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What Is Trance, Explained: Armin van Buuren Brought ASOT to Vietnam for the First Time
In January, Armin van Buuren surprised Ho Chi Minh City with a DJ set on the roof of a moving bus, teasing A State of Trance's first-ever Vietnam show.
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Yes No Wave Has Given Yogyakarta's Music Away for Free Since 2007
Yogyakarta's Yes No Wave Music has given away more than 80 albums since 2007, including Senyawa's early work, funded by merch sales and voluntary donations instead of record sales, with new Indonesian releases still arriving in 2026.
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Southeast Asia's Drug Laws for Clubbers, Country by Country
Vietnam abolished the death penalty for drug trafficking in 2025, ending decades as one of the region's most feared jurisdictions for the offence. What actually changes, country by country, when you cross a border in Southeast Asia's clubbing circuit.
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APT 101 Keeps Bangkok's Disco Ball Spinning While Munir Digs Up Indonesia's Lost Disco Records
Bangkok's APT 101 hosts Disco Diaries, now in its tenth chapter, inside a room styled after a 1970s New York penthouse. Indonesia's revival looks different: Munir has spent over a decade re-editing lost Indonesian disco records rather than running a club night around them.
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Manila's crwn Spent Five Years on His Debut Album, Then Built a Label So No One Else Had To
King Puentespina took half a decade to finish Séance, his debut album as crwn. The label he co-founded along the way, Pool Records, was built around a simple idea: an artist's wellbeing matters as much as the release schedule.
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Michael Palin Called Budots 'Bewilderingly Incomprehensible' and Said He Loved It Anyway
Sir Michael Palin's new Channel 5 series took him to budots pioneer DJ Love's studio in Davao City, and he later called the genre 'bewilderingly incomprehensible' in a clip shared to Instagram.
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What Is Deep House, Explained: Singapore's Reissued 2001 Classic and Bangkok's Deep House Thailand
Deep house has a 1986 Chicago blueprint, a reissued 2001 Singapore classic and a Bangkok collective that grew out of a condo party. This is what the genre actually is, and where to hear it in Southeast Asia.
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Cova Is Running Manila's House and Techno Scene Four Nights a Week
Cova, Manila's pioneering micro-club, runs resident nights Hump, Cherish the Night and Moan plus rotating Saturday sets.
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TASHASAN Shut Down Her Own Singapore Collective, Then Built Two More to Replace It
Natasha Hassan closed North East Social Club when she felt its work was done. She didn't stop: Huru-Hara and a Singapore chapter of Keep Hush followed.
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What Is Afro House? DJ Hydra, Zamna Bali and the Genre Southeast Asia Can't Stop Booking
Afro house moved from 1990s South African clubs to a sold-out Bali weekend and a Hong Kong members' club in the same 48 hours. The genre, explained, and where Southeast Asia is actually booking it.
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What to Expect at Your First House or Techno Night Out in Southeast Asia
What actually happens between walking in and getting home at a Southeast Asian house or techno club: dress codes, door policy, tipping rules, set times and the transport cutoffs nobody mentions.
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Random Brothers Turned a Protest Track About Modern Slavery Into a Place on Indonesia's First Techno Compilation
In 2020, Indonesian duo Random Brothers built a track around the Indonesian word for slave. By 2024, they were on REVOLT, the compilation that got Charlotte de Witte and Joseph Capriati watching Indonesia's techno scene.