Events coverage
Istoria's 2026 edition takes over Lombok's Living Asia Resort for four days of electronic music, sound healing and Balinese craft workshops, with its First Release limited to 20 passes.
On October 16, Desa Potato Head unveils a 1,644 square metre mural covering the Beach Club's entire facade, timed to an open-air party with Archie, Eric Duncan and a live gamelan ceremony.
Lil Louis slowed 'French Kiss' down to a near dead stop and the BBC banned it anyway. The track still hit number two in the UK. On October 10, house music's founding father plays Jakarta for the first time, headlining Le Cirque's first anniversary in SCBD.
Charlotte de Witte, Jamie Jones and Vintage Culture join EDC Thailand's third Phuket edition, plus a new Hotel EDC beach pre-party added in October for the night before gates open.
General Levy got jungle's first UK top-10 single and got blacklisted by pirate radio for it. Thirty-two years on, Kings of Bass brings him to MDLR for a rare Singapore date.
Jonathan Pardede has spent a decade behind a wall of hardware as one third of Sunmantra. On October 2 at Le Cirque, House Cartel gives him the room alone, under a new name.
Marquee Singapore's October calendar opens October 2 with hard techno specialist Nico Moreno, then runs through FISHER, Diplo, Anyma, Martin Garrix and two Halloween nights at Marina Bay Sands.
DJ Craze, the only DJ to win three straight DMC World titles until 2020 and once Kanye West's tour DJ, plays Phnom Penh's Pontoon Club on October 2, a rare marquee booking for Cambodia's still-rebuilding scene.
On September 19, Bali collective Laundromat and four partner crews turn a night at Amplitude Skatepark into a donation-only benefit for communities hit by the magnitude 7.7 Flores earthquake.
Nine days before its debut, KAJE has its lineup, its ticket prices and a pitch nobody else in Bali is making: house and techno with a view of Mount Agung instead of the sea.
Sunset by NEON's second 2026 edition lands five Malaysia debuts on one bill, a new venue and 70% of VIP tickets gone before the poster finished making the rounds.
808 Festival's Phase 2 lineup adds hardware-only Italian duo 999999999 and live artist Giorgia Angiuli to a Bangkok bill that already has Illenium and W&W. October 2-3 at BITEC.