @morganthen

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